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Precious little, say legal experts. If Salinger had the foresight to invite a good estate planner to Cornish, New Hampshire, it's likely that he will rule his literary empire from the grave. "Legally, his death should have no significance at all, " says Richard Dannay, an intellectual property lawyer in New York City. "His works are in copyright, and remain in copyright." (See TIME's tribute to J.D. Salinger...
DIED. Frederic Dannay, 76, former advertising art director who found his real creative calling as co-author of the Ellery Queen mysteries; in White Plains, N.Y. Dannay and his cousin, former Pressagent Manfred B. Lee, who died in 1971, wrote the first Queen story, The Roman Hat Mystery, for a 1928 magazine contest. They won, marking the beginning of a 43-year collaboration in which Queen, a sophisticated, improbably knowledgeable man about town, solved intricate puzzles in more than 60 novels...
...fellow who has dispatched, at last count, 332 odds and sods. They are a joky, well-tailored squad who, amazingly, carry no stilettos for their fellow authors. Some of the most famed and envied than-atologists are, of course, very rich: Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert Ludlum, Fred Dannay (a.k.a. Ellery Queen) and Ellin, among others. Britain's artful Desmond Bagley, who has yet to make much of an imprint on the U.S. audience, still clears $250,000 a year...
Died. Manfred B. Lee, 66, co-creator of Ellery Queen, the genius of deductive detection; of a heart attack; in Roxbury, Conn. In collaboration with his cousin Frederic Dannay, Lee wrote seven books of short stories and 35 novels about Queen, the solemn first-person protagonist. The pseudonym was eventually carried over to a monthly detective-story magazine, a long-lived radio program and a television series. All told, including short-story anthologies, Ellery Queen enjoyed book sales of 125 million. Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound...
Others still on the squad, but unlikely mainstays, are John Fox, Ed Cuff, Jim Dyer, Dick Dannay, and John Soucek. Wilson fears that this year's will be "a shallow team"; there will...