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Here, you will find highlights of each month's print issue – including excerpts from our award-winning short stories, our book-review column The Jury Box, and The Mystery Crossword.The place to be for a good mystery!
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Venture into the shadowy recesses of our August issue, to see what's hidden there… A murder in 1950s Long Island leads a retired constable to someone's dark wartime secret in Lou Manfredo's whodunit "Central Islin, U.S.A."; two old schoolmates find their long forgotten high-school grudges are worse than ever when the stakes are raised—career, family, a man's life—in Art Taylor's "A Voice From the Past"; an office worker finds his inner killer instinct in Robert Lopresti's "The Shanty Drummer"; and in this month's Passport to Crime, Bernhard Jaumann's "Snow on Bloedkoppie," a German man camps in the Namib desert, haunted by memories of his wife's death and by a mysterious stranger.
This issue also features two great historicals: Christine Poulson's "A Cabinet of Curiosities," a nailbiter in which Protestant priest-hunters search a house for evidence of forbidden Catholic worship in 17th-century England, and Toni L. P. Kelner's sequel to her swashbuckling courtroom drama, "The Pirate's Debt." Another ongoing series continues with Jon Breen's "Fake Résumé," in which Detectives Berwanger and Foley recount how lying about your credentials can get you arrested for murder. Elizabeth Zelvin brings her series character Bruce Kohler, recovering alcoholic, amateur sleuth, and star of two novels, to EQMM for the first time in "Death Will Tie Your Kangaroo Down." Last but not least, don't miss "The Lifeguard Method," Kieran Shea's entry for our Black Mask department, a dark tale about an inept amateur crook in Atlantic City and the guy his parents hire to bail him out.
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Skull and Cross-Examinations
by Toni L. P. Kelner
Dearest Mother,
I take pen in hand to inform you of theunexpected events that took place during my voyage to Jamaica to beginthe career as a lawyer Father so wished me to have. But before I beginin earnest, I must warn you to have your vial of smelling salts nearby,should you be overcome by horror at my tale, particularly the…
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The Secret Lives of Cats
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Homer
Ziff didn't believe in adages, but after his long and eventful spring,
he couldn't help but think that whoever put the words "curiosity,"
"cat," and "kill" in the same sentence had to be onto something.
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Sample a story from KGB Bar's Women of Mystery event, sponsored by EQMM!
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Silverfish
by S. J. Rozan
"What kind of a fish is that, anyway?"
"What?"
"A silverfish. Is it, like, all silvery?"
Silverfish blew out a breath and tried to be patient. You had to be patient with Lady Mary. "Not a fish. It's a bug."
Lady Mary giggled. "You call yourself after a bug?" She checked her lipgloss once more and snapped her mirror away. "Must be a pretty bug."
"It's ugly. Lots of legs and it slithers."
"Then why—"
" 'Cause of my hair..."
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Central Islin, U.S.A.
by Lou Manfredo
Art by Laurie Harden
The warm June sunlight twinkled and danced as it moved across the long, shiny, sky-blue hood of the brand new 1959 Edsel sedan. Gus Oliver swung the steering wheel deftly and stabbed lightly at the gas pedal. The huge E-400 V-8 responded immediately with a purring surge of smooth power. Gus settled in for a short drive along Motor Parkway to the cozy Long Island town of Central Islin.
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A Cabinet of Curiosities
by Christine Poulson
Art by Allen Davis
A hare starts up in front of them and crouches there, quivering in the grass. Rufus is afraid that it will be trampled under the hooves of his horse. It is too young and frightened to understand that it can escape by dashing off to one side. At the last moment it shoots off and its white scut vanishes into the undergrowth.
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