{"product_id":"2026200014180-secondhand-the-queens-awards-seventh-series","title":"The Queen's Awards: Seventh Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the golden age of detective fiction, no arbiter of the short mystery story commanded more authority than Ellery Queen, and The Queen's Awards: Seventh Series stands as a definitive testament to that legacy. This prestigious anthology presents the winners of the Seventh Annual Detective Short Story Contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, gathering the finest crime and detective short fiction from both established masters and rising talents of the early 1950s. Each story was selected for its ingenuity of plot, originality of concept, and mastery of the form, making this volume a benchmark collection of mid-century mystery writing at its most accomplished.\n\nEllery Queen — the celebrated pseudonym of the cousin duo Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee — was not merely an author but a cultural institution, and as editor, Queen brought an uncompromising editorial vision that elevated the mystery short story to a respected literary art form. The Queen's Awards series chronicles the evolution of detective fiction across multiple volumes, and this seventh instalment captures a genre in confident, creative full flourish. For collectors and lovers of classic crime fiction alike, this slim but formidable volume poses a tantalising question: which of these forgotten gems might be the greatest mystery story you have never read?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160999043291,"sku":"2026200014180-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/57e6998a-4b98-4b65-ba9f-30b09e76cb5b.png?v=1787188750","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014180-secondhand-the-queens-awards-seventh-series","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}