Om forfatteren

Ellery Queen is a crime fiction pseudonym created in 1929 by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision. Dannay and Lee's main fictional character, whom they also named Ellery Queen, is a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character were written by Dannay and Lee, and were among the most popular American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. From 1961, Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers under the Ellery Queen authorial name, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character.

Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (b Brooklyn October 20, 1905 – d New York September 3, 1982), and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (b Brooklyn January 11, 1905 – d Roxbury, Connecticut April 3, 1971), were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories featuring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were also published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay was the founder and longtime editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present.

Dannay and Lee also wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross, a name that they later allowed another author to use. Several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr.

Læs uddrag
Læs

ABC-mordet

Efter udgivelsen af sin første roman bliver forfatteren Ellery Queen inviteret til at holde juleferie hos sin forlægger. Forlæggeren har inviteret mange mennesker denne jul, og både private og forretningsmæssige forbindelser deltager. Deltager gør også en ung mand, som står til at arve en større formue på sin snarlige fødselsdag. I dagene op til hans fødselsdag modtager han en række små besynderlige gaver, uden afsender, sammen med nogle kryptiske beskeder. Beskederne bliver mere og mere truende og mærkelige, og da fødselsdagsaftenen oprinder, findes den unge mand død stukket ihjel med en udsmykket kniv. Ellery Queen efterforsker selvfølgelig sagen, og selv om han afslører dele af mysteriet, er det ham umuligt at få afsluttet sagen tilfredsstillende. Mange år efter finder Ellery Queen sine dagbøger fra dengang. Han kaster sig endnu en gang over sagen i håbet om, at hans erfaring kan hjælpe ham til en opklaring.
75,00  DKK
Køb Epub (e-bog)
Inkl. online adgang
Udgave3
Trykt sideantal225 Sider
Udgivelsesdato10 jul. 2014
Sprogdan
ISBN epub9788771289541