John Holbrook Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen.
Jack Vance at the helm of his boat on San Francisco Bay in the early 1980s
Vance's The Languages of Pao was originally published in the December 1957 issue of Satellite Science Fiction, under what is likely the last SF magazine cover by Frank R. Paul
Jack Vance playing the jazz banjo and kazoo in 1979 in San Francisco
French edition of The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, illustrating "The Kokod Warriors".
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases. From 1929 to 1971, Dannay and Lee wrote around forty novels and short story collections in which Ellery Queen appears as a character.
Manfred Lee (left) and Frederic Dannay
Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen
Frederic Dannay (left) with EQMM contributor James Yaffe in 1943.
George Nader as Ellery Queen and Marian Seldes in the television program The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen.
