Ellery Queen

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery....

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....

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....