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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.
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.
In 1974, Levinson and Link retooled their idea into a new pilot, this time with Jim Hutton and David Wayne as Ellery and Inspector Queen. A television pilot premiered on March 23, 1975, with the made-for-TV movie Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects. [5] Levinson and Link adapted the script from the 1965 Ellery Queen novel The Fourth Side of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
(See Ellery Queen.)After nine popular mystery novels and the first of many movies, the character of Ellery Queen was at this point firmly established. This period in the Ellery Queen canon signals a change in the type of story told, moving away from the intricate puzzle mystery format which had been a hallmark of the nine previous novels, each with a nationality in their title and a "Challenge ...
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]
This novel was the fourth in a long series of novels featuring Ellery Queen, the first nine containing a nationality in the title. The introduction to this novel contained some details which are now not considered part of the Ellery Queen canon. For instance, the introduction is written as by the anonymous "J.J. McC.", a friend of the Queens ...