Draft:Jane Speed: Difference between revisions
===Crime fiction: a new beginning===
===Crime fiction: a new beginning===
In the wake of radio drama’s demise in the early 1950s, Speed’s roughly 25-year transition from stage to page concluded in March 1963 with the publication of “According to Plan,” her professional mystery-writing debut,Ellett, [https://otrr.org/FILES/OTRRFlip/magViewer.html?idp=9269#divPDF/6 op. cit., p. 6] which thus became—by editor [[Frederic Dannay]]’s reckoning—”the 247th ‘first story’ to be published by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.”Dannay, Frederic, ed. (March 1963). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/z50aamd5r5hjk5j/ ”Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”]. p. 82. Almost without exception Speed’s crime fiction, all of which debuted between 1963 and 1980, did so in ”EQMM”, the sole outlier being “Poor Eva”, which first appeared in ”[[Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine]]” in 1977. Her first two stories were included by [[Anthony Boucher]] in his [[honor roll]] for detective fiction of 1963,Dannay, Frederic, editor: ”Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine”. September 1964.Boucher, Anthony (1964). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/g1a7uua77hrubmk Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. as were her next three, in 1964, ’65 and ’66, respectively.Boucher, Anthony (1965). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/pkf99q9l61hiiwr/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 271. See also:
In the wake of radio drama’s demise in the early 1950s, Speed’s roughly 25-year transition from stage to page concluded in March 1963 with the publication of “According to Plan,” her professional mystery-writing debut,Ellett, [https://otrr.org/FILES/OTRRFlip/magViewer.html?idp=9269#divPDF/6 op. cit., p. 6] which thus became—by editor [[Frederic Dannay]]’s reckoning—”the 247th ‘first story’ to be published by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.”Dannay, Frederic, ed. (March 1963). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/z50aamd5r5hjk5j/ ”Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”]. p. 82. Almost without exception Speed’s crime fiction, all of which debuted between 1963 and 1980, did so in ”EQMM”, the sole outlier being “Poor Eva”, which first appeared in ”[[Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine]]” in 1977. Her first two stories were included [[Anthony Boucher]] [[honor roll]] for detective fiction of 1963,Dannay, Frederic, editor: ”Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine”. September 1964.Boucher, Anthony (1964). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/g1a7uua77hrubmk Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. as were her next three, in 1964, ’65 and ’66, respectively.Boucher, Anthony (1965). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/pkf99q9l61hiiwr/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 271. See also:
* Boucher, Anthony (1966). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/jhoyowc3qqr2asa/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 287.
* Boucher, Anthony (1966). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/jhoyowc3qqr2asa/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 287.
* Boucher, Anthony (1967). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/5mktl497t9xixic/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. Her 1969 story, “The Unhappening”, was likewise honored by Boucher’s successor [[Allen J. Hubin]];Hubin, Allen J. (1970). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/5mktl497t9xixic/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. in addition, it appeared the following year in ”Ellery Queen’s Grand Slam (25th anniversary annual): 25 stories from ‘Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”’.Queen, Ellery (1970). ”[https://archive.org/details/elleryqueensgran0000unse/page/70/mode/2up?q=%22the+unhappening%22+%22jane+speed%22 Ellery Queen’s Grand Slam (25th Anniversary Annual): 25 Stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine]”. New York: World Publishing. pp. 71–84. {{OCLC|39640801}}.
* Boucher, Anthony (1967). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/5mktl497t9xixic/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. Her 1969 story, “The Unhappening”, was likewise honored by Boucher’s successor [[Allen J. Hubin]];Hubin, Allen J. (1970). [https://www.mediafire.com/view/5mktl497t9xixic/ Best Detective Fiction of the Year, 19th Annual Collection]. New York; E.P. Dutton. & Company. p. 284. in addition, it appeared the following year in ”Ellery Queen’s Grand Slam (25th anniversary annual): 25 stories from ‘Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”’.Queen, Ellery (1970)….