Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, EQMM is named after the fictitious author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen. From 1993, EQMM changed its cover title to be "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine" (without the 's), but the table of contents still retains the full name. Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of the team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who had been writing under
Pen name French-Savoyard writer and poet Amélie Gex chose to publish as Dian de Jeânna ("John, son of Jane") during the first half of her career. Karen Blixen's very successful "Out of Africa" (1937) was originally published under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Victoria Benedictsson, a Swedish author of the 19th century, wrote under the name Ernst Ahlgren. The science fiction author Alice B. Sheldon for many years published under the masculine name of James Tiptree, Jr., the discovery of which led to a deep discussion of gender in the genre. More recently, women who write in genres normally written by men