Ellery. Queen

To the Queen's Taste. The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment - consisting of the best stories published in the first four years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946 8vo. 606 pp. Black cloth with red lettering. With dustjacket chipped at extremeties to head of spine. Printed card with compliments of the publisher laid in. A good copy with an interesting association. First edition, advance review copy signed and inscribed to Charles Honce by “Ellery Queen” (Fred)”. Consisting of the best stories published in the first four years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.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

• USD 275.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 10303

• bookseller: J.N. Bartfield (USA)