"Mall Cop Christmas Parade," by Joslyn Chase, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2024.
'Tis the merry season in California and Bradford Hines has a ticket to get back to his family in Maryland. But he's in a busy mall and before he can grab that plane he wants to grab a wallet out of a man's jacket.
That part's easy, but Brad is not as smooth a pickpocket as he thinks and a female security guard catches him in the act. But is she really a security guard?
This is a wonderfully convuluted story full of wrong turns, twists, and back flips. I enjoyed it a lot.
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