Queen's Bureau of Investigation: list of titles

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he Ellery Queen works are divided in different periods. Despite this fact the lists of titles are usually presented in
several different ways. This index supports the thesis that his works should be divided in categories other than the known periods (national series - Hollywood - minimalism...).

The first being those books who have been written by both Dannay and Lee and mostly contain the character Ellery Queen. This is why I've included the short stories therein and even the partly ghostwritten Queen novels. It also includes the four Drury Lane-stories, at first published under the Barnaby Ross moniker.
For convenience there listed seperately.
Included in the main opus are also the 2 collections said to have been Manfred's work only. We've also included the two Dannay/Lee "non Ellery works" The Glass Village and Cop Out.

The paperback originals aka non-Queen novels mostly written by ghostwriters make up the second category with several subsections: a small Barnaby Ross historicals, Tim Corrigan and Mike McCall-books and finally the juveniles written by Ellery Queen Jr.

The "real" Queen and Drury Lane stories are simply the best. All the titles are more extensively worked out in the Q.B.I. section. The shortlist is presented here...

Ellery Queen	Publication	Type	Covers
The Roman Hat Mystery	1929	novel	106
The French Powder Mystery	1930	novel	78
The Dutch Shoe Mystery	1931	novel	111
The Greek Coffin Mystery	1932	novel	101
The Egyptian Cross Mystery	1932	novel	102
The American Gun Mystery	1933	novel	71
The Siamese Twin Mystery	1933	novel	98
The Adventures of Ellery Queen	1933-34		83
The Chinese Orange Mystery	1934	novel	106
The Spanish Cape Mystery	1935	novel	87
Halfway House	1936	novel	85
The Door Between	1937	novel	86
The Devil to Pay	1938	novel	58
The Four of Hearts	1938	novel	63
The Dragon's Teeth aka The Virgin Heiresses	1939	novel	69
New Adventures of Ellery Queen aka The Lamp of God	1940		72
Ellery Queen Master Detective aka Vanishing Corpse*	1941	novel	24
The Penthouse Mystery*	1941	novel	14
The Murdered Millionaire*	1941	novel	5
The Last Man Club*	1941	novel	5
The Perfect Crime*	1942	novel	10
Calamity Town	1942	novel	103
There was an Old Woman aka The Quick and the Dead	1943	novel	78
The Murderer is a Fox	1945	novel	61
The Case Book of EQ	1945		5
Ten Days' Wonder	1948	novel	86
The Four of Hearts Mystery*	1949	novel	0
Cat of Many Tails	1949	novel	65
Double, Double aka The Case of the Seven Murders	1950 1958	novel	52
The Origin of Evil	1951	novel	58
The King is Dead	1952	novel	58
Calendar of Crime	1952		33
The Scarlet Letters	1953	novel	40
The Glass Village	1954	novel	47
QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation	1955		23
Inspectors Queen's Own Case	1956	novel	46
The Finishing Stroke	1959	novel	52
The Player on the Other Side	1963	novel	47
And on the Eighth Day	1964	novel	34
EQ's International Case Book	1964		4
The Fourth Side of the Triangle	1965	novel	40
Queens Full	1965		21
A Study in Terror	1966	novel	38
Face to Face	1967	novel	44
The Woman in the Case	1967		4
The House of Brass	1968	novel	34
Queen's Experiments in Deduction	1968		11
Cop Out	1969	novel	26
The Last Woman in his Life	1970	novel	32
A Fine and Private Place	1971	novel	31
Tragedy of Errors	1999		12
The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries	2005		11
The Adventures of the Puzzle Club	2022		1

Barnaby Ross - Drury Lane	Publication	Type	Covers
The Tragedy of X	1931	novel	81
The Tragedy of Y	1932	novel	95
The Tragedy of Z	1933	novel	70
Drury Lane's Last Case	1933	novel	59

Paperback originals	Publication	Type	Covers
Dead Man's Tale	1961	novel	19
Death spins the Platter	1962	novel	26
Murder with a Past	1963	novel	16
Kill as Directed	1963	novel	23
Wife or Death	1963	novel	19
The Golden Goose aka Who Killed the Goose?	1964	novel	19
The Four Johns	1964	novel	25
Blow Hot, Blow Cold	1964	novel	19
The Last Score	1964	novel	12
Beware the Young Stranger	1965	novel	10
The Copper Frame	1965	novel	16
A Room to Die In	1965	novel	20
The Killer Touch	1965	novel	16
The Devil's Cook	1966	novel	19
The Madman Theory	1966	novel	16
Losers, Weepers	1966	novel	12
Shoot the Scene	1966	novel	7
Guess Who's Coming to Kill You?	1968	novel	12
Kiss and Kill	1969	novel	15

Paperback originals Barnaby Ross	Publication	Type	Covers
Quintin Chivas	1961	novel	2
The Scrolls of Lysis	1962	novel	4
The Duke of Chaos	1964	novel	1
The Cree from the Minateree	1964	novel	1
Strange Kinsip	1965	novel	1
The Passionate Queen	1966	novel	1

Paperback originals Corrigan - McCall*	Publication	Type	Covers
Where is Bianca?	1966	novel	8
Who Spies, Who kills?	1966	novel	10
Why so Dead?	1966	novel	9
How goes the Murder?	1967	novel	6
Which way to die?	1967	novel	12
What's in the Dark?	1968	novel	20
The Campus Murders*	1969	novel	12
The Black Hearts Murder*	1970	novel	9
The Blue Movie Murders*	1972	novel	14

In July 2021 Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Bookshop announced the following: "Current view of the recently acquired Ellery Queen books that will soon be showing up on rare lists in our Weekly Update"

Soon after Otto published two YouTube videos describing the collection. In doing so he immediately provided the answer to the observation that the dust jackets for The French Powder Mystery seem to be available... (above left in the picture above). A unique opportunity to hear a true collector on first editions in action...

Links to videos:
Otto Presents Ellery Queen (1)
Otto Presents Ellery Queen (2)

Above: Among the guests at the Mysterious Press presentation was Richard Dannay (front row)...

Past additions to the site:
April 2024 - April 2025: 17 better and 40 new covers
April 2023 - April 2024: 24 better and 17 new covers
April 2022 - April 2023: 69 better and 131 new covers
April 2021 - April 2022: 284 better and 324 new covers
April 2020 - April 2021: 132 better and 33 new covers
April 2019 - April 2020: 16 better and 14 new covers
April 2018 - April 2019: 124 better and 93 new covers
April 2017 - April 2018: 51 better and 106 new covers
April 2016 - April 2017: 131 better and 436 new covers
April 2015 - April 2016: 10 better and 185 new covers
April 2014 - April 2015: 18 better and 103 new covers

For recent additions click here

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