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 Asadullah Khan Ghalib", or just "Mirza Ghalib". The French phrase "nom de plume" is occasionally still seen as a synonym for the English term "pen name": this is a "back-translation" and originated in England rather than France. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in "The King's English" state that the term "nom de plume" "evolved" in Britain, where people wanting a "literary" phrase failed to understand the term "nom de guerre", which already existed in French. Since "guerre" means "war" in French, "nom de guerre" did not make sense to the British, who did not understand the French metaphor.