Thursday, April 3, 2008

Manfred Lee died today – 37 years ago

Author (of “Ellery Queen” mysteries) Manfred Bennington Lee was born as Manfred Lepofsky on January 11, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York. He said, “Mystery League Magazine was the child of the Queen imagination and early ambition. It was published on the proverbial shoelace... Fred and myself were the entire staff. We did not even have a secretary. We selected the stories, prepared copy, read proofs, dummied, sweated,...and almost literally swept out the office as well." [Gotta start somewhere.]... Mr. Lee died on April 3, 1971.

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