Order of Ellery Queen Detective Books
Ellery Queen serves as the central character in a beloved mystery series penned by the collaborative duo behind the Ellery Queen pseudonym—Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. This fascinating protagonist leads a dual life as both a writer of detective stories and screenplays, and an amateur sleuth who frequently assists his police detective father with challenging cases in New York City. What makes Ellery particularly unique is his meta-fictional role: he authors the very mystery novels in which he stars.
The literary adventures of Ellery Queen launched in 1929 with The Roman Hat Mystery and continued for over four decades until the final installment, A Fine and Private Place, was published in 1971. Here you'll find the complete Ellery Queen bibliography arranged in original publication order:
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Roman Hat Mystery | 1929 | |
| 2 |  The 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 | |
| 12 |  The Door Between | 1936 | |
| 13 |  The Four of Hearts | 1938 | |
| 14 |  The 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 | |
| 21 |  Ten 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 | |
| 26 | The Golden Summer | 1953 | |
| 27 |  The Scarlet Letters | 1953 | |
| 28 |  The Glass Village | 1954 | |
| 29 |  Inspector Queen's Own Case | 1957 | |
| 30 |  The Finishing Stroke | 1958 | |
| 31 |  Queens Full | 1960 | |
| 32 |  Dead Man's Tale | 1961 | |
| 33 |  Death Spins the Platter | 1962 | |
| 34 |  The Player On Other Side | 1963 | |
| 35 |  Kill as Directed | 1963 | |
| 36 |  Murder with a Past | 1963 | |
| 37 |  And on the Eighth Day | 1964 | |
| 38 |  Four Men Called John | 1964 | |
| 39 |  Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book | 1965 | |
| 40 |  The Fourth Side of the Triangle | 1965 | |
| 41 |  A Study in Terror | 1966 | |
| 42 |  Losers, weepers | 1966 | |
| 43 |  Shoot The Scene | 1966 | |
| 44 |  The Madman Theory | 1966 | |
| 45 |  Face to Face | 1967 | |
| 46 |  The 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 |