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October 3. 2009 - Wanted: books, coverscans, articles, radioshows...

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Questions on Ellery Queen

1) Ellery Queen Tv series The Adventure of The Disappearing Dagger - New -

In this episode a lenghty shot is made of a plaque which reads:

Connecticut State Historical
Society Marker N°609
ELMSFORD, CONNECTICUT
Village Green

On this site May 12. 1778, a gallant
band of colonial militia, led by
Col.Nathan 'Old Ironbeak' Shay,
were massacred by a platoon of
British regulars and sixty three
Pottawomotock Indians.

It doesn't connect to the plot and Google did not find any of these 'facts' or 'names'... An inside joke then?
Any advice or comment is welcome!

2) Pamphlet 'How to Read the Queen Stories' - New -

There is a footnote on page 326 of the original printing (it's in the final chapter) of The Egyptian Cross Mystery. This footnote indicates that the first printing of The Greek Coffin Mystery contained a pamphlet entitled "How to Read the Queen Stories". The copies of The Greek Coffin Mystery which I have seen have not contained this pamphlet, and I have not found it elsewhere.
Have you got this pamflet and could you provide us with a clean scan? Click the e-mail link above...

After a question by Jonathan B. Keeney December 1.2008

3) America's Grub Street Speaks -  SOLVED - see this page
                                                           thanks to Bill Vande Water
This concerns a radioshow hosted by Tom Stix. Turning from fiction to fact, three writers of mystery stories, known under the 'nom de plume' as Ellery Queen, Barnaby Ross and "Diplomat", applied their wits to the solution of a real unresolved mystery as presented by Captain John Ayer, head of the NYPD's missing persons bureau, during one of the new series programs known as ' America's Grub Street Speaks", presented each Sunday evening over the WABC-Columbia network. This program was only suggested for release on Saturday November 19. or thereafter...
Any information is appreciated!

4) Pastiches
I've only just looked into the pastiches, parodies made.
Several authors tried their hands on a Queen story with enjoyable results... perhaps you have such a story lying about...
tell us about it...

5) Four of Hearts
The Four of Hearts was written in 1938 and is not to difficult to find. However in 1949 The Four of Hearts Mystery was published by Dramatic Publishing Co.It was based on the real novel and dramatized by William Rand (a pseudonym for William Roos). This edition is extremely rare to find. In fact I have never seen a cover of the actual book...
Does anyone have more information on this?...

Respons by Arthur Vidro July 23.2008
"... Dramatic's records show nothing about The Four of Hearts Mystery -- their records simply do not go back that far...
the published play "Ellery Queen's The Four of Hearts Mystery" DOES exist.  I have seen a copy of it in a private collection.  But despite years of trying, I have never found a copy of that play for sale.  Unlike the successful Home Sweet Homicide stage-play, which last I saw was still in print, The Four of Hearts Mystery faded fairly quickly."
 

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