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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ellery Queen, as the vast U. S. crime club well knows, is the pen name of two quirky fictioneers named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, cousins who look as much alike as oboe players.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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