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Q.B.I.: Covers
added since April 2014: 0 better and 4 new covers. The latter corresponding with
the red numerals in the
list. July 6. 2014 - April 18. 1999 How we welcome the days when Ellery Queen books are once again available in freshly printed pages! Launched in 1992 British Orion Books became part of Hachette Livre in 1998. In the same year Hachette acquired the publishing house Cassell & Co, whose imprints included Victor Gollancz Ltd. Victor Gollancz we know a 'cheap' publisher of Ellery Queen titles. So it should really come as no big surprise to find out last June Orion Books has republished three Queen works. The three paperbacks can be ordered here. Click on the covers to read more     July 4. 2014 Japanese Kazuo Miyamoto made his writing debut using the pen name Kaoru Kitamura. He is considered a pioneer of the "everyday mystery". Initially, because the unnamed first-person protagonist of his early works was a female college student, and the name Kaoru is gender ambiguous, it was   widely
speculated that Kitamura was
female. This speculation
persisted until he revealed his
identity upon accepting the
Mystery Writers of Japan Award
in 1991. In itself a tribute to
EQ. He didn't leave it at
that... in 2005 he published a
full fledged pastiche called "The
Japanese Nickel Mystery".
Ellery Queen
visits Japan at the invitation
of a publisher and mystery
writer, and gets sidetracked by
infant killing incidents in
Tokyo. The story includes a man who
could change a thousand-yen bill
into twenty coins of fifty yen
and has our detective pointing
out a relationship with a
previous case.You can read more on Ellery Queen pastiches here June 7. 2014  This
month we welcome our 7th West 87th Street
Irregular: Arthur
Vidro! Arthur first encountered Ellery Queen
back in 1975 when he tuned in to the debut
episode of NBC’s Ellery Queen
television show. All evidence indicates that
it was love at first sight. Arthur quickly
began reading all of the Queen library and
even discovered (ahh, the magic of
coincidence, even in the real world) that
his math teacher was Frederic Dannay’s
daughter-in-law, who was the wife of Douglas
Dannay, through whom Arthur became
acquainted with the Dannays and the Lees. As
an adult Arthur has embraced the works of
Ellery with a fervor. He publishes the
thrice yearly detective magazine (Give Me
That) Old-Time Detection, several issues of
which have been devoted in their entirety to
the works of Queen. Arthur was instrumental
behind the scenes in the publication of
Crippen and Landru's newest Ellery
Queen volumes,
The
Tragedy of Errors and
The
Adventure of the Murdered Moths.
Most recently, in September of 2013 Arthur
directed the world premier of
Joseph Goodrich’s play Calamity Town,
based on the first Wrightsville mystery by
Queen. If that were not enough, Arthur also
stepped up to the plate and appeared as
Wrightsville realtor J.C. Pettigrew in the
production. .... Continu reading
hereQ.B.I.: no better nor new covers. The latter corresponding with the red numerals in the list. April 26.2014 |
