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Welcome to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine! Each issue of our print publication is packed with new mystery short stories — at least seven, varying in length from short-shorts to novellas — and one "Mystery Classic" — an outstanding tale from the genre's past. Every type of mystery fiction is represented, from the classic whodunit to the hardboiled tale to suspense — and everything in between! For a taste of what’s inside the print issue, see our story excerpts, author interviews, profiles of mystery bookstores, and a mystery puzzle. Subscribe today!
Breaking News! 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Nero Wolfe appreciation society, to sponsor a new annual writing prize, The Black Orchid Novella Award, to honor an unpublished work of fiction written in the tradition of the Nero Wolfe mystery stories by Rex Stout.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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As always, we strive to bring a wide variety of settings and styles to our lineup of stories each month, and in are June issue we traverse the globe. Mithran Somasundrum returns with another romp through Bangkok with Vijay, a translator who takes on private detection work when business is slow, in “Under Sapparn Put.” In “Death in the Keramikos Cemetery,” Marianne Wilski Strong takes us to Ancient Greece, where a devastating plague is sapping Athens, and yet despite the bad times, its citizens can still muster the energy for murder. A widow tries to make sense of the murder of a kid in the bleak streets of Vladivostok in post-Soviet Russia in Michael Wiecek’s story “Soldiers.” And a Mystery Classic by Leo Bruce, “I, Said the Sparrow,” takes us to the British countryside.
Returning to this side of the globe, “The Latin Beat” is Loren D. Estleman’s twentieth story for AHMM and it features the Four Horsemen, four WWII-era Detroit policemen who constitute the Racket Squad. “Family Values” is a new investigation by Bubba Simms, Mitch Alderman’s endearing Central Florida P.I. Molly MacRae teams up with Stephen Johnston to write “Cookies,” a culinary mystery with a pungent aftertaste. Will Ludwigsen’s “In Search Of” shows just how much variety there is to the short story form—even for the fairly plot-driven crime genre. New to us this month, Jodi Tamara Harrison brings us a story of the chain of events when a Native American boy reports seeing an infant in the river to his insightful grandmother in “Black Water, Bad Heart.”
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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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