In Popular Fiction
Stephen King's short story "Secret Window, Secret Garden" is about a baffling controversy of a mystery regarding publication of a mystery tale in a popular mystery publication that forms the center of the plot. That publication is Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
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