Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (also published as simply Ellery Queen in the 1980s and later Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) is the longest running mystery and detective fiction anthology, published since 1941. The magazine included reprints of famous genre authors such as Dashiell Hammett and Agatha Christie, as well as original stories by Isaac Asimov, Lawrence Treat, Dick Francis, P. G. Wodehouse, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King.
Ellery Queen was both the pen-name of co-authors Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee and the name of their detective character (who himself was a mystery writer). The Ellery Queen pen name was credited as author of the books and as editor-in-chief of the magazine (Dannay, who also wrote commentary and collected stories for book anthologies and bibliographies). The character, meanwhile, starred in his own radio and TV series. The Queen stories were fair play whodunits and the earliest tales included a "challenge to the reader" before the solution, a practice adapted to other media.
A fall 1980 article by detective historian/media critic Chris Steinbrunner, covering film and TV related wins from the Mystery Writers of America's annual Edgar Awards, discussed the special Raven award won by The Muppet Show episode 414 (or as it was termed by the MWA and the magazine, "Muppet Murders"). 
In the November 4, 1981 issue, Steinbrunner reviewed The Great Muppet Caper from the perspective of its crime elements and mystery genre connections (noting the casting of The Avengers star Diana Rigg).
 
==Muppet Mentions==
*The story "Hooray for Hollywood" by Robert Twohy (August 18, 1980) has a comedic foreign movie director pronouncing the noun in The Maltese Falcon as "Falcoon." When an actor corrects him, he replies, "Yah, Big Bird" (with exact capitalization, showing confusion with the Sesame Street resident).
==Connections==
*Will Ryan wrote occasional Detectiverse humorous poems between 2003 and 2012
;Ellery Queen TV series (1975-1976)
*Elmer Bernstein composed the series theme
*Larry Block played a floor director in "The Adventure of the Hard-Hearted Huckster"
*George Burns played Sam Packer in "The Adventure of Veronica's Veils"
*Joan Collins played Lady Frawley in "The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne"
*Arthur Godfrey played Claude Sitwell in "The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer"
*Ed McMahon played Lamont Franklin in "The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer"
*Gary Owens voiced a newsreel announcer in "The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger"
*Vincent Price played Michael Raynor in "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario"
*William Schallert played Alexander in "The Adventure of the Black Falcon"
*Hal Smith played Coroner Bailey in "The Adventure of the Chinese Dog"
*Olan Soule played a train conductor in "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party" 
*Betty White played Louise Demery in "The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance" 
*William Woodson voiced the "whodunit?" teaser announcer on the series
==External links==
*Official site
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