Word: dannay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...