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| Q.B.I.: Covers added since April 2014: 18 better and 96 new covers. The latter corresponding with the red numerals in the list. | |
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February 16. 2015 - April 18.
1999 Open Road Media is not only responsible for the epublication last August of 8 Ellery Queen books in the Spanish language. Earlier in 2013 it provided us with a epub collection of Ellery Queen Classics. It was Otto Penzler, critic, publisher, anthologist, editor, and owner of the Mysterious Press and Mysterious Bookshop as the man behind the initiative and we were overjoyed with the release of twelve ebooks by the great Ellery Queen. Now were are glad to see a more obscure or even disregarded section of Queen's work reappear in ePub format: The Ellery Queen Jr. series. Described on the Open Road Media website as :"Ellery Queen is one of the world’s finest detectives, but his adventures are nothing compared to these vintage Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Stories, written between 1942 and 1966. The first nine books in the series, starting with The Black Dog Mystery, star Djuna, Ellery’s young employee, who teams up  with his scrappy terrier, Champ,
to catch bank robbers,
smugglers, and the worst his
small town’s underworld has to
offer. The last two books in the
series, The Mystery of the Merry
Magician and The Mystery of the
Vanished Victim, star Ellery’s
cheeky nephew, Gully, whose
adventures take him to the
darkest corners of Manhattan."
The Ellery Queen Jr. series was written by... read more           |
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January 24. 2015 A
massive addition to the 'List of
Suspects' section. I've added
several actresses on the
Nikki Porter page.
Specifically Barbara
Terrell, Gertrude Warner,
Charlotte Keane and Kaye Brinker
were added to the list.If the photo of the actress has a shadow and when pointing your mouse at the photo itself you see a 'CLICK FOR MORE...' appearing, click on the picture and you'll be able to read a biography. Internet Explorer users can hear an audiofragment of the actress at work... Some of biographies are the result of years of painstakingly compiling every small bit of information. So I'm especially proud of having been able to add Kaye Brinker's bio. Kaye played Nikki Porter in the radio series but her importance to the story provide on this website goes beyond that. She was also married to Manfred B. Lee, and as such she had a lot of influence over many characters appearing in the Queen canon. And ofcourse I was especially thrilled to have the assistance of Kaye and Manfred's son Rand B. Lee. Rand helped to fill in the details after 1954... Read more |
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December 31. 2014 Just before Christmas Dale C. Andrews had breakfast in St. Louis with Francis (Mike) Nevins. Afterwards Dale wrote to me to pass on some information he had received from Mike concerning the recent passing of Rose Dannay, Fred Dannay's widow. The information was confirmed by her daughter Dale Koppel. In 2010 Rose Dannay self-published her autobiography, My Life With a Man of Mystery: The Love Story of Ellery Queen and Me. An article by Tina Chandler had this to say: "Maybe it’s her life experience, but Dannay knows some of what scientists have been working hard to discover—the secrets to happiness.  A
self-described naturally happy
person, Rose Dannay loved going
out with her famous, but rather
private, husband. When he
received invitations, “He kept
saying ‘no,’ and I kept saying
‘yes.’..."Just as Rose provided Fred with a wonderful life, he, in turn, provided her with experiences she had never had before. After he died, she was still revered by the Japanese EQ Fans (who often referred to her as "Mrs. Queen") and she was the guest of honor at the wedding of the daughter of Fred's Japanese publisher. In 2014 Rose Dannay celebrated her 100th birthday throughout the month of September. At that time Fred's Japanese publicist paid her a visit, which reportedly pleased her greatly. Rose lived in her NYC apartment for 61 years and above her favorite chair in the living room hung a beautiful portrait of Fred that she painted. Mrs. Dannay passed away December 6. 2014. She was 100 years, 3 months, 2 days old. |
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December 13. 2014 In Calamity Town (1942) the New England town of Wrightsville is introduced, the place where many of Ellery's novel-length and short story adventures of the next three decades take place. Being the writing duo they were, it was only a matter of time before Manfred influence in the Wrightsville saga was unearthed. Last June we introduced Arthur Vidro to the West 87th Street Irregulars. With his introduction he provided us with the essay Claremont the real Wrightsville. The information it gives on the origins of Wrightsville is now incorporated in the Wrightsville page. |
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November 1. 2014 Always great if predictions
prove themselves right.
Last August (see below) we were
excited about the (artwork of
the) new
Japanese editions of
Ellery Queen novels. We
even stated "The fact that the
publisher seems to be making his
way through Ellery Queen's
opus chronologically leaves us
optimistic for the (near)
future."So today we can confirm publisher Kadokawa Shoten's intentions with the publication (Oct, 25th) of the new addition to this wonderful series: "The Siamese Twin Mystery". Again with the splendid artwork by Takenaka. |
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Oktober 17. 2014 After
disappearing in 1948 from US
airwaves the Ellery
Queen radio programs reappeared briefly
from 1954 until 1955 in
Australia where
a package of 52 Ellery
Queen episodes were
restaged for the Australian
market with local actors and
local commercials, a common
practice back then.
The
Australian episodes were
produced by Grace Gibson Radio
Productions and all were
directed by John Saul.
The cast originally had Charles
Tingwell as
Ellery Queen, Wendy
Playfair as Nikki Porter and
Harp McGuire as Inspector Queen.
Other members of the cast were
Lloyd Berrell (Velie) and
Georgie Sterling (various
roles)... .More can be read here |
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September 1. 2014
"  List
of Suspects" focuses on the
recurring characters in the
Ellery Queen
books and the actors who have
been known to play them either
on radio, theater, television or
the movies. You may have noticed
that this section is not
complete. Indeed some in-depth bio's
are still missing. Strange how
it may seem this is not due to
the fact that the actual
information is missing. Just the
way the pages are conceived. I
basically need four things: the
biographical information, a good
"large" picture, some smaller
pics... and some time. In most cases the lack
of a good clear (large) picture is the
reason why the actor or actress
misses out on his/hers own
in-depth page (which can be
reached,in the section, by
clicking on their picture). We're glad to announce we've added a new member: Helen Lewis. This actrice who played Nikki Porter for a short while turned out to be an exception to the rule. There were absolutely no pages or articles on the net who even had a small bio on Helen. Based on several articles in magazines and papers I was able to compile a "biography". Although I'm quiet satisfied with the result, Helen's (basic) personal information is not complete. You could call this a challenge to the reader... I most certainly would. So if you want to help out click on one of the pretty icons above to find my e-mail... |
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August 24. 2014  I can safely say that over the
years I've seen plenty of the
artwork on Ellery Queen
covers. Without meaning to sound
pretentious I can attribute
myself some expertise in that
field. Some time ago we
announced some splendid
Japanese editions of both
The Roman Hat Mystery and
The French Powder Mystery
with covers by the Japanese
artist Takenaka (See
right).In fact one of the best pieces of artwork I've come across over the years. So we're more than glad to be able to announce that the series is continued (See below)! Not for the first time we see some 'weird' American connotations peeping through... Lincoln!? on the 2014 edition of The Egyptian Cross Mystery. Which appears to be professor Yardley, one of Ellery's former profs (Ancient history) The fact that the publisher seems to be making his way through Ellery Queen's opus chronologically leaves us optimistic for the (near) future. Click on the covers to read more     |
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August 16. 2014 It's rather a strange fact to find out how little Ellery Queen books were ever published in Spain. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of works available in the Spanish language, but they're just not originating from the Iberian peninsula. This is strange given the potential market. So we more than welcome the initiative from Ciudad de Libros. It now offers 8 Ellery Queen books as eBook. We don't condemn progress as we see eBooks as a useful addition to the 'paper production'. If these editions prove popular it will only lead to "full blown" tangible editions worthy of the name 'Ciudad de Libros'. Click on the covers to read more         |
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