The second winner, incidentally, was Isabel Briggs Myers, deviser of the MBTI. As Anthony Boucher remarked: “Ellery Queen is the American detective story.” They were arguably America’s most important detective writers since Edgar Allan Poe. The cousins also set up America’s longest-running detective fiction short story magazine, EQMM, and edited volumes of short stories. The adventures of Ellery Queen appeared on the silver screen and the small screen, and even on jigsaw puzzles. Over the next four decades, the “Ellery Queen” name produced nearly 40 novels, more than 75 short stories, and a plethora of radio plays. They won first prize (until the magazine was sold), and were offered a publishing contract. Lee (the writer), wrote a detective novel and entered it in a magazine competition, Stokes and McClure’s Magazine’s $7500 Detective-Mystery Novel Contest. In 1929, two cousins, Frederic Dannay (the plotter) and Manfred B. The curtain goes up on Ellery Queen’s criminological career with a clever murder in a theatre.
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