Ellery Queen's crookbook;: 25 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine

by Ellery Queen (Editor)

Genres: Short Stories

338 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

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.

Reviews

[Subjuntivo Subjuntivo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely, just as expected.

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

Published in 1974, 'Ellery Queen's Crookbook' is the 28th annual collection of stories from the pages of the years 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine', containing 25 tales first published between 1971 and 1972. Most of the stories are very enjoyable, some are very predictable, and a couple are duds, though opinions will vary. The selection of authors is excellent, and the well written tales inside the covers should be received well by most.

[Velma Bennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

some of the stories were interesting, some not so much.