The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline
Released: 1935 // Runtime: 74m // Rating: 5.4
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Released: 1936 // Runtime: 66m // Rating: 4.7
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Released: 1940 // Runtime: 69m // Rating: 5.5
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
Released: 1941 // Runtime: 69m // Rating: 5.3
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son, Ellery, to help out.
Released: 1941 // Runtime: 68m // Rating: 5.8
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
Released: 1941 // Runtime: 70m // Rating: 5.7
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Released: 1942 // Runtime: 67m // Rating: 5.2
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Released: 1942 // Runtime: 70m // Rating: 5.7
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Released: 1942 // Runtime: 64m // Rating: 5.5
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.