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News May 14, 2021

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine M/J 2021

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v66 #5/6. May/June 2021] ed. Linda Landrigan, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Shutterstock.com)
2 • Contents Page
3 • Good Company/The Lineup • Linda Landrigan • ed
4 • The Witches of Endor • Janice Law • ss; illustration by Tim Foley
13 • Lydia’s Law • Kevin Egan • ss
26 • The Road to Hana • R.T. Lawton • ss
34 • Tag, You’re Dead • John Lutz • ss
40 • Wednesdays at Ten • Joseph S. Walker • ss
55 • Mysterious Photograph: Make a List • Anon • cn; $25 given to best short-short to explain the photograph • cn
56 • The Fourth Circle • Robert Lopresti • ss; illustration by Ron Chironna
62 • Minerva James and the Judgment of the Furies • Mark Bruce • ss
83 • Scrambled Francis I • Mark Lagasse • pz
84 • The Devil in Preemption • Max Gersh • ss
88 • The Case of the Brain Tuber • Mark Thielman • ss
103 • Booked & Printed • Laurel Flores Fantauzzo • rc
_103 • The Opium Prince, Jasmine Almaq, Soho Press • br
_104 • The Stepdaughter, Debbie Howells, Kensington • br
_105 • Memorial Drive, Natasha Tretheway, Ecco • br
106 • A Death in the Parish • Nick Spencer • ss
118 • School Spirits •James Lincoln Warren • ss
130 • The Last Waltz Across Texas • Michael Bracken • ss; illustration by Kimberly Cho
136 • Scratch • Robert Mangeot • ss
147 • Mr. Tesla Likes to Watch • Joseph D’Agnese • ss
158 • Gatorpalooza • Alan Orloff • ss
166 • Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle • Arlene Fisher • pz
168 • Brothers Out of Time • David Bart • ss
182 • Case Files: First Responders and the Covid-19 Pandemic • Lee and Denene Lofland • cl
189 • The Story That Won: It’s All Downhill from Here • S.D. Burke • ff; winner of the Jan/Feb 2021 “Mysterious Photograph” contest.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine website

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

News March 19, 2021

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine M/A 2021

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v66 #3/4. March/April 2021] ed. Linda Landrigan, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Tim Foley)
2 • Contents Page
5 • Gateway Crime/The Lineup • Linda Landrigan • ed
6 • The Soul of Peg O’Dwyer • Michael Nethercott • ss; illustration by Ron Chironna
42 • Shank’s Locked Room [Leopold Longshanks] • Robert Lopresti • ss
50 • The Beast of Easedale Tarn • James Tipton • ss
67 • Mysterious Photograph: Bon Voyage • Anon • cn; $25 given to best short-short to explain the photograph.
68 • Friends and Neighbors • John M. Flyod • ss
75 • The Girl with the Gibson Girl Look • O’Neil De Noux • ss
89 • Scrambled Alleyn II • Mark Lagasse • pz
90 • A Night of Lies, Thieves, and Thunder, Long Ago • William Burton McCormick • ss; illustration by Daniel Zalkus
101 • Booked & Printed • Laurel Flores Fantauzzo • rc
_101 • We Hear Voices, Evie Green, Berkley
_102 • Sabrina, Nick Drnaso, Drawn and Quarterly
104 • Thank You For Your Service • Matthew Wilson • ss
124 • Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle • Arlene Fisher • pz
126 • Dead Man’s Hand • Melissa Yi • ss
136 • Saint Paddy’s Day • R.T. Lawton • ss; illustration by Kelly Denato
148 • Business as Usual • Wayne J. Gardiner • ss
156 • The Thrifty Way • Brendan DuBois • ss
169 • What the Doctor Ordered • John H. Dirckx • ss
175 • La Dueña [Captain Guillén] • Tom Larsen • ss
183 • Case Files: Moving in Bad Company (Part II) • Lee Lofland • cl
189 • The Story That Won: Black Friday • Rudy S. Uribe, Jr. • ff; winner of the November/December 2020 “Mysterious Photograph” contest.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine website

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

News March 14, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine M/A 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v157 #3/4, #954/955 March/April 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Ryan Garcia)
1 • Contents Page
2 • Killer’s Alley [Mike Hammer] • Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
8 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_8 • A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke, Simon & Shuster, $28.00
_8 • Murder in Old Bombay, Nev March, Minotaur, $26.99
_53 • Moonflower Murders, Anthony Horowitz, Harper Books, $28.99
_91 • Watch Her, Edwin Hill, Kensington, $26.00
_91 • The Lost Village, Camilla Sten, Minotaur, $26.99
_110 • Apartment Five Is Alive, Russell Atwood, $19.99
9 • Cold Hard Facts • Chad Baker • ss
19 • Stranger Than Fiction: A Death in Provence [Olive Branson] • Dean Jobb • tc
20 • Stone Coat • David Dead • ss; illustrated by Eli Bischof
30 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
31 • A Bit of Bling • Wendy Hornsby • ss
43 • A Winter Night’s Dream [Sam Kelson] • Michael Wiley • ss
55 • An Eye for Detail • Nancy Novick • ss
65 • The Phone Message • Robert Cummins • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
81 • Black Swallowtail • Hollis Seamon • ss
92 • Mother • Ray Bazowski • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
99 • A Bucharest Arrest • Bogdan Hrib; translated by Josh Pachter • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Romanian
111 • Pressure • Cath Staincliffe • ss
113 • The Eyes of the Alcalde • William Dylan Powell • ss
126 • Escape Velocity • Kevin Egan • ss
135 • Yeah, I Meant to Do That • Mat Coward • ss
150 • The City of Light • Josh Pachter • ss
159 • The Best is Yet to Come • Chris Knopf • ss
163 • The Dark Underbelly of Commerce [Hennessey and Yellich] • Peter Turnbull • ss
172 • Spring Fever • Charlaine Harris • ss; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
184 • Who Stole the Afikomen? • Elizabeth • ss

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine website

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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 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

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

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 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

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Stefania Infante

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

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 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