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Ellery Queen
A shared pen name and a landmark of classic detective fiction, Ellery Queen was created by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Their ingenious mysteries brought logic-puzzle storytelling to a wide audience and introduced one of the genre’s most enduring amateur detectives.
2 Audiobooks
The French powder mystery : A problem in deduction
by Ellery Queen
The Roman hat mystery : A problem in deduction
by Ellery Queen
About the author
Ellery Queen was the joint pseudonym of Brooklyn-born cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Created in 1928, the name also belongs to their fictional detective: a mystery writer who helps his father, police inspector Richard Queen, solve baffling murders in New York City.
Dannay and Lee wrote around forty novels and collections featuring Ellery Queen between 1929 and 1971. Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, was known for shaping the plots, while Lee, born Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, handled much of the writing. Together, they helped define the puzzle-centered style of America’s Golden Age of detective fiction.
In 1941, the cousins founded Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, which became an influential home for crime and mystery stories. After Lee’s death in 1971, Dannay retired the fictional Ellery Queen; Dannay died in 1982.