Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)

오스틴 파워는 호시탐탐 지구의 평화를 위협하는 인류의 적 닥터 이블을 물리치기 위해 종횡무진 활약하는 영국의 비밀요원. 1967년, 악당 이블 박사는 자신의 숙적인 잘나가는 영국 첩보원 오스틴 파워를 암살하려는 계획이 실패하자, 자신의 계획을 미래에서 성취할 요량으로 냉동실에 들어간다. 그리고 그의 음모를 막기 위해 오스틴 파워 또한 냉동실로 들어가고.... 30년 뒤, 이블 박사는 해빙되어 지구의 마그마를 터뜨릴 폭탄을 훔친 뒤, UN을 상대로 백 억 달러를 요구하고, 연이어 깨어난 오스틴 파워는 냉동 전 그의 파트너였던 켄싱턴 부인의 딸과 함께 짝을 지어 이블 박사의 음모에 맞선다. 60년대에 제임스 본드도 액션대신 본드걸과 로맨스만 해댔던 지라, 오스틴 파워도 그 영향을 받았는지 해빙된 이후, 파트너와의 로맨스만 꿈꾸고 매사를 제멋대로 행동한다. 하지만 곧 90년대에 적응에 어려움을 느끼고, 한 2분정도 갈등하는 모습을 보인다. 이블 박사도 상황은 마찬가지인지라 오합지졸인 부하들 다스리랴, 30년 사이 태어나서 장성한 자신의 아들과의 멀어진 사이를 가깝게 하려고 눈물겨운 노력을 한다. 지구를 불바다로 만들어 버릴 닥터 이블의 음모. 오스틴과 파트너 바네사가 그 열기의 한 복판으로 접속한다.

가까운 몇 년 후, 기업들이 모든 것을 제어, 감시하는 사회. 임신한 아내를 차에 태우고 밤길을 가던 루크 깁슨이 교통사고를 당한다. 극심한 뇌 손상에 보험 만료인 그는 가망 없는 환자들이 가는 F병동으로 배치되지만 호프 산업의 특별 수술 팀에 의해 가까스로 살아난다. 병실에서 깨어난 그는 아내의 죽음 소식을 듣지만 과거를 기억하지 못하고 그의 머리 속은 계속되는 광고 동영상과 환영으로 혼란스럽다. 의사를 찾아간 그는 머리 속에 싸이컴 두뇌 내장 칩이 장치되었다는 것을 알게 되고, 호프 산업의 총책임자 버질 커릴은 이런 그의 모든 일거수일투족을 감사한다. 루크는 바로 호프 산업의 프로젝트 660에 피실험자 중 한 사람이었던 것. 한편 인류를 조정할 새로운 방식인 두뇌 속의 컴퓨터를 해킹하는 비밀 조직의 리더 할은 위험에 처한 루크를 자신들의 은신처로 데려오고 호프 산업의 만행에 맞서자고 한다. 그들은 사이버 공감에 남은 그의 삶의 흔적을 더듬어 기억을 되찾아 주고자 노력하고, 루크는 자신의 과거를 훔쳐간 그들에게 복수하기로 하는데...

슈퍼마켓 체인을 경영하는 집안의 외아들인 마르시알은 우울증으로 요양소에서 얼마간 지낸 뒤 퇴원한다. 아내와도 이혼 일보직전인데다가 자신이 관여하는 회사업무에도 큰 흥미를 느끼지 못하는 그의 일상생활 복귀를 돕기 위해 회사 경영주인 어머니는 그에게 색다른 임무를 맡긴다. 실적이 저조한 지방도시 지점 다섯 곳을 닷새 동안 돌며 회계감사를 실시하는 것이다. 첫 행선지인 리모주 지점에서 마르시알은 장부에서 수상한 점들을 발견한다. 그는 하루에 한 곳씩 예정된 방문 일정을 무시하고 아예 시내에 아파트를 장기로 임대하여 머무르면서 지점장인 퐁프랭을 압박하고 마침내 그가 저지른 부정을 알아낸다.

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

Doctor and dedicated husband embarks on a murderous quest for vengeance against the men who raped his wife.

Goofy is about to set up a hammock in the backyard of his penthouse apartment but is minus one tree. He immediately decides to get another one but he shows poor judgement in regards that the one he picks is unkowingly the home of a mountain lion. The lion returns to Goofy's penthouse to reclaim his tree, notices the hammock, and decides this is a much better source of relaxation than laying on a tree branch. Thus, he tries to remove Goofy from the hammock so he can relax himself and eventually a battle ensues.

Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

A social gathering is rocked to its core when Jack accuses his best friend's wife of infidelity. But as the allegations start flying, it soon emerges that a far more sinister game may be at play...

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.

Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews, whose Wall Street manipulations render Ray Jarden penniless. Mathews' chicanery seems particularly coldblooded, inasmuch as his daughter Marian is engaged to Jarden's son Walter. When the latter disappears, Mathews asks Ellery Queen to locate the young man.

The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr. Braun's doctor, James Rogers. Mrs. Braun asks Inspector Queen to help find the long-missing Barbara. The inspector's son, Ellery, works on the case. He goes to a home frequently visited by Dr. Rogers where the bell is answered by Nikki Porter who Ellery mistakes for Barbara and insists she return to the Braun home. Nikki does, to protect Barbara, and a short time later finds herself alone in a room outside Braun's bedroom. She finds him dead - his throat cut. No weapons are found and the door to the room where Nikki had been is locked, and she is suspected. Ellery hides Nikki in his apartment. Braun's body, sent for an autopsy, disappears and in its place is a life-sized statue of the dead man.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

A private eye (Richard Travis) and his girlfriend (Sheila Ryan) avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.