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Show tuiUm 20 T,ir SaIt Lalp Tribune, Sunday, March 9, XV lUta For years the two kept the identity of Ellery Queen a 1969 flipping a com to see v ho'd wear the mask to mid symqcsiums. Lee: It vas a great pubhe-it-tum ' Dr.r.nay : "One iur.101 -- a id we weie rtlen Manhattan dime t attorney) Thomas E Dewey. Another tine we had a lecture hi East Orange. X.J., and when the sponsois met us they were tembly disappointed. They wanted one of us be to Alexander W oolcott. Ellery Queen's 40th anniversary novel. "Cop Out, is a nw-ter- y, rh tin jr Kacli OlliiT for I 'i p ear 10 v Curious Who Done It? l ico Ellery Queens Better Than One Pie-- s Llleiv M.i-tQueen walked into the room, two right hands, extended smiled two amiable smiles and sat down on oiiposite sides nl the table. The lieto of lour dw, ides' worth of (lassie Mjrve'ed the interview ei. The niton lower glanced at Ellery's double visage w ndering winch to address fust, lie t leaned his tin oat "id asked cr ts tentatively: "If vou'ie both Ellery Queen, how have you managed to keep lnm together for 40 yeans? I nsolved Mystery Of all the seirets ot Ellety Queen, how his two cieatois woik togeth-e- i uiisohed is the longest liiysteiy ol all. P.nt tlieie ate some makeup of th- - badd.es he ei llier writes abuilt or tiaiks down and then writes aijout Dannay: "People think cl us as partners and collahora-tois- . But what we are is competitors. Competition es sharper lesult.s. You ran say we're trying to top each othei. Lee: "We fight each other. Weve been fighting eacli other for 40 yeais. (uont foiget wntes and International Wrong question. ways ol together finally strut k one that uoiks " out LVi'idld E Mullt n By I mltvl tntei-fsiin- g lues Fiedeiie Dummy is solt and com ise, spoils a gioun goalee and looks like a iiteiatine piolessoi. lie lives in l.auhmoiit, N Y. .spoken newly Ills t ousin Manfi ed B Lee, has a slioik of while hair, lull bcai and looks like a man who writes mystery shires. He is outsjioketi, gives qua k and often pungent answeis. lie lives near Roxbmy, Conn. Intel viewing tlieni is like being the hall in a ping pong mateh. Big Thorn- Bills How do we get Dannay: together? We have big phone bills. We rarely see each Lee: other. We used 1o see Dannay each other often. Lee: We used to have an olfice in .New Yoik." Dannay : "People would call tip and say. What do you do' We'd say. We wide honks Then they started calling up and betting on the horses Lee: "We tiled nn.nv diffei- - pro-du- e Ellen ul-- o mysteries as ones he weli as the "real solves). Danna v . "'llallwav House' m tin- - 19'iOs was Pie fmt big change in Queen. He began t; show head of mind. The third phase started with 'Cat of Many Tails' (1949) when Queen began to probe psychologically." Lee: "Tie analytical type detective stoiy '.as guie in favor. What we've tried 'o do is combine analytical with modern " of down gue-- s you Dannay: might say when we were young we created oJ and now were old we c.eate young. 1 departure from his (their") 'tor-- , usual style. It'- - a loaded well cur.gert dialogue t.iat tells what hap; or.' to a 'mall town cop named We- -t Malone when fated with a aid r home between duly Lock' hke EUc js and order gee-- g game he in tiie law for a long time to come. 470 So. 7th V MINT family And wnen - tne gentleman detective going to letne" Lee: "Theie aie very feu wnter-- v.ho are able to retue A woiking wTiir ha' to keep working until they carry him out that s a fact " CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM SHAMROCK ROLLS s the Dannay: "Anyway, iet is woik. If you keep uoik good, v oil'll nevei -- e-r SCE youi glow Open Till $. old." cream- Midnight-.47- 0 7hlt- - Change for Better o To put it more Danr.ay: concisely, if one likes it and the other doesn't, the change will he for the better. Lee; "Let me give you a horrible example. We oiv e argued for tin ee months over a set tion of a plot, and finally tin ew it all out. Then we sat down and said: Look, we've got to work out something The two rousin.s grinned urro-- s the table in a flash of (lie warm legard they hold for curb oilier. I'noithodov will mg ter hniques 01 not, then in 3.1 efforts have i 4 novels novels, Ellery Queen (an earlv by Burnaby Ito-- s 7 pseudonym), honks of shoit stones, 2 books MW v a 41 4- - 2- cntiral dime, woiks on the detective story, two dozen oiigmal mysteiy papei barks, 53 mine anthologies, and a stark of junior true on - 3 Cl 4 tnn for a printing of mystr-iiemore than 100 million copies. Add to this their Ellery magazine Queen mystery which they have personally edited for 28 years, plus years of writing Queens adventures for radio, television and the movies and it totals millions of mystery fans around the Woild as well rls at claim fioni fellow writeis in the foim of five "Edgars busts of the first detective story write! the osier Edgar Allan Poe of the Who Done It world :yi v 4 v I I jr jk Mystery Contest Elleiv Queen, the gentleman detective liitaself, has gone through quite a change since 1928 when two working in advertising and publicity in Manhattan, 'ended to enter a $7,500 mystery novel contest sponsoipd by McClure's Magazine. Just after they received unofficial word theyd won, the magazine went bankrupt. 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