Ellery Queen Magician" and "The Mystery of the Vanished Victim" starred "Gulliver Queen", Ellery's nephew. Two collections of true crime stories (based on material gathered by anonymous researchers) written by Lee alone, which were originally published in "The American Weekly". All written by Dannay and Lee. Other short story collections exist, such as "More Adventures of Ellery Queen" (1940), which reprint stories from two previous collections. and many more Ellery Queen 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
Pen name the most prestigious French literary prize twice, which is forbidden by the prize rules. He revealed the affair in a book he sent his editor just before committing suicide in 1980. Some pen names have been used for long periods, even decades, without the author's true identity being discovered, such as Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol. A pen name may be shared by different writers in order to suggest continuity of authorship. Thus the "Bessie Bunter" series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who