The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program) Award awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program) The Adventures of Ellery Queen was a radio detective program in the United States. Several iterations of the program appeared on different networks, with the first one broadcast on CBS June 18, 1939, and the last on ABC May 27, 1948. "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" grew out of the combined efforts of producer-director George Zachary and writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. Dannay and Lee, who were cousins, originated the Ellery Queen character. Initially they wrote the program's scripts, and Zachary handled production. Beginning
Pen name Ogure Ito is roughly how the Japanese pronounce "oh great". A "shâ'er" (Persian from Arabic, for poet) (a poet who writes "she'rs" in Urdu or Persian) almost always has a "takhallus", a pen name, traditionally placed at the end of the name (often marked by a graphical sign placed above it) when referring to the poet by his full name. For example, Hafez is a pen-name for "Shams al-Din", and thus the usual way to refer to him would be "Shams al-Din Hafez" or just "Hafez". "Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan" (his official name and title) is referred to as "Mirza