3 Quotes & Sayings By Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen was a master of mystery and one of the most prolific writers in the history of the genre. He was born in New York City in 1899 and attended Columbia University, graduating in 1921. After World War II he worked as a scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures. In 1945, he began writing his best-selling series about Ellery Queen, a fictional detective Read more

In addition to the Ellery Queen character, it is said that his most notable characters were Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard and his wife, Joan. He also wrote the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd with Agatha Christie, which eventually became a film starring Alan Marshal and Jane Wyman.

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The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether. Ellery Queen
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It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder. Ellery Queen