Death Spins the Platter

New York, NY: Pocket Books, Inc.. Very Good-. 1962. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a small nick / tear to the bottom edge of the front spine joint. The text pages are clean, though there is noticeable toning to the pages. "Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. In addition to the fiction featuring their eponymous brilliant amateur detective, the two men acted as editors: as Ellery Queen they edited more than thirty anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, and Dannay founded and for many decades edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. From 1961, Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers using the Ellery Queen nom de plume, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character; several juvenile novels were credited to Ellery Queen, Jr. Finally, the prolific duo wrote four mysteries under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. " (from Wikipedia) .