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Ellery Queen Detective
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About This Series
The Ellery Queen Detective series is a captivating collection of mystery novels featuring a brilliant amateur sleuth, Ellery Queen, who is both a character and a pseudonym for the writing duo of cousins Daniel Nathan and Manford Lepofsky. Known for their intricate plots and clever puzzles, these novels blend classic whodunit elements with a unique narrative style that draws readers into a world of deduction and intrigue.
What sets the Ellery Queen series apart is its commitment to intellectual challenge and the exploration of moral dilemmas. Each book invites readers to engage their detective skills, presenting them with clues and red herrings that lead to a satisfying conclusion. Themes of justice, the complexities of human nature, and the art of deduction are masterfully woven throughout the series, making it an ideal read for mystery enthusiasts and armchair detectives alike.
For those new to the series, starting with Book 1 is highly recommended, as it establishes the character of Ellery Queen and the signature style of the authors. Although each mystery can stand alone, experiencing the progression of Queen's character and the evolution of the narrative techniques enhances the reading journey.
Influential figures like Judd Apatow have praised the series for its clever storytelling and intricate plots, making it a must-read for anyone who appreciates a well-crafted mystery. Whether you're a seasoned fan of detective fiction or a newcomer eager to dive into a classic series, the Ellery Queen Detective books offer an engaging and thought-provoking experience that is sure to resonate with readers across generations.
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Commencez par The Roman Hat Mystery
Livre 2 par Ellery Queen • Publié en 1929
During a packed Broadway play, a shady lawyer is found stabbed in his seat, and the only obvious clue, his missing top hat, has vanished. Ellery Queen and his NYPD father trace that hat through a maze of suspects and...
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Se termine par Ellery Queen, Master Detective
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Livre 2:The Roman Hat Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1929
During a packed Broadway play, a shady lawyer is found stabbed in his seat, and the only obvious clue, his missing top hat, has vanished. Ellery Queen and his NYPD father trace that hat through a maze of suspects and...
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Livre 4:The French Powder Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1930
A glamorous woman is found murdered in a department store, her face oddly dusted with expensive French powder. Ellery Queen follows tiny clues through sales floors, society gossip, and shaky alibis to learn who used a...
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Livre 6:The Dutch Shoe Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1931
A wealthy patient is killed inside a Manhattan hospital, with doctors and nurses nearby and no clear way for the murderer to strike unseen. When a simple shoe detail doesn’t add up, Ellery Queen rebuilds the timeline...
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Livre 9:Deux morts dans un cercueil
Ellery Queen • 1932
Un riche marchand d'art meurt, son testament disparaît, et un indice bizarre pointe vers le cercueil lui-même. Lorsque la tombe est ouverte, le nombre de corps augmente et l'énigme se complexifie. Ellery Queen doit dé...
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Livre 10:The Egyptian Cross Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1932
Victims are discovered posed on crude crosses, and taunting clues hint at a killer who wants to be chased. Ellery Queen and Inspector Queen race across a widening map of suspects, trying to predict the next strike bef...
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Livre 13:The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo
Ellery Queen • 1933
A murder at a busy rodeo seems to happen in plain sight, yet the gun and the shooter don’t fit the facts. Ellery Queen digs into performers, promoters, and rivalries, hunting for the trick that made the killing look i...
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Livre 14:Le Mystère des frères siamois
Ellery Queen • 1933
Un pavillon de montagne isolé est coupé par un incendie de forêt violent, piégeant ensemble les invités et le personnel. Lorsqu'un meurtre est commis dans cette station séquestrée, Ellery Queen doit résoudre l'affaire...
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Livre 16:The Chinese Orange Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1934
A man is murdered behind locked doors, and then the body itself disappears, leaving the investigators with a roomful of suspects and a handful of baffling clues. Ellery Queen has to explain both the killing and the va...
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Livre 19:The Lamp of God
Ellery Queen • 1935
A newly married couple returns to a gloomy family mansion where wealth, fear, and old grudges fill the halls. When death follows, Ellery Queen faces a gothic puzzle of inheritance, hidden truths, and a legend called t...
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Livre 20:The Spanish Cape Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1935
A killing at a wealthy estate leaves behind a trail of flirtations, cover stories, and a mysterious Spanish cape that keeps turning up at the worst moments. Ellery Queen works through a crowded cast to find the one li...
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Livre 23:Une maison dans la nuit
Ellery Queen • 1936
Un homme menant une double vie est retrouvé assassiné, et les personnes qui le connaissent ne s'accordent pas sur qui il était vraiment. Ellery Queen démêle les fausses identités et les relations compliquées, utilisan...
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Livre 24:The Door Between
Ellery Queen • 1936
A celebrated novelist is murdered, yet the evidence points in contradictory directions, as if the crime happened in two places at once. Ellery Queen follows a trail of motive and misdirection until the “door between”...
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Livre 27:The Four of Hearts
Ellery Queen • 1938
Two Hollywood legends die in a case laced with glamour, jealousy, and a set of playing-card clues. Ellery Queen traces the victims’ shared past and the small betrayals around them, trying to learn who dealt the fatal...
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Livre 28:Le mystère de la rapière
Ellery Queen • 1938
Une figure influente d'Hollywood est tuée d'une manière qui semble théâtrale, jusqu'à l'arme et le résidu bizarre qu'elle laisse derrière elle. Ellery Queen navigue à travers la politique des studios et les rancunes p...
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Livre 30:The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses
Ellery Queen • 1939
Ellery Queen is pulled into a case involving hidden motives and a fortune that draws the wrong kind of attention. As deaths and deceptions pile up, he has to sort real identities from invented ones and find the meanin...
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Livre 31:The Penthouse Mystery
Ellery Queen • 1941
A murder in a luxurious penthouse puts Ellery Queen among wealthy suspects who all have reasons to lie. With the police watching every move, he has to explain how the killer struck and why a seemingly minor detail was...
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Livre 33:Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Elle Gray • 2024
«Au centre de la pièce, fixé à un chevalet droit, se dressait le portrait en pied d'un jeune homme d'une extraordinaire beauté physique, devant lequel, à peu de distance, se tenait assis le peintre lui-même, Basil Hal...
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Livre 34:La ville maudite
Ellery Queen • 1942
Ellery Queen se rend dans la petite ville de Wrightsville pour un mariage de société qui se transforme en scandale et en mort suspecte. Alors que les voisins prennent parti et que l'affaire devient un spectacle public...
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Livre 35:The Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen • 1942
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Livre 37:There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead
Ellery Queen • 1943
In Wrightsville, a wealthy matriarch presides over a family as tangled as her fortune. When murders begin to echo a nursery rhyme pattern, Ellery Queen has to spot the hidden logic quickly, before the killer finishes...
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Livre 39:The Murderer is a Fox
Ellery Queen • 1945
A respected Wrightsville family is shaken when an old murder begins to echo into the present. Ellery Queen follows the trail through reputations, buried guilt, and wartime scars, looking for the “fox” hiding behind a...
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Livre 41:La Décade prodigieuse
Ellery Queen • 1948
Un roman assez extraordinaire que le film de Chabrol a fait retrouver aux lecteurs français. Très typique du style de ce double auteur qui introduit souvent dans ses romans une note tragique qui côtoie le fantastique.
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Livre 43:Cat of Many Tails
Ellery Queen • 1949
New York is gripped by a strangler who seems to pick victims at random, turning the city jumpy and cruel. Ellery Queen and Inspector Queen search for patterns in the chaos, hunting the tiny clue that turns fear into a...
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Livre 45:Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders
Ellery Queen • 1950
Back in Wrightsville, a string of killings takes on a ritual, storybook feel, as if someone is following a deadly script. Ellery Queen has to cut through superstition and community secrets to find the ordinary motive...
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Livre 47:The Origin of Evil
Ellery Queen • 1951
A comfortable life is disrupted by anonymous “gifts” that feel more like threats, and the campaign escalates into murder. Ellery Queen tracks down who is orchestrating the cruelty, and why the victim’s past is the rea...
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Livre 49:The King is Dead
Ellery Queen • 1952
A prominent man begins receiving warnings that he’s marked for death, and the threats grow more specific by the day. Ellery Queen investigates a circle of partners, rivals, and family members, trying to learn who is p...
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Livre 52:Lettres sans réponse
Ellery Queen • 1953
Une série de lettres provocantes et d'indices mis en scène entraîne Ellery Queen dans une affaire où la vérité change constamment de forme. Alors que les suspects modifient leurs histoires et que les motifs se multipl...
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Livre 54:The Glass Village
Ellery Queen • 1954
In a small town rattled by a killing, suspicion spreads faster than evidence and an outsider becomes an easy answer. Ellery Queen investigates the crime while watching a community’s fear harden into certainty, and the...
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Livre 56:Inspector Queen's Own Case
Ellery Queen • 1957
With Ellery offstage, Inspector Richard Queen leads the investigation when a puzzling crime lands in his lap. Relying on experience and stubborn police work, he has to sort staged evidence from the real motive before...
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Livre 58:The Finishing Stroke
Ellery Queen • 1958
A long-buried incident from a country-house gathering resurfaces decades later, when a death forces old secrets into the open. Ellery Queen rewinds events to a single night, searching for the missing “finishing stroke...
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Livre 60:Queens Full
Ellery Queen • 1960
A full sampler of Ellery Queen crime writing, mixing classic mysteries with shorter, puzzle-driven pieces. It’s built for readers who like clever setups, clean solutions, and that satisfying moment when a small clue s...
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Livre 62:Dead Man's Tale
Ellery Queen • 1961
A lawyer’s will leaves everything to a convicted killer on death row, and the fallout turns into a frantic manhunt. As the prisoner’s lovers and enemies close in, the chase becomes a lethal puzzle of loyalty, greed, a...
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Livre 64:Death Spins the Platter
Ellery Queen • 1962
A late-night disc jockey is murdered and a missing record seems tied to the motive. The suspects range from performers to powerful executives, each with something to gain. The investigation has to separate show-busine...
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Livre 65:The Player On Other Side
Ellery Queen • 1953
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Livre 68:Kill as Directed
Ellery Queen • 1963
A doctor’s risky affair and a suspicious death pull him into a web of blackmail and organized crime. When a corpse turns up in his locked apartment, every choice looks guilty. To clear himself, he has to follow orders...
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Livre 69:Murder with a Past
Ellery Queen • 1963
A killing that looks like an old score settled forces the investigation to dig into buried history and carefully hidden identities. As witnesses remember different versions of the same events, the truth hinges on what...
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Livre 71:Four Men Called John
Ellery Queen • 1964
On a college campus, one woman’s complicated social life and a string of men named John collide with blackmail and murder. As the story grows stranger, the case becomes a test of who is lying, and which “John” matters...
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Livre 72:And on the Eighth Day
Ellery Queen • 1964
Ellery Queen stumbles upon an isolated community that seems cut off from the modern world, and then death strikes inside its boundaries. With few outsiders and many secrets, he has to untangle faith, power, and fear t...
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Livre 73:Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book
Ellery Queen • 1965
A dark, varied collection of crime and mystery pieces published under the Ellery Queen name. Expect clever plots, sharp twists, and stories chosen for readers who like suspense that stays focused on motive, method, an...
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Livre 75:Les quatre côtés du triangle
Ellery Queen • 1965
Un triangle amoureux devient mortel, et la géométrie du mobile devient l'énigme. Ellery Queen retrace comment la jalousie et l'auto-justification peuvent donner à un crime un air inévitable, jusqu'à ce que le "quatriè...
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Livre 80:A Study in Terror
Ellery Queen • 1966
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson confront the Whitechapel murders as Jack the Ripper haunts London. Blending famous characters with grim stakes, this Victorian thriller follows Holmes through clues, suspects, and danger...
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Livre 81:Losers, weepers
Ellery Queen • 1966
A man thinks he has a clean break and a bag of cash, until a sudden accident and a misunderstanding turn him into a fugitive. Hunted by police and criminals alike, he has to find the truth fast, before his luck runs o...
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Livre 82:Shoot The Scene
Ellery Queen • 1966
A woman is hired to play the role of a perfect girlfriend, and the fake romance turns real enough to get dangerous. When kidnapping and murder enter the picture, she has to keep acting, while figuring out who is using...
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Livre 83:The Madman Theory
Ellery Queen • 1966 • 1 recommendation
A brutal shooting in a state park leaves a dead man, a missing weapon, and a list of suspects with reasons to snap. Investigator Omar Collins works through family secrets, jealousies, and local grudges to learn whose...
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Livre 85:Face to Face
Ellery Queen • 1967 • 1 recommendation
A tense crime story built around confrontation and identity, where one meeting can change everything. As the investigation tightens and alibis collapse, the characters are forced to face the truth directly, and someon...
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Livre 89:Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection
Ellery Queen • 1968
A collection of short Ellery Queen mysteries designed as brain-teasers. Each case lays out the clues plainly, invites you to solve it, and then walks through the logic step by step. Perfect for quick reads and armchai...
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Livre 90:House of Brass
Ellery Queen • 1968
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Livre 91:The Devil's Cook
Ellery Queen • 1968
A man is found dead, and the suspects include an angry husband, a lover with something to lose, and people circling an inheritance. As motives collide and a kidnapping complicates the trail, the investigation has to f...
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Livre 93:Cop Out
Ellery Queen • 1969
A patrolman makes one bad decision during a payroll robbery, and the consequences turn deadly. When criminals take his daughter hostage, he’s forced into a desperate race between duty and family, with a murderer ready...
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Livre 95:Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice
Ellery Queen • 1970
A themed collection of crime and mystery stories where wrongdoing meets consequences. Curated under the Ellery Queen banner, it offers a mix of classic and modern voices, twist endings, and cases that hinge on motive...
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Livre 96:The Last Woman in His Life
Ellery Queen • 1970
A murder case turns into a deeper look at one man’s relationships and the women around him, past and present. Ellery Queen follows the trail through love, resentment, and betrayal, trying to learn who decided the “las...
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Livre 98:Un Bel Endroit Prive
Ellery Queen • 1971
Un médecin légiste est retrouvé mort dans la morgue, une scène de crime où presque tout le monde a une raison d'être calme et une raison de mentir. Ellery Queen suit une chaîne de rancunes et de secrets vers une solut...
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Livre 100:Blow Hot Blow Cold
Ellery Queen • 1974
A town is rattled by sudden deaths that feel like an epidemic, until a brutal stabbing makes murder impossible to ignore. With suspects ranging from spouses to doctors and friends, the investigation has to decide whet...
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Livre 101:The House of Brass
Ellery Queen • 1968
A young woman’s death sets off an investigation steeped in secrets, quiet obsessions, and people who know more than they admit. With Inspector Queen taking the lead, the case leans on patient police work, and the slow...
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Livre 102:Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Ellery Queen • 2020
A selection of Ellery Queen mysteries that highlights the classic formula: fair clues, sharp logic, and solutions that click. Expect puzzle-forward cases, brisk storytelling, and that familiar invitation to pause, thi...
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Quel est le meilleur ordre pour lire la série Ellery Queen Detective ?
L'ordre de lecture recommandé est l'ordre numéroté affiché sur cette page, en commençant par The Roman Hat Mystery.
Combien de livres y a-t-il dans la série Ellery Queen Detective ?
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Par où dois-je commencer la série Ellery Queen Detective ?
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La série Ellery Queen Detective est-elle terminée ?
D'après les années de publication dont nous disposons, la série semble possiblement en cours et s'étend sur des publications allant de 1929 to 2024.