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
Frederic Lindsay 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, teacher and library assistant. He was active in a number of literary organisations including the Society of Authors, International PEN (a worldwide writers' association promoting freedom of expression) and the Scottish Arts Council. In addition to novels he also wrote for TV, radio and the theatre. Two of his novels have been made into films. Lindsay wrote eight novels over the course