"The Submarine of Walker Lake," by Brendan DuBois, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2018. Correction made,...

"Queen and Country," by Robert Mangeot, Mystery Weekly Magazine, March 2018. This is the third appearance by Robert Mangeot ...

"High Explosive," by Martin Limón,  in  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine,  March-April 2018. This is Martin  Limón'...

"Night Walker," by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2018. This is...

"Getting Somewhere," by Susan Isaacs, in It Occurs to  Me that I Am America,  edited by Jonathan Santlofer, Touchstone, 2018. ...

"There Are No Elephants in Peru," by Margaret Maron, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2018. Typo corr...

"Burg's Hobby Case," by Matthew Wilson, in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/ February 2018. This is a first story? ...

"The Crucial Game," by Janice Law, in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January-February 2018. In her fifth appearance at thi...

At SleuthSayers today I list the best short mystery stories of the year.  This is my ninth annual list, and the longest ever.

"Family Secrets," by Eric Beetner, in Switchblade,  #3, 2017. Thuglit   is dead.  Long live Switchblade.  That was m first tho...