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Dannay

American  
[dan-ay] / 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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