Ellery Queen was the pen name for two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective character named Ellery Queen. At various points in their history, the cousins allowed the name of Ellery Queen to be used as a house name; novels written by other writers were published under that name. The cousins also wrote four novels that were published under the name "Barnaby Ross" and they later allowed that name to be used as a house name. Several of the main series novels were also ghost-written, but those were controlled and edited by the cousins.
All ghostwriters are identified where known. Post-1961 novels are usually paperback originals. All titles were edited and supervised by Lee except The Blue Movie Murders, which was edited and supervised by Dannay after Lee's death. Unless noted, these novels do not feature Ellery Queen as a character.
The Last Man Club (1941) A novelization of the radio play featuring Ellery Queen.
Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1941), aka The Vanishing Corpse, Pyramid, (1968) A novelization of the movie featuring Ellery Queen, which was loosely based on the novel The Door Between
The Penthouse Mystery (1941) A novelization of the movie (Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery) featuring Ellery Queen.
The Adventure of the Murdered Millionaire (1942) A novelization of the radio play featuring Ellery Queen.
The Perfect Crime (1942) A novelization of the movie (Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime) featuring Ellery Queen, which in turn was loosely based on The Devil to Pay
Dead Man's Tale (1961) by Stephen Marlowe
Death Spins The Platter (1962) by Richard Deming
Wife Or Death (1963) by Richard Deming
Kill As Directed (1963) by Henry Kane
Murder With A Past (1963) by Talmage Powell
The Four Johns (1964) by John Holbrook Vance (Jack Vance)
Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1964) by Fletcher Flora
The Last Score (1964) by Charles W. Runyon
The Golden Goose (1964) by Fletcher Flora
A Room To Die In (1965) by John Holbrook Vance (Jack Vance)
The Killer Touch (1965) by Charles W. Runyon
Beware the Young Stranger (1965) by Talmage Powell
The Copper Frame (1965) by Richard Deming
Shoot the Scene (1966) by Richard Deming
The Madman Theory (1966) by John Holbrook Vance (Jack Vance)
Losers, Weepers (1966) by Richard Deming
Where Is Bianca? (1966) a Tim Corrigan novel by Talmage Powell
Why So Dead? (1966) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
The Devil's Cook (1966) by Fletcher Flora
Which Way To Die? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
Who Spies, Who Kills? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Talmage Powell
How Goes The Murder? (1967) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
Guess Who's Coming To Kill You? (1968) by Walt Sheldon
What's In The Dark? (1968) a Tim Corrigan novel by Richard Deming
Kiss And Kill (1969) by Charles W. Runyon
The Campus Murders (1969) a Mike McCall novel by Gil Brewer
The Black Hearts Murder (1970) a Mike McCall novel by Richard Deming
The Blue Movie Murders (1972) a Mike McCall novel by Edward Hoch
These novels were edited by Lee and ghosted by various authors, including Frank Belknap Long (who admitted writing two without mentioning the titles), Samuel Duff McCoy, and James Clark Carlisle, Jr., who "aroused the ire of Lee by farming out the writing of some of the books to a 'sub-ghost', which has made establishing authorship even worse". All the "Junior" novels with a colour in their title starred Djuna (see Ellery Queen), the Queens' houseboy. The Mystery of the Merry Magician and The Mystery of the Vanished Victim starred "Gulliver Queen", Ellery's nephew.
The Black Dog Mystery – 1941 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The Golden Eagle Mystery – 1942
The Green Turtle Mystery – 1944
The Red Chipmunk Mystery – 1946 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The Brown Fox Mystery – 1948 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The White Elephant Mystery – 1950 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The Yellow Cat Mystery – 1952 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The Blue Herring Mystery – 1954 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)
The Mystery of the Merry Magician – 1954
The Mystery of the Vanished Victim – 1954
The Purple Bird Mystery – 1966
(All written by Don Tracy.)
Quintin Chivas – 1961
The Scrolls of Lysis – 1962
The Duke of Chaos – 1962
The Cree from Minataree – 1964
Strange Kinship – 1965
The Passionate Queen – 1966