This is not surprising when one considers the framing story has Queen experiencing writer’s block as he tries to make a book deadline.Īfter which he got up from his typewriter, seized ten pages of doomed copy, and tore them into four ragged sections. Hoch, who ghosted The Blue Movie Murders, said that one of the late-period Dannay/Lee collaborations was the framing material for the novelization of A Study in Terror ( Lee eventually returned to work with Dannay on the main series of novels until his death in 1971. Beginning with Theodore Sturgeon on The Player on the Other Side (1963), other authors were hired to expand Dannay’s outlines, and the cousins paid a flat fee to crime fiction specialists - including Stephen Marlowe, Talmage Powell, and Richard Deming - for a series of paperback originals under the Queen sobriquet that were edited by Lee (Nevins 4). At some point in the late 1950s Lee suffered writer’s block and was unable to keep up his part of the collaboration. The Brooklyn-born cousins had a system that produced highly successful mysteries for decades: Dannay outlined the stories and Lee would develop them as novels. Ellery Queen, the erudite master detective who first appeared in The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) and documented his cases as a series of mystery stories, was both the character and pseudonym created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee.
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