Queen took it even further by stopping the narrative for a "Challenge to the Reader," where he would say that you now had all the facts you needed to solve the crime and would dare you to guess. Queen the writer was a strong advocate of the "fair" detective story - where all the evidence is laid before the reader so that you had a chance at guessing the solution. It was a cute conceit* as were several others. Their first novel, The Roman Hat Mystery, introduced a new star to the lineup of detective sleuths: Ellery Queen. "Ellery Queen" was the pen name of two cousins, Manfred Lee and Frederick Dannay, who started writing together in the late 1920s. He was probably the most influential and popular of all American detective story writers and editors in the 1930s until the 1970s, yet, Ellery Queen seems to be only live on in the name of one magazine, where many of its readers may not even have read any of his work.
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