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