Ellery Queen

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town. At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville....

Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds....

French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele....

The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear....

A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen....

Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with a wall of flame....

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated....

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks....

The victim had lived two lives, but a single knife thrust ended both of them. The trail of suspicion led into the guilt-edged world of the beautiful people....

Could murder really be hereditary? Davy Fox certainly thinks so....

On a seaside vacation, Ellery Queen is ensnared in a trio of strange crimes....

It was a script that could only have come from Hollywood: the wedding of two superstars after a scandal-filled courtship... a wild trip by private plane to a hideaway... a deadly double overdose of drugs...

The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk…the mark of the Cat....

In these ripping short stories, the mystery genre's greatest sleuth shows his chops....

When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is dead....

Having escaped New York with the hopes of finishing his latest mystery novel in peace in Los Angeles, Ellery Queen is shocked when a knock on his door lands him in the middle of another mystery....

When Hollywood bigwig Solly Spaeth is murdered, thousands cheer....

Gloria Guild is the singing "glory" of the thirties and the millionairess wife of Count Carlos Armando, renowned only for his succession of wealthy wives....

Someone is threatening to kill the King, and Ellery must take on the task of saving his hated life....

This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories....