Ellery Queen Detective
Ellery Queen is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction/mystery novels written under the pen name of Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee). The character is an author who writes the books he appears in, and later on, writes screenplays. He ends up working as an amateur detective, having to help out his father, who is a detective in New York City.

The Ellery Queen series began in 1929 with the novel The Roman Hat Mystery. The series concluded in 1971 with the novel A Fine and Private Place. Below is a list of the Ellery Queen books in order of when they were originally published:

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Publication Order of Ellery Queen Books

The Roman Hat Mystery(1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The French Powder Mystery(1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dutch Shoe Mystery(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Greek Coffin Mystery(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Egyptian Cross Mystery(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Siamese Twin Mystery(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Chinese Orange Mystery(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lamp of God(1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Spanish Cape Mystery(1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Halfway House(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Door Between(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Four of Hearts(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil to Pay(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses(1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Penthouse Mystery(1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Calamity Town(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Perfect Crime(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead(1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Murderer is a Fox(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ten Days' Wonder(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cat of Many Tails(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Origin of Evil(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The King is Dead(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Player On Other Side(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Summer(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scarlet Letters(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glass Village(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inspector Queen's Own Case(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Finishing Stroke(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Queens Full(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Man's Tale(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death Spins the Platter(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kill as Directed(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder with a Past(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
And on the Eighth Day(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Four Men Called John(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fourth Side of the Triangle(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Study in Terror(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Losers, weepers(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoot The Scene(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Madman Theory(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Face to Face(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
House of Brass(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Cook(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cop Out(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Woman in His Life(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Fine and Private Place(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blow Hot Blow Cold(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The House of Brass(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ellery Queen, Master Detective(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: The Dragon’s Teeth was also published as The Virgin Heiresses. There Was an Old Woman was also titled The Quick and the Dead. A Study in Terror was also published as Ellery Queen vs. Jack The Ripper and as Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper. The Player on the Other Side was ghostwritten by Theodore Sturgeon. And On the Eighth Day, The Fourth Side of the Triangle and The House of Brass were ghostwritten by Avram Davidson.

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