BCE - Book Club Edition, 8.5 inches tall. 312 pages. Pale green cloth boards with blue titling. Bindings tight and square. Minimal shelf handling. Very nice jacket with light handling wear. Now in new Mylar protective sleeve. ____ Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both author's name and that of the detective-hero.