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.

* Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime ( 1941 )

* Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime ( 1941 )

* Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime ( 1941 )

Her 1940s film series work in Hollywood included Columbia's first entry in its Crime Doctor series, as well as her continuing role as Nikki Porter in Columbia's Ellery Queen series from 1940-1942.

Beginning with Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941, pulp magazines began to switch to digest size ; smaller, thicker magazines.

* Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery ( 1941 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

* Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ( 1941 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Dutch Shoe Mystery )

* Ellery Queen's Adventure Omnibus — 1941

* Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine — 1941 onwards

* Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery ( 1941 )

Launched in 1941 by Mercury Press, EQMM is named after the author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen.

Ferman moved to the United States of America and began working on the magazine American Mercury, the primary publication of the Mercury Press, which added Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941.

* Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ( 1941 )

* Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery ( 1941 )

From there, Spivak created a company to publish the magazine, Mercury Publications, and soon the company began publishing other magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ( 1941 ) and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1949.

" Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective ( 1940 ) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery ( 1941 ) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings.

* Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery ( 1941 )

* Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ( 1941 )

Rousseau's writings had an indirect influence on American literature through the writings of Wordsworth and Kant, whose works were important to the New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on such Unitarians as theologian William Ellery Channing.

* Ellery Queen, Master Detective ( 1940 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( very loosely based on The Door Between )

* Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen ( 1942 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

Many prominent intellectuals of the time, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau ( see Civil Disobedience ) and William Ellery Channing contributed literary works against war.

With text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Cram, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, and C. Howard Walker.

William Ellery Channing, a Harvard graduate and minister revered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, steered Unitarianism into a public ( and what some evangelicals consider controversial ) course.

Also there were theologians and philosophers such as William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mary Baker Eddy.

Author Jon Tuska's affection for the Ellery Queen series mystified its star Ralph Bellamy.