QUEEN, ELLERY (FREDERIC DANNAY AND MANFRED B. LEE) — The Fourth Side of the Triangle

New York: Pocket Books, 1967. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. There are a couple of small spots of ground-in dirt to the covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of a thin strip of tide marking to the top edge of the last text page. "The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections, written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Dannay and Lee also wrote four novels about a detective named Drury Lane using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. They allowed the Ellery Queen name to be used as a house name for a number of novels written by other authors from outlines provided by Dannay, most of them published in the 1960s as paperback originals and not featuring Ellery Queen as a character. Dannay and Lee remained circumspect about their writing methods. Novelist and critic H. R. F. Keating wrote, "How actually did they do it? Did they sit together and hammer the stuff out word by word? Did one write the dialogue and the other the narration? ... What eventually happened was that Fred Dannay, in principle, produced the plots, the clues, and what would have to be deduced from them as well as the outlines of the characters and Manfred Lee clothed it all in words. But it is unlikely to have been as clear cut as that." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .