he Tragedy of Errors and Others (1999)

In honor of the seventieth anniversary of the first Ellery Queen novel, Crippen & Landru is proud to publish the first completely new Ellery Queen book in almost thirty years.  The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen stories - the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the reader.  And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by someone who aspires to the power of gods.

On the 70th anniversary of the release of The Roman Hat Mystery in 1999,  the plot outline for The Tragedy of Errors was released. When Manfred Lee died in April, 1971 "Fred Dannay has announced that he will carry on with Ellery Queen and has told me that most of the plot outline of Ellery's next case had been worked out prior to Lee's death. But his own poor health, his full time editorial and anthological duties, and the death of his own wife in the summer of 1972, have resulted in a long delay between novels. How much longer only time will tell." (Royal Bloodline Francis Nevins, Jr.)

• "Terror Town" (from Argosy, 8/56; also called "The Motive" in EQMM)
• "Uncle from Australia" (from Diner's Club, 6/65 and EQMM 11/67)
• "Wedding Anniversary" (from EQMM, 9/67 and 10/99)
• "The Three Students" (from Playboy, March 1971)
• "The Odd Man" (from Playboy, June 1971)
• "The Honest Swindler" (from The Saturday Evening Post, Summer 1971)
• "The Reindeer Clue" (from National Enquirer, December 23. 1975)

Note: Prior to publication the C&L site mentioned a subtitle for the book: The Lost Stories of Ellery Queen