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.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

At a time when scientific research in the United States was still in its infancy, George Ellery Hale, a solar astronomer from the University of Chicago, founded the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1904.

In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.

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.

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.

Famous American Unitarian William Ellery Channing was a believer in the virgin birth until later in his life, after he had begun his association with the Transcendentalists.

Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.

In 1894, Gilman sent her daughter west to live with her former husband and his second wife, Grace Ellery Channing, who was a close friend of Gilman's.

The Town of Ellery was founded in 1821 from a part of the Town of Chautauqua.

In 1850, the town was increased in size by territory from the Town of Ellery, New York.

The magazine was purchased by its then editor, Ellery Sedgwick, during World War I, but remained in Boston.

The last Ellery Queen novel, A Fine and Private Place, was published in the year of Lee's death, 1971.

Ellery Queen was created in 1928 when Dannay and Lee entered a writing contest sponsored by McClure's Magazine for the best first mystery novel.

What became the most famous part of the early Ellery Queen books was the " Challenge to the Reader.

" This was a single page near the end of the book declaring that the reader had seen all the same clues Ellery had, and that only one solution was possible.

According to Julian Symons, " Ellery ... occasionally lost his father, as his exploits took place more frequently in the small town of Wrightsville ... where his arrival as a house guest was likely to be the signal for the commission of one or more murders.

Keating, " People said Ross must be the wit and critic Alexander Woollcott and Queen S. S. Van Dine ..., creator of the super-snob detective Philo Vance, on whom ' Ellery Queen ' was indeed modeled.

On radio, The Adventures of Ellery Queen was heard on all three networks from 1939 to 1948.

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.

They are police detectives in the Murder Brigade of the Amsterdam Municipal Police, and are featured in more than a dozen detective novels and several short stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

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.

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 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.

* 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.

The Drake-Curtis House, Ellery Calkins House, Cochecton Presbyterian Church, Cochecton Railroad Station, Reilly's Store, Parsonage Road Historic District, Page House, Old Cochecton Cemetery, and Valleau Tavern are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Player on the Other Side, ghost-written by Theodore Sturgeon, delves more deeply into motive than most Ellery Queen novels.

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.

* The Spanish Cape Mystery ( 1935 ) Donald Cook as Ellery Queen, Guy Usher as Inspector Queen ( based on The Spanish Cape Mystery )

* The Mandarin Mystery ( 1936 ) Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery ); Available for download as being in the public domain

* 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 )

* Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime ( 1941 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Devil To Pay )

* 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 )