The Washington Post, February 25th, 1988
Two men were dead; valuable manuscripts had changed hands; false names were involved. The mystery was solved Tuesday as Columbia University announced that it had been given the papers of Ellery Queen, the dashing, upper-crust detective whose adventures helped elevate American detective fiction to an art form. Ellery Queen was created by Brooklyn-born cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who entered a 1928 mystery contest that required a pseudonym. They invented Queen and made him both author and protagonist, thinking an author would be better remembered if his name appeared throughout t...
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