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News March 20, 2020

News Digest March 20, 2020

March Releases
Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2020
Contents Pages
Dare Segun Falowo “Kikelomo Ultrasheen”
SL Huang “The Million-Mile Sniper”
Matthew Hughes “The Last Legend”
Charles de Lint’s Books to Look For
–Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
–A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
–I Know What I Saw by Linda S. Godfrey
–In the Heart of the Fire by Dean Koontz
–Photographing the Dead by Dean Koontz
–The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz
–Red Rain by Dean Koontz
–The Mercy of Snake by Dean Koontz
–Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz
–Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television by Karen A. Romanko
–Mingus Fingers by Jacob Weisman
Elizabeth Hand’s Books
–Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
–The Muders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
–The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
–A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney
Ian Tregillis “Come the Revolution”
John Possidente “Red Sword of the Celiac”
Lauren McBride “To My Shipmates at Journey’s End” (verse)
Amman Sabet “Say You’re Sorry”
Gregor Hartmann “A Solitary Crane Circles Cold Mountain”
Deborah L. Davitt “4 Vesta” (verse)
Amanda Hollander “A Feast of Butterflies”
David J. Skal’s Films: Wet Screams
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Natural Disasters in Utopia
William Ledbetter “Hungry Is the Earth”
Elizabeth Bear “Hacksilver”
Brian Trent “Death on the Nefertem Express”
James Patrick Kelly “The Man I Love”
Coming Attractions
F&SF Market Place
Graham Andrews’ Curiosities: Public Faces by Harold Nicolson (1932)

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 138 No. 3 and 4, No. 748, Mar/Apr 2020
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Mondolithic Studios
Cartoons: Arthur Masear, Kendra Allenby, Mark Heath, Nick Downes
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until May 4, 2020
Fantasy & Science Fiction website

Hard Case Crime released Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman on March 17, 2020. Hardcover $22.99 Kindle $7.99 from amazon.

Digest and Book Reviews
Repo Shark by Cody Goodfellow reviewed by J.D. Graves at EconoClash Review.

The premise of “single paragraph book reviews” seems apt for this age of browsing. The March 15th review at Mostly Old Books and Rust features Thunder Wagon by James Reasoner and L.J. Washburn.

Worlds of Tomorrow May 1965 reviewed by Victoria Silverwolf at Galactic Journey.

Hell Chose Me by Angel Luis Colon reviewed by Matthew X. Gomez at EconoClash Review.

Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1965 reviewed by Gideon Marcus on Galactic Journey.

Digest Blogs
Beth Dawkins’ Q&A at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Paul Charles on “Jumping Off a Diving Board” at EQMM’s Something is Going to Happen.

John Possidente on “Red Sword of the Celiac” at Fantasty & Science Fiction.

Interviews
Art Taylor at Washington Independent Review of Books.

Free Online Fiction
“The Man Who Wouldn’t” by Joseph S. Walker on ToughCrime.

Free Newsletter
The American Bystander is standing by at home with too much time on their hands, so they’ve created Bystander’s Quarantine Cavalcade. Subscribe here.

Readin’ and Writin’
Alec Cizak added several of the earliest issues of Pulp Modern to Magzter this week. Of course, all of our joint issues from Volume Two are there as well.

And speaking of Pulp Modern, all the stories have been selected for the next issue. I’ll be working on layouts for the final three this weekend.

Finished reading and made notes on the second issue of Fotocrime for my article for the next issue of The Digest Enthusiast. Part of my research included reading True Crime, True North, full review here. Since the book’s focus is Canadian true crime magazines, it’s not directly relevant to Fotocrime, but seeing how the authors approached their topic was useful. Also exchanged a series of emails with John Shirley about Weirdbook No. 42, to provide readers with the backstory on the issue.

Also read Guns + Tacos Volume One, but I write more about that next week.

Vintage Crime Digest
Verdict Vol. 1 No. 2 July 1953
Contents Page
Cornell Woolrich “All at Once, No Alice” art by Tom O’Sullivan
H.H. Holmes “The Stripper” art by R. Cossette
Dorothy B. Hughes “Homecoming”
Henry Kane “Kudos for the Kid” art by Tom O’Sullivan
Francis Lewis “Has Anybody Here Slain Kely?”
Samuel Blas “Revenge”
Rex Stout “Fer-De-Lance” (Part 2 of 5)
Bruno Fischer “The Man Who Lost His Head”
Frank Kane “Suicide”
Leonard S. Grey “What’s Your Verdict?”

Verdict Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1953
Published monthly by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc.
Editor: John McCloud
Managing Editor: E.A. Tulman
Art Director: Chas. W. Adams
Business Magager: R.E. Decker
5.5” x 7.75” 144 pages 35¢

News March 13, 2020

News Digest March 13, 2020

The Beat of Black Wings editor: Josh Pachter

The Beat of Black Wings, an anthology of crime fiction stories inspired by the music of Joni Mitchell, launches on April 7, 2020. Many of Mitchell’s classics are represented: “Both Sides, Now” by Art Taylor and Tara Laskowski, “Big Yellow Taxi” by Kathryn O’Sullivan, “River” by Stacy Woodson, “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire” by Donna Andrews, “The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines” by Amber Sparks, “Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac” by Michael Bracken, etc. The collection was edited by Josh Pachter. The book will be released on April 7, 2020. Preorders are available in Hardcover $29.75, Softcover $19.55, and Kindle $5.99.

Steve Davidson reviews the premier episode of the new Amazing Stories series on AppleTV+ on, what else, the Amazing Stories blog.

Gideon Marcus examines Galaxy April 1965 at Galactic Journey.

John Boston does likewise for Amazing April 1965 also at Galactic Journey.

Tough Crime: “Walker’s Hollow” by John Floyd.

Q&A with Derek Kunsken at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Ian Tregillis on “Come the Revolution” (F&SF Mar/Apr 2020) at Fantasy & Science Fiction blog.

Jack Bunker writes about his debut with “Active Shooter” in the Mar/Apr 2020 issue of EQMM at Something is Going to Happen.

Read J.D. (EconoClash Review) Graves’ latest Flash Fiction “Trojan H” at Shotgun Honey.

March 2020 Digests
Nostalgia Digest Spring 2020
Contents
Steve Darnall “Hello, Out There in Radioland!”
A Few Moments with . . . Chuck Schaden
Chuck Schaden “Those Were the (Early) Days” (cover story)
“Those Were the Dates” Ten pivotal moments from the 50-year history of Those Were the Days.
Necrology for 2019
Laura Milbraith Stewart “All in the Families” (Tina Cole)
Dan McGuire “At This Theatre Next Week” Chapter Two
Stone Wallace “Everybody Loves Raymond” (Raymond Burr)
Greg Kreinberg “The Daly News”
Wayne Klatt “A Free Soul” (Jean Arthur)
Mail Call

Plus, the Radio Program Guide for Those Were the Days and WGN Radio Theatre

Nostalgia Digest Book 46 Chapter 2 Spring 2020
Editor: Steve Darnall
5.5” x 8.5” 64 pages, b&w interior
$4.50 on newsstands
Four-issue subscription $17
Eight-issue subscription $30
Nostalgia Digest website

Readin’ and Writin’
Finished the audio book of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. First published in 1896, Moreau is a science fiction classic. Its concept isn’t as revolutionary in 2020 as 1896, but for its era it must have been horrific and shocking. Even today, the prose is terrific, my favorite parts were Wells’ fastidious descriptions of his animal hybrids.

Also immensely enjoyed the print edition of Weirdbook No. 42, a special all John Shirley issue, edited by Doug Draa. A triumphant collection of short stories and poetry capped by a sword and sorcery epic that wraps the volume with an enthralling finale.

I completed reading and making notes on the first issue of Fotocrime this week. Still lots to do but it feels good to get this article for TDE12 started.

Rick McCollum sent the cover art for the next issue of Pulp Modern which should see release sometime this Spring. I loved Rick’s artwork for the last PM and the current TDE, but I gotta say, I think this is the best one yet. It’s based on a story called “Ghost Town.”

PM editor, Alec Cizak, has selected another two stories for the issue, so I’ll be working on layout for those over the next few days.

Vintage Crime Digest
Verdict Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1953
Contents Page
Rex Stout “Fer-De-Lance” (Part 1 of 5)
Craig Rice “His Heart Could Break” (John J. Malone) art by R. Cossette
Dan Stoup’s Tricks of the Trade: Fingerprints
Henry Kane “A Glass of Milk”
Steve Fisher “Goodbye Hannah”
Chester B. Himes “Marihuana and a Pistol” art by R. Cossette
Fredric Brown “Don’t Look Behind You”
Edward Clark’s Crime Firsts: The La Rosa Case
Raymond Chandler “Trouble Is My Business”

News February 28, 2020

News Digest Feb. 28, 2020

Paul Fraser reviews Astounding Science Fiction Vol. 33 No. 3 May 1944 on SF Magazines.

Victoria Silverwolf reviews Fantastic Vol. 14 No. 3 March 1965 on Galactic Journey.

The print version of season one of Guns + Tacos season one arrived last Saturday. Each of its two volumes, created and edited by Michael Bracken and Trey H. Barker include three stories around 40 pages each. Volume One: Gary Phillips, Bracken, and Frank Zafiro. Volume Two: Barker, William Dylan Powell, James A. Hearn, and a bonus story by Bracken, making this the thicker of the two volumes. Season Two has been ordered and will begin later this year from Down & Out Books.

Art Taylor writes about the story order in his new anthology The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 at Auntie M Writes. (Hat tip Kevin Tipple).

Artist and author Tony Gleeson’s new book, Find the Money, is now available on amazon. The mysterious Vanessa has vanished, and it’s worth a million dollars to a vicious drug lord to get her back. But the ransom disappears, turning up in the hands of a bewildered innocent bystander, while ruthless gangsters and hapless kidnappers alike desperately search for the money. Meanwhile, Detective Marlon Morrison, who only wants to comfortably ride out the final year and a half before his retirement without incident, finds himself involved with a growing succession of murder victims, and a bizarre case growing in complexity by the hour…

Josh Pachter talks to Publisher’s Weekly about his anthologies The Misadventures of Ellery Queen and The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe. (Hat tip Michael Bracken)

Doug Draa announced on Facebook that Weirdbook No. 42 has gone to print!

A.T. Sayre describes his joy and appreciation at having his first story, “Rover,” published in the venerable Analog.

Found all four March/April 2020 Dell digests on shelves this week at my local Barnes & Noble’s. Alfred Hitchcock’s features William Burton McCormick’s cover story “Night Train to Berlin.” Ellery Queen’s cover highlights its “Mystery Strangers” theme. Although not listed on the cover, indie favorite Preston Lang also has a story inside—congrats!

Asimov’s cover features Nancy Kress’ “Semper Augustus” and Analog continues their retro-look celebration of their 90th year. Note F&SF Editor C.C. Finley’s name on the cover, and inside there’s a new story by Edd Vick* and Manny Frishberg. *Vick as interviewed by D. Blake Werts in The Digest Enthusiast No. 6.

Corey Flintoff talks about his “Interlude in Arcadia” (F&SF J/F 2020) on the Fantasy & Science Fiction blog.

Readin’ and Writin’
Finished the audio book version of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and loved it. I listened while driving and more than once got so lost in the gorgeous prose I had to try to remember what was happening in the plot. Narrator Ray Porter’s cadence and inflections are a perfect match to Tom Hanks’.

Also on audio, I listened to Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor. A intimate memoir with Taylor’s recollections of family dysfunction, fighting addiction, and working with Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar, Peter Gordon, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and Carol King. This guided tour of his early life is interspersed with his gorgeous melodies. Riveting, sad, and unforgettable.

In print, I read Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine June 1957. This issue wraps up the trilogy of the serialized Weep for a Blond Corpse, with more action and excitement than the previous two installments. It also boasts two outstanding novelets by Helen Nielsen and Tedd Thomey, as well as some fine short stories by Fletcher Flora, James Schucker, D.E. Forbes, Murray Wolf, and F. Keston Clarke. A great issue of a great digest magazine! Watch for my reviews in a coming issue of bare•bones.

Jeff Vorzimmer, editor of Stark House Press’ Best of Manhunt, read through the current issue of The Digest Enthusiast and awarded it a 5-Star rating this week on GoodReads. Thanks much, Jeff!

TDE12 Update: Met with my writing group on Thursday and shared my review of Paperback Fanatic No. 43, which will appear in TDE12. Also completed the initial layout of my interview with Tony Gleeson for the issue. Thanks to Tony, it’s loaded with beautiful artwork—mostly from vintage digests.

From the Vault
Ad copy on page 2: “. . . if you enjoy this issue let us enter a subscription for you so that True Crime Detective may be delivered to you on or before publication date without extra cost. You will find each issue a little better than the one before—an anthology of the best detective true crime stories new and old.” Cost? $1.40 for 4 issues. In 2020 dollars that’s $13.53. I have a feeling it would be more, but I’d get it if it were still being published today. Next week: the final issue.

True Crime Detective Vol. 3 No. 3 Summer 1953
Contents Page
W.T. Brannon “Rendezvous at Rondout”
Joseph Shillips “They Wrote Their Own Convictions”
Homer Croy “Cherokee Bill”
William Roughead “The Merrett Mystery”
Manly Wade Wellman “The General Dies at Dusk”
Miriam Allen deford “The Reluctant Lover”
Frank Mullady “Judgement for a Messiah”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editors: Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
Advisory Editor: Charles Angoff
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Dirone Photography from “Rendezvous at Rondout”
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

News January 10, 2020

Ellery Queen Jan/Feb 2020

Contents Page
Matthew Wilson “The Wretched Strangers” art by Mark Evan Walker
Andrew Welsh-Huggins “Home for the Holidays”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Fei Wu “Beijingle All the Way” (Passport to Crime) translated from the Chinese by Josh Pachter
Bonnie Hearn Hill “Feliz Navidead”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Mark SaFranko “Frogman”
Mike McHone “A Drive-By on Chalmers Road?”
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
—Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse
—The Devil’s Due by Bonnie MacBird
—The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer
—The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth by Leonard Goldberg
—Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas
—The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis
—Death in Focus by Anne Perry
—Killing with Confetti by Peter Lovesey
—The Second Biggest Nothing by Colin Cotterill
—plus four others briefly covered
Kieran Shea “Paying It Off” (Black Mask)
Merrilee Robson “Edie”
Terrence Faherty “The Yellow Face” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Josh Pachter “The Adventure of the Red Circles”
Kelston Gunn Cowling “Mr. Majestyk” (Dept. of First Stories)
John M. Floyd “Crow’s Nest”
Marilyn Todd “Nights in White Satin”
B.A. Paul “The Dragonfly” (Dept. of First Stories)
Pat Black “The Concrete Pillow”
Toni L.P. Kelner “Now Hiring Nasty Girlz”
Bill Pronzini “Stroke of Luck”
Leslie Elman “The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay”
Twist Phelan “Used to Be”
Peter Turnbull “The Banks of the Ouse”
Classified Marketplace
Christine Poulson “Because You’re Worth It”
Indicia

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2020 Vol. 155 No. 1 & 2, Whole No. 940 & 941
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Erika Steiskal

192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Feb. 18, 2020
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

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

News November 8, 2019

Ellery Queen Nov/Dec 2019

Contents Page
Charlaine Harris “A Little Happy Hunting” (Anne DeWitt) art by Mark Evan Walker
David Dean “The Breakfast Club” (Julian Hall)
Elizabeth Zelvin “The Island”
Matt Coleman “Stray Dogs” (Black Mask)
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
—Gallows Court by Martin Edwards
—The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan
—Primary Target by John Billheimer
—Bluff by Michael Kardos
—The House on Hallowed Ground by Nancy Cole Silverman
—And Then They Were Doomed by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
—They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
—Hitchcock and the Censors by Jim Billheimer
—Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan
Amy Myers “Death and the Donkeys” (Nell Drury)
Joseph Goodrich “The Beige Skirt”
Richie Narvaez “None of This Is on the Map”
Joseph Goodrich’s On the Road With Manfred B. Lee: “The Most Profound Mysteries”
Elizabeth Elwood “The Chess Room”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Angelique Fawns* “Three Calendars” (Dept. of First Stories)
John Lantigua “The Underground Man” (Willie Cuesta)
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Roger Torrey “Private War” (Black Mask)(George Killeen)
Ingred Oonincx “The Final Stage” (Passport to Crime) translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter
A.M. Porter “The Drawings” (Dept. of First Stories)
Doug Crandell “Wrangled”
Christine Poulson “Fiction Addiction”
Twist Phelan “Fathers-in-Law”
Doug Allyn “The Dutchy” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Anna Scotti “That Which We Call Patience”
Classified Marketplace
Index to Volumes 153 & 154—2019
Indicia
2019 EQMM Readers Award Ballot

*Appears in Pulp Modern: Tech Noir

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2019 Vol. 154 No. 5 & 6, Whole No. 938 & 939
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Dave Calver

192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Dec. 17, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

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

Interviews October 16, 2019

Ellery Queen Dec. 2007

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Dec. 2007 Vol. 130 No. 6 Whole No. 796
Contents
David Handler “The Man Who Couldn’t Miss” art by Laurie Harden
Edward D. Hoch “Gypsy Gold”
Jon L. Breen: The Jury Box
Patricia Smiley “Party’s Over”
Bill Crider: Blog Bytes
Jon L. Breen “A Run Through the Calendar”
Loren D. Estleman “Wild Walls” (Valentino) art by Mark Evan Walker
Caroline Menzies “The Bathtub Oracle” (Dept. of First Stories)
Peter Turnbull “The Mummy” art by Allen Davis
Marilyn Todd “Room for Improvement”
2007 EQMM Readers Award Ballot
Anton Chekhov “A Malefactor” (Passport to Crime) translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett
Martin Edwards “An Index”
Maria Hudgins “Murder on the London Eye”
Michael Bracken & Tom Sweeney “Snowbird” art by Mark Evans
Index: Vol. 129 and Vol. 130
Classified Marketplace
Indicia and Masthead

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Editorial Assistant: Emily Giglierano
Excutive Director Art & Production: Susan Kendrioski
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Rafael de Soto

144 pages $3.99
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website

I asked Michael Bracken about what it was like to write with a partner on “Snowbird.” Below is an excerpt from his interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:

In the early-2000s I edited five anthologies, and Tom had a story in each of them. When I pitched an anthology of private eye stories to a regional publisher, the publisher was interested only if all the stories were set in Texas and the contributors were Texans/ Texas residents. The only way Tom, a New Englander, would get a story in the anthology was if he collaborated with someone in Texas. Me.

Tom’s writing style—that is, the way he uses words and structures sentences—is (or was then) similar to mine, but his approach to writing is quite different. Where I throw something on the page to start and then figure out where I’m going, he likes to start with the theme and build backwards from there.

So, we went back and forth, writing and discussing as we went. I would write a bit and turn it over to him. He would edit or revise what I wrote and add more. I would edit/ revise what he wrote and add to it. All the while we held email discus- sions on the side about where the story was going, what we needed to research to move forward, and so on. (We even roped in a third writer—Çarol Kilgore—to aid with some research. Part of the story is set on the Gulf Coast and Carol provided us with details neither of us could get otherwise.)

Writing the way we did, it’s quite difficult to know now who wrote which passages, but after several months we had a complete draft. Unfortunately, the regional publisher was no longer interested in doing the anthology.
It is true that collaborating means twice the work for half the money, but Tom and I created a story neither of us could have written alone, and it was the first sale either of us made to EQMM. So, it was well worth the effort.

Vault October 6, 2019

Ellery Queen Dec. 2016

EQMM is 75 years old. An amazing publishing feat for any magazine. The December issue continues its tradition of outstanding short mystery fiction with the final 75th Anniversary edition. This issue’s insightful Editorial by Janet Hutchings reviews the founding scope of the magazine and its expansive role in today’s ever-challenging marketplace.

“Bloodstained Glass” by Richard Helms, art by Mark Evan Walker
From the Editor’s Desk: Beyond Boundaries by Janet Hutchings
“Nothing Matters But Matter” by Sheila Kohler
The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock reviews:
The English Teacher by Yiftach R. Atir
The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura
I Shot the Buddha by Colin Cotterill
Mr. Campion’s Fault by Mike Ripley
The Hemingway Thief by Shaun Harris
Kilt at the Highland Games by Kaitlyn Dunnett
The Goddaughter Caper by Melodie Campbell
Survivors Will Be Shot Again by Bill Crider
and special mentions of
Rhythm and Clues by Sue Ann Jaffarian
The Question of the Felonious Friend by Jeff Cohen and E.J. Copperman
A Killer’s Guide to Good Works by Shelley Costa.
“The Unseen Door” by Margery Allingham
“A History of Snakes” by Tom Tolnay
“The Truth of the Moment” by E. Gabriel Flores (Dept. of First Stories)
“Catspaw” by Peter Tremayne
“Dream Wedding” by Sarah Weinman (From Our Archives)
“With Eyes Like That” by Robert S. Levinson
“Ghosts of Bunker Hill” by Paul D. Marks, art by Allen Davis
“Stranger in the Night” by Hilde Vandermeeren (Passport to Crime) translated by Josh Pachter
2016 EQMM Readers Award Ballot
Index to Volumes 147 & 148
Bill Crider’s Blog Bytes returns next issue.

Final issue of the 112-page editions. Beginning in Jan/Feb 2017 EQMM went bimonthly with double-sized 192-page issues.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 148 #6, whole #903, Dec. 2016
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Senior Assistant Editor: Jackie Sherbow
VP Design & Production: Susan Mangan
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Jill Hartley/iStockphoto.com
112 pages
$4.99 on newsstands until December 20, 2016
The Mystery Place: Ellery Queen

Uncategorized September 12, 2019

Ellery Queen Sep/Oct 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2019 Vol. 154 No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 936 & 937
Contents
John F. Dobbyn “Torero” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
William Burton McCormick “The Dunes of Saulkrasti”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
William Hallstead “You Can Scream in the Everglades”
Stacy Woodson “The Retirement Plan”
Webster Ford “Bare Ruined Choirs” (Dept. of First Stories)
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Kevin Egan “The Visit”
Cath Staincliffe “Dog Tired”
O’Neil De Noux “Sac-a-lait Man”
Robert S. Levinson “Lies and Other Truths”
Anne van Doorn “The Poet Who Locked Himself In” (Passport to Crime) translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter
Peter Turnbull “Red Mist”
David Dean “The Squatter”
Josh Pachter “The Secret Lagoon”
Marilyn Todd “School of Hard Rocks”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Bill Pippin “Frontier Days”
Tim Burke “When Will I Ever Use This?” (Dept. of First Stories)
Michael Cebula “Second Cousins” (Black Mask)
Bill Pronzini “Do It Yourself”
Dave Zeltserman “Julius Katz and the Belvedere Club”
Anna Scotti “Never Have I Ever” art by Mark Evan Walker
Classified Marketplace
Joseph Goodrich: On the Road with Manfred B. Lee
James Sallis “Figs”
Indicia

192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Oct. 22, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

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

News July 1, 2019

Ellery Queen Jul/Aug 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2019 Vol. 154 No. 1 & 2, Whole No. 934 & 935
Contents
Vicki Weisfeld “New Energy” art by Mark Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Jon L. Breen: The Jury Box
Richard Helms “The Cripplegate Apprehension”
S.J. Rozan “Left for Dead”
Takemaru Abiko “A Smart Dummy in the Tent” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong. Adapted by John Pugmire.
Trey Dowell “Heat”
Michael Bracken “Oystermen”
Marilyn Todd “The Day of the Jackal”
V.S. Kemanis “Dzintra’s Tale” Transcribed and translated from the Latvian by Arvids Kraulis.
Aoife Clifford “Crossing Bridges”
Peter Turnbull “There Are Just Some Things a Rat Won’t Do”
Chris Holm “Murderers’ Row”
Tara Laskowski “The Long-Term Tenant” (Black Mask)
Brendan DuBois “Her Sister’s Secrets” art by Laurie Harden
Twist Phelan “Rude Awakening”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Steve Hockensmith “Do Not Disturb”
Tony Fisher “Tingo” (Dept. of First Stories)
James Hadley Griffin “Rionach, My Queen” (Dept. of First Stories)
Classified Marketplace
R.T. Raichev “The Mysterious Affair at Osiris House”
Indicia

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Simon Prades
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until Aug. 20, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

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

News May 10, 2019

Ellery Queen May/June 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 Vol. 153 No. 5 & 6, Whole No. 932 & 933
Contents
T.J. MacGregor “Hurricane Jonah” art by Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
David Dean “The Duelist”
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Mark Stevens “A Bitter Thing”
Martin Edwards “The Girl on the Bandwagon”
Dave Zeltserman “Brother’s Keeper” (Black Mask)
J.L. Orchard “A Question of Rabbits” (Dept. of First Stories)
Josh Pachter “A Study in Scarlett!”
Pat Black “The First Day of the School Holidays”
Bill Pronzini “The Shrew”
Chad Baker “The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace”
Carlos Orsi “Hatred in the House of Prayer”
Janice Law “My Companion”
James Sallis “Dear Interrogator” (verse)
Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen “The Queen and the Concubine” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the Bengali by Apala G. Egan
Art Taylor “Better Days”
William Burton McCormick “Murder With a Flick of the Wrist”
2018 EQMM Readers Award
Anna Scotti “From Deep Within the Earth, She Smiled”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Adrian McKinty “From Hell” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
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Brendan DuBois “The Workout”
Sheila Kohler “The Darling”
Marilyn Todd “Boys Will Be Boys”
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