{"id":10063,"date":"2022-10-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:37:04","slug":"eqmm-ahmm-sept-oct-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10063","title":{"rendered":"EQMM\/AHMM \u2013 Sept-Oct 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reading-Carlos-Martinez.jpg?resize=352%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reading\" class=\"wp-image-6965\" width=\"352\" height=\"466\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The September\/October issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com\/\"><em>Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine<\/em> <\/a>and <em>E<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com\/\"><em>llery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em> <\/a>are, as always, filled with super collections of crime fiction of across the wide playing field of crime fiction. It\u2019s always hard to pick stories to highlight\u2014I could almost tape up the tables of contents and throw darts\u2014but here are a few, limiting myself to three each. First from <em>AHMM:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cMy Two-Legs\u201d by Melissa Yi \u2013 this charming story is about a clever dog who helps solve the crime when his \u201ctwo-legs\u201d (a young man named Sunil) goes missing. I found the way Yi translates doggie behavior into the narrative of the story simply brilliant.<\/li><li>\u201cWhen the Dams Break\u201d by James A. Hearn, set in hill country, Texas, shows that even the cleverest Lone Star politician will eventually have to confront his past.<\/li><li>\u201cPeril in Pasadena\u201d by Edith Maxwell is a fem-fest, with two women PIs, a female scientist victim, and a demonstration of the perils of treating a cleaning woman like she\u2019s invisible. All in the context of the leadup to the Rose Parade.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellery Queen<\/em> also offers up a nice diversity, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe Wraith of Bunker Hill\u201d by Paul D. Marks\u2014probably his last published story before his untimely death, it combines Hollywood lore with an intriguing con game involving present-day murders and the Black Dahlia legend.<\/li><li>\u201cThe Light on the Lagoon: by Canadian author Elizabeth Elwood\u2014it\u2019s never too soon to start teaching the younger generation about the Hitchcock canon.<\/li><li>\u201cThe Kindness of Strangers\u201d by Twist Phelan\u2014the author perfectly captures the self-absorption and insecurities of adolescent girls that would allow this calamity to unfold\u2014and lives up to her own name here.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September\/October issues of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine are, as always, filled with super collections of crime fiction of across the wide playing field of crime fiction. It\u2019s always hard to pick stories to highlight\u2014I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tempting your crime fiction taste buds with a small bite of some of the current smorgasbord from AHMM and EQMM.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,54,126,120],"tags":[1974,1840],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-detective","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-ahmm","tag-eqmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2Cj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10064,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions\/10064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}