List of Propable Suspects: Other Characters

juna, the small gypsy-blooded orphan boy was adopted by Inspector Queen during his lonely years when Djuna - rendition in Japanese comics of the orphan boy by Jet

Djuna - rendition in Japanese comics of the orphan boy by Jet

Ellery was attending college.¹ This cheerfull young man, an orphan for as long as he could remember, ecstatically unaware of the necessity for a surname-slim and small, nervous and joyous, bubbling over with spirit and yet as quiet as a mouse when the occasion demanded.¹ He came to the Queens a beaten little creature of Romany origin with no surname, a swarthy skin an a fluid cunning. Valet, excellent cook, housekeeper and on occasion confidant... Black, curly haired and rather silent but interested in sports 'I wish it was baseball season. I want to see Babe Ruth smack'em'.. He played baseball, handball and basketball. He even gets picked as quarterback on the footballteam at the club. He also patronized the movies.
JJMcC once told us that Djuna was in perfect health and had recently undergone the stress of a cosmic loveaffair with a little witch of a country girl. ²
He slept in a small room beyond the bedroom used by father and son.¹
Later Djuna is replaced by Annie (Ellery Queen, Master detective) and Mrs.Fabrikant ('King is Dead').
The cousins named Djuna after the avant-garde novelist Djuna Barnes.
He got himself a major part in the solving of the junior mysteries.

ergeant Thomas Velie made his enterance in the Queen-saga
with the words 'What's up, Doyle?' in the 'Roman Hat Mystery' where he is introduced as a tall man in plain clothes. He is adressed by Inspector Queen in a rather fatherly way as 'Thomas'.
He remained " the tall one with the sledgehammer hands and the rumbling voice.." through much of the novels.
The tv-series has given Velie somewhat of a cult following, especially the Hutton series. Ellery is adressed as 'maestro' by the faithfull sergeant.

ed De Corsia (29 Sep 1903 - 11 Apr 1973)

Edward Gildea De Corsia was born in Brooklyn, NY. He began his acting career on stage and then into radio where he played Sgt.Velie in the Ellery Queen-series before breaking into movies in 1948. He was usually cast as a "heavy" in the early Western movies. He was featured in such Western films as "The Outriders" (1951), ..., "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), and "Blood on the Arrow" (1964). Ted died in, Encino, CA of natural causes.

Dr.Prouty as depicted by Frank Godwin for a Redbook edition of the Chinese Murder Mystery octor Samuel Prouty, assistant to the Chief Medical Examiner of New York County. Prouty resembles the popular conception of Mephistopheles smoked his dark, dangerous-looking cigars with furious puffs.¹ The authority when it comes down to pinpointing the cause and time of death!

enry Sampson, District Attorney
Appeared early on in the first Queens. Used to address Richard Queen as "Q".¹

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