A gang of young sleuths and a trusty terrier put their noses to a bank
robbers' trail Ellery Queen's young apprentice, Djuna, is preparing for
an afternoon of fishing when a stranger leans out of his car window and
asks for directions to Canada. A few minutes later, Djuna watches as the
man's friends come running out of the local bank and into the getaway
car, guns blazing, before taking off for the Canadian border. It is a
mystery that could baffle even Djuna's famous boss, but with the help of
a ferocious black Scottie named Champ and a few crime-solving friends,
he will find the culprits. It will be the greatest adventure of his
life. Ellery Queen is one of the world's finest detectives, but his
adventures are nothing compared to the rollicking good fun of the Ellery
Queen Jr. Mystery Stories. Join Djuna and Champ on this quest to crack
the case and catch the scoundrels. Ellery Queen was a pen name created
and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B.
Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective.
Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and
anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost
American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Although
eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came
in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book
that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their
character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his
police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the
Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine,
one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although
Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's
death.
