Prizewinners, The (Masterspieces of Mystery) by Ellery Queen - Vintage Leatherbound Anthology

"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.

Selections include...

“The Return of Imray” by Rudyard Kipling
“The Curse of the Fires & of the Shadows” by William Butler Yeats
“The Miraculous Revenge” by Bernard Shaw
“The Willow Walk” Sinclar Lewis
“The Neighbors” by John Galsworthy
“Ransom” by Pearl Buck
“An Error in Chemistry” by William Faulkner
“The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X” by Bertrand Russell
“The Murder” John Steinbeck
“Coroner’s Inquest” by Marc Connelly
“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell
“It Takes a Thief” by Arthur Miller
“The Murder in the Fishing Cat” Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Tabloid News” by Louis Bromfield
“The Amateur of Crime” by Stephen Vincent Benet
“A Daylight Adventure” by T. S. Stribling
“Goodbye, Piccadilly” by John P. Marquand
“Only on Rainy Nights” by Mark Van Doren
“Clerical Error” by James Gould Cuzzens
“The Hunting of Hemingway” by MacKinlay Kantor
“The Bottle Mine” by Kenneth L. Roberts