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The Adventures of Ellery Queen Kindle Edition

by Ellery Queen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
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In eleven stories, the brilliant sleuth tangles with a book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and more . . .
For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. Queen’s adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries. In these pages, he tangles with a violent book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and New York’s only cleanly shaven bearded lady. Criminals everywhere fear him, whether they work in mansions or back alleys. No mystery is too difficult for the man with the golden brain.
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 “A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now.” —Agatha Christie “Ellery Queen is the American detective story.” —Anthony Boucher, author of Nine Times Nine

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Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age “fair play” mystery. Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen’s first appearance came in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that was later published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee’s death. 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B1MSI2I
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road; 2nd p;rinting edition (February 5, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4040 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 327 pages
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Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death in 1971.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love the short stories. Great selection of murder mysteries
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Great fan of Ellery Queen. Grew up on television program with Timothy Hutton . My husband listened to the shows on radio as a kid.

Always a delight to try to see the clues and solve the mysteries.

Great read. Highly recommend.
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Thomas F. Bergen
4.0 out of 5 stars Ellery Queen Assorted Stories
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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Having read a large number of other EQ novels, I was uncertain how to receive a volume of assorted short stories. They were well done in the traditional EQ manner. Same formula works regardless of the length of the story.
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Douglas Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories by and about Ellery Queen
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2022
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The first collection of Ellery Queen short stories, full of mystificarion and detection from the golden age of classical mysteries. Doesn't get better than this!
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Richard Mellon
5.0 out of 5 stars Queen in stories
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019
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Ellery Queen is short story form ... all are good stories and make you remember the fun of a good detective on the case ... My mind puts Tim Hutton and David Wayne in the roles of father and son since I first knew of Ellery and Richatd Queen from their TV portrayals ... Makes it even better ...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not for CSI Devotees
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2014
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These are very early Ellery Queen stories. Some are quite good. Others require following rather improbable leaps of fancy. Those who are used to the principle of never violating the integrity of the crime scene will frequently be appalled. However, there are some very clever plot twists here. Ellery Queen is a likable detective and these stories are interesting as historical crime fiction.
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Joshua Macy
4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly pretty good...
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2023
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Mostly pretty fair puzzle mysteries. If they have a common weakness it's that in order to fit everything, crime, clues and solutions into the allotted space there's no time to be artful about the suspects. If the murderer needs to be X to make the clues work, then it's X even if the motive has to be revealed after the solve.
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Patt O'Neil
5.0 out of 5 stars Always appreciate a good Ellery Queen mystery.
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016
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I have been a fan of Ellery Queen's work for over 50 years. I have never been disappointed in any of his work and this book is an excellent representation of just that. Some of today's younger readers might be uncomfortable with some of his references for the household staff but you must remember these stories were written over 75 years ago when these terms were common place and accepted. In a way, these stories are an excellent representation of early 20th century America.
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K. Adele
5.0 out of 5 stars Zips you back in time
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014
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If you like time travel, don't invest in costly time machines. Instead, get this anthology of Ellery Queen stories and begin reading on page 1. In the beginning of the series (pre-WWI), Queen is a dandy. As the series progress and life in the Western world rows dim with the rise of Hitler, Queen evolves into a serious crime stopper. From a sociological perspective, when reading this book you can see how society's key values changed in an era clouded with the rise of facism.
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Newton Luiz
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in India on July 24, 2020
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A nice selection of short detective stories. Good to go back to stories that I enjoyed in my youth.
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cristina
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on September 26, 2016
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spider queen
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2014
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Fine, but it's very much of its time, so readers should be aware of that--30s.
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S Fairweather
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2013
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Inventive, entertaining and "unputdownable"! Queen is Holmesian in his brilliant deductive reasoning.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery.
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NJ
3.0 out of 5 stars Detection, Inc.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2015
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Why would an old woman who hates cats buy an identical feline every week for six weeks? How does the absence of a clock’s reflection indicate that a crime has occurred? No doubt about it, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee exploited the ‘two heads are better than one’ adage when it came to bafflingly ingenious hooks for their Ellery Queen stories, and it’s a shame that so many pedestrian murders dominate this collection when they were clearly capable of wonderful twists on what was – even in the 1930s – becoming a moderately well-worn groove.

The best tales collected here – 'The Seven Black Cats', 'The Teakwood Case', 'The Mad Tea-Party' – are effectively Queen novels in miniature, rife with clever misdirection, beautiful puzzles-within-puzzles and the adorably gratuitous smugness of our hero. There’s also a streak of surprisingly atypical reluctance of the Great Detective to get involved (always overturned by Ellery’s ex cathedra assumption of responsibility once something amiss occurs, of course) which adds a certain veneer of genuine depth to a character who could easily smarm himself out of readers’ sympathy if mishandled. For a normally disposable form of the detective story, it’s evident some care has gone in here.

However, not necessarily in every aspect. For a brand that prides itself on rigorous ratiocination, The Invisible Lover is something of a solecism and sticks out like a sore thumb for failing in its own internal logic. 'The Glass-Domed Clock' does the whole dying message thing a little too glibly to really be sympathetic (though there is, of course, a wickedly smart idea staring you in the face that you’ll probably miss) and 'The Hanging Acrobat' feels like a story published at its beginning stages before Dannay was given the chance to roll his sleeves up and really go to town.

An unusual collection, then, one that is distempered by the more successful stories and rounded out by some perfectly fine attempts that are entertaining without ever being especially memorable or noteworthy ('The Bearded Lady', 'The African Traveller', 'The Two-Headed Dog'). Queen set him(them?)self such high standards that even the moderate failures put most other writers in the shade, and that alone makes it hard to not advocate your reading this. It’s the only collection of Ellery Queen short stories currently available, too, so snap it up while you can – and maybe more will follow...
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