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Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 10

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 10

Black Cat Mystery Magazine [v3 #2, whole #10, November 2021] ex. ed. John Gregory Betancourt, ed. Michael Bracken (Wildside Press, Paperback $12.00, Kindle $3.99, 123pp, tp)
1 • Contents Page
2 • From the Cat’s Perch • Michael Bracken • ed
3 • The Last Gasp • H.K. Slade • ss
12 • Spook • Emilio DeGranzia • ss
21 • Out of a Fog • Barb Goffman • ss
24 • El Pescador Zurdo • Tom Larsen • ss
34 • A Blue Umbrella Sky • R.S. Morgan • ss
43 • Death Will Give You a Reason • Elizabeth Zelvin • ss
58 • The Mannequin Graveyard • Gregory L. Norris • ss
65 • Saving the Indiana Dae • Vicki Weisfeld • ss
77 • The Control Tower • Janice Law • ss
87 • Slow Down • Steve Liskow • ss
97 • Burnin Butt, Texas • Mark Troy • ss
110 • Affair of Lamson’s Cook • Charles Felton Pidgin & J.M. Taylor • ss; The Chronicles of Quincy Adams Sawyer, Detective, 1912

Wildside Press > BCMM

Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website.
FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 9

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 9

Black Cat Mystery Magazine [v3 #1, whole #9, July 2021] ex. ed. John Gregory Betancourt, ed. Michael Bracken (Wildside Press, $13.00, 129pp, tp)
1 • Contents Page
2 • From the Cat’s Perch • Michael Bracken • ed
3 • Last Rites • Stacy Woodson • ss
11 • The Jericho Train • John M. Floyd • ss
22 • Coral Cove • B.A. Paul • ss
31 • The Alley • Ann Aptaker • ss
35 • Sonny’s Encore • Michael Bracken • ss
48 Switch and Bait • Cynthia Ward • ss
51 • Becoming Zero • James A. Hearn • ss
64 • The Murder of Jonathan Greystone • Barry Fulton • ss
77 • You Gotta Be In It! • Elliott Capon • ss
84 • The You-Don’t-Know-the-Half-of-It-Dearie-Blues • Michael Kurland • ss
110 • A Fighter By His Trade • Graham Powell • ss
123 • Smelling Like a Rose * Gil Brewer • ss Mr. Magazine July 1957

Wildside Press > BCMM

Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website.
FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 8

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 8

Black Cat Mystery Magazine [v2 #4, whole #8, January 2021] ex. ed. John Gregory Betancourt, ed. Michael Bracken (Wildside Press, $13.00, 126pp, tp)
1 • Contents Page
2 • From the Cat’s Perch • Michael Bracken • ed
3 • Trip Up on High Street • John Hegenberger • ss
11 • St. Killian’s Choice • M.A. Monnin • ss
18 • You Lose, We Find • Jon Matthew Farber • ss
26 • The Big Picture • John M. Floyd • ss
45 • An Artist in the Harem • Elizabeth Zelvin • ss
62 • Planted in Midair • D.V. Bennett • ss
84 • An Inconvenient Sleuth • Barb Goffman • ss
109 • Just Another Bum • Donald Barr Chidsey • ss Detective Fiction Weekly Jan. 6, 1934

Wildside Press > BCMM

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 8 back cover

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 5

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 5

Contents Page
John Gregory Betancourt: From the Cat’s Perch
Michael Bracken “The Show Must Go On”
Dara Carr “Emily and Elodie”
Tracy Falenwolfe “Partners in Crime”
John M. Floyd “Rhonda and Clyde”
Charlie Hughes “The Idea”
Janice Law “The Bodyguard”
Dennis Palumbo “Trigger Warning”
Keith Snyder “Blue Skies”
Elizabeth Zelvin “A Unicorn in the Harem”
Gil Brewer “Don’t Do That” (Classic Reprint)

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 5 (Vol. 2 No. 1) (Nov. 2019)
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Michael Bracken
Production Team: Sam Cooper, Steve Coupe, Shawn Garrett, Yamini Manikoth
Cover: Uncredited
6” x 9” 148 pages
Print $12.00 Kindle (coming soon)
Black Cat Mystery website

BCMM1: Summary

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

“The ABCs of Murder,” a humorous poem by Josh Pachter, fills out the back cover. Oddly, it’s run landscape; I suppose to maximize the type size.

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a welcome new arrival for fans of crime fiction magazines. Its content fulfills its promise of something for all mystery readers—hardboiled, cozy, noir, crime, private eye, suspense, and thriller. Each story is a satisfying example of its sub-genre. My favorites were those by Michael Bracken, Kaye George, and Fletcher Flora; but I lean toward the dark side. If you enjoy the full range of crime fiction, you’ll love the variety here. And frankly, variety is what a great anthology is all about.

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe
Cover: Fotolia
6” x 9” 150 pages
POD $12.00, Kindle $3.99

BCMM No. 1’s Classic Reprint

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

“Beside a Flowering Wall” by Fletcher Flora is reprinted from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1968. A spinster is visited by the lost love of her life. “The wonder was that he had [once] loved her, for she had been a plain girl, as she was a plain woman, with an odd faded look as if she had been laundered too many times in boiling water.” The crime here was the loss of what might have been, until the opportunity to erase it forever arose.

James Holding’s Leroy King

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

Together, Martin Leroy and King Danforth make up the fictitious mystery writer “Leroy King,” the creation of real-life writer James Holding (1907–1997). A concept perfect for its original run of ten stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Their third outing, “The Italian Tile Mystery,” reprinted here, originally saw print in EQMM Sept. 1961.

The mystery is a puzzle, and the writing partners and their wives sleuth out its solution in this enjoyable puzzle procedural. The editor’s notes reveal a forthcoming complete collection of Leroy King stories from Crippen & Landru—The Zanzibar Shirt Mystery.

Kaye George’s Flirty Flamingo

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

The Flirty Flamingo is a strip club where an ex-cop named Fin often stations himself at the end of the bar. “Usually he let Joe, the barkeep, handle the rough customers and was only there for unofficial backup.” But when new girl Jodie Vive shares her story, Fin finds himself mangled up in high-profile politics and murder. “Flight to the Flirty Flamingo” by Kaye George is smart, tart, and fleet.

Michael Bracken’s Dixie Quickies

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

A southwestern no-tell motel with hourly rates is the scene of the crime in “Dixie Quickies” by Michael Bracken. Bodies are bad for business, so when Maria, one of several illegal immigrants who keep the sheets fresh, gives night manager Tiny Campella the news, he takes over the clean-up duties without bothering local authorities. Of course, that’s just foreplay for the action to come. Bracken’s mini-bio proclaims he’s the author of over 1200 short stories, and his impressive pedigree shows throughout this sterling example of his dandy work.