Ellery Queen Reading Order

21 books (1948–2004)

Start with Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction, the first of 21 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction 1948Buy 🇺🇸
2	20 Great Tales of Murder 1952Buy 🇺🇸
3	Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 1954Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Daring Detectives 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	American City 1972Buy 🇺🇸
8	Space Suits & Gumshoes 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	Chapter and Hearse 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Deadly Arts 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	Handle with Care: Frightening Stories 1985Buy 🇺🇸
12	Wickedest Show on Earth 1985Buy 🇺🇸
13	Murder for Christmas 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	Great Baseball Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
15	Great Tales of Crime and Detection 1992Buy 🇺🇸
16	Fifty Best Mysteries 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Century of Great Suspense Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction 2004Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1932–1933)

Start with The Tragedy of X, the first of 4 books in the Drury Lane series.

#	Title
1	The Tragedy of X 1932Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tragedy of Y 1932Buy 🇺🇸
3	Drury Lane's Last Case 1933Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Tragedy of Z 1933Buy 🇺🇸

55 books (1929–2020)

Start with The Roman Hat Mystery, the first of 55 books in the Ellery Queen Detective series.

#	Title
1	The Roman Hat Mystery 1929Buy 🇺🇸
2	The French Powder Mystery 1930Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dutch Shoe Mystery 1931Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Egyptian Cross Mystery 1932Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Greek Coffin Mystery 1932Buy 🇺🇸
6	The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo 1933Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Siamese Twin Mystery 1933Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Chinese Orange Mystery 1934Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Lamp of God 1935Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Spanish Cape Mystery 1935Buy 🇺🇸
11	Halfway House 1936Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Door Between 1936Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Devil to Pay 1938Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Four of Hearts 1938Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses 1939Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Penthouse Mystery 1941Buy 🇺🇸
17	Calamity Town 1942Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Perfect Crime 1942Buy 🇺🇸
19	There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead 1943Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Murderer is a Fox 1945Buy 🇺🇸
21	Ten Days' Wonder 1948Buy 🇺🇸
22	Cat of Many Tails 1949Buy 🇺🇸
23	Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders 1950Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Origin of Evil 1951Buy 🇺🇸
25	The King is Dead 1952Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Golden Summer 1953Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Scarlet Letters 1953Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Glass Village 1954Buy 🇺🇸
29	Inspector Queen's Own Case 1957Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Finishing Stroke 1958Buy 🇺🇸
31	Queens Full 1960Buy 🇺🇸
32	Dead Man's Tale 1961Buy 🇺🇸
33	Death Spins the Platter 1962Buy 🇺🇸
34	Kill as Directed 1963Buy 🇺🇸
35	Murder with a Past 1963Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Player On Other Side 1963Buy 🇺🇸
37	And on the Eighth Day 1964Buy 🇺🇸
38	Four Men Called John 1964Buy 🇺🇸
39	Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book 1965Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Fourth Side of the Triangle 1965Buy 🇺🇸
41	A Study in Terror 1966Buy 🇺🇸
42	Losers, weepers 1966Buy 🇺🇸
43	Shoot The Scene 1966Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Madman Theory 1966Buy 🇺🇸
45	Face to Face 1967Buy 🇺🇸
46	House of Brass 1968Buy 🇺🇸
47	Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection 1968Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Devil's Cook 1968Buy 🇺🇸
49	The House of Brass 1968Buy 🇺🇸
50	Cop Out 1969Buy 🇺🇸
51	Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice 1970Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Last Woman in His Life 1970Buy 🇺🇸
53	A Fine and Private Place 1971Buy 🇺🇸
54	Blow Hot Blow Cold 1974Buy 🇺🇸
55	Ellery Queen, Master Detective 2020Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1941–1965)

Start with The Black Dog Mystery, the first of 11 books in the Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery series.

43 books (1960–1995)

Start with Ellery Queen's Crime Carousel, the first of 43 books in the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Annual series.

#	Title
1	Ellery Queen's Crime Carousel 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ellery Queen's 16th Mystery Annual(By: Henry Slesar) 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	To Be Read Before Midnight 1962Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ellery Queen All Stars 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ellery Queen's Mystery Parade 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ellery Queen's Mini Mysteries 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Ellery Queen's Best Bets 1972Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ellery Queen's Mystery Bag 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	Ellery Queen's Book Of Mystery Stories 1974Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ellery Queen's Crookbook 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Ellery Queen's Murdercade 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ellery Queen's Crime Wave 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Ellery Queen's Giants of Mystery 1976Buy 🇺🇸
14	Ellery Queen's Magicians Of Mystery 1976Buy 🇺🇸
15	Ellery Queen's Circumstantial Evidence 1977Buy 🇺🇸
16	Ellery Queen's Cops And Capers 1977Buy 🇺🇸
17	Ellery Queen's Crimes and Consequences 1977Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ellery Queen's International Case Book 1977Buy 🇺🇸
19	X Marks the Plot 1977Buy 🇺🇸
20	Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen 1978Buy 🇺🇸
21	Ellery Queen's a Multitude of Sins 1978Buy 🇺🇸
22	Ellery Queen's The Golden 13 1980Buy 🇺🇸
23	Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World(By: T. M. Adams) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
24	Ellery Queen's Doors to Mystery 1981Buy 🇺🇸
25	Ellery Queen's Veils of Mystery 1981Buy 🇺🇸
26	Ellery Queen's Book of First Appearances 1982Buy 🇺🇸
27	Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses 1982Buy 🇺🇸
28	Ellery Queen's Maze Of Mysteries 1982Buy 🇺🇸
29	Ellery Queen's Crimes and Punishments 1984Buy 🇺🇸
30	Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes 1984Buy 🇺🇸
31	Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes Two 1985Buy 🇺🇸
32	Ellery Queen's Champions Of Mystery 1987Buy 🇺🇸
33	Ellery Queen's Masks of Mystery 1988Buy 🇺🇸
34	Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World 1989Buy 🇺🇸
35	Ellery Queen's More Lost Ladies and Lost Men 1989Buy 🇺🇸
36	Ellerys Queen's Masters of Mystery 1989Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ellery Queen's Screen Favourites 1991Buy 🇺🇸
38	Ellery Queen's Edgar Award Winners 1992Buy 🇺🇸
39	Ellery Queen's Faces of Mystery 1992Buy 🇺🇸
40	Ellery Queen's More Eyewitnesses 1992Buy 🇺🇸
41	Ellery Queen's Other Faces of Mystery 1994Buy 🇺🇸
42	Ellery Queen's Windows Of Mystery 1994Buy 🇺🇸
43	Ellery Queen's Searches and Seizures 1995Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1976–1976)

3 books (1969–1973)

Start with The Campus Murders and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Campus Murders 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Hearts Murder 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Blue Movie Murders 1973Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1939–2022)

Start with The New Adventures of Ellery Queen, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The New Adventures of Ellery Queen 1939Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1941Buy 🇺🇸
3	Calendar of Crime 1952Buy 🇺🇸
4	QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	QED: Queen's Experiments in Detection 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Tragedy of Errors and Others 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Adventures of the Murdered Moths 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Adventures of the Puzzle Club(With: Josh Pachter) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1963–2010)

Start with Player on the Other Side, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Player on the Other Side 1963Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wife or Death 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Last Score(With: Charles W. Runyon) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Room To Die In 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Beware the Young Stranger 1965Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Copper Frame 1965Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Killer Touch(With: Charles W. Runyon) 1965Buy 🇺🇸
8	Penthouse Mystery, The 1968Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Most Wanted Man In The World 1968Buy 🇺🇸
10	Kiss and Kill(With: Charles W. Runyon) 1969Buy 🇺🇸
11	When Fell The Night 1970Buy 🇺🇸
12	Door Between 1972Buy 🇺🇸
13	Eyes of Mystery 1981Buy 🇺🇸
14	House of Darkness 2010Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1966–1969)

Start with How Goes the Murder?, the first of 7 books in the Tim Corrigan series.

#	Title
1	How Goes the Murder? 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Where Is Bianca? 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	Who Spies, Who Kills? 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	Why So Dead? 1966Buy 🇺🇸
5	Which Way to Die? 1967Buy 🇺🇸
6	Guess Who's Coming to Kill You? 1968Buy 🇺🇸
7	What's in the Dark? 1969Buy 🇺🇸