Detective Directory I

Masterpieces of Mystery #6

by Ellery Queen (Editor), H.C. Bailey (Contributor), Helen McCloy (Contributor)

No, not Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor. But we do have Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (OK, not a chief), not to mention Psychiatrist, Magician, Priest, Teacher, Banker, Boy, Girl, Correspondence School Detective, Insurance Agent, Author, Artist, Armchair Detective.

Contents:
• The Young Doctor — H. C. Bailey (Dr Reggie Fortune)
• The Singing Diamonds — Helen McCloy (Dr Basil Willing)
• Lawyer’s Holiday — Harold Q. Masur (Scott Jordan)
• Mr. Smith Protects a Client — Frederic Brown (Henry Smith)
• From Another World — Clayton Rawson (The Great Merlini)
• The Oracle of the Dog — G. K. Chesterton (Father Brown)
• Man on a Ladder — Harry Kemelman (Nicholas “Nicky” Welt)
• P. Moran, Shadow — Percival Wilde (P. Moran)
• The Hedge Between — Charlotte Armstrong (Meredith Lee)
• The Boy and the Money Box — Daniel Nathan (Danny Nathan)
• A Knife Between Brothers — Manly Wade Wellman (David Return)
• The Theft from the Empty Room — Edward D. Hoch (Nick Velvet)
• The Dublin Mystery — Baroness Orczy (The Old Man in the Corner)
• The Wagstaff Pearls — Mignon G. Eberhart (James Wickwire)
• Author in Search of a Character — Phyllis Bentley (Marian Phipps)
• Jericho and the Silent Witness — Hugh Pentecost (John Jericho)

Genres: Mystery, Anthologies

351 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

aka Barnaby Ross.
(Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
"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 would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father 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.

Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.