Ellery. Queen

Sporting Blood. The great sports detective stories.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942 8vo. 360 pp. Red cloth with black lettering. With dustjacket in very good condition. Minor creasing, chips to the top edage especially at head of spine. One inch tear along front flap. Card laid in “with compliments of the author”. Overall a tight copy in good-fine condition. First edition, advance review copy. Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. They are the most important American detective writers of the Twentieth Century. Dannay largely plotted the Queen novels, and most of the writing was done by Lee. Dannay also edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (EQMM) and numerous anthologies. His critical writings in that magazine, partly collected in In the Queen's Parlor, and his history Queen's Quorum, are the major critical works on the detective short story. EQ's early works were strongly influenced by S.S. Van Dine. Gradually, he developed a more personal style, although he always was faithful to the puzzle plot, intuitionist tradition of the Van Dine school. Along with Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, he was one of the three major writers of the puzzle plot detective story. From the collection of Charles Honce. “...Charles Honce who told us he would be grateful if we described him simply as ‘a New York newspaperman who has written many news stories on detective and mystery fiction for the press association with which he is connected’. Mr. Honce considers himself strictly a nonprofessional who reads, reviews, and revels in detective stories ‘just for fun’. He confesses to being an enthusiastic, loyal, and at times fanatical ‘fan’- but do not confuse the privileges of that position, he cautions us, with the perogatives of a professional.”Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 16 No. 84 pp. 43

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