Ellery Queen 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 (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982), and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971), were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories starring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty popular anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were also published
Frederic Lindsay Caton-Jones and featuring the actors Stratford Johns, John Hannah and James Cosmo. One of Lindsay's works has been made into a film: in 1999 "Jill Rips" was made into an independent Hollywood film (also known in the United States as "Jill the Ripper" for its video release and "Tied Up" for its TV debut) directed by Anthony Hickox and starring Dolph Lundgren. Frederic Lindsay Frederic Lindsay (12 August 1933 – 31 May 2013) was a Scottish crime writer, who was born in Glasgow and lived in Edinburgh. He was a full-time writer from 1979 and previously worked as a lecturer,