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
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