Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine the name since 1929. "EQMM" was created to provide a market for mystery fiction above the common run of pulp crime magazines of the day. Dannay served as the magazine's editor-in-chief (although still under the name Ellery Queen) from its creation until his death in 1982, when managing editor Eleanor Sullivan succeeded to the post. Following her death in 1991, Janet Hutchings became editor of "EQMM". In "Bloody Murder", Julian Symons offered this description of the publication: Around 4 years after Ellery Queen’s successful debut," The Roman Hat Mystery", Dannay and Lee decided to produce a magazine that would publish
David Williams (crime writer) David Williams (crime writer) David Williams (8 June 1926 – 26 September 2003) was an advertising executive who became a crime writer after suffering a stroke. Williams was born in Bridgend in Wales and studied at the Hereford Cathedral School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. His university studies were interrupted by World War II when Williams spent three years as an officer in the Royal Navy. He started in advertising as a medical copywriter, rising through the ranks to head David Williams and Ketchum, regarded as one of the largest and most successful advertising agencies