Ellery Queen

Police captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head....

Gulliver Queen, nephew of the famous detective, Ellery Queen, doesn't want to be a detective....

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

In Terror Town, the small New England town of Northfield is deftly sketched as the background for a series of violent deaths, all on the exact same spot: the muddy gravesite....

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

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

Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship's log and the dead captain's haunted house start the ball rolling....

Old Slater O'Shea, the golden goose, was ruler of a peculiar roost. A gaggle of free-loading O'Sheas were lazing around the mansion, letting Slater foot the bills....

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....

The boys tangle with an antique dealer and a tiger-skin diary - just to name a few of the events - in their struggle to solve the mystery....

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

"Katal!" The black bird repeated the two syllables again and again. "Katal! Katal!" As Gulliver Queen seeks out the meaning of the strange word, he is drawn into the world....

The four of them had only two things in common - their name and a love for the ladies. John Boce was a no-account accountant who lusted after food, drink, cars, and women....

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

The killer is an expert. He has climbed 10 stories in the Manhattan blackout and found and dispatched his victim amid the men and women trapped in the building....

Djuna and his dog, Champ, go to Stony Harbor to spend what he thinks will be a quiet and uneventful holiday in a seaside village. But little does Djuna know what is in store....

Angel was a voluptuous child-woman, bouncing in and out of every bed in town, until she landed in the wrong one and found death was her lover....

When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier....

The Djuna and Tommy soon learned that the newspaper reporter and the state trooper were trying to uncover a pack of tricksters who were cheating the circus audiences....

The horribly crushed body that crashed onto the Manhattan pavement has at least two names, several passports, and an address book full of important friends....