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Q.B.I.: Covers added since April 22.: 0 better and 2 new covers. The latter corresponding with the red numerals in the list.June 1. 2013 - April 18. 1999 Sadly Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died last May 26. As one of the ghostwriters he is part of the Ellery Queen legacy. Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of his work as Jack Vance, but he also wrote 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen. These three Queen novels: The Four Johns, A Room to die In and The Madman Theory will all be available in their original titles: Strange She hasn't Written and Death of a Solitairy Chess Player (1962) and The Man who Walks Behind (1964?). Jack was 96. May 7. 2013 OFF BROAD STREET PLAYERS PRESENT:
Off Broad Street Players (OBSP) will pay tribute to the classic mystery writer, Ellery Queen, with the production of two 1940's era radio shows starring the popular amateur detective. The radio shows will include prominent guests in the audience who will participate as “armchair detectives” and be asked to offer their opinion on whodunit and why. That feature was part of the 1940s radio shows as well and will be included in the OBSP productions. Real-life mystery writer Michael Nethercott will be in the audience as an armchair detective on May 8th.

Other 1940s era celebrity guests will be portrayed by OBSP members Trudee and Chris Rice, Mike Cirre, and other community notables.
OBSP has chosen to feature their work because of local connections to the writers and their families.
Permission to produce the original radio scripts
has been given by The Frederic Dannay Literary Property Trust and The Manfred B. Lee Family Literary Property Trust. Cast members, directed by
Sharon Wood, are Brian Bevacqua,Mary Carter, Mike Grace,Kara Lee, Meredith Lewko, Scott Magnuson, Stan Marro, Eric Peirce, Julie Richardson, Arthur Vidro and Dori Yacono. Show dates are Wednesday May 8 at 7
pm and Saturday May 11 at 2pm and 7pm at the First United Methodist Church, Sullivan Street, Claremont.
Admission is by donation, with $10 suggested but all donations welcomed.

April 22. 2013 Our anniversary yet again! For 14 years now we've
tried to get Ellery Queen back into the public attention. While at first view progress may seem slim, with a broader view one can conclude all in all EQ hasn't done that badly in those 14 years. With e-publishing coming into its own many of the books in the Queen library have become available for American readers to enjoy. The Hutton TV-series has been re-mastered and released in a boxed DVD set. Many radio scripts have been (re)published and some even have been re-enacted. Even more recently several writers, including Queen scholars Francis Nevins and Joseph Goodrich have published new works on the Ellery Queen partnership. And we anxiously await the biographical work by Jeffrey Marks, due out next year, which promises yet another in-depth A Japanese modern vision of Ellery Queen and Richard Queen, from a Takenaka illustration for the Japanese edition of The French Powder Mystery

A Japanese modern vision of Ellery Queen and Richard Queen, from a Takenaka illustration for the Japanese edition of The French Powder Mystery

analysis of Ellery and his creators! So is there nothing further to wish for? Sure! While Ellery continues to appear in new mysteries in the occasional pastiches that have appeared in EQMM, it would be great to see a new full blown adventure come to live on paper or e-screen. While this would be a far more complex undertaking, and would require the cooperation of the Dannay & Lee heirs, in the end I'm sure this would be the only best means to re-kindle interest in Ellery.

March 24. 2013 Today we extended the Kill as Directed section with some hyperlinks to full movies, clips or trailer of Ellery Queen movies. You'll find the hyperlinks on the indepth pages of the movies. Click on the specific posters... March 10. 2013 Again we added an actor to the gallery of those who played Ellery Queen. Larry Dobkin was asked to play radio's infamous detective in 1947. He would play the role for two years and would later direct the Ellery Queen tv-series. February 16. 2013

This month we did some work on the Nikki Porter pages. We also added the indepth pages for Virginia Gregg a very prolific no-nonsense actress. During the 1940's Virginia seemed to be in all the shows on the air! Her specialties appeared to be westerns (mostly in movies) and "who-dun-its" (both radio and movies). Virginia played secretary "Nikki Porter" opposite Larry Dobkin who filled the title role in.
Read more about her work here.

Recommended This month at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's iPod page... Joseph Goodrich has edited and annotated a selection of Dannay and Lee's letters, and it's being published by Perfect Crime Books. It's called BLOOD RELATIONS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ELLERY QUEEN, 1947-1950, and covers the writing of Ten Day's Wonder, Cat of Many Tails and The Origin of Evil, as well as offering a vivid picture of the complex and often tortured psychological and artistic relationship existing between Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Perfect Crime Books also has, a Francis M. Nevins' Ellery Queen biography available. The work entitled 'The Art of Detection' carries the byline "The story of how two fractious cousins reshaped the modern detective novel". Mike also became one of the West 87th Street Irregulars. The Crippen and Landru EQ-books Tragedy & Moths