Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Devil to Pay, by David Edgerley Gates

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"The Devil to Pay," by David Edgerley Gates, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April 2012. If you like Elmore Leonar...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Wrecked, by Therese Greenwood

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"Wrecked" by Therese Greenwood, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2012.   Some stories are about plot.  Some a...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Rolling Rivera, by Steven Torres

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"Rolling Rivera," by Steven Torres, in The Precinct Puerto Rico Files.   2012. I am not the first to notice that detective fi...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Wood-Smoke Boys by Doug Allyn

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"Wood-Smoke Boys," by Doug Allyn, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2012. When I was ten years old, my favor...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Grace, Period by Graham Powell

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"Grace, Period," by Graham Powell, in Bad Men. Graham Powell was kind enough to send me a copy of this e-collection of short st...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Out There, by Zoe Beck

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"Out There," by Zoe Beck, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2012. Among the other changes that e-mail has wroug...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Shikari, by James Lincoln Warren

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"Shikari," by James Lincoln Warren, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2012. My friend James goes from strength ...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Dog Days of Summer, by John Kenyon

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"Dog Days of Summer," by John Kenyon, in All Due Respect, January 2012. Great photo there...  I wonder why I have never seen it...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Little Big News: Best of the year

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I just listed what I consider to be the best 15 stories of the year, over at SleuthSayers.
Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Hedgehog, by Ferdinand von Schirach

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"The Hedgehog" by Ferdinand von Schirach, in Crime: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf. Something very different this week.  Von Schirach...