Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Japanese, French, Italian, German were all once available, but all ceased publication eventually. After Frederic Dannay passed away in 1982, Eleanor Sullivan succeeded his place and began to serve as editor of "EQMM". She was the managing editor of the magazine from 1970 to 1982, hand-picked by Frederic Dannay after an interview, and she has written many articles under a pen name for newspapers, magazines and books. During Eleanor Sullivan’s editorship, in 1985, The EQMM Readers Award began: it is an annual award selected by readers of" EQMM "of their favorite stories. Since then, it has become one of the
James Thompson (crime writer) James Thompson (crime writer) James Thompson (16 October 1964 – 2 August 2014) was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six languages. He published four crime novels with the Finnish inspector Kari Vaara as the protagonist. "Helsinki Noir" will be published by Akashic Books November 2014. It is an anthology edited by Thompson and it includes one story he wrote. Thompson died unexpectedly in his home town of Lahti, Finland in August 2014. Kari