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GREAT SHORT MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY: THE LADY-KILLER BY WILBUR D. STEELE AND 12 OTHER STORIES, edited by Ellery Queen, (originally published under the title The Queen?s Awards, Fifth Series), hardcover with no dust jacket, 1950. BOOK CONDITION: Good. The text block is in fine condition with no marks, tears, or dogears. There is neither a bookplate nor signature of the prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. Red and beige cloth boards are in good condition (shelf wear on the bottom edge, some light smudges on the front and back, discolored spots, slight bumping at top and bottom of spine). 7 ½ x 5 ½, 242 pages, 14 ounces. XX Contents: The The Lady-Killer (Wilbur D. Steele), The Gentleman from Paris (John Dickson Carr), The Trial of John Nobody (A.H.Z. Carr), Once Upon a Train (Craig Rice and Stuart Palmer), The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (Stanley Ellin), One Morning They?ll Hang Him (Margery Allingham), A Boy?s Will (Q. Patrick), Love Lies Bleeding (Philip MacDonald), The Case of Karen Smith (Viola Brothers Shore), the Homesick Buick (John D. MacDonald), The Lady and the Dragon (Peter Godfrey), The Mystery of the Personal Ad (T.S. Stribling), The Rustling Tree (J. Cameron Smith). [Wikipedia] Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders.[1] Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. In addition to the fiction featuring their eponymous brilliant amateur detective, the two men acted as editors: as Ellery Queen they edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and Dannay founded and for many decades edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. From 1961, Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers using the Ellery Queen nom de plume, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character; several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. Finally, the prolific duo wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. Adding another dimension of complexity to their relations, the two men were cousins, each born in Brooklyn, New York, who created the nom de plume Ellery Queen using their professional names. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001239
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