Ellery Queen Detective Reading Order

Halfway House

1936

The Door Between

1936

The Four of Hearts

1938

The Devil to Pay

1938

The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses

1939

The Penthouse Mystery

1941

Calamity Town

1942

The Perfect Crime

1942

There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead

1943

The Murderer is a Fox

1945

Ten Days' Wonder

1948

Cat of Many Tails

1949

Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders

1950

The Origin of Evil

1951

The King is Dead

1952

The Golden Summer

1953

The Scarlet Letters

1953

The Glass Village

1954

Inspector Queen's Own Case

1957

The Finishing Stroke

1958

Queens Full

1960

Dead Man's Tale

1961

Death Spins the Platter

1962

The Player On Other Side

1963

Kill as Directed

1963

Murder with a Past

1963

And on the Eighth Day

1964

Four Men Called John

1964

Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book

1965

The Fourth Side of the Triangle

1965

A Study in Terror

1966

Losers, weepers

1966

Shoot The Scene

1966

The Madman Theory

1966

Face to Face

1967

The House of Brass

1968

Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection

1968

House of Brass

1968

The Devil's Cook

1968

Cop Out

1969

The Last Woman in His Life

1970

Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice

1970

A Fine and Private Place

1971

Blow Hot Blow Cold

1974

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

2020