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Frederic Dannay Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

FREDERIC DANNAY
Born: October 20, 1905 in New York City, New York
Died: September 03, 1982 in White Plains, New York
Biography
Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), with his cousin, MANFRED B. LEE (1905-1971), created the fictional detective/author Ellery Queen, an author who solved mysteries and then wrote about them, for a writing contest in 1929. Their winning entry, The Roman Hat Mystery, was published in June of that year. Their more than 110 mysteries included The French Powder Mystery(1930), The Dutch Shoe Mystery(1931) and The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932). In 1941, the cousins, who would sell over 100 million books worldwide, began publishing "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine", which today, along with "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine", is the world's longest-running short story mystery magazine. Dannay also wrote the Drury Lane mystery series, which included The Tragedy of X and The Tragedy of Y in 1932 and The Tragedy of Z and Drury Lane's Last Case in 1933.
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