Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York—Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982)[1] and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971)[2]—to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.[3] The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.
On radio,
The Adventures of Ellery Queen was heard on all three
networks[clarification needed] from 1939 to 1948. During the 1970s,
syndicated radio fillers, Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries, began with an
announcer saying, "This is Ellery Queen..." and contained a short
one-minute case. The radio station encouraged callers to solve the
mystery and win a sponsor's prize. Once a winner was found, the solution
was broadcast as confirmation. A complete episode guide and history of
this radio program can be found in the book The Sound of Detection:
Ellery Queen's Adventures in Radio, published by OTR Publishing in 2002.
The Adventure of the Murdered Moths (Crippen & Landru, 2005) is the
first book edition of many of the radio scripts.