Ellery Queen

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

Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. He had lived by it. Now the killer who brought a trio of gory deaths to Nino's ninth-floor penthouse at Number 99 East was camouflaging his identity....

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

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

Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street - but always on the back lot....

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise his crime-lab mind....

The coed missing from Tisquanto State is the daughter of Governor Sam Holland's rival for reelection - and best friend....

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas. It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence....

John Lovering Benedict had more than most men - more money, more mansions, more cars, but most of all more women....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die - but no one sees the killer....

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood....