Over on The Maze Agency thread the subject of Ellery Queen has arisen since he and his father Inspector Richard Queen guest starred in issue 9 of that series, "The English Channeler Mystery".
For those interested and not to tie up that thread, below is a relatively complete bibliography of every Queen mystery, to date.
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ELLERY QUEEN (aka Cousins Fredrick Dannay, 1905-1982 and Manfred B. Lee, 1905-1971)
The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
The French Powder Mystery (1930)
The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931)
The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
The Tragedy Of X (1932, originally published as by Barnaby Ross)
The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932)
The Tragedy Of Y (1932, originally published as by Barnaby Ross)
The American Gun Mystery (1933)
The Tragedy Of Z (1933, originally published as by Barnaby Ross)
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933)
Drury Lane’s Last Case (1933, originally published as by Barnaby Ross)
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934, 1st short story collection)
Ellery Queen Omnibus 1 (1934, start of reprinting the novels)
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
The Lamp of God (1935, Novella/separate paperback from New Adventures of EQ)
Halfway House (1936)
Ellery Queen Omnibus 2 (1936, more reprinted novels)
The Door Between (1937)
The Devil To Pay (1938)
The Four of Hearts (1938)
Ellery Queen’s Big Book (1938, novel reprints)
The Dragon’s Teeth (1939, aka The Virgin Heiress)
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen (1940, 2nd short story collection, w/Lamp of God)
More Adventures of Ellery Queen (1940, mixed paperback with stories from first two collections)
The Last Man Club (1941, novel based on radio drama)
Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1941 novelization of movie with same name)
Ellery Queen’s Adventure Omnibus (1941, more novel reprints)
The Penthouse Mystery (1941, novelization of Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery movie)
Calamity Town (1942)
Adventure Of The Murdered Millionaire (1942, novelization of radio drama)
The Perfect Crime (1942 movie novelization, based upon The Devil To Pay)
There Was An Old Woman (1943, aka The Quick and the Dead)
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Parade (1944, novel reprints continue)
The Murderer Is A Fox (1945)
The Casebook of Ellery Queen (1945, 3rd collection, mix of shorts and radio scripts)
Ten Days’ Wonder (1948)
Cat Of Many Tails (1949)
The Casebook of Ellery Queen (1949, this one reprints novels)
Double, Double (1950)
The Origin Of Evil (1951)
The King Is Dead (1952)
The Wrightsville Murders (1952, reprints every novel in this setting till this point)
Calendar Of Crime (1952, 4th short story collection)
The Scarlett Letters (1953)
The Glass Village (1954, By EQ, not starring)
QBI: Queen’s Bureau Of Investigation (1955, 5th short story collection)
Inspector Queen’s Own Case (1956, no EQ but written by the cousins)
The Hollywood Murders (1957, reprints every California set novel to this point)
The Finishing Stroke (1958)
The New York Murders (1958, NYC set novel reprints)
The XYZ Murders (1961, reprints the Barnaby Ross books under Queen name)
The Bizarre Murders (1962, yet another novel reprint collection)
The Player On The Other Side (1963)
And On The Eighth Day (1964)
The Fourth Side Of The Triangle (1965)
A Study In Terror (1966, aka EQ vs. Jack the Ripper, with Sherlock Holmes)
Queen’s Full (1966 collection, mix of novels and short stories)
Face To Face (1967)
The House Of Brass (1968, sequel to Inspector Queen’s Own Case)
The Vanishing Corpse (1968, renamed reprint of Ellery Queen, Master Detective)
QED: Queen’s Experiments In Detection (1968, collection)
Cop Out (1969, no EQ but written by the cousins)
The Last Woman In His Life (1970)
A Fine And Private Place (1971)
Five Complete Novels (1982 book club release, 8th Day, Cat of Many Tails, Inspector Queen, Player, Double Double)
Best Of Ellery Queen (1985, collection)
Tragedy of Errors (1999, contains plot to what would have been 1972 novel and last of the original short stories)
Adventure Of The Murdered Moths And Other Radio Scripts (2005 collection)
The Misadventures of EQ (2018) Anthology
The Further Misadventures of EQ (2020) Anthology
Both feature pastiches and satires of the Queens, but little to no involvement by the cousins.)
OTHER COLLECTIONS AND CRITICAL WORKS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS DO EXIST!
Much was published by the cousins in regards to either crime investigating or EQ presenting mystery anthologies on various subjects with most of the material culled from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which Dannay oversaw until his death.)
ELLERY QUEEN, JUNIOR were juvenile novels featuring his “son”. At least one of the cousins oversaw the works and plotted sometimes, but neither actually did any writing.
The Black Dog Mystery (1941)
The Golden Eagle Mystery (1942)
The Green Turtle Mystery (1944)
The Red Chipmunk Mystery (1946)
The Brown Fox Mystery (1948)
The White Elephant Mystery (1950)
The Yellow Cat Mystery (1952)
The Blue Herring Mystery (1954)
The Mystery of the Merry Magician (1954)
The Mystery of the Vanished Victim (1954)
The Purple Bird Mystery (1966)
EVERYTHING ELSE WRITTEN BY OTHERS USING THE QUEEN NAME, BUT NOT FEATURING ELLERY OR HIS FATHER! Cousins had no known involvement with these. Got confusing for readers sometimes between having at least one of these and an official Ellery Queen novel released the same year.
• Dead Man's Tale (1961) by Stephen Marlowe
• Death Spins The Platter (1962) by Richard Deming
• Wife Or Death (1963) by Richard Deming
• Kill As Directed (1963) by Henry Kane
• Murder With A Past (1963) by Talmage Powell
• The Four Johns (1964) by John Holbrook Vance
• Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1964) by Fletcher Flora
• The Last Score (1964) by Charles W. Runyon
• The Golden Goose (1964) by Fletcher Flora
• A Room To Die In (1965) by John Holbrook Vance (Jack Vance)
• The Killer Touch (1965) by Charles W. Runyon
• Beware the Young Stranger (1965) by Talmage Powell
• The Copper Frame (1965) by Richard Deming
• Shoot the Scene (1966) by Richard Deming
• The Madman Theory (1966) by John Holbrook Vance (Jack Vance)
• Losers, Weepers (1966) by Richard Deming
• Where Is Bianca? (1966) a Tim Corrigan novel by Talmage Powell
• Why So Dead? (1966) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
• The Devil's Cook (1966) by Fletcher Flora
• Which Way To Die? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
• Who Spies, Who Kills? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Talmage Powell
• How Goes The Murder? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
• Guess Who's Coming To Kill You? (1968) by Walt Sheldon
• What's In The Dark? (1968) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
• Kiss And Kill (1969) by Charles W. Runyon
• The Campus Murders (1969) a Mike McCall novel by Gil Brewer
• The Black Hearts Murder (1970) a Mike McCall novel by Richard Deming
• The Blue Movie Murders (1972) a Mike McCall novel by Edward Hoch
Lee Houston, Junior said:
Was the conceit here that these are novels "written" by the character Ellery Queen?
Was the conceit here that these are novels "written" by the character Ellery Queen?
Yes, but it was more the publishers' doing than the cousins. Since neither Ellery nor his father appeared in any of them, it's doubtful Dannay and/or Lee ever saw a dime in royalties from those books.
Thanks, Lee.
A Study in Terror is the novelisation of a 1965 Sherlock Holmes film, done with Paul W. Fairman. Ellery appears in the novelisation in interspersed framing chapters.
Martin Pasko's homage "A Clue Before Dying!" from Detective Comics #459 turns on the device of a dying clue. The EQ I've read where that's a crucial element is The Siamese Twin mystery. I've read a fair number of the EQs with Ellery, but there are more I haven't read than have.
Queens Quorum is a checklist book on the subject of the most important mystery books of short stories. EQ also edited a large number of misc. author anthologies.