Frederic Dannay Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

<p> Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic and the editor of the renowned <I>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</I>.</p><p> Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle G.K. Chesterton Melville Davisson Post and other Old Masters of the genre.</p><p> This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers characters and stories <I>EQMM</I> championed are covered including such celebrated authors as Allingham Ambler Ellin Innes Vickers and even William Butler Yeats.</p>