"House Rules," by Libby Fischer Hellmann, in A Woman's Touch, Sniplets Publishing.  2010. I've been reading the e-ant...

"Come Back, Come Back," by Donald E. Westlake, in Levine, 1984. Well, it has happened again.  For the second time in fifteen m...

"The Turkey Hill Affair," by Warren Bull, in Murder Manhattan Style, Untreed Reads, 2012.   Warren Bull was kind enough to sen...

"Mr. Crockett and the Bear," by Evan Lewis, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2012. The annual humor issue at AH...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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