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News February 12, 2022

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2022

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v159 #1/1, #964/965 January/February 2022] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover from Shutterstock.com)
2 • Bad News [Holmes of the Range] • Steve Hockensmith • ss; illustration by Evan Walker
30 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_30 • The Return of the Pharaoh, Nicholas Meyer, Minotaur Books, $25.99 • br
_30 • Miss Moriarty, I Presume?, Sherry Thomas, Berkley, $16.00 • br
_30 • The Abduction of Pretty Penny, Leonard Goldberg, Minotaur Books, $26.99 • br
_57 • Castle Shade, Laurie R. King, Bantam, $28.00 • br
_57 • Silent Parade, Keigo Higashino (translated by Giles Murray), Minotaur Books, $27.99 • br
_64 • London Bridge is Fulling Down, Christopher Fowler, Random House, $28.99 • br
_64 • A Vicious Peace, A.E. Holliday, $12.99 • br
_79 • Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, Albatros Funny Books, $29.99 • br
31 • Paleolithic * K.L. Abrahamson • ss
39 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
40 • Stranger Than Fiction: Arthur Conan Doyle and Murder in England’s “Smiling and Beautiful Countryside” • Dean Jobb • tc
41 • The Death-Camp Angel • Doug Allyn • ss
58 • Stone Still • B.A. Paul • ss
65 • The Scarlet Box [Constable Colin Pringle] • Alex Grecian • ss
73 • Into Thin Air • Karen Jobst • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
80 • Double Fly Rocket 87 • Eli Cranor • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
89 • Best Served Cold • Alice Hatcher • ss
106 • The Crime • Olavo Bilac • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers
112 • Their Last Bow [Puzzle Club] • Josh Pachter • ss
117 • The Sound of Laughing • Jack Fredrickson • ss
127 • True Companion [Martin Wade] • Libby Cudmore • ss
138 • The Policeman and the Dead • Raghu Roy • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
155 • On the Side of the Angels • Merrilee Robson • ss
161 • The Wind • Bill Pronzini • ss
164 • The Musgrave Ritual • Terence Faherty • ss; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
174 • Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation • Peter Kanter • ms
175 • The Favor • Michael Z. Lewin • ss
178 • It’s All in the Telling • Ariel Dodson • ss

Ellery Queen’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 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 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 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