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There is a page where we have also included links to biographies of producers, directors, and announcers who worked on an Ellery Queen production, whether it be film, radio, or a TV series.

The term "production men" was commonly used at the time. Historically, women were almost entirely absent from production roles in early radio and television. While actresses were plentiful, women in production roles were comparatively rare. This was especially true in radio and early TV productions, where composers, announcers, directors, producers, and writers were predominantly men.

Researching the biographies of these individuals is often more challenging than for actors. While information on actors, both minor and major, is often accessible, it is nearly non-existent for production professionals. However, for some, fairly complete biographies exist online, leaving little to add.

"The Book Case", an Ellery Queen novella appeared in the May 2007 edition of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and was written by Dale Andrews and Kurt Sercu!

Both long-time Ellery Queen fans we first met on-line through this website. While we exchanged emails for years, we met in person for the first time when together we attended the EQMM Ellery Queen Centenary Symposium in April of 2005. We have long lamented the current absence of both old and new Ellery Queen works as evidenced by the editorial we jointly wrote following the symposium. But rather than just complaining, we decided to do something about this problem.

The outline for "The Book Case," was devised by us on a train as we traveled back from New York City to Washington, D.C. in April 2005. Thereafter the actual draft of the story was developed over the course of many electronic trips back and forth across the Atlantic (or "the Pond" as we like to refer to it). Just as the original Queen stories were a collaboration by Dannay and Lee (often separated by a continent), so too this Ellery Queen story was a collaboration by us, separated this time by the Pond. Janet Hutchings, editor of EQMM graciously and enthusiastically agreed to edit and publish this work, the longest "First Story Department" entry ever published by EQMM, and the estates of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee have approved the story's publication.

Now you can hear the story as an audio book, part of Miniature Mythos weekly Sunday posts. Enjoy!

Enjoy!

Keeping this site up-to-date doesn't feel like an obligation at all. Discovering bygone information through selection, verification, and re-verification offers enough satisfaction. Some naysayers will claim that some pages will hardly be read. But sometimes the satisfaction and recognition come from that one reader. A family member of one of the actors expressing their appreciation for rediscovered details about a parent/grandparent is more than enough for me. Especially when they take the time and effort to let me know. When rechecking facts, I find that my pages were indeed useful to others.

Since December of last year,  due to circumstances, I have been able to make more time to update the biographies. In doing so, I reviewed what information I could gather over the past years and compared it to the text on this site. Small additions, corrections, discoveries... new photos... Nine months later, I went through all the pages. Finished with this round. The very detailed pages are mostly the result of bringing together nearly unfindable details and, less so, of weeding through a lot of information. Still, there is satisfaction in completing this round. You can read the detailed pages of the actors by clicking on their photos... starting on the (third) Ellery Queen page...

Thanks also to Rémi Schulz who provided some variety and pointed out a few covers of Ellery Queen books in Hebrew.

I can also announce that at the end of this month we have a nice surprise for our listeners. So stay tuned!!!