The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award Miracles of resourcefulness

Miracles of resourcefulness

editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

the eighth volume in "Crippen & Landru Lost Classics

between the 1870's and 1890's such dime novel detectives as Old Sleuth

This is the first time that many of these stories have seen print

The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award Miracles of resourcefulnessMurder in a Familiar Setting Since time began, authors have been told to write what they know. James Holding (1907 1997) took that advice to heart. After his retirement from advertising, Holding began writing full time. One of his early ghostwriting gigs was continuing the Ellery Queen Jr novels, which had first appeared in the 1940s. The two cousins who wrote as Ellery Queen, Fred Dannay and Manfred Lee, hired Holding to jumpstart the series after a