Editing Ellery Queen (section)

==Barnaby Ross==
In 1932 and 1933, Dannay and Lee wrote four novels using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross featuring [[Drury Lane (character)|Drury Lane]], a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] actor who had retired from the stage due to deafness and is now often consulted as an amateur detective. The novels also feature Inspector Thumm (initially as a member of the [[New York Police Department|New York police]], later as a [[private investigator]]) and his crime-solving daughter Patience. From the 1940s, republications of the Drury Lane books were mostly under the Ellery Queen name.<ref name=":5" />

In the early 1930s, before their identity as the authors behind Ellery Queen and Barnaby Ross had been made public, Dannay and Lee staged a series of public debates with Lee impersonating Queen and Dannay impersonating Ross, both of them wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. According to H.R.F. Keating, "People said Ross must be the wit and critic [[Alexander Woollcott]] and Queen [must be] [[S. S. Van Dine|S.S. Van Dine]], creator of the super-snob detective [[Philo Vance]], on whom 'Ellery Queen' was indeed modeled."<ref name="KEAT" />

In the 1960s, Dannay and Lee allowed the Barnaby Ross name to be used as a pseudonym for a series of historical romance novels by the writer Don Tracy.<ref name=":5" /><ref name="Clarke">{{Cite book |author=Joseph F. Clarke |title=Pseudonyms: The Names Behind the Names |date=1977 |publisher=BCA |page=142}}</ref>