ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY - Volume 16, number 80 - July 1950 by Queen, Ellery (editor) (Philip Wylie; George Harmon Coxe; Viola Brothers Shore; Roy Vickers; Damon Runyon; F. R. Buckley; A. A. Milne; Wilbur Daniel Steele; G. K. Chesterton) - 1950

New York: The American Mercury, 1950. 144 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear; no interior markings. Cover art by Salter. This issue contains: Novelette: Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments - Gail Vincent and Doctor Horace Jordan by Philip Wylie. Short stories: Invited Witness - Jack Wolfe by George Harmon Coxe; The Case of Karen Smith - Detective Janicek by Viola Brothers Shore; The Knitted Silk Scart - Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers; The Old Doll's House by Damon Runyon; No Errors by F. R. Buckley; It Was a Long Time Ago by A. A. Milne; The Lady Killer by Wilbur Daniel Steele; The Oracle of the Dog - Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; and Leaves from the Editor's Notebook by Ellery Queen. Ellery Queen quickly became an American institution, from the very first book in 1929, The Roman Hat Mystery. The Ellery Queen stories caught on and spread to other media. A radio show started in 1939 and ran until 1948. On TV, Ellery Queen began in 1950 and survived an assortment of incarnations until 1975/1976 with the series starring Jim Hutton, David Wayne, Tom Reese, John Hillerman and many others. As for movies, the first one was in 1935 with Donald Cook as Ellery Queen. The bulk of the movies, though, were made during the 1940s with Ralph Bellamy in the lead role, although William Gargan played the role a couple of times. And then there was the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, launched in 1941 and still going. As well, there were the comic books and graphic novels, the board games and jigsaw puzzles... and the theatre, with an assortment of awards being won along the way, including the Grand Master Edgar Award.. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Illus. by George Salter;. 12mo. Book.