Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 126, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 769 & 770, September/October 2005

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I confess I stole the title of this piece, but it was inevitable. Ellery Queen (certainly the Frederic Dannay half and maybe the Manfred B. Lee half as well) showed his/their love of parodies and pastiches by editing a whole volume of them, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1944), which included serious tributes such as Vincent Starrett’s classic “The Unique Hamlet” alongside comical cases for sleuths with names like Sherlaw Kombs, Holmlock Shears, Hemlock Jones, and Picklock Holes. The less-than-amused guardians of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate managed to get that Holmes anthology suppressed. Undeterred, editor Queen would publish many parodies and pastiches over the first forty years of this magazine and especially enjoyed those in which the target was Queen him/themselves. The title “The Misadventures of Ellery Queen” was first used on a survey article by Marvin Lachman in the August 1969 issue of The Queen Canon Bibliophile, a short-lived but significant fanzine edited by the Rev. Robert E. Washer, and later on a proposed anthology, an unrealized 1980s project of Josh Pachter.

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