Maestro

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sternfan88 — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 04:56 PM)

Just finished watching the entire series and was wondering if anyone knows why Velie calls Ellery "Maestro?"

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Jimmy-128 — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 01:07 PM)

It's just a nickname, like Jim on "Murphy Brown" calling Murphy "Slugger". It goes back to at least the 1940s when the stories were first being published. Given their respective ages, I'm guessing Velie looks on Ellery as a surrogate nephew.

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ghostfan — 10 years ago(December 22, 2015 09:26 PM)

If you look up the meaning of the word, it fits Ellery and his talent for solving crimes. virtuoso, master, expert, genius, wizard, prodigy.
How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.

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MsELLERYqueen2 — 10 years ago(December 22, 2015 11:54 PM)

I have heard a bunch of the EQ radio plays, and I've read some of them as well. Velie calls Ellery "maestro" a lot in those radio plays. That's probably where the scriptwriters for this show got the idea.

Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen

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aer71367-313-155069 — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 02:43 PM)

I used to work at a law firm and I called one of our attorneys Maestro and he got used to that nickname pretty darn quick!

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MsELLERYqueen2 — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 07:32 PM)

Ha haof course he would have! What a complimentary name.

Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen
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