Books like Ellery Queen's mystery magazine by Ellery Queen

A scholarly overview of detective, mystery, and espionage periodicals, tracing their historical development and literary significance.

Ellery Queen and his father investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Greek art dealer’s will, uncovering clues tied to a strangled ex‑convict, color‑blindness, a shredded will, and a tiny typing mistake.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world—all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Queen divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

A diary‑based mystery set on a college campus, where a student detective unravels intrigue among Greek letter societies, blending investigation, adventure, and suspense in a fresh juvenile fiction backdrop.