The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.

A collective name or collective pseudonym is one shared by two or more persons, for example the co-authors of a work, such as Ellery Queen, or Bourbaki.

Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee used the name Ellery Queen as both a pen name for their collaborative works and as the name of their main character.

Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee published their mystery novels and stories under the pen name Ellery Queen ( as well as publishing the work of ghost-writers under the same name ).

Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe are other popular subjects of mystery parodies and pastiches.

Others — S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the " English " style.

* Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders

Mystery author Ellery Queen can also be considered a " fictional artist " of sorts, though the proverbial line between his " true-life " and " fictional " exploits are generally very blurred.

The most notorious case of this took place on the Seinfeld television series ; it has also happened on other shows including The X-Files, Stargate SG1 and the short-lived Ellery Queen series.

This and the following eight digest collections were compiled and edited by Fred Dannay ( one-half of Ellery Queen ) with Hammett's permission.

* Ellery Queen ( 1 episode, 1976 )

Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York-Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay ( October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982 ) and Manford ( Emanuel ) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee ( January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971 )-to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.

The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.

In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, " Ellery Queen " served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective-hero they created.

The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym.

They allowed the Ellery Queen name to be used as a house name for a number of novels written by other authors, most of them published in the 1960s as paperback originals and not featuring Ellery Queen as a character.

According to critic Otto Penzler, " As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled.

Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction.

* 1780 – William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian ( d. 1842 )

* 2000 – Ellery Sprayberry, American actress

Buckminster's close associate William Ellery Channing ( 1780 – 1842 ) was settled over the Federal Street Church in Boston, 1803 ; and in a few years he became the leader of the Unitarian movement.

* February 17 – Ellery Harding Clark, American athlete ( b. 1874 )

* Sedgwick, Ellery ; The Atlantic Monthly, 1857 – 1909: Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb ( 1994 ) online

* Ellery Denison ( 1900 – 1989 ), philatelist of Maryland

* Fluvanna – A hamlet on the north side of Chautauqua Lake, northwest of Jamestown, and located on the townlines between Ellicott and Ellery on NY Route 430.

* Ellery Sedgwick, 1909 – 1938

Helene Hanff, best known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1950 – 1952 ), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC.

George Nader played Queen in The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1958 – 1959 ), but he was replaced with Lee Philips in the final episodes.

The 1975 television movie Ellery Queen ( a. k. a. " Too Many Suspects " — a loose adaptation of The Fourth Side of the Triangle ) led to the 1975 – 1976 Ellery Queen television series starring Jim Hutton in the title role ( with David Wayne as his widowed father ).

Dr. William Ellery Channing ( April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842 ) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.

However, two of Channing's nephews, Ellery Channing ( 1818 – 1901 ) and William Henry Channing ( 1810 – 1884 ), became prominent members of the movement.

* See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces ( 1823 ); and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin ( 1864 ), including her correspondence ( 1826 – 1842 ) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. H. Le Breton.

* Ellery Queen – The Glass Village

* Ellery Queen – The Campus Murders

Ellery Harding Clark ( March 13, 1874 – February 17, 1949 ) was an American athlete.

William Ellery ( December 22, 1727 – February 15, 1820 ) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island.

; Ellery Queen books – the novels written based on outlines by Frederic Dannay, one of the cousins who created " Ellery Queen "

A complete episode guide and history of this radio program can be found in the book The Sound of Detection: Ellery Queen's Adventures in Radio, published by OTR Publishing in 2002.

Each episode contained a " Challenge to the Viewer " with Ellery breaking the fourth wall to go over the facts of the case and invite the audience to solve the mystery on their own, immediately before the solution was revealed.

In 2011, the Leverage episode " The 10 Li ' l Grifters Job ", Timothy Hutton's character Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to his late father, Jim.

* Ellery Queen-The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party ( 1975 ) ( TV-series, one episode )

* " Blackjack ", the 22nd episode of the second TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen

* Ellery Queen ( 1976 ; 1 episode )

The final act always employed the time-honored detective cliché of calling together all the suspects, with Ellery Queen presenting the solution to the group, frequently upstaging and skewering the solution proposed by whichever rival sleuth was also in the episode.

* The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1 episode, 1951 )