"Magazine"" has several distinguishing hallmarks, most of which were established during the days of Frederic Dannay’s editorship and have been maintained and strengthened since then. It is believed that these characteristics have helped"" EQMM ""to survive and flourish for more than 75 years while retaining its reputation as the leading periodical in the genre. From the creation of ""EQMM"", Dannay was determined to make the magazine “a quality publication devoted exclusively to the printing of the best detective-crime short-story literature,"" making quality the sole criterion for inclusion in the magazine, and his principle is inherited by succeeded editors. Apart from"
"no others were published. Ralph Salaway Ralph Wellner Salaway (November 13, 1913 – October 25, 1991) was a California novelist who authored five books of hardboiled crime fiction in the 1950s and 1960 under the pseudonym Al Fray. Salaway's pseudonym is derived from the Pig Latin translation of his first name (and thus is a ""pen"" name in two senses.) While his 1955 book, ""And Kill Once More"", is a whodunit in the classic style, Salaway's 1957 and 1958 novels have more to do with the common man's involvement in crime and the moral dilemmas that arise as he confronts"
"under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay was the founder and longtime editor of ""Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"", which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. Dannay and Lee also wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross, a name that they later allowed another author to use. Several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, ""Ellery Queen"" served as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee, as well as the name of the primary detective-hero they created. During the 1930s and much"
"work that remained in print for many years. Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961. The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay and Lee also wrote four novels about a detective named Drury Lane using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. They allowed the Ellery Queen name to be used as a house name for a number"
"Ralph Salaway Ralph Wellner Salaway (November 13, 1913 – October 25, 1991) was a California novelist who authored five books of hardboiled crime fiction in the 1950s and 1960 under the pseudonym Al Fray. Salaway's pseudonym is derived from the Pig Latin translation of his first name (and thus is a ""pen"" name in two senses.) While his 1955 book, ""And Kill Once More"", is a whodunit in the classic style, Salaway's 1957 and 1958 novels have more to do with the common man's involvement in crime and the moral dilemmas that arise as he confronts his own behavior and"
"as a result, more than forty Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, have works published in"" EQMM"". Dannay also set a global orientation for ""EQMM"", publishing works from writers all over the worlds, from works by English writers like Agatha Christie to first English translation of the work of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Besides, with his bravery and vision, Dannay pushed those boundaries followed by other magazines that days, publishing the first black detective story(""Corollary"" by Hughes Allison) in ""EQMM ""in 1948. The first ""EQMM ""short story contest was held in 1946. William Faulkner, the"
"Joseph Dennie Joseph Dennie (August 30, 1768 – January 7, 1812) was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled ""The Lay Preacher"" and as the founding editor of ""Port Folio"", a journal espousing classical republican values. ""Port Folio"" was the most highly regarded and successful literary publication of its time, and the first important political and literary journal in the United States. Timothy Dwight IV once referred to Dennie as ""the Addison of America"" and ""the father"
"developed... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?"" Ellery Queen is a fictional detective-hero, created by Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971), and Frederic Dannay (1905～1982), as well as a joint pseudonym for the cousins Dannay and Lee. Ellery Queen first appeared in ""The Roman Hat Mystery"" (1929), and was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of"
"including adaptations of Peter Cheyney’s ""The Urgent Hangman"" into ""Meet Mr. Callaghan"" (1952) (filmed in 1954) and the Agatha Christie thriller ""Towards Zero"" (1956). Gerald Verner Gerald Verner (1897–1980) was a writer of thrillers, writing wrote more than 120 novels translated into over 35 languages. Many of these were adapted into radio serials, stage plays and films. Verner was born John Robert Stuart Pringle in Streatham, London on 31 January 1897 and died at Broadstairs, Kent, England on 16 September 1980. In his early days he used to write entirely under the name of Donald Stuart, including 44 stories for"
"Kill As Directed Kill As Directed is a novel that was published in 1963 by writing team of Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971) under the pseudonym Ellery Queen. Harrison Brown is a young doctor who is a couple of years removed from medical school and has gone through his father’s modest inheritance trying to set up his private practice. An old friend, Tony Mitchell, who was a lawyer that had a casual professional relationship with Brown’s father, visits"
"moved to Lexington shortly thereafter. Joseph Dennie Joseph Dennie (August 30, 1768 – January 7, 1812) was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled ""The Lay Preacher"" and as the founding editor of ""Port Folio"", a journal espousing classical republican values. ""Port Folio"" was the most highly regarded and successful literary publication of its time, and the first important political and literary journal in the United States. Timothy Dwight IV once referred to Dennie as ""the Addison"
"attorney named Lorna Weinberg. Several familiar themes and characters from Ellroy's L.A. Quartet series appear here, such as police lieutenant Dudley Smith, Michael Breuning, and Richard Carlisle. ""Clandestine"" earned Ellroy an Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America in 1982. Clandestine (novel) Clandestine is a 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy. Set in 1951, the protagonist is ambitious LAPD Officer Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated ""Clandestine"", ""to Penny Nagler"". Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the Wilshire station. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton ""Wacky"" Walker, a World War II"
"André Launay André Joseph Launay is a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lives in Nerja, in the south of Spain; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and three grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel. Visit the Drew Launay website at https://web.archive.org/web/20100924085552/http://www.drewlaunay.com/ where his best sellers are"
"Jack Finney Walter Braden ""Jack"" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including ""The Body Snatchers"" and ""Time and Again"". The former was the basis for the 1956 film ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" and its remakes. Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and given the name John Finney. After his father died when he was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honor of his father, but he continued to be known as ""Jack"" throughout his life. He attended Knox"
"Kurt. Kurt has a heart attack and dies. Afterward Brown calls the police and confesses the entire story, but police press do not charges as he is able to help them bring down the international drug ring with which Kurt was working. Kill As Directed Kill As Directed is a novel that was published in 1963 by writing team of Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971) under the pseudonym Ellery Queen. Harrison Brown is a young doctor who is"
"by Bastei Lübbe in November 2009 and published as ""Golem"" in Germany in 2012. Delaney is a decorated member of the NYPD, but continues to write in his spare time. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1166552836/Spitz-An-officer-gentleman-and-author Matthew B. J. Delaney Matthew B. J. Delaney (also known as; Matthew B Delaney) is an American writer and member of the New York City Police Department. Originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts, Delaney now resides in New York City. Delaney is an alumnus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His debut novel ""Jinn"" won the International Horror Guild Award in 2004 and was well received by both critics and readers."
"being published in most eBook formats. André Launay André Joseph Launay is a novelist, essayist, humourist and dramatist of French descent who writes in English under the pen names André Launay, Drew Launay, Andrew Laurance and Drew Lamark. He is the author of family dramas, psychic thrillers, humour and travel books published in the United Kingdom and in the US. Launay lives in Nerja, in the south of Spain; He has three children: record producer Nick Launay, film director Matthew Launay, artist and illustrator Melissa Launay, and three grandchildren; Lee, Lana, Nicolas & Samuel. Visit the Drew Launay website at"
"Bahamas in 1956 before writing both ""Dr. No"" and ""Thunderball"". The rodent genus ""Vernaya"" was named after him. Also, Vernay is commemorated in the scientific name of the Angolan file snake, ""Mehelya vernayi"". Arthur Stannard Vernay Arthur S. Vernay (11 May 1877 - 25 October 1960) was a noted English art and antiques dealer, decorator, big game hunter and naturalist explorer. Born in Weymouth, England, Vernay immigrated to New York early in the twentieth century, and found a job as an elevator operator at a furniture store known as A.J. Crawfords. After working there briefly, Vernay started his own shop"
"Gerald Verner Gerald Verner (1897–1980) was a writer of thrillers, writing wrote more than 120 novels translated into over 35 languages. Many of these were adapted into radio serials, stage plays and films. Verner was born John Robert Stuart Pringle in Streatham, London on 31 January 1897 and died at Broadstairs, Kent, England on 16 September 1980. In his early days he used to write entirely under the name of Donald Stuart, including 44 stories for the Sexton Blake Library. He also wrote 6 stories for Union Jack and 3 for The Thriller under this pseudonym as well as two"
"(1950) and ""The Decoy"" (1951). Edward S. Aarons Edward Sidney Aarons (1916 – June 16, 1975) was an American writer who authored more than 80 novels from 1936 until 1975. One of these was under the pseudonym ""Paul Ayres"" (Dead Heat), and 30 were written using the name ""Edward Ronns"". He also wrote numerous stories for detective magazines such as ""Detective Story Magazine"" and ""Scarab"". Among other works of fiction, Aarons is known for his spy thrillers, particularly his ""Assignment"" series, which are set all over the world and have been translated into 17 languages. The 42 novels in this"
"of four detective novels about Dennis Delaney under the nom de plume of ""Bant Singer"", named after his favourite car, a Singer Bantam. He died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Sydney on 1 August 1955. Charles Shaw (writer) Charles Herbert Shaw (10 August 1900 – 1 August 1955) was an Australian journalist and novelist. Shaw was born in South Melbourne, Victoria. During the Depression years he held a variety of jobs in the countryside and his interest in writing led him to work at a newspaper in Forbes, New South Wales. Shaw had several stories published by ""The Bulletin"" and"
"Clandestine (novel) Clandestine is a 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy. Set in 1951, the protagonist is ambitious LAPD Officer Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated ""Clandestine"", ""to Penny Nagler"". Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the Wilshire station. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton ""Wacky"" Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and an obsession with death. Underhill and Walker discover the mutilated and strangled corpse of a young secretary. The trail leads to other murders, new and old, and a beautiful crippled district"
"Donald Heiney Donald Heiney (; September 7, 1921 – July 24, 1993) was a sailor and academic as well as a prolific and inventive writer using the pseudonym of MacDonald Harris for fiction. Heiney was born in South Pasadena, California, and grew up in South Pasadena and San Gabriel. He served in the Merchant Marine and the Navy during World War II and afterward earned a B.A. from University of Redlands. He joined the faculty of University of California, Irvine in 1965 and later co-founded UCI's writing program. One of his students was Michael Chabon, who later won the Pulitzer"
"Delany were also included in ""Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology"". In 2002, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored founder Ronald Sukenick with the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, stating ""he has been an explorer, a courageous adventurer, and an absolutely necessary component of American literature."" The press and its authors have also been the subjects of essays in such journals as ""Critique"", the ""Review of Contemporary Fiction"", the ""Chicago Review"", ""Poets & Writers"", ""Contemporary Literature"", ""TriQuarterly"", ""Rain Taxi"", ""American Book Review"", ""Extrapolation"", and ""The Chronicle of Higher Education"". FC2 authors have received awards and nominations from PEN West,"
"Frank Fenton (writer) Frank Edgington Fenton (February 13, 1903 - August 23, 1971) was an English-born but American-bred writer of screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and novels. In the fall of 1934, Fenton co-wrote an original story, “Dinky,” with John Fante, which they soon sold to Warner Bros. Studios on the strength of the latter's exaggerated resume. Within five years, Fenton's partner would write the classic novel, ""Ask the Dust"", but at the time he was just another fledgling screenwriter and novelist. In 1935, Fenton began working with another friend with writing ambitions. Lynn Root, an acting protégé of Antoinette"
"novel The Death Pit, by A. L. Kennedy, is named David Agnew. Loose Cannon's Dailymotion username is DavidAgnew David Agnew ""David Agnew"" is a pen name that was employed exclusively on BBC television drama programmes of the 1970s. It was used only as a scriptwriting credit. The ""David Agnew"" pseudonym was most-often used when the original freelance scriptwriter was unable to accommodate fundamental changes requested by the production staff, and the production staff had to perform a major, last-minute rewrite themselves. BBC rules prevented the production staff from taking screen credit without a time-consuming, bureaucratic appeals process, meaning that the"
"pen names, such was the demand for his work. Academics cover his works in such books as ""British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1940"", and ""Detecting Men: A Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written By Men"". Desmond Cory Desmond Cory is a pseudonym used by British mystery/thriller writer Shaun Lloyd McCarthy (Lancing, Sussex, 16 February 1928 – January 2001) Desmond Cory wrote over 45 novels, including the creation of serial characters such as Johnny Fedora, a debonair British secret agent. Cory also wrote screenplays for Graham Greene novels (such as ""England Made Me"") and had a number of"
"for Best Novella. ""Kirkus Reviews"" described Darnay as a ""diamond in the rough"". Arsen Darnay Arsen Julius Darnay (born July 31, 1936 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American science fiction writer. Darnay emigrated to the United States in 1953. His first science fiction stories were published in ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" in 1974–75, after being purchased by editor Jim Baen; Mike Ashley has estimated that of all Baen's discoveries, Darnay was ""the most prolific (...) at least for the next four years before he moved on to become a management consultant."" In 1976, Darnay was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award"
"on April 21, 1988. Morris Rudensky Morris ""Red"" (also ""Rusty"") Rudensky (born Macy Motle Friedman; August 16, 1898 – April 21, 1988) was an American prohibition-era gangster, prominent cat burglar and safe-cracker. Later in his life he became an author as well as a spokesman and security consultant for several companies. Born to a Jewish family in Manhattan's Lower East Side Rudensky began his career by stealing bagels. At age 13 he was deemed incorrigible and sent to the Elmira State Reformatory. He escaped to make his way to Chicago where he cracked safes for the best price. He worked"
"Anthony Boucher, noting the growing popularity of crime fiction in which the main emphasis was the realistic depiction of police work, suggested that such stories constituted a distinct subgenre of the mystery, and, crediting the success of ""Dragnet"" for the rise of this new form, coined the phrase ""police procedural"" to describe it. Ed McBain, the pseudonym of Evan Hunter, wrote dozens of novels in the ""87th Precinct"" series beginning with ""Cop Hater,"" published in 1956. Hunter continued to write 87th Precinct novels almost until his death in 2005. Although these novels focus primarily on Detective Steve Carella, they encompass"
"the rest of his life as a political author and small-town newspaper columnist. His publications include ""False Freedom"" 1950, ""Freedom's Frontier"" 1964, and ""Harvest of Deceit"" 1971. He published his autobiography, ""Five Decades Before Dawn"" in 1969. He died in an automobile accident in 1972. Edward Leo Delaney Edward Leo Delaney (December 12, 1885 – July 1, 1972) was an American broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II. He was indicted on charges of treason in 1943, but after the war the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. Delaney was born in Olney, Illinois. Delaney began an"
"Matthew B. J. Delaney Matthew B. J. Delaney (also known as; Matthew B Delaney) is an American writer and member of the New York City Police Department. Originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts, Delaney now resides in New York City. Delaney is an alumnus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His debut novel ""Jinn"" won the International Horror Guild Award in 2004 and was well received by both critics and readers. The film rights for his first book were sold to Touchstone Pictures, before Delaney even finished writing it. The rights to his forthcoming second novel, ""Genome, Inc."", was purchased in German"
"“Cousin Vinny” Agnello Louis Anthony Agnello (born January 30, 1960) is an American morality writer known by his penname Cousin Vinny. He published the novel ""The Devil’s Glove"". The ""San Jose Mercury"" Newspaper described his life as an “eye-popping head swivel.” Born in Flushing, New York, Agnello was a student at Western Connecticut State University when he became a stripper. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1992. Agnello worked as a stripper in New York to work his way through college. He later operated World Famous Cousin Vinny's Gorgeous Strippers. In 1986, he appeared on “Regis and Kathie"