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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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Frederic Dannay, 76, former advertising art director who found his real creative calling as co-author of the Ellery Queen mysteries; in White Plains, N.Y.

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

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

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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