Ellery Queen

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....

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

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....

A card with the letter "J" on it appeared in Robert York's mail, and a day later he was dead....

During the 11 nights before Christmas, the strange gifts and the warnings came. Ellery Queen was there....

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

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....

Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children....

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

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 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....

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

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

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

While stranded in the desert, Ellery Queen stumbles across a religious cult....

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....

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration - and an annual murder....

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

Frightfully rich and awesomely respectable, the McKells had never been touched by scandal. At least, not until the handsome Dane McKell discovered his father's secret affair....

Some bizarre things have been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison....