Ellery Queen’s Anthology. Volume 1, 1960

Ellery Queen’s Anthology. 1960

And Poe said: Let there be a detective story. And it was so. And when Poe created the detective story in his own image, and saw everything that he had made, behold, it was very good. And he cast the detective story originally in the classic form. And that form, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, the true form. Amen.

Ellery Queen

Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made for permission to reprint the following:

Murder in Manhattan by Hugh Pentecost; copyright 1952 by Judson Philips; reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt.

The Mystery of the Blue far by Agatha Christie; copyright 1924 by Agatha Christie; renewed; reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner; copyright 1953 by Erle Stanley Gardner; reprinted by permission of Willis Kingsley Wing.

Strictly Diplomatic by John Dickson Carr; copyright 1945 by John Dickson Carr; reprinted by permission of James Brown Associates.

The Hunting of Hemingway by MacKinlay Kantor; copyright 1945 by MacKinlay Kantor; reprinted by permission of World Publishing Company.

The Man Who Knew How by Dorothy L. Sayers; copyright 1933 by Dorothy L. Sayers; reprinted by permission of A. Watkins, Inc.

Little Boy Lost by Q. Patrick; copyright 1947 by Davis Publications, Inc. (formerly Mercury Publications, Inc.); reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

The Good Prospect by Thomas Walsh; copyright 1937 by The Crowell Publishing Company; reprinted by permission of Littauer and Wilkinson.

Don’t Look Behind You by Fredric Brown; copyright 1947 by Fredric Brown, reprinted by permission of Harry Altshuler.

The Dog in the Orchard by Mary Roberts Rinehart; copyright 1940, 1941 by Mary Roberts Rinehart; reprinted by permission of Rinehart & Co., Inc.

Rehearsal for Murder by Ben Hecht; copyright 1951 by Ben Hecht; reprinted by permission of Jacques Chambrun.

Murder Is Everybody’s Business by Helen McCloy; copyright 1951 by Helen McCloy; reprinted by permission of the author.

The Yellow Jumper by Roy Vickers; copyright 1946 by Davis Publications, Inc. (formerly Mercury Publications, Inc.); reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Death on Christmas Eve by Stanley Ellin; copyright 1950 by Stanley Ellin; reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc.

The Cat’s-Eye by John van Druten; copyright 1945 by The Atlantic Monthly Company; reprinted by permission of Monica McCall, Inc.

Ride With the Wind by Rufus King; copyright 1939, 1940, 1941 by Rufus King; reprinted by permission of Rogers Terrill Literary Agency.

They Never Get Caught by Margery Allingham; copyright 1946 by Davis Publications, Inc. (formerly Mercury Publications, Inc.); reprinted by permission of Paul R. Reynolds & Son.

Invited Witness by George Harmon Coxe; copyright 1943 by Popular Publications, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt.

Pale Blue Nightgown by Louis Golding; copyright 1936 by Louis Golding; reprinted by permission of Jacques Chambrun.

All the Way Home from the albatross by Charlotte Armstrong; copyright 1951 by Charlotte Armstrong; published by Coward-McCann, Inc.; reprinted by permission of the publisher.

The Lonely Bride by Ellery Queen; copyright 1949 by United Newspapers Magazine Corporation; reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

The Happy Couple by W. Somerset Maugham; from creatures of circumstance copyright 1943 by W. Somerset Maugham; reprinted by permission of Mrs. William Heinemaan and Doubleday & Company, Inc.

The Cop Killer by Rex Stout; copyright 1951 by Rex Stout; reprinted by permission of the author.