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Queen, Ellery (editor).
Ellery Queen's Awards Ninth Series.
Publisher: Published for Collins Crime Club, London;
Date of Publication: 1956
Stock Code: 10571
FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly creased and upper board bruised top edge and corner; a little offsetting to endpapers from jacket otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly toned to white panels,, with minor nicks and creases, 2 cm closed tear at upper front fold and very minor loss to edge. A Very Good copy in like dust-acket. 17 short stories by various authors including Margery Allingham and James Yaffe, the winning entries from the Ninth Annual Short-Story Contest sponsored by “Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”. Duo Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred Bennington Lee wrote crime fiction together under the pseudonym of Ellery Queen; Queen was also the main fictional character in their novels. £50.00