May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
"ELLERY QUEEN" DANNAY, FREDERIC. Autograph Letter Signed, "Frederic Dannay / ('Ellery Queen')," to Martha Garlin, explaining why the magazine published an apparently incomplete story. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal folds. New York, 20 October 1963
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"According to my records, Cleveland Moffett wrote two separate stories--'The Mysterious Card' and 'The Mysterious Card Unveiled'--and these two stories were originally published at different times, the second story as a sequel to the first.
". . . I preferred to publish only the first story (. . . leaving the mystery unexplained) because . . . the 'mystery left up in the air' was the author's original intention . . . ."