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Welcome to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine! Each month our magazine is packed with original mystery short stories varying from short-shorts to novellas. You will find every type of mystery fiction from classic whodunits to hardboiled tales to suspense, and everything in between! Each issue is packed with the best mystery has to offer. Plus you'll enjoy author interviews, writing contests, and our "Mystery Classic" — an outstanding tale from the genre's past. For a taste of what's inside AHMM, one of the world's leading mystery magazines, check out the story excerpts, book reviews, and mystery puzzle right here on this site, or listen to a podcast of a few of our stories. Don't miss out — Subscribe today!
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Our cover story this month, "As the Screw Turns" by Shelley Costa (excerpted here), offers one explanation of Henry James's chilling and famously ambiguous novella, The Turn of the Screw. And in a similar vein, an eerie atmosphere also pervades two other stories in this issue: in "Jango Says" by Mark Patrick Lynch, a poet is being stalked in the places he feels are most familiar in his town; while in Brendan DuBois's "Thief in the House" (excerpted here), an unwelcome visitor has a surprise coming when he enters a home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, a nasty divorce and a forged painting set murder in motion in Christopher Welch's story "The Art of Deceit." Andrei Bhuyan looks at the murder of an Australian hedge fund manager in "High Finance." The Four Horsemen make a welcome return in Loren D. Estleman's "Get Sinatra"; this time out, the squad of WWII-era Detroit cops is assigned to protect the latest singing sensation, a young man named Frankie Sinatra. And Kenneth Wishnia chronicles murder in 16th century Europe, as two rabbis and a wise woman, all exiled from Prague, encounter a dead body on their travels; this story features characters from his newest novel, The Fifth Servant, published by Morrow Books. |
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ANNUAL WRITING PRIZE AHMM is teaming up with The Wolfe Pack, the official Nero Wolfe appreciation society, to sponsor a new annual writing prize, The Black Orchid Novella Award, to honor an unpublished work of fiction written in the tradition of the Nero Wolfe mystery stories by Rex Stout. Rex Stout was a master of the novella form and published dozens of novellas featuring the corpulent and irascible detective Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin. Today, the novella is uncommon, though AHMM has a long tradition of publishing novellas. For more information on the contest, including submission guidelines, go to www.NeroWolfe.org.
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Thief In The House Excerpt by Brendan DuBois Art by Hank Blaustein
It was a cold fall day on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire as Roger Tilman motored his sixteen-foot aluminum skiff to the dock before him, about twenty feet away in the frigid waters. The maple and oak trees along the water's edge were bright orange and red, but Roger ignored the colorful foliage: He was looking at the big white house in front of him, a nice big target, for Roger was a thief, and proud of it... |
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As The Screw Turns Excerpt by Shelley Costa Art by Robyn Hyzy
He found me in the office at Ectopolis Enquiries, where I was browsing through the cold case files. These were always a particular sore point for me because until suspicious Terra deaths are solved, those people are caught in the permabrane—that boundary between Terra Simplex, what residents there call Life, and our own Eutopia. Someone caught in the permabrane is at least unaware. Unlike murderers, who are trapped, conscious, in the permabrane forever. One eye glimpses the Eutopia they can never experience, the other faces the Terra Simplex they disrespected ...
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A Mysterious Photograph contest — Submit your 250-word story inspired by an imagination-stirring photograph. The winning story is published in a future issue.
An intriguing, and challenging, mystery-themed puzzle.
Booked and Printed — Book reviews of interest to mystery readers.
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