"Red Flag," by Gregory Fallis, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2022.  This is the second appearance in th...

  "The Case of the Colonel's Suicide," by Rafe McGregor, in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 29, 2022. A pastiche is a...

"Bad News," by Steve Hockensmith , in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January.February 2022. This is the fifth appearance here by ...

  "Everybody's Business," by Ken Teutsch, in Mystery Magazine, February 2022. When Karl gets out of prison he returns to his ...

  Over at SleuthSayers I have just posted my list of the best short mystery stories of 2021.  Congratulations to all the writers, and thank...

"Locked-In," by William Burton McCormick, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2022.  I find myself in an...

"The Ballad of 223," by Preston Lang, in Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, edited by S.A. Cosby, Rock and a Hard Pla...

 "One Tossed Match," by Joseph S. Walker, in Cemetery Plots of Northern California, Capitol Crimes, 2021. This is the fourth appea...

  "Book Drop," by Susan A. Bresniker, in The Fish That Got Away, edited by Linda M. Rodriquez, Wildside Press, 2021. I admit to b...

"Catch and Release," by Mark Thielman, in The Fish That Got Away, edited by Linda M. Rodriquez, Wildside Press, 2021. This is the ...