Philately - The Fiction Connection
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Answer: Not so surprisingly the pseudonymous Ellery is a writer of detective fiction. |
His forte is collecting and analyzing the clues in his father's cases. Queen authors, cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, devised an interesting metaphysical conundrum when they created a fictional author who writes detectives stories about his own fictional exploits. There were thirty-three novels and many short stories, beginning with The Roman Hat Mystery (1929).
