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News January 12, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine J/F 2022

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v67 #1/2 January/February 2022] ed. Linda Landrigan, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Shutterstock)
3 • Contents Page
4 • Holiday Greetings • AHMM Staff • ms
5 • Twists and Turns & The Lineup • Linda Landrigan • ed
6 • Hazmat Holiday [Tony and Charles] • Catherine Dilts • ss
28 • Buck and Wiley Tangle with Rustlers • Parker Littlewood • ss; illustration by Hank Blaustein
35 • Scrambled Queen I • Mark Lagasse • pz
36 • Bama Carter Gets Rode • J.R. Parsons • ss
57 • Backstory • Charles John Harper • ss
71 • Stagger, Stagger • Joan Druett • ss
84 • Mayhem at the Mini-Mart • John M. Floyd • ss
89 • Mysterious Photograph: Free as a Bird • Anon • cn; $25 given to best short-short to explain the photograph
90 • A Murder in Oyster Bay • Cassandra Chan • ss
108 • Uncle Woody’s Thingamajig • Dave Zeltserman • ss
116 • Booked & Printed • Laurel Flores Fantauzzo • rc
_116 • The Collective, Alison Gaylin, William Morrow • br
_117 • Welcome to Your Fantasy, Natalia Petrzela Gimlet, podcast • rv
_118 • In God We Lust, Aricia Skidmore-Williams & Brooke Siffrin Wondery, podcast • rv
119 • Locked-In • William Burton McCormick • ss
132 • All Our Crimes • Michael Nethercott • ss
138 • Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle • Arlene Fisher • pz
140 • Sugar and Spice • Elliot F. Sweeney • ss
152 • Birdbrains • Roger Johns • ss
158 • Pobre Maria [Capitán Guillèn] • Tom Larsen • ss
172 • Do Not Open Till Christmas • Steve Hockensmith • ss
183 • Case Files: Addicted to Prison: Institutionalized • Lee Lofland • cl
188 • The Story That Won: Gift from the Grave • Bruce Harris • ff; winner of the Sep/Oct 2021 “Mysterious Photograph” contest.
189 • Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation • Peter Kanter • ms

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 September 4, 2021

Mystery Weekly Magazine Sep. 2021

Mystery Weekly Magazine [September 2021] ed. Kerry Carter (AM Marketing Strategies, Print $7.99, Kindle $3.99, 94pp, digest, cover by Robin Grenville Evans)
Note: contents taken from Kindle edition
The Delta Princess • John M. Floyd • ss
The Earl • Adam Leeder • ss
The Edge of the World • Albert Tucher • ss
Mulch Ado About Plenty • Sharon Love Cook • ss
A Real Detective • Joseph Kuttler • ss
A Murder of Crones • C.L. Cobb • ss
The Story Game • R.T. Lawton • ss
The Passenger • Rosemary McCraken • ss
Try Again • Vinnie Hansen • ss
Final Blow • Mark Levenson • ss
The Case of the Ripped Off Ruby • James Blakey • vi; a “You-Solve-It Mystery”

Mystery Weekly Magazine website

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

News February 12, 2021

Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 6

Pulp Modern [v2 #6, Winter 2020] ed. Alec Cizak (Uncle B. Publications & Larque Press, $6.99, 132pp, digest, cover by Ran Scott)
1 • From the Editor • Alec Cizak • ed
4 • Twenty Minutes in Riverdale • John M. Floyd • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
16 • With Hindsight • Stephen D. Rogers • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
28 • Just Another Necky • Dustin Walker • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
44 • Tall Tales • Lousie Taylor • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
60 • Armed and Dangerous • Anthony Perconti • ar
70 • A Lesson in Footwork • Matthew X. Gomez • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
86 • Art Model Noir • Patrick Whitehurst • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
98 • Hara-Kiri • Stephen J. Golds • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
110 • Rotten Meat • Nils Gilbertson • ss; illustrated by Ran Scott
126 • Contacts • lk
127 • Independent Fiction Alliance • ms

Pulp Modern website
Print $6.99 Kindle $2.99

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 December 7, 2019

Mystery Weekly Magazine Dec. 2019

Contents Page
Frederick Highland “Peat”
Vicki Weisfeld “The West Texas Rookie”
Robert Lopresti “Robot Carson”
Stephen Couch “Exposure”
R.T. Lawton “The Job Interview”
John M. Floyd “Rachel’s Place”
Dennis Palumbo “A Really Great Team”
Ray Morrison “Taking Debbie Rabbit”
Jack Bates “A Minute to Murder” (You-Solve-It)

Mystery Weekly Magazine Dec. 2019 (No. 52)
Publisher: Chuck Carter
Editor: Kerry Carter
Cover: Robin Grenville-Evans
7.5” x 10” 83 pages
Print $7.99, Kindle $3.99
Mystery Weekly Magazine website

Reviews April 25, 2019

John M. Floyd’s Rooster Creek

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

“Rooster Creek” by John M. Floyd is a nicely constructed yarn set somewhere in a rural past. Katie Harrison can’t resist a final look at her childhood farmhouse as she’s passing through. Bad idea. There’s a reason the new owners conduct their maniacal mischief in the middle of nowhere.
In her first encounter with the farmhouse matron, Katie asks:

“I thought you were Mrs. Carter. You’re not?”
“I am. But Mrs. Carter doesn’t care for questions,” the woman said stiffly, “unless she’s the one asking them.”

That dubious exchange should’ve sent Katie packing, but she unwisely digs deeper into Mr. and Mrs. Carter’s weird ways until she reaches the end of her rope.