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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases.
Sep 5, 1982 · Frederic Dannay, the co-author of the more than 35 Ellery Queen detective novels, died Friday at White Plains Hospital after a brief illness. He was 76 years old and had resided in...
It was heralded as the brainchild of Ellery Queen himself, really the two-cousin writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Dannay assumed primary editorial responsibility for the magazine, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1941 until his death in 1982.
Mar 5, 1988 · Ellery Queen was actually two Brooklyn-born cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who entered a mystery novel contest in 1928 sponsored by McClure's magazine that required the use of a...
Ellery Queen was an American cousin duo who were coauthors of a series of more than 35 detective novels featuring a character named Ellery Queen. Dannay and Lee first collaborated on an impulsive entry for a detective-story contest; the success of the result, The Roman Hat Mystery (1929), started.
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Manfred B. Lee and Frederic Dannay’s career as mystery writer Ellery Queen began in 1929 with the publication of The Roman Hat Mystery. They went on to write more than forty other mystery...
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The two men who together invented the Ellery Queen persona were Brooklyn-born cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. In reality, their famous alter ego is a pseudonym for two...
