How many Ellery Queen Books have been written?

Answer 1

Well, that's a more complicated question that it seems. Some of the books had Ellery as a character; a few did not. The early ones were written by the cousins Lee & Dannay but later other writers either co-wrote or ghosted the books. Then there are the "Ellery Queen, Jr." books which were ghost-written, plus all the stories. Wikipedia lists about 37 or 38 novels, which just about tallies with the 40 I counted in the Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection, but that one includes a couple of collections of short stories among the books and wiki doesn't. The list from wiki also includes some of the co-author/ghost writers. I was surprised years ago to find out that other people wrote some of them, but it made complete sense. One book, On the Eighth Day, I had said was the oddest EQ book I'd ever read. I liked it, but there was a definite supernatural/science fiction feel to it. Turns out Avram Davidson had worked on it. SF writer Theodore Sturgeon wrote at least one, too. Anyway, from wikipedia:
Novels

* The Roman Hat Mystery - 1929
* The French Powder Mystery - 1930
* The Dutch Shoe Mystery - 1931
* The Greek Coffin Mystery - 1932
* The Egyptian Cross Mystery - 1932
* The American Gun Mystery - 1933
* The Siamese Twin Mystery - 1933
* The Chinese Orange Mystery - 1934
* The Spanish Cape Mystery - 1935
* Halfway House - 1936
* The Door Between - 1937
* The Devil to Pay - 1938
* The Four of Hearts - 1938
* The Dragon's Teeth - 1939
* Calamity Town - 1942
* There Was an Old Woman - 1943
* The Murderer Is a Fox - 1945
* Ten Days' Wonder - 1948
* Cat of Many Tails - 1949
* Double, Double - 1950
* The Origin of Evil - 1951
* The King Is Dead - 1952
* The Scarlet Letters - 1953
* The Glass Village - 1954 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen in book)
* Inspector Queen's Own Case - 1956 (Inspector Queen only)
* The Finishing Stroke - 1958
* The Player on The Other Side - 1963 (ghost-written with Theodore Sturgeon)
* And on The Eighth Day - 1964 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)
* The Fourth Side of The Triangle - 1965 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)
* A Study In Terror - 1966 (Sherlock Holmes part written by Paul W. Fairman)
* Face to Face - 1967
* The House of Brass - 1968 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)
* Cop Out - 1969 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen in book)
* The Last Woman in His Life - 1970
* A Fine and Private Place - 1971
I think one of my favorites was Origin of Evil.

The book includes the short story collections Calendar of Crime, Adventures of Ellery Queen, New Adventures of Ellery Queen, Case book of Ellery Queen, QBI--Queen's Bureau of Investigation and QED--Queen's Experiments in Detection, all of which are stories attributed to EQ. There were lots of anthologies edited by EQ (mostly Dannay who had a huges collection of mystery stories) with stories by other writers. The Encyclopedia says there were over 70 of these.

Hope this helps. I think I read most of these back in my misspent youth, but I may have missed one or two. Loved the magazine too, and thought Jim Hutton was a pretty good EQ in the too short lived series.

Answer 2

I can't answer this question except to say when my kids were young I read so many of the Ellery Queen short stories I about went blind. The short stories enabled me to continue being a mom without denying myself of my love of reading. I accept emails, if you find the answer I would love to know.