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Ellery Queen Books in Order
Ellery Queen is a renowned pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. As accomplished authors, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing, establishing a reputation as the leading American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Born in Brooklyn, they first gained recognition in 1928 with the mystery-writing contest-winning book, The Roman Hat Mystery, which would eventually be published. Their iconic character, Ellery Queen, is an amateur detective who assists his police inspector father in solving intricate crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, a highly influential crime publication. Upon Lee's death, Dannay retired the Queen name, but later books were written by notable authors such as Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Ellery Queen's book series? Ellery Queen has written 8 book series. The most notable is the Drury Lane series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Ellery Queen
- #1
The Tragedy of X(1932) - #2
The Tragedy of Y(1932) - #3The Tragedy of Z(1933)
- #4
Drury Lane's Last Case(1933)
- #1The Roman Hat Mystery(1929)
- #2The French Powder Mystery(1930)
- #3
The Dutch Shoe Mystery(1931) - #4
The Greek Coffin Mystery(1932) - #5
The Egyptian Cross Mystery(1932) - #6
The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo(1933) - #7
The Siamese Twin Mystery(1933) - #8
The Chinese Orange Mystery(1934) - #9
The Lamp of God(1935) - #10
The Spanish Cape Mystery(1935) - #11
Halfway House(1936) - #12The Door Between(1936)
- #13The Four of Hearts(1938)
- #14The Devil to Pay(1938)
- #15
The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses(1939) - #16
The Penthouse Mystery(1941) - #17
Calamity Town(1942) - #18
The Perfect Crime(1942) - #19
There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead(1943) - #20
The Murderer is a Fox(1945) - #21Ten Days' Wonder(1948)
- #22
Cat of Many Tails(1949) - #23
Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders(1950) - #24
The Origin of Evil(1951) - #25
The King is Dead(1952) - #26The Golden Summer(1953)
- #27
The Scarlet Letters(1953) - #28
The Glass Village(1954) - #29
Inspector Queen's Own Case(1957) - #30The Finishing Stroke(1958)
- #31
Queens Full(1960) - #32Dead Man's Tale(1961)
- #33Death Spins the Platter(1962)
- #34
The Player On Other Side(1963) - #35
Kill as Directed(1963) - #36Murder with a Past(1963)
- #37And on the Eighth Day(1964)
- #38
Four Men Called John(1964) - #39
Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book(1965) - #40The Fourth Side of the Triangle(1965)
- #41
A Study in Terror(1966) - #42Losers, weepers(1966)
- #43
Shoot The Scene(1966) - #44
The Madman Theory(1966) - #45
Face to Face(1967) - #46The House of Brass(1968)
- #47
Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection(1968) - #48
House of Brass(1968) - #49
The Devil's Cook(1968) - #50
Cop Out(1969) - #51
The Last Woman in His Life(1970) - #52
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice(1970) - #53
A Fine and Private Place(1971) - #54
Blow Hot Blow Cold(1974) - #55
Ellery Queen, Master Detective(2020)
- #1
The Black Dog Mystery(1941) - #2The Green Turtle Mystery(1944)
- #3
The Red Chipmunk Mystery(1946) - #4
The Brown Fox Mystery(1948) - #5
The Golden Eagle Mystery(1948) - #6
The White Elephant Mystery(1950) - #7
The Yellow Cat Mystery(1952) - #8
The Mystery of the Vanished Victim(1954) - #9
The Mystery of the Merry Magician(1954) - #10
The Blue Herring Mystery(1954) - #11
The Purple Bird Mystery(1965)
- #1
Ellery Queen's Crime Carousel(1960) - #2
Ellery Queen's 16th Mystery Annual (By: Henry Slesar)(1961) - #3
To Be Read Before Midnight(1962) - #4
Ellery Queen All Stars(1967) - #5
Ellery Queen's Mystery Parade(1968) - #6Ellery Queen's Mini Mysteries(1969)
- #7
Ellery Queen's Mystery Bag(1972) - #8
Ellery Queen's Best Bets(1972) - #9
Ellery Queen's Crookbook(1974) - #10
Ellery Queen's Book Of Mystery Stories(1974) - #11
Ellery Queen's Murdercade(1975) - #12
Ellery Queen's Crime Wave(1976) - #13
Ellery Queen's Giants of Mystery(1976) - #14
Ellery Queen's Magicians Of Mystery(1976) - #15
Ellery Queen's Circumstantial Evidence(1977) - #16
X Marks the Plot(1977) - #17
Ellery Queen's Crimes and Consequences(1977) - #18Ellery Queen's International Case Book(1977)
- #19
Ellery Queen's Cops And Capers(1977) - #20
Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen(1978) - #21
Ellery Queen's a Multitude of Sins(1978) - #22
Ellery Queen's The Golden 13(1980) - #23
Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World (By: T. M. Adams)(1981) - #24
Ellery Queen's Veils of Mystery(1981) - #25
Ellery Queen's Doors to Mystery(1981) - #26
Ellery Queen's Maze Of Mysteries(1982) - #27Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses(1982)
- #28
Ellery Queen's Book of First Appearances(1982) - #29
Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes(1984) - #30
Ellery Queen's Crimes and Punishments(1984) - #31
Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes Two(1985) - #32
Ellery Queen's Champions Of Mystery(1987) - #33
Ellery Queen's Masks of Mystery(1988) - #34
Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World(1989) - #35
Ellery Queen's More Lost Ladies and Lost Men(1989) - #36
Ellerys Queen's Masters of Mystery(1989) - #37
Ellery Queen's Screen Favourites(1991) - #38
Ellery Queen's More Eyewitnesses(1992) - #39
Ellery Queen's Edgar Award Winners(1992) - #40
Ellery Queen's Faces of Mystery(1992) - #41
Ellery Queen's Other Faces of Mystery(1994) - #42
Ellery Queen's Windows Of Mystery(1994) - #43
Ellery Queen's Searches and Seizures(1995)
- #1Masterpieces of Mystery(1976)
- #1
The Campus Murders(1969) - #2
The Black Hearts Murder(1970) - #3
The Blue Movie Murders(1973)
- #1
Player on the Other Side(1963) - #2
Wife or Death(1963) - #3
The Last Score (With: Charles W. Runyon)(1964) - #4
The Killer Touch (With: Charles W. Runyon)(1965) - #5
Beware the Young Stranger(1965) - #6
The Copper Frame(1965) - #7
A Room To Die In(1965) - #8
Penthouse Mystery, The(1968) - #9
The Most Wanted Man In The World(1968) - #10
Kiss and Kill (With: Charles W. Runyon)(1969) - #11
When Fell The Night(1970) - #12
Door Between(1972) - #13
Eyes of Mystery(1981) - #14
House of Darkness(2010) - #15The New Adventures of Ellery Queen(1939)
- #16
The Adventures of Ellery Queen(1941) - #17Calendar of Crime(1952)
- #18QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation(1965)
- #19QED: Queen's Experiments in Detection(1968)
- #20
Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories(1977) - #21The Tragedy of Errors and Others(1999)
- #22The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries(2004)
- #23
The Adventures of the Murdered Moths(2004) - #24
The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (With: Josh Pachter)(2022)
- #1
Where Is Bianca?(1966) - #2
How Goes the Murder?(1966) - #3
Who Spies, Who Kills?(1966) - #4
Why So Dead?(1966) - #5
Which Way to Die?(1967) - #6
Guess Who's Coming to Kill You?(1968) - #7
What's in the Dark?(1969)
About Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a renowned pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. As accomplished authors, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing, establishing a reputation as the leading American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Born in Brooklyn, they first gained recognition in 1928 with the mystery-writing contest-winning book, The Roman Hat Mystery, which would eventually be published. Their iconic character, Ellery Queen, is an amateur detective who assists his police inspector father in solving intricate crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, a highly influential crime publication. Upon Lee's death, Dannay retired the Queen name, but later books were written by notable authors such as Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.
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