Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen was the pen name of two cousins ​​Frederick Dannay ( born October 20, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 3 September 1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee ( born January 11, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York City; † April 3 1971), who wrote as a writing team of detective novels.

Life

The career of Ellery Queen began with a writing contest, which definitely a pseudonym had to be used. With a flair for marketing the cousins ​​made ​​their heroes at the same time the author, who is his own chronicler.

The fictional Ellery Queen is the son of Inspector Richard Queen, through whose mediation he often comes to his cases. In addition, he has studied and is financially independent through an inheritance. Overall, he is therefore a pruned to American standards version of Lord Peter Wimsey.

In addition to the Ellery Queen novels Dannay and Lee wrote in 1956 nor the short story Terror at Northfield, which was filmed in 1963 in the series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and published in German under the title of city in fear. The later launched Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine provided authors a platform for first publications, which helped some to a successful career. It has also been used by others (eg, Jack Vance, Avram Davidson) Ellery Queen as a " house name ".

Published under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross Dannay and Lee 1932-1934 four novels about the detective Drury Lane.

Awards

Works (selection)

As Barnaby Ross