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Ellery Queen is both a fictional detective and a nom de plume used by co-writers Daniel Nathan (1905–1982) and Manford Lepofsky (1905–1971), two cousins from Brooklyn. (This pseudonym has also been employed by a number of house writers, including Richard Deming, Fletcher Flora, Samuel Duff McCoy, Talmage Powell, Charles W. Runyon, John Holbrook Vance and other, less prolific contributors.) The two co-writers were also responsible for co-founding Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, generally considered to be one of the most influential detective fiction magazines of the twentieth century. The two award-winning writers have also edited innumerable anthologies devoted to crime fiction, most of which are considered the best collections of their type. Nathan and Lepofsky as Ellery Queen are generally considered to be the most important writers of detective fiction next to the progenitor of the modern mystery novel, Edgar Allan Poe.

Beware the Young Stranger by Ellery Queen (May 1965) $3.00 "Now That He Was on the Run, Would He Kill Again?" Pocket Books #50489 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. The Black Hearts Murder by Ellery Queen (1970) $5.00 "Who Wore the Mask and Killed the Right-Wing Politico?" Another entry in "The Troubleshooter" series. Magnum Books #74640 [Printing Unknown] Book is Very Fine Plus. Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen (October 1951) $6.00 "The Mystery of a Strangler Who Never Left a Clue." Cover art by Maurice Thomas. Pocket Books #822 [First Printing] Book is Very Good. (Corner wear, numerous stress marks along spine, creasing back cover.) The Copper Frame by Ellery Queen (June 1965) $3.00 "Somebody Had Kiled His Father, Then Framed Him. He Knew Who That Somebody Was, But How Could He Prove It?" Pocket Books #50490 [First Printing] Book is Fine. Dead Man's Tale by Ellery Queen (October 1961) $3.00 Pocket Books #6117 [First Printing] Book is Very Good. The Golden Goose by Ellery Queen (February 1964) UNAVAILABLE Pocket Books #4705 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. Kill As Directed by Ellery Queen (August 1963) $3.00 Pocket Books #4704 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. The King Is Dead by Ellery Queen (December 1972) $3.00 Signet Books #Q5290 [First Printing] Book is Very Fine Plus. The Last Score by Ellery Queen (November 1964) $3.00 Pocket Books #50486 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. Murder With a Past by Ellery Queen (April 1963) $3.00 Pocket Books #4700 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. Murder With a Past & Kill As Directed by Ellery Queen (April 1978) $3.00 Signet Books #E8025 [First Printing] Book is Very Fine. The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen (January 1965) $3.00 Pocket Books #50487 [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus. The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen (January 1965) $4.00 Pocket Books #50487 [First Printing] Book is Fine. A Room to Die In by Ellery Queen (July 1965) $3.00 "How Could a Man Have Been Murdered in a Room Locked From the Inside?" Pocket Books #50492 [First Printing] Book is Very Good Plus. The Scarlet Letters by Ellery Queen (February 1973) $3.00 Signet Books #Q5362 [First Printing] Book is Very Fine. The Vanishing Corpse by Ellery Queen (January 1972) $3.00 "If Ellery Didn't Beat the Deadline, He'd Have a Dead Victim in the Girl Trap!" Originally published as Ellery Queen, Master Detective. Pyramid Books #T2615 [Third Printing] Book is Near Mint Minus. Whats In The Dark by Ellery Queen (1968) $3.00 "It's the Night of the Manhattan Blackout-- Tim Corrigan Meets the Dark Face of Passion and Savage Murder!" Popular Library #60-2269 [First Printing] Book is Very Fine. (Fading on spine.)