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Dannay

American  
[dan-ey] / ˈdæn eɪ /

noun

  1. Frederic Ellery Queen, 1905–82, U.S. mystery writer, in collaboration with Manfred Bennington Lee.


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For the CBS Adventures hour Lee and Dannay write a $350 mystery a week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dannay and his cousin, former Pressagent Manfred B. Lee, who died in 1971, wrote the first Queen story, The Roman Hat Mystery, for a 1928 magazine contest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound and amuse interviewers by completing each other's sentences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Collected & edited with introd. by Ellery Queen, pseud. of Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee, cover blurb by Robert P. Mills.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office