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Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes
A collection of crime shorts:
The Hand
Gone Fishing
Tell it to Lucretia
Bygone Wars
Jack Hughes
Tillie, the Ex-Con
Dead of Night
Keep it Clean
Nobody’s Fool
It’s Best Not To Listen
The Visitor
The Cremona Varnish
A Very-Special Occasion Dress
The Line Between
Each Man Kills
Death at Gopher Flats
A Public Duty
Jericho and the Lady Jogger
Rings on Her Fingers
Out of the Maze
Fish Out of Water
The Third Possibility
The Benefit of the Doubt
Fonsy Noonan’s Story
Kill Before Publishing
Trumpetbird in the Cop Car
A Little Late Theater
Roberta
Hearts and Flowers
Boots
The Warning
A Baksheesh from the North
Mr. Oliver
A Quaint Little Crossroads
Old P
The Finishing Touche
The Fixer
Eavesdropping
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The Hand
Gone Fishing
Tell it to Lucretia
Bygone Wars
Jack Hughes
Tillie, the Ex-Con
Dead of Night
Keep it Clean
Nobody’s Fool
It’s Best Not To Listen
The Visitor
The Cremona Varnish
A Very-Special Occasion Dress
The Line Between
Each Man Kills
Death at Gopher Flats
A Public Duty
Jericho and the Lady Jogger
Rings on Her Fingers
Out of the Maze
Fish Out of Water
The Third Possibility
The Benefit of the Doubt
Fonsy Noonan’s Story
Kill Before Publishing
Trumpetbird in the Cop Car
A Little Late Theater
Roberta
Hearts and Flowers
Boots
The Warning
A Baksheesh from the North
Mr. Oliver
A Quaint Little Crossroads
Old P
The Finishing Touche
The Fixer
Eavesdropping
Shares ISBN 1-55521-350-2 with another edition.
- GenresShort Stories
376 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
36 people want to read
About the author
Ellery Queen
1,787 books490 followersaka 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.
(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.
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December 13, 2021
This is a good collection of crime stories. One was described as "darker" but I didn't find it so. Perhaps it seemed so back in 1986 when it was written.
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