The Tragedy of Errors and Others: With Essays and Tributes to Recognize Ellery Queen's Seventieth Anniversary (1999)

“ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the contributions of Ellery Queen to the mystery story. Queen appeared in novels and short stories, in the movies and on television, on the radio and even in comic books. In honor of the seventieth anniversary of the first Ellery Queen novel, Crippen & Landru is proud to publish the first completely new Ellery Queen book in almost thirty years. “The Tragedy of Errors” is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen novels—the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fairplay to the reader. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods. The Tragedy of Errors and Others also contains the six hitherto uncollected Ellery Queen short stories, and a section of essays, tributes, and reminiscences of Ellery Queen, written by family members, friends, and some of the finest current mystery writers. THE ELLERY QUEEN-TENNIAL!!!!! Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who wrote under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and whose fictional sleuth was also named Ellery Queen, were probably the most important American mystery writers from 1929 until the early 1970's. Ellery Queen is the American detective story, wrote Anthony Boucher and he meant not only their detective novels, but also their critical writings, their editing, and their appearance on television and the radio. From 1939 until 1948, Lee and Dannay wrote a hugely popular radio mystery show, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which like the EQ books stopped the action toward the end and challenged the audience to deduce whodunit. From the more than 350 surviving scripts, we have chosen fourteen of the most The case of the Tontine whose members die off one by one The disappearance of Napoleons Razor on a cross-country railroad train The case that Sherlock Holmes failed to solve The strangling in a haunted cave with only the victims footprints leading to the corpse A dying message which seems to name all the suspects The clue of the dead moth and 8 other extraordinary mysteries This book is published in honor of the centennial of the births of Lee and Dannay, and (n the fictional world of EQ), the centennial of Ellery himself. The Founded in 1994 as the only publishing house to specialize in mystery short story collections, Crippen & Landru has been described as a monument in the making (Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine) and the best edited, most attractively packaged line of mystery books introduced in this decade (Mystery Scene), and even God bless Crippen & Landru (The Strand). In many ways, however, in introducing completely unknown EQ detections to a new generation of readers, The Adventure of the Murdered Moths may be our most important book. The Adventure Of The Last Man Club -- The Adventure Of Napoleon's Razor -- The Adventure Of The Bad Boy -- The Adventure Of The March Of Death -- The Adventure Of The Haunted Cave -- The Adventure Of The Lost Child -- The Adventure Of The Black Secret -- The Adventure Of The Dying Scarecrow -- The Adventure Of The Woman In Black -- The Adventure Of The Forgotten Men -- The Adventure Of The Man Who Could Double The Size Of Diamonds -- The Adventure Of The Dark Cloud -- The Adventure Of Mr. Short And Mr. Long -- The Adventure Of The Murdered Moths. Ellery Queen. Ellery Queen. Accompanying Each Copy Is A Separately Printed Pamphlet, Reproducing Original Manuscript And Typescript Pages, In Reduced Size, Of The Tragedy Of Errors [17 P. ; 23 Cm.]--p. [1].