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QUEEN, Ellery (Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee)

Small notebook leaf Inscribed by "Ellery Queen" (in the hand of Frederick Dannay) in 1936

First edition. Small leaf with three precut punchholes, with a small, faint stain, and folded once, else fine. Inscribed by Dannay: "July 30, 1936. To R. Becker -- Faithfully, 'Ellery Queen.'" Brooklyn-born cousins Dannay and Lee entered a mystery story contest in 1928, creating a pseudonym as per the contest's instructions. Ingeniously they made the pseudonymous author also their protagonist, and Queen soon became a household name as detective, author, editor, anthologist, film hero, and, perhaps most importantly, encourager of new mystery authors.

[BTC #80630]

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