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Take our August issue traveling on vacation—or back in time! This month we bring you multiple historical stories, including Ken Bruen's "Colt," a colorful Western written for our Black Mask department; Elizabeth Zelvin's "The Green Cross," wherein a Spanish ship's boy aboard Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria carries a potentially deadly secret; and Robert Barnard's "Lovely Requiem, Mr. Mozart," in which the music teacher to Princess Victoria is commissioned to write a Requiem Mass—but suspiciously, his subject is not dead yet or even ill. Moving up to the 20th century, our Passport to Crime story "The Clearing" by Jutta Motz deals with the high tension and drama of civilian life in WWII-era Germany.
Meanwhile, back in the present, there are fishy robberies, daring escapes, mysterious disappearances, seductive grifters, and obnoxious neighbors. A small-town Montana deputy tries to keep a robbery suspect out of lockup by clearing his name in David A. Knadler's "Dead Black Cadillac," while a trio of elderly convicts devise their own wily get-out-of-jail plan in Clark Howard's "Escape from Wolfkill" and a pair of city cops follow cryptic leads in the search for a missing Dutch artist in John H. Dirckx's "Race You to Coffin Castle!" Rounding out the issue are several tales set in California: a down-on-his-luck human resources flunky falls under the spell of a seductive grifter in William Bankier's "Seven Miles from Santa Barbara"; a woman is driven to extremes by a neighbor whose very existence seems to offend her in Mehnaz Turner's "The Alphabet Book" (in the Department of First Stories); and a young girl struggles to stay connected when her mother is sent away to a live-in hospital in Jean Femling's "Ants and Flowers."
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ANNOUNCING…..
a new addition to our EQMM website!
Audio readings and dramatizations by the world's leading suspense writers.
Visit our new Podcast page today .
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ELLERY QUEEN PRESENTS: CHARLAINE HARRIS' "Dead Giveaway"
Charlaine Harris' "Dead Giveaway' was published in our December 2001 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and we are delighted to offer it here for free . |
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ESCAPE FROM WOLFKILL
by Clark Howard
Art by Mark Evans
The opening of Wolfkill Correctional Center, the first federal geriatric prison, was explained to the public in a television interview with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on the popular nighttime broadcast of Harry Ring Live. It went like this:
Harry Ring: "Explain to our viewers, if you will, Mr. Director, exactly what the reason is for this new federal prison."
"Certainly. The reason is quite simple. In the field of corrections, it is known as the 'greying' of America's federal prison inmates."
"Greying meaning what?"
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LOVELY REQUIEM, MR. MOZART
by Robert Barnard
Art by Mark Evan Walker
The commission came into my life accompanied by Mr. Lewis Cazalet. The arrival of that gentleman was announced by Jeannie, my unusually bright and alert maid of all duties.
"There's a wee mannikin to see you. Says he has a proposal, something to your advantage."
I did not jump up with the alacrity I would once have shown. My position as piano teacher to the Princess Victoria brought me, as well as great pleasure, none of it musical, a great number of prestigious pupils. I stirred reluctantly in my chair, only to have Jeannie say: "Don't hurry. Let the body wait." |
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