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OTHER CHARACTERS

Djuna, the small gypsy-blooded orphan boy was adopted by Inspector Queen during his lonely years when Djuna - rendition in Japanese comics of the orphan boy by JetEllery was attending the University. He came to the Queens a beaten little creature of Romany origin with no surname, a swarthy skin an a fluid cunning. Valet, excellent cook, housekeeper and on occasion confidant... Black, curly haired and rather silent but interested in sports 'I wish it was baseball season. I want to see Babe Ruth smack'em'.. He played baseball, handball and basketball. He even gets picked as quarterback on the footballteam at the club. He also patronized the movies.
JJMcC once told us that Djuna was in perfect health and had recently undergone the stress of a cosmic loveaffair with a little witch of a country girl. ('The French Powder Mystery')
Later Djuna is replaced by Annie (Ellery Queen, Master detective) and Mrs.Fabrikant ('King is Dead').
The cousins named Djuna after the avant-garde novelist Djuna Barnes.
He got himself a major part in the solving of the junior mysteries.

Sergeant Thomas Velie made his enterance in the Queen-saga
with Sergeant Velie as depicted by Frank Godwin for a Redbook edition of the Chinese Murder Mysterythe words 'What's up, Doyle?' in the 'Roman Hat Mystery' where he is introduced as a tall man in plain clothes. He is adressed by Inspector Queen in a rather fatherly way as 'Thomas'.
He remained " the tall one with the sledgehammer hands and the rumbling voice.." through much of the novels.
The tv-series has given Velie somewhat of a cult following, especially the Hutton series. Ellery is adressed as 'maestro' by the faithfull sergeant.

Ted De Corsia (29 Sep 1903 - 11 Apr 1973)

Ted de Corsia (1903 - 1973)Edward Gildea De Corsia was born in Brooklyn, NY. He began his acting career on stage and then into radio where he played Sgt.Velie in the Ellery Queen-series before breaking into movies in 1948. He was usually cast as a "heavy" in the early Western movies. He was featured in such Western films as "The Outriders" (1951), ..., "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), and "Blood on the Arrow" (1964). Ted died in, Encino, CA of natural causes.

Dr.Prouty as depicted by Frank Godwin for a Redbook edition of the Chinese Murder Mystery

 

 

Doctor Samuel Prouty, assistant to the Chief Medical Examiner  of New York County who smokes cigars.
 

Sampson, District Attorney
Appeared early on in the first Queens.

 

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