Ellery Queen 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 main fictional character, whom they also named Ellery Queen, is a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character were written by Dannay and Lee, and were among the most popular American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. From 1961,
David Wong (writer) David Wong (writer) Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), known by his pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. He is the executive editor of humor website Cracked.com, a recurring guest in the Cracked Podcast and has written four novels, "John Dies at the End" (2007), "This Book Is Full of Spiders" (2012), "Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits" (2015), and "What the Hell Did I Just Read" (2017). "John Dies at the End" was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012. Wong was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois. He and fellow Internet writer John Cheese (real