Spoiler : Born in Brookly, New York 10/20/1905; died 9/3/1982 in Larchmont, New York. Married Hilda Wiesenthal (?-?). Dannay and his cousin Manfred B. Lee created the character of Ellery Queen over lunch one day when they decided to enter a mystery-writing prize contest. The first of their thirty-three novels began with The Roman Hat Mystery in 1929. The Adventures of Ellery Queen was on CBS-Radio (1939-1940); NBC-Radio (1942-1944); CBS-Radio (1945-1947); NBC-Radio (1947); ABC-Radio (1947-1948); DuMont-TV (1950-1951); ABC-TV (1951-1952). The Further Adventures Of Ellery Queen was on NBC-TV (1958-1959). Ellery Queen was on NBC-TV (1975-1976).