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10 series · 170 booksDrury Lane Series as Barnaby Ross
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| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | The Tragedy of X | 1932 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Tragedy of Y | 1932 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Tragedy of Z | 1933 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Drury Lane's Last Case | 1933 | Buy from Amazon |
| # | Title | Year | Buy | |
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| 1 | The Roman Hat Mystery | 1929 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The French Powder Mystery | 1930 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Dutch Shoe Mystery | 1931 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | The Greek Coffin Mystery | 1932 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Egyptian Cross Mystery | 1932 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo | 1933 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Siamese Twin Mystery | 1933 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Chinese Orange Mystery | 1934 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Lamp of God (Short Story) | 1935 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Spanish Cape Mystery | 1935 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Halfway House | 1936 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | The Door Between | 1936 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | The Four of Hearts | 1938 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | The Devil to Pay | 1938 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses | 1939 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | The Penthouse Mystery | 1941 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Calamity Town | 1942 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | The Perfect Crime | 1942 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead | 1943 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | The Murderer is a Fox (Short Story) | 1945 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | Ten Days' Wonder | 1948 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | Cat of Many Tails | 1949 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders | 1950 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | The Origin of Evil | 1951 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | The King is Dead | 1952 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | The Golden Summer | 1953 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | The Scarlet Letters | 1953 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | The Glass Village | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | Inspector Queen's Own Case | 1957 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 30 | The Finishing Stroke | 1958 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 31 | Queens Full | 1960 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 32 | Dead Man's Tale | 1961 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 33 | Death Spins the Platter | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 34 | The Player On Other Side | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 35 | Kill as Directed | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 36 | Murder with a Past | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 37 | And on the Eighth Day | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 38 | Four Men Called John | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 39 | Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 40 | The Fourth Side of the Triangle | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 41 | A Study in Terror | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 42 | Losers, weepers | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 43 | Shoot The Scene | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 44 | The Madman Theory | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 45 | Face to Face | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 46 | The House of Brass | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 47 | Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 48 | House of Brass | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 49 | The Devil's Cook | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 50 | Cop Out | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 51 | The Last Woman in His Life | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 52 | Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 53 | A Fine and Private Place | 1971 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 54 | Blow Hot Blow Cold | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 55 | Ellery Queen, Master Detective | 2020 | Buy from Amazon |
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| 1 | The Black Dog Mystery | 1941 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Green Turtle Mystery | 1944 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Red Chipmunk Mystery | 1946 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | The Brown Fox Mystery | 1948 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Golden Eagle Mystery | 1948 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The White Elephant Mystery | 1950 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Yellow Cat Mystery | 1952 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Mystery of the Vanished Victim | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Mystery of the Merry Magician | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Blue Herring Mystery | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | The Purple Bird Mystery | 1965 | Buy from Amazon |
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| 1 | Where Is Bianca? (Short Story) | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | How Goes the Murder? (Short Story) | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Who Spies, Who Kills? (Short Story) | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Why So Dead? | 1966 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Which Way to Die? (Short Story) | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Guess Who's Coming to Kill You? (Short Story) | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | What's in the Dark? (Short Story) | 1969 | Buy from Amazon |
Mike McCall Series
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| 1 | The Campus Murders | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Black Hearts Murder (Short Story) | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Blue Movie Murders | 1973 | Buy from Amazon |
Masterpieces of Mystery Series
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| 1 | Masterpieces of Mystery | 1976 | Buy from Amazon |
Ellery Queen Other Novels
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| 1 | Player on the Other Side | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Wife or Death (Short Story) | 1963 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | The Last Score ( With: Charles W. Runyon) | 1964 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | The Killer Touch ( With: Charles W. Runyon) | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Beware the Young Stranger | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | The Copper Frame | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | A Room To Die In | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Penthouse Mystery, The (Short Story) | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Most Wanted Man In The World (Short Story) | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Kiss and Kill ( With: Charles W. Runyon) | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | When Fell The Night | 1970 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Door Between | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Eyes of Mystery | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | House of Darkness (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy from Amazon |
Ellery Queen Short Story Collections
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| 1 | The New Adventures of Ellery Queen | 1939 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | The Adventures of Ellery Queen | 1941 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Calendar of Crime | 1952 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation | 1965 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | QED: Queen's Experiments in Detection | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | The Tragedy of Errors and Others | 1999 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | The Adventures of the Murdered Moths | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | The Adventures of the Puzzle Club ( With: Josh Pachter) | 2022 | Buy from Amazon |
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| 1 | Ellery Queen's Crime Carousel | 1960 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | Ellery Queen's 16th Mystery Annual ( By: Henry Slesar) | 1961 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | To Be Read Before Midnight | 1962 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Ellery Queen All Stars | 1967 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Parade | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Ellery Queen's Mini Mysteries | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | Ellery Queen's Mystery Bag | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Ellery Queen's Best Bets | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Ellery Queen's Crookbook | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Ellery Queen's Book Of Mystery Stories | 1974 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Ellery Queen's Murdercade | 1975 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Ellery Queen's Crime Wave | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Ellery Queen's Giants of Mystery | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Ellery Queen's Magicians Of Mystery | 1976 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Ellery Queen's Circumstantial Evidence | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | X Marks the Plot | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | Ellery Queen's Crimes and Consequences | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | Ellery Queen's International Case Book | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | Ellery Queen's Cops And Capers | 1977 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | Ellery Queen's a Multitude of Sins | 1978 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | Ellery Queen's The Golden 13 | 1980 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 23 | Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World ( By: T. M. Adams) | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 24 | Ellery Queen's Veils of Mystery | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 25 | Ellery Queen's Doors to Mystery | 1981 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 26 | Ellery Queen's Maze Of Mysteries | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 27 | Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 28 | Ellery Queen's Book of First Appearances | 1982 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 29 | Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 30 | Ellery Queen's Crimes and Punishments | 1984 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 31 | Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes Two | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 32 | Ellery Queen's Champions Of Mystery | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 33 | Ellery Queen's Masks of Mystery | 1988 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 34 | Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 35 | Ellery Queen's More Lost Ladies and Lost Men | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 36 | Ellerys Queen's Masters of Mystery | 1989 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 37 | Ellery Queen's Screen Favourites | 1991 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 38 | Ellery Queen's More Eyewitnesses | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 39 | Ellery Queen's Edgar Award Winners | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 40 | Ellery Queen's Faces of Mystery | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 41 | Ellery Queen's Other Faces of Mystery | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 42 | Ellery Queen's Windows Of Mystery | 1994 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 43 | Ellery Queen's Searches and Seizures | 1995 | Buy from Amazon |
Ellery Queen Anthologies
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| 1 | Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction | 1948 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 2 | 20 Great Tales of Murder | 1952 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 3 | Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 | 1954 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 4 | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 | 1958 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 5 | The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes | 1968 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 6 | Daring Detectives | 1969 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 7 | American City | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 8 | Space Suits & Gumshoes | 1972 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 9 | Chapter and Hearse | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 10 | Deadly Arts | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 11 | Wickedest Show on Earth | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 12 | Handle with Care: Frightening Stories | 1985 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 13 | Murder for Christmas | 1987 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 14 | Great Baseball Stories | 1990 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 15 | Great Tales of Crime and Detection | 1992 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 16 | Fifty Best Mysteries | 1993 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 17 | The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories | 1996 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 18 | The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | 2000 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 19 | The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | 2000 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 20 | A Century of Great Suspense Stories | 2001 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 21 | The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | 2004 | Buy from Amazon | |
| 22 | The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen | 2020 | Buy from Amazon |
About the Author
Ellery Queen was a pen name used by two American cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. - **Life:** Born in Brooklyn, Dannay (1905-1982) and Lee (1908-1971) began collaborating on a mystery novel in 1928 while still in high school. - **Notable Works:** The Ellery Queen character, a detective known for his deductive reasoning, was featured in over 30 novels, including "The Roman Hat Mystery" (1929) and "Cat of Many Tails" (1949). - **Awards:** The cousins won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, including the Grand Master Award in 1960 for their lifetime contributions to the genre. - **Critical Success:** Ellery Queen's novels were widely praised for their intricate plots, clever puzzles, and engaging characters, establishing them as one of the most influential mystery writers of the 20th century.