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Sample of authors
Queen, Ellery
Ellery Queen is a pen name shared by Frederic Dannay, born Daniel Nathan, and Manfred B. (Bennington) Lee, born Manford Lepofsky, both from New York. They were cousins who attended Boy's High School, Brooklyn, together and later worked independently within PR and advertising before they started writing full time in 1931.
Ellery Queen is something of institution in the detective genre; the books...
Literary figures
Montague Egg
Gender: Male
A travelling salesman for a wine importer in England, and the main character in almost a dozen short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. The round-cheeked, red-faced and stable Montague Egg is a bachelor, always on the move, always very friendly and with the gift of the gab, and he wears a trilby. But he is also a skilled amateur detective, not least thanks to The Salesman’s Handbook which he often c...