紐約市警理察·昆恩每回遇上棘手的案件，都會與自己的兒子商量，這時候，埃勒里·奎因(Ellery Queen)就會親赴現場，以精湛的推理手法解決案件！艾拉里身高超過一米八，喜歡配戴無框的單片眼鏡。熱衷蒐集舊書，尤其是稀有的古善本。他推理講求純粹的邏輯思考，而且，沒有把握絕不妄下結論，只擺出一付狂妄自大的臭架子。周遭的人對此深惡痛絕，但他的父親理察對他還是信心十足，因為每次的案子最後還是由艾拉里解決。雖然故事中設定為由艾拉里將自己處理過的事件公諸於世，然而其實“艾拉里·昆恩”是由F·達理於M·李里兩名作家為聯合作推理小說而想出的筆名。（我推薦的作品為《埃及十字架之謎》）
艾勒里‧昆恩其實是兩個人，一個是佛列德瑞克‧丹奈（Frederic Dannay），一個是曼佛瑞‧李（Manfred Lee），這是一對堂兄弟，艾勒里‧昆恩這個名字是他們聯手創造出來的。
而這個名字，據推理評論家安東尼‧布契所言，「艾勒里‧昆恩，即是美國推理小說的同義詞。」
所謂推理小說的同義詞指的是，從1928年首部長篇《羅馬帽子的秘密》問世開始，昆恩便逐步接收了范達因美國首席古典推理大師的位置，以每年一至兩部的速度穩定出書，一路貫穿到七○年代，統治時間長達半世紀之久；而昆恩扮演的可不只是書寫者而已，他們（因為有兩個人，連體嬰）同時辦雜誌，編選集，搞廣播和電視，不讓古典推理征服全國勢不罷休——他們既是王者，也是傳教士和大使。
做為推理小說家的昆恩，不以創新詭計取勝，他們最大的力量來源，是通過對過往推理名著的整理和深徹理解，總結前代大師之精髓而集其大成，使小說呈現一種高度成熟期的穩定水平，和讀者的基本需求配合得很好——昆恩的作品是基本古典推理迷極佳的選擇。
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中文版本 Date of First Publication
The Roman Hat Mystery 羅馬帽子的秘密 June, 1929
The French Powder Mystery June, 1930
The Dutch Shoe Mystery 荷蘭鞋子的秘密 August, 1931
The Tragedy of X January, 1932
The Greek Coffin Mystery 希臘棺材的秘密 1932
The Tragedy of Y Y的悲劇 1932
The Egyptian Cross Mystery September, 1932
The Tragedy of Z 1933
The American Gun Mystery 美國槍的秘密 1933
Drury Lane's Last Case 1933
The Siamese Twin Mystery October, 1933
The Chinese Orange Mystery April, 1934
The Adventures of Ellery Queen 昆恩探案系列 November 1, 1934
The Spanish Cape Mystery 1935
The Lamp of God 1935
Halfway House 特倫頓小屋 1936
The Door Between 生死之門 1936-7
The Devil to Pay 1937-8
The Four of Hearts August, 1938
The Dragon's Teeth 龍牙 August, 1939
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen November, 1939
Adventure of the Last Man Club 1940
Ellery Queen, Master Detective 1941
The Penthouse Mystery 1941
Adventure of the Murdered Millionaire 1942
Calamity Town April, 1942
The Perfect Crime 1942
The Four of Hearts Mystery (novelization) 1942
There Was an Old Woman March, 1943
The Murderer is a Fox May, 1945
The Casebook of Ellery Queen 1945
Ten Days' Wonder October, 1948
Cat of Many Tails September, 1949
Double, Double June, 1950
The Origin of Evil April, 1951
Calendar of Crime January, 1952
The King is Dead May, 1952
The Golden Summer March, 1953
The Scarlet Letters May, 1953
The Glass Village August, 1954
Q.B.I. January, 1955
Inspector Queen's Own Case 1956
The Finishing Stroke 1958
Dead Man's Tale October, 1961
Quintin Chivas (by Barnaby Ross) 1961?
Death Spins the Platter June, 1962
The Scrolls of Lysis (by Barnaby Ross) 1962
Murder With a Past February, 1963
Kill as Directed August, 1963
The Player on the Other Side 另一邊的玩家 September, 1963
Wife or Death September, 1963
(Who Killed) The Golden Goose February, 1964
And on the Eighth Day March, 1964
The Duke of Chaos (by Barnaby Ross) April, 1964
The Four Johns 1964
Blow Hot, Blow Cold June, 1964
International Casebook 1964
The Last Score November, 1964
Beware the Young Stranger May, 1965
The Copper Frame June, 1965
The Cree From Minatree (by Barnaby Ross) 1965
A Room to Die In Fall, 1965
Strange Kinship (by Barnaby Ross) September, 1965
The Killer Touch October, 1965
The Fourth Side of the Triangle October, 1965
Where is Bianca? 1966
Queen's Full 1966
Who Spies, Who Kills? 1966
A Study in Terror (w/Sherlock Holmes) 1966
The Devil's Cook April, 1966
Losers, Weepers July, 1966
The Madman Theory August, 1966
Why So Dead? 1966
Shoot the Scene 1966
The Passionate Queen (by Barnaby Ross) Fall, 1966
Face to Face 臉對臉 1967
How Goes the Murder? 1967
Which Way to Die? 1967
Q.E.D. -- Queen's Experiments in Detection 1968
Cop Out 1968
What's in the Dark? 1968
Guess Who's Coming to Kill You? 1968
The House of Brass 1968
The Last Woman in His Life 1969
The Campus Murders 1969
Kiss and Kill April, 1969
The Black Hearts Murder 1970
A Fine and Private Place 1971
The Blue Movie Murders 色情電影謀殺案 1972
The Tragedy of Errors and Others 1999 (1971)
