# Ellery Queen

ellery queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which ellery queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. In addition to the fiction featuring their eponymous brilliant amateur detective, the two men acted as editors: as ellery queen they edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and Dannay founded and for many decades edited ellery queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present.