{"id":10189,"date":"2023-01-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2023-01-15T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T23:28:48","slug":"thanks-ellery-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=10189","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Ellery Queen!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As always, the Jan-Feb issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em> is packed with good reading. Here are some of the standout stories for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Killing of Henry Davenport\u201d by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan \u2013 Admittedly, this story, set in London in 1924, was bound to be a hit with me, as it involves both Sherlock Holmes and my favorite detective, Dee Goong An (hearkening back to a real-life personage from the Tang Dynasty). Holmes, Watson, Dee, and the narrator, Lao She (another real-life character), set out to solve an English murder in which a Chinese man stands accused. The story is a foretaste of a new project Rozan is working on that fans (me!) eagerly await.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Soiled Dove of Shallow Hollow\u201d by Sean McCluskey \u2013 It\u2019s always fun to see a nicely crafted story in the mag\u2019s Department of First Stories. A hint of more good stuff to come. And I\u2019m easily seduced by a con job where the question of who\u2019s being conned is up for grabs. Nice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Bowser Boys Are Back in Town\u201d by Hal Charles \u2013 You can expect some humor in a story that begins, \u201cLike a loud rooster, the bomb in Beverly Dezarn Memorial Park awoke the entire town of Woodhole . . .\u201d The bad-luck Bowser duo is on what turns out to be an all-too-brief (for them) return home from jail, but it looks like they\u2019re headed back to the slammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan the Cat Catch the Rat\u201d by Steve Hockensmith \u2013 This is another in his entertaining series about Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer, tyro detectives in an Old West where the frequent shenanigans offers steady employment. The surprise in this episode is that Old Red has finally agreed to let Big Red teach him to read. However, identifying the counterfeit coins someone\u2019s producing requires nothing more than a healthy set of teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read these and more good stories in EQMM. Subscribe here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, the Jan-Feb issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is packed with good reading. Here are some of the standout stories for me: \u201cThe Killing of Henry Davenport\u201d by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan \u2013 Admittedly, this … Continue reading →<\/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":"EQMM brings together such diverse crime-writing talent! The Jan\/Feb 2023 issue is no exception.","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":[1335,52,54,126,120],"tags":[2047,2046,2045,275,1417,1820],"class_list":["post-10189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-detective","category-crime","category-detective","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-dee-goong-an","tag-hal-charles","tag-sean-mcclusey","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-sj-rozan","tag-steve-hockensmith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2El","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189","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=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10191,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}