[LITERATURE] - Ellery Queen – Masters of Mystery in Correspondence Forty Years of Signed Autograph and Typed ...

[LITERATURE] - Ellery Queen – Masters of Mystery in Correspondence Forty Years of Signed Autograph and Typed Letters by the Legendary Crime-Writing Duo
QUEEN Ellery, , a..k.a. Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee - Lot of tweny-two autograph (16) and typed (6, 2 not signed by Samuel Loveman ) letters signed, dated over a period of nearly four decades (1943 - 1979) by Frederic Dannay and Man Lee. Some letters are also signed with the pseudonym that brought them together “Ellery Queen”, created in 1928 by the two American detective fiction writers. Under this pseudonym, they also edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime. Dannay founded, and for many years edited, the crime fiction magazine Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. Letters are addressed to some literary and cultural figures such as the American poet and founder of the Bodley Book Shop in New York Samuel Loveman (1887 - 1976), the English crime fiction writer H. R. F. Keating (1926 - 2011), the American science fiction author and literary agent Larry T. Shaw (1924 - 1985) and concerns mostly books critic and publication issues. For a total of 29 pp. on postcard, in-4 and in-8. 7 envelopes, one signed “Ellery Queen”, are included.

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