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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases.
Ellery Queen is an American TV drama series, developed by Richard Levinson and William Link, who based it on the fictional character of the same name.The series ran for a single season on NBC from September 11, 1975, to April 4, 1976.
The popularity of the Ellery Queen novel series and the magazine led to the radio and TV series. The Adventures of Ellery Queen is the title of two separate television series made in the 1950s. They are based on the fictional detective Ellery Queen and the cases he solves with his father Inspector Richard Queen.
Ellery Queen would announce the actual resolution. The announcer and Ellery Queen would provide the closing sponsor message, tease and announce the title of the next week's mystery, and close with the credits. [5] Listeners were encouraged to follow the clues, drawing their own conclusions, and match wits with the panel and the detective himself.
The film was intended to spawn a new television series like the earlier versions of the character (The Adventures of Ellery Queen). [2]Richard Levinson and William Link authored the script but were so dismayed with the changes made during production that they took their names off and instead used a pseudonym, "Ted Leighton". [2]
Fictional detective Ellery Queen is set to make a return to television – this time as a woman. Incendo and BlackBox Multimedia have optioned the TV adaption rights to the collection of novels ...
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes pastiches and parodies, [1] first published in 1944. [2]The first collection of Holmes pastiches, [3] it consists of stories written by many prominent authors including Agatha Christie, [3] Mark Twain, [3] O. Henry, [4] Anthony Boucher, James M. Barrie, [3] and Anthony Berkeley Cox.
This was the first novel from which an Ellery Queen film was made, and in the same year as its publication. The 1935 film The Spanish Cape Mystery, with Donald Cook as Ellery Queen and Guy Usher as Inspector Queen, was only moderately faithful to the book. It eliminated the nudity angle, with the murder victim found wearing swim trunks under ...