Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1476676526

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Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.


Everything Was Better in America

Everything Was Better in America

Author: David Welky

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0252092813

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As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.


Queen's Quorum

Queen's Quorum

Author: Ellery Queen

Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780819602299

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Yellow

Yellow

Author: S.J.Fowler

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1482857375

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This is the story of a small fairy princess and all that she has to endure to become a perfect fairy. There are many adventures she faces as she strives to become the next Fairy Queen.


Fit for a Queen

Fit for a Queen

Author: Nicole Burnham

Publisher: Nicole Burnham

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1941828329

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She holds the secrets of a queen. He’s been hired to watch her. Daniela D’Ambrosio is the most trusted employee of Sarcaccia’s Queen Fabrizia, managing the queen’s schedule and ensuring she never makes a misstep in public. But when Fabrizia sends Daniela to organize the belongings of San Rimini’s late queen for a charity auction, Daniela finds a locked closet full of treasure, a suspicious king, and an attractive handyman who seems strangely familiar. Following a harrowing stint in the military, Royce Dekker now runs his own security firm in San Rimini. When he goes undercover to safeguard the late queen’s possessions, Royce learns that the woman organizing the auction project is none other than Daniela D’Ambrosio, the stunning beauty who’s fueled his late-night fantasies ever since their stolen night under the stars. When Daniela recognizes Royce, she realizes there is more to the palace job than she was told. But can she trust the sexy man standing guard over her as she works? Or will Royce discover that Daniela also has secrets to uncover? Fit for a Queen is the first book in the Royal Scandals: San Rimini series. The six-book series includes: • Fit for a Queen • Going to the Castle • The Prince’s Tutor • The Knight’s Kiss • Falling for Prince Federico • To Kiss a King READER INTERESTS: second chances, reunion romance, undercover hero, workplace romance, military hero, royal family, contemporary royalty, international romance, happily ever after, HEA, family saga, romance series, standalone


The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture

The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture

Author: Alfred Bendixen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 131719070X

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This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction’s inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.


The Misadventures of Ellery Queen

The Misadventures of Ellery Queen

Author: Josh Pachter

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1479436623

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This volume assembles 16 stories by a wide variety of authors, all written (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) as homages to, and parodies and pastiches of, the character -- and writing team -- known as "Ellery Queen."


Halfway House

Halfway House

Author: Ellery Queen

Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1625671911

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Called to an urgent meeting at a mysterious shack in the middle of nowhere, attorney Bill Angell finds his brother-in-law, traveling salesman Joe Wilson, stabbed. With Joe's dying breath, he manages to convey that his murderer was a veiled woman. Was it the wild-eyed woman who had sped past Bill on his way up the dark road to the shack? To help him unravel the mystery, Bill calls on his old friend Ellery Queen. But first Queen will have to unravel the victim's double life - starting with the shack where he's been found dead, smack dab between two very different worlds. From his first appearance in print in 1929, Ellery Queen became one of America’s most famous and beloved fictional detectives. Over the course of nearly half a century, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, the duo writing team known as Ellery Queen, won the prestigious Edgar Award multiple times, and their contributions to the mystery genre were recognized with a Grand Master Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. Their fair-play mysteries won over fans due to their intricate puzzles that challenged the reader to solve the mystery alongside the brilliant detective. Queen’s stories were among the first to dominate the earliest days of radio, film, and television. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, which the writers founded and edited, became the world’s most influential and acclaimed crime fiction magazine.


Celestial Beings from Outer Space

Celestial Beings from Outer Space

Author: Cecelia F Page

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0595477968

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CELESTIAL BEINGS FROM OUTER SPACE is an exciting, intriguing, science fiction book. Evidence has been confirmed in films, photos and numerous reports of the existence of extraterrestrial spaceships and celestial beings. Celestial beings from Clarion in another solar system came to Lemuria. They were welcomed by Lemurians. Martians decided to settle on Terra known as Earth today. The Martians settled in Egypt. Tambians from Tambia came to Earth to influence Earthlings. Asia was discovered by beings from the Moon. Moon people developed new settlements. They encountered danger from dragons. Thorians from Thoria traveled billions of miles to the Earth and built an underwater city near the equator in the Pacific Ocean. Many explorations were made by the Thorians who traveled around the Earth to remote locations. They traveled to North and South America and to an island which was still unknown to civilized people on Earth. CELESTIAL BEINGS FROM OUTER SPACE will awaken and enlighten you about celestial beings from outer space.