Queen, Ellery
The pseudonym of writers Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) and his cousin Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), and the name of the main character of their popular mystery novel series, Ellery Queen was...
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The following essay discusses Dannay and his frequent collaborator, Manfred B. Lee.Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of cousins and collaborators Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee and the name of detect...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
["A Fine and Private Place"] exhibits all of the virtues and defects of the Queen books. It is full of stale literary devices, such as a simply prepo...
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Critical Essay by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
[Dannay's and Lee's early books], from Roman Hat through The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935), are generally bracketed together as Queen's Fir...
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