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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.
Apr 4, 1971 · Manfred B. Lee, one of two, writers who created the popular “Ellery Queen” mystery series more than 40 years ago, died yesterday en route to a hos pital in Waterbury, Conn., a daughter ...
Manfred B. Lee was a well-known writer who together with his cousin Frederic Dannay wrote, edited, and anthologized detective fiction under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen. The Ellery Queen Series went on to more then 100 million sales worldwide.
Lee, Manfred B. 1905–1971. (Manfred Bennington Lee, Ellery Queen, a joint pseudonym, Barnaby Ross, a joint pseudonym) PERSONAL: Original name, Manford Lepofsky; name legally changed; born January 11, 1905, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a heart attack, April 3, 1971, in Roxbury, CT; son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Walerstein) Lepofsky; married ...
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...
Brilliant collection of very clever, ingenious and utterly engrossing "fair play"* puzzle murder mysteries, penned in the 1930s by "Ellery Queen"... or rather by cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971). Ellery Queen was not only the cousins' nom de plume, but their main detective character in the books.
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
