Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 1, Fall 1941

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As writers, readers, and collectors of detective-crime stories, we have for many years shouted the need for — and deplored the lack of — a quality publication devoted exclusively to the printing of the best in detective-crime short-story literature.

To this end we have for a long time been building an exhaustive and unique library. So we have at our fingertips a store of the very choicest detective-crime short stories, culled from every conceivable source — books, slick-paper magazines, and “pulp” magazines.

Mr. Lawrence E. Spivak, publisher of The American Mercury, believes as we do that mystery enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting a publication devoted to all types of detective-crime stories in which consistently good writing would be as important as original ideas, excitement, and craftsmanship.

And so, Ellery Queen is editing and Lawrence E. Spivak is publishing this volume, which is planned as the first of a periodic anthology of detective-crime short stories, in which the sole editorial criterion will be quality.

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