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Ellery Queen's awards. Eleventh series : the winners of the eleventh annual detective short-story contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's mystery magazine
Black kitten A.H.Z. Carr
Blessington method Stanley Ellin
Man who went to Taltavul's David Alexander
Customs of the country Thomas Flanagan
One-tenth man Michael Gilbert
From the mouse to the hawk Dion Henderson
Mr. Hyde-de-Ho Veronica Parker Johns
Miami papers please copy Rufus King
A bad time of day Wade Miller
Try it my way Frederick Nebel
One of the family James Yaffe
Gifts to my people Michael Forrestier
Compliments of Caliph Bernie Charles Green
Don't believe a word she says William Lindsay Gresham
Waiting thing inside Theodore Sturgeon and Don Ward
Only rainy nights Mark Van Doren
310 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1956
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About the author
Ellery Queen
1,661 books461 followersaka Barnaby Ross.
(Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.
Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death.
Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.
(Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.
Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death.
Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.
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