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News January 8, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock’s Jan/Feb 2020

The newly designed Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is now on sale at Barnes & Noble and other select newsstands.

Contents Page
Happy Holidays from AHMM
Linda Landrigan: A Cup of Crime Yet for Auld Lang Syne (introduction)
The Lineup
Steve Hockensmith “The Last Noel” art by Kelly Denato
Kevin Egan “The Tombs Angel”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Plum (puzzle, solution on page 40)
Sharon Hunt “Silent Night”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Famous Last Words”
Joseph D’Agnese “The Detective Who Stopped By Bedford Street”
Teresa Dovalpage “The Sandalwood Killer” art by Tim Foley
Mark Thielman “The Wreck of the Edward Fitzsimmons”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
—Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
—Sarah Jane by James Sallis
Art Taylor “The Boy Detective and the Summer of ’74”
James Tipton “On the Banks of the Styx”
Shauna Washington “Alternate Reality” art by Hank Blaustein
Olivia Dunnett “The Witness”
Wayne J. Gardiner “Mistaken Identity”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
Paul Grigg “Mossad Rules”
Michael Mallory selects/introduces a Mystery Classic: “The Stroke of Thirteen” by Lillian De La Torre (as told to James Boswell, August 1780)
The Story That Won (Sep/Oct) “Tempting, No?” by S.D. Burke
Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
Coming in AHMM Mar/Apr 2020
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 65 No. 1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2020
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Shutterstock
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 18, 2020
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

Interviews December 3, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock June 2016

An excerpt from Michael Bracken’s interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:

The Digest Enthusiast: “Chase Your Dreams,” from AHMM (June 2016), is a great example of a story that evokes an emotional response. What prompts you to include social commentary in a story? Do themes emerge while writing, or are they part of the initial planning process?

Michael Bracken: I rarely start with a theme and never intentionally include social commentary because to do so runs the risk of turning a story into a sermon or, worse, a polemic.

When I let characters react to situations I put them in, sometimes themes emerge that represent beliefs different than my own, and it’s important to let the story be the story and not have a theme forced onto it that fits my beliefs. (Think about all the great noir movies ruined by nonsensical happy endings because movie makers didn’t think audiences would tolerate themes like “life sucks and then you die.”)

“Chase Your Dreams” presents a strong example of what happens when you build characters from the inside out. The protagonist is a closeted gay man in small-town Texas and his clandestine lover,a man who is out and proud of it, disappears. The protagonist is torn between searching for his lover and the realization that by doing so he will out himself. The theme emerges from the actions the protagonist takes and how the other characters react to those actions.

Alfred Hitchcock June 2016
Contents Page
Linda Landrigan’s Editor’s Notes: It Takes a Village
The Lineup
Michael Bracken “Chase Your Dreams”
Sarah Weinman “Death of a Feminist” art by Tim Foley
Willie Rose: The Mysterious Cipher (solution on page 93)
Martin Limón “The King of K-Pop”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words acrostic puzzle
Janice Law “A Taste of Murder” art by Linda Weatherly
Mysterious Photograph: Words Taking Flight
Brendan DuBois “A Battlefield Reunion”
Erica Wright “Patsy Cline at Harry’s Last Chance Saloon” art by Ally Hodges
Ruth Chessman “Poor Sherm” (Mystery Classic selected and introduced by Jane K. Cleland)
Robert C. Hahn: Booked & Printed
—Death On a Starry Night by Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
—Capitol Punishment by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
—The Day After Death by Lynn C. Miller
The Story that Won (Dec. 2015) “A Better Plan” by Charles R. McCrary, Jr.
Coming in AHMM Jul/Aug 2016
Directory of Services/Indicia
Solution to the May “Dying Words”
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 61 No. 6 June 2016
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Senior Assistant Editor: Jackie Sherbow
VP Art & Production: Susan Mangan
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Chuntisel/iStockphoto
112 pages $4.99
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

News November 2, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Nov/Dec 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2019
Contents Page
Linda Landrigan: Trust Me! (introduction)
The Lineup
Leslie Budewitz “Miss Starr’s Good-Bye”
James L. Ross “Last Night in Malibu” art by Ron Chironna
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled George (puzzle, solution on page 70)
Mark Thielman “Thanksgiving Eve”
Janice Law “The Stop-In Motel”
R.T. Lawton “A Loaf of Bread”
Black Orchid Novella Award Contest
Susan Oleksiw “Just Another Runaway”
James Tipton “Candy Box” art by Noah Bailey
John H. Dirckx “Tragedy at Daybreak”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
—The Bone Fire by S.D. Sykes
—Without a Prayer by Susan Ashline
—Party: A Mystery by Jamaica Kincaid
Dave Zeltserman “Terrible Thoughts”
Deborah Lacy “The Sky’s the Limit” art by Ally Hodges
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “The Words of the Prophets”
Melissa Yi “Dueling Dojos”
Peter Colt “The Hippie”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
O’Neil De Noux “A Meanness in Me”
S.L. Franklin “Seal of the Confessional”
Gary Phillips: The Case File Crime in Sequences
The Story That Won (Jul/Aug) “The Angel Tree” by Craig M. Hanson
Index Vol. 64 2019
Coming in AHMM Jan/Feb 2020
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 11 & 12 Nov/Dec 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Maggie Ivy
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Dec. 17, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

Uncategorized September 7, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Sep/Oct 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2019
Contents
Linda Landrigan: Tour de Crime (introduction)
The Lineup
Eve Fisher “The Seven-Day Itch” art by Hank Blaustein
Brian Cox “The Surogate Initiative”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Highsmith (puzzle, solution on page 45)
Mysti Berry “Yorkshire Ripper”
David Hagerty “Drinks at the El Navajo” art by Noah Bailey
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Tempting, no?”
Emily Devenport “Not My Circus, But They are My Monkeys”
Jim Fusilli “Niall Nelson is on My Flight”
Tom Mead “Incident at Widow’s Perch”
Janice Law “The Island”
Michael Steele Valade “Dead Man’s Hand” art by Tim Foley
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
Meredith Anthony “Eddy Gets His”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
Angela Zeman “The Second Tales of Roxanne”
Tom Larsen “Alienta Del Diablo” (Wilson Salinas)
Mystery Classic: Selected and Introduced by Marvin Lachman
G.K. Chesterton “The Garden of Smoke” (Mystery Classic)
The Story That Won (May/Jun) “Off the Trail” by Damon Privette
Coming in AHMM Nov/Dec 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 9 & 10 Sep/Oct 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: McMillian Digital Art
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Oct. 22, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

News June 24, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Jul/Aug 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2019
Contents
Linda Landrigan: All in the Execution (introduction)
The Lineup
Dave Zeltserman “Lulu and Heartbreaker” (Morris Brick)
R.T. Lawton “The Horse” art by Noah Bailey
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Leaf Peeper”
Janice Law “A Fine Nest of Rascals”
John H. Dirckx “Who’s Counting?”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
B.K. Stevens “The Tourist”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Wolfe (puzzle, solution on page 137)
John C. Boland “Marley’s Mistress” art by Ally Hodges
Dayle A. Dermatis “Pirate Pete’s”
Michael A. Black “Carnivores and Herbivores” art by Eric Fisher
William Burton McCormick “The Three Camillas”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
Paul D. Marks “Past is Prologue”
Mark Bruce “Minerva James and the Goddess of Justice” (Black Orchid Novella Award)
The Story That Won (Mar/Apr) “Seeing is Believing” by L.J. Belle
Coming in AHMM Sep/Oct 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 7 & 8 Jul/Aug 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Maggie Ivy
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until August 20, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

Uncategorized May 7, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock May/June 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine May/June 2019
Contents
Linda Landrigan: Called to Crime (introduction)
The Lineup
Joseph S. Walker “Bonus Round”
Chris Muessig “Finite Jest” art by Noah Bailey
Steven Gore “Private Justice”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Marple (puzzle, solution on page 163)
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Off the Trail”
Catherine Dilts “Real Cowgirls Don’t Cry”
Parker Littlewood “Buck and Wiley Make Their Own Luck” art by Hank Blaustein
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
Terrie Farley Moran “Flamingo Bingo”
Mark Joslyn “Bonded”
Joe Helgerson “The Case of the Thirteen Beard”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 139)
Melissa Fall “Photo Finished”
Gigi Vernon “Thick as Thieves” art by Maggie Ivy
Elizabeth Zelvin “A Work in Progress”
Mark Thielman “Blind Spot”
Anna Katharine Green “The Thief” (Mystery Classic) introduction by Linda Landrigan
The Story That Won (Jan/Feb) “After the Party’s Over” by Charlotte Stacey
Coming in AHMM July/Aug 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 5 & 6 May/June 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Shutterstock, design by Vicki Green
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until June 18, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

Uncategorized March 15, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019

Contents
Linda Landrigan: Courting Danger (introduction)
The Lineup
Mat Coward “What Invisible Means” art by Hank Blaustein
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Poirot (puzzle, solution on page 33)
Terence Faherty “Margo and the Red Carnation”
Doug Allyn “The Wedding Crasher”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Seeing is Believing”
Franz Margitza “Eulalia”
Amanda Witt “Up in the Air”
Kevin Egan “The Courthouse Paperboy” art by Tim Foley*
Marianne Wilski Strong “Louisa and the Tunnel”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
Robert Mangeot “Star of Zoe”
Eric Rutter “Mrs. Carter”
Mark Milstein “A Curious Transaction”
O’Neil De Noux “The Peeschwet”
William Burton McCormick “Murder in the Second Act (or The Reluctant Claqueur)” art by Ron Chironna
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
Cheryl Skupa “Ghost in the Nemaha County Courthouse”
The Story That Won (Nov/Dec) “An Apple a Day” by Roger Ewing Taylor
Coming in AHMM May/Jun 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 3 & 4 Mar/Apr 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Sean Wandzilak
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

*See Tim Foley’s Artist’s Statement in The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 Jan. 2019

News November 12, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2018

Contents
Linda Landrigan: Meditations on Murder (introduction)
The Lineup
Max Gersh “The Week Before November”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Grafton (puzzle—solution on page 62))
Susan Thibadeau “The Furious Cat”
Sharon Hunt “The Keepers of All Sins”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “An Apple a Day”
Elaine Viets “Mistress of the Mickey Finn” art by Ron Chironna
Michael Bracken “Going-Away Money”
Robert C. Hahn: Booked & Printed
S.L. Franklin “Manitoba Postmortem”
Julie Tollefson “Leah”
Robert Lopresti “A Bad Day for Algebra Tests” art by Kelly Denato
Martin Limón “Bite of the Dragon”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle)
Mitch Alderman “Fear of the Secular”
Albert Ashforth “Death of an Oligarch”
R.T. Lawton “Vet’s Day”
Joseph Goodrich’s The Case File: Killer Tunes (Music for Mystery Writers)
The Story That Won (Jul/Aug) “Branchin’ Out” by Clare Lamparter
Index: Volume 63
Coming in AHMM Jan/Feb 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 63 No. 11 & 12 Nov/Dec 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Maggie Ivy
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

News September 1, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2018

Contents
Linda Landrigan: All in the Family (introduction)
The Lineup
R.T. Lawton “The Chinese Box” art by Eric Fisher
Dennis McFadden “Coolbrook TWP”
James Lincoln Warren “Casting Call”
Mark Lagasse: Mixed-Up Grandmasters (puzzle)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Unity Con: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum” art by Hank Blaustein
John H. Dirckx “Counterpoint”
Brendan DuBois “The Wildest One”
Solution to Jul/Aug “Dying Words”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words acrostic puzzle
Loren D. Estleman “Scrap Drive” A Four Horsemen Story art by Tim Foley
Tom Savage “Rats”
Mark Thielman “Buried Past”
Robert C. Hahn: Booked & Printed
Matthew Wilson “The Cook Off”
Janice Law “Good Girl”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Of Mice and Murder”
Tom Larsen “En Agua Caliente” A Wilson Salinas Mystery of Ecuador
Louisa May Alcott “Betrayed By a Buckle” Mystery Classic selected and introduced by Marianne Wilski Strong
The Story That Won (May/Jun) “Whistle While You Kill” by Michael J. Ciaraldi
Coming in AHMM Nov/Dec
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 63 No. 9 & 10 Sep/Oct 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: CSA Images
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until October 23, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

News June 30, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2018

Contents
Linda Landrigan: Lights! Camera! Murder! (introduction)
The Lineup
Rebecca Cantrell “Homework” art by Ally Hodges
Kevin Egan “The Movie Lover”
Mark Lagasse: Mixed-Up Grandmasters (puzzle)
Eve Fisher “Blue Moon”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Hanging House”
David Edgerley Gates “I Pray the Lord My Soul to Take”
Robert Mangeot “Book of Hours” art by Hank Blaustein
Solution to May/Jun “Dying Words”
Meredith Frazier “Safe”
Linda Mannheim “Documents”
Robert C. Hahn: Booked & Printed
Eric Rutter “Hateful in the Eyes of God”
Christopher Latragna “A Lousy Little Grand” art by AJ Frena
Robert S. Levinson “Nine Years Later”
Editor’s Note marks the passing of Albert Ashford and Robert S. Levinson
Albert Ashford “A Tragedy Averted”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words acrostic puzzle
Josh Pachter “Not My Circus . . .”
Mark Thielman “The Black Drop of Venus” Black Orchid Novella Award
The Story That Won (Mar/Apr) “Don’t Let the Grass Grow Under Your Wheels” by Craig M. Hanson
Coming in AHMM Sep/Oct
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 63 No. 7 & 8 Jul/Aug 2018
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Maggie Ivy
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until August 21, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95