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 )

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.

I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them ; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country — and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

An example is Jorge Luis Borges, who won American fame with " The Garden of Forking Paths ", published in the August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

In some markets, local liberal hosts have existed for years, such as the British talk host Michael Jackson ( who was on the air at KABC in Los Angeles beginning in 1968 and is currently at KGIL ); Bernie Ward in San Francisco ; Jack Ellery in New Jersey and Tampa ; Dave Ross in Seattle, and Marc Germain in Los Angeles.

Holland is killed by a bomb planted by agents of the mysterious Mr. E ( Nathan Ellery ), who wants the formula.

The city is the site of the last residence of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the birthplace of Commodore Matthew C. Perry and the Reverend William Ellery Channing.

The village is within the Town of Ellery and located along the eastern shore of Chautauqua Lake.

Ellery is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, located northwest of Jamestown, New York and with an extended lakefront on the east side of Chautauqua Lake.

The fictional detective Ellery Queen is the author of the books in which he appears ( The Finishing Stroke, 1958 ) and the editor of the magazine that bears his name ( The Player On The Other Side, 1963 ).

Ellery Queen is said to be married and the father of a child in the introductions to the first few novels, but this plot line is never developed and Ellery is mainly portrayed as a bachelor.

Her first appearance in a written story is in the final pages of There Was An Old Woman ( 1943 ), when a character with whom Ellery has had some flirtatious moments announces spontaneously that she's changing her name to Nikki Porter and going to work as Ellery's secretary.

The character of Paula Paris, an agoraphobic gossip columnist, is linked romantically with Ellery in novels and short stories during the Hollywood period, but does not appear in the radio series or films, and soon vanished from the books.

Ellery is not given any serious romantic interests after Nikki Porter and Paula Paris disappear from the books.

He is the principal character in some, not all, of the juvenile novels ghost-written by other writers under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, Jr.

This is notable especially in the case of Ellery Queen.

The best of his short stories belong to the early intensely ratiocinative period, and both The Adventures of Ellery Queen ( 1934 ) and The New Adventures ( 1940 ) are as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate devotee of orthodoxy could wish ... ( E ) very story in these books is composed with wonderful skill.

The Tragedy of Y bears some resemblance to the Ellery Queen novel There Was an Old Woman: both are about eccentric families headed by a matriarch.

In the early 1930s, before Dannay and Lee's identity as the authors had been made public, " Ellery Queen " and " Barnaby Ross " staged a series of public debates in which one cousin impersonated Queen and the other impersonated Ross, both of them wearing masks to preserve their anonymity.

Ellery Queen was featured on a postage stamp issued by Nicaragua as part of a series of " Famous Fictional Detectives " to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Interpol in 1973 and a similar series of famous fictional detectives from San Marino in 1979.

* The fictional detective Ellery Queen is regularly described as wearing pince-nez.

Indeed, in his introduction to a 1970 collection of Tracy strips entitled The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, no less an authority than Ellery Queen suggested that Tracy, predating Webb, Treat, Creasey, and McBain, was the first " truly " procedural policeman in any fictional medium.

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.

Drury Lane is a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen in the 1930s under the byline of Barnaby Ross.

* Drury Lane ( fictional detective ), created by Ellery Queen