Magazine / Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"The best mystery magazine in the world, bar none."

— Stephen King

First printed in 1941, the cover page has dropped the possessive since 1993, but the table of contents and website still retain the original name. The magazine was, of course, launched by Ellery Queen. Queen (in the form of Dannay) was succeeded by Eleanor Sullivan in 1982, and then by Janet Hutchings in 1991.

Each magazine is a Pulp Fiction Anthology of the Mystery Fiction genre. Ellery Queen attempts to represent as much of the genre as possible with each issue, publishing Crime Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Detective Drama, Police Procedural, and even Lit Fic if the editors deem it similar enough. Their submission search is similarly broad, having a dedicated department to purchasing foreign stories for publication since 2003, and an active effort to find unpublished mystery authors since 1949.

Initially a quarterly publication, the magazine now follows a bimonthly cycle, with excerpts and additional columns appearing on their website. While maintaining a physical format, they also sell a digital copy of their magazine, in multiple electronic formats.

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Works printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine include:

• "The Flying Death", short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 1944)
• "The Case Of The Emerald Sky", short story by Eric Ambler (March 1945)
• "The Stripper", short story by HH Holmes (also known as Anthony Boucher) (May 1945)
• "The Blind Spot", short story by Barry Perowne (November 1945)
• "Chinoiserie", novelette by Helen Mc Cloy (July 1946)
• "The House In Goblin Wood", novelette by Carter Dickson (November 1947)
• "The Garden Of Forking Paths", short story by Jorge Luis Borges (August 1948)
• "Johnny On The Spot", by Cornell Woolrich (November 1948)
• "Salt On His Tail", by Leslie Charterps (November 1948)
• "Love-in-a-Mist" by Joseph Shearing (November 1948)
• "Dear Louisa", by Miriam Bruce (November 1948)
• "Thou Lord Seest Me", short story by Q Patrick (July 1949)
• "The Trail Of The Brown Sedan", by Mac Kinlay Kantor (July 1949)
• "The Big Shots", by John Di Silvestro (July 1949)
• "Karmesin Blackmailer", by Gerald Kersh (July 1949)
• "Floor Please", by Stephen Vincent Benit (July 1949)
• "The Rainbow Murders End", short story by Raoul Whitfield (July 1949)
• "Subject To Review", short story by Mary Adams Sarett (July 1949)
• "Out Of His Head", by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (July 1949)
• "Crisis, 1999", short story by Fredric Brown (August 1949)
• "The Man Whose Wishes Came True", short story by C. S. Forester (June 1951)
• "Fool's Mate" story by Stanley Ellin (November 1951)
• "Morte d'Alain: An Unrecorded Idyll of the King", short story by Maxey Brooke (December 1952)
• "At Midnight In The Month Of June" short story by Ray Bradbury (June 1954)
• "You Know What, Teacher?" short story by Zenna Henderson (September 1954)
• "The Fog On Pemble Green", novelette by Shirley Barker (May 1955)
• "The Necessity Of His Condition", short story by Avram Davidson (April 1957)
• "Country Caper", short story by Robert Sheckley (April 1957)
• "Walking Alone", short story by Miriam Allen De Ford (October 1957)
• "Crime In Rhyme", short story by Robert Bloch (October 1957)
• "The Martian Crown Jewels", short story by Poul Anderson (February 1958)
• "The Town Where No One Got Off", short story by Ray Bradbury (October 1958)
• "The Dive People", short story by Avram Davidson (February 1959)
• "The Blue Geranium", short story by Agatha Christie (April 1959)
• "State Of Assassination", short story by Poul Anderson (December 1959)
• "Crime On Mars", by Arthur C. Clarke (July 1960)
• "The Symbolic Logic Of Murder", short story by John Reese (October 1960)
• "Where Do You Live, Queen Esther?", short story by Avram Davidson (March 1961)
• "The Haunted Woodshed", short story by Harold R Daniels (August 1961)
• "Philip Marlowe's Last Case", short story by Raymond Chandler (January 1962)
• "The Sin Of Madame Phloi", short story by Lilian Jackson Braun (June 1962)
• "By The Scruff Of The Soul", short story by Dorothy Salisbury Davis (January 1963)
• "The Cobblestones Of Saratoga Street", short story by Avram Davidson (April 1964)
• "Tarzan Jungle Detective", short story by Edgar Rice Burroughs (May 1964)
• "The Poison Necklace", short story by Miriam Allen De Ford (March 1965)
• "I Always Do What Teddy Says", short story by Harry Harrison (June 1965)
• "To Reach The Sea", short story by Monica Dickens (September 1965)
• "The Odor Of Melting", short story by Edward D. Hoch (February 1966)
• "Fair's Fair", short story by Jane Speed (February 1967)
• "The Gods Are Not Mocked", short story by Robert Bloch (August 1968)
• "Every Fifth Man", story by Edward D. Hoch (January 1969)
• "The Little Old Lady From Cricket Creek", short story by Len Gray (August 1969)
• "Needle In The Heart", short story by Richard Matheson (October 1969)
• "The Nature Of The Thing", short story by Patricia Highsmith (April 1970)
• "Murder 1986", novelette by PD James (October 1970)
• "Don't Be Frightened", short story by Celia Fremlin (October 1970)
• "Beyond Sleep", short story by Barry N Malzberg (November 1970)
• "Desert Pickup", short story by Richard Laymon (November 1970)
• "Death Out Of Season", short story by Mary Barrett (February 1971)
• "The Trefoil Company", short story by Avram Davidson (August 1971)
• "K As In Kidnaping", short story by Lawrence Treat (December 1971)
• "The Acquisitive Chuckle", short story by Isaac Asimov (January 1972)
• "The Island Of Bright Birds", short story by John Christopher (February 1972)
• "The Incredible Theft", short story by Agatha Christie (March 1972)
• "B As In Bandit", short story by Lawrence Treat (April 1972)
• "M As In Missing", short story by Lawrence Treat (June 1972)
• "The Phony Ph.D.", short story by Isaac Asimov (July 1972)
• "The Little Dark Room", short story by Carole Rosenthal (July 1972)
• "A Chess Problem", short story by Agatha Christie (August 1972)
• "A Kind Of Madness", short story by Anthony Boucher (August 1972)
• "The Dripping", short story by David Morrell (August 1972)
• "G As In Garrote", short story by Lawrence Treat (August 1972)
• "The Man Who Never Told a Lie", short story by Isaac Asimov (October 1972)
• "The Marked Man", short story by Ursula Curtiss (October 1972)
• "The Last Wizard", short story by Avram Davidson (December 1972)
• "The Matchbook Collector", short story by Isaac Asimov (December 1972)
• "A Girl Cant Always Have Everything", Tonita S Gardner (December 1972)
• "The Biological Clock", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1973)
• "A Judicious Half Inch", short story by Ursula Curtiss (April 1973)
• "The Obvious Factor", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1973)
• "The Pointing Finger", short story by Isaac Asimov (July 1973)
• "Murder In Green", short story by Miriam Allen De Ford (August 1973)
• "Coyote Street", short story by Gary Brandner (September 1973)
• "A Warning to Miss Earth", short story by Isaac Asimov (September 1973)
• "Garden Of Evil", short story by Carol Cail (December 1973)
• "The Six Suspects", short story by Isaac Asimov (December 1973)
• "When No Man Pursueth", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1974)
• "Quicker Than The Eye", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1974)
• "A Chip of the Black Stone", short story by Isaac Asimov (July 1974)
• "All in the Way You Read It", short story by Isaac Asimov (September 1974)
• "Confessions of an American Cigarette Smoker", short story by Isaac Asimov (December 1974)
• "The One And Only East", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1975)
• "Little Note Nor Long Remember", short story by Henry T Parry (July 1975)
• "The Pond", short story by Patricia Highsmith (March 1976)
• "The Cross Of Lorraine", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1976)
• "The Tercentenary Incident", short story by Isaac Asimov (August 1976)
• "A Case of Income-tax Fraud", short story by Isaac Asimov (November 1976)
• "Sweet Fever",short story by Bill Pronzini (December 1976)
• "The Sports Page", short story by Isaac Asimov (April 1977)
• "If Big Brother Says So", short story by Alice Rudoski (July 1977)
• "The Thirteenth Day Of Christmas", short story by Isaac Asimov (July 1977)
• "A Glowing Future", short story by Ruth Rendell (September 1977)
• "The Thing Waiting Outside", short story by Barbara Williamson (December 1977)
• "The Men Who Read Isaac Asimov", short story by William Brittain (May 1978)
• "The Next Day", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1978)
• "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye", short story by Ann Mackenzie (May 1978)
• "Checkpoint Charlie", short story by Brian Garfield (May 1978)
• "A Matter of Irrelevance", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1979)
• "None So Blind", short story by Isaac Asimov (June 1979)
• "To The Barest", short story by Isaac Asimov (August 1979)
• "Sixty Four Million Trillion Combinations", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1980)
• "The Man Who Pretended To Like Baseball", short story by Isaac Asimov (June 1980)
• "The Good Samaritan", short story by Isaac Asimov (September 1980)
• "The Gilbert And Sullivan Mystery", short story by Isaac Asimov (January 1981)
• "Can You Prove It?", short story by Isaac Asimov (June 1981)
• "The Phoenician Bauble", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1982)
• "Custers Ghost", short story by Clark Howard (May 1983)
• "A Monday In April", short story by Isaac Asimov (May 1983)
• "Neither Brute Nor Human", short story by Isaac Asimov (April 1984)
• "The Redhead", short story by Isaac Asimov (October 1984)
• "The Fourth Homonym", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1985)
• "Triple Devil", short story by Isaac Asimov (August 1985)
• "Sunset On The Water", short story by Isaac Asimov (June 1986)
• "Where Is He?", short story by Isaac Asimov (October 1986)
• "The Snatched Purse", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1987)
• "The Envelope", short story by Isaac Asimov (April 1989)
• "The Alibi", short story by Isaac Asimov (September 1989)
• "Lost In A Space Warp", short story by Isaac Asimov (March 1990)
• "Police At The Door", short story by Isaac Asimov (June 1990)
• "The Haunted Cabin", short story by Isaac Asimov (October 1990)
• "Jane Doe #112", short story by Harlan Ellison (December 1990)
• "The Guest’s Guest", short story by Isaac Asimov (August 1991)
• "The Model", novelette by Joyce Carol Oates (October 1992)
• "Posthumous", short story by Joyce Carol Oates (June 1994)
• "The Dog That Didnt Bark", by Margaret Maron (December 2002)
• "The Last Story", short story by Charles Ardai (December 2002)
• Dear Mr Holmes', a Holmes on the Range'' short story by Steve Hockensmith (February 2003)
• Secret Santa (2004), short story by Steve Hockensmith (December 2004)
• "Reader, I Buried Them" by Peter Lovesey (website)
• "Victory Garden" by GM Malliet (website)
• "Health And Safety" by Liza Cody (website)
• "The Ransom of EQMM #1" by Arthur Vidro (website)
• "The Mistake on the Cover of EQMM #1" by Arthur Vidro (website)

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Tropes published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:

• Audio Adaptation: The November 1948 issue features an advertisement written by the editors for Talking Records, which has been creating audiobooks of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for the blind, paid for by the Library of Congress.
• Epistolary Novel: In "Subject To Review", the story starts with letters to a Corporal Robert Chandler from his wife and mother, shifts to a transcript of the trial where he's accused of murder, and ends with a letter to the murder victim, from the corporal's wife, proposing a Uriah Gambit.
• I'll Kill You!: In "The Town Where No One Got Off", by Ray Bradbury, the antagonist is a creepy old man who says he's been waiting for decades for someone like the protagonist to leave the train so that he could kill them. The protagonist saves himself by realizing that he left the train to find someone he could kill without getting caught.
• Nameless Narrative: In "The Town Where No One Got Off", by Ray Bradbury, none of the characters get names, they're described or called by their jobs.
• Shameful Source of Knowledge: In "Walking Alone", Larsen calls into work and lies, saying he can't come in that day due to his bad back. He then goes out to the country for a walk. While there he sees a young girl being kidnapped. He decides not to call the police about it since his boss would find out about his lie and fire him. The girl's body is found and a man is accused of the murder. The protagonist knows that it's the wrong man since he saw the real one, but he still doesn't come forward. The falsely accused man is tried, convicted and executed for the crime, and the protagonist goes mad with guilt.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In "The Town Where No One Got Off", by Ray Bradbury, has a protagonist that is suddenly threatened by an old man, so he reveals that he was planning on killing someone in this town, which surprises the protagonist, too.
• Uriah Gambit: In "Subject To Review", Verne, Corporal Chandler's wife, suggests to Lieutenant Graham that he send her husband on a dangerous mission so that they can be together.

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