Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Japanese, French, Italian, German were all once available, but all ceased publication eventually. After Frederic Dannay passed away in 1982, Eleanor Sullivan succeeded his place and began to serve as editor of "EQMM". She was the managing editor of the magazine from 1970 to 1982, hand-picked by Frederic Dannay after an interview, and she has written many articles under a pen name for newspapers, magazines and books. During Eleanor Sullivan’s editorship, in 1985, The EQMM Readers Award began: it is an annual award selected by readers of" EQMM "of their favorite stories. Since then, it has become one of the
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