{"id":11038,"date":"2024-06-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:01:23","slug":"alfred-hitchcocks-mystery-magazine-july-aug-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11038","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine \u2013 July\/Aug 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sister publication to the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, AHMM<\/em> also has a reputation for bringing fine short mystery and crime stories to its avid readers. This particular issue is full of notable ones and leads off with one of my own. Here are my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue includes the winner of the 17th<\/sup> Annual Black Orchid Novella Award, and this year\u2019s winner is Libby Cudmore\u2019s story, \u201cAlibi on Ice.\u201d Girl-of-all-work Valerie holds down the desk at a low-budget private detective\u2019s office. While running an errand, Valerie discovers a semi-conscious young woman, half-buried in snow. Valerie digs her out and calls the authorities, who whisk her away in an ambulance. Her boss Martin is out sick, and when Valerie tells him about her discovery, she also relays her conviction that the woman was purposefully left there. Abandoned. Thus her first investigation begins, and, between her own doggedness, some clever analysis, and encouragement from Martin\u2019s sick-bed, Valerie solves a challenging case. He\u2019s proud of her. You will be too. Nice one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cTime Lies\u201d by Ken Linn, a seven-year-old girl, found asleep in a phone booth, says she\u2019s a time-traveler from 1963. Who and why? It\u2019s up to a part-time investigator and high school math teacher to help the sheriff discover the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cDelivering the Egg MacGuffin\u201d by Joslyn Chase is a masterful exercise in misdirection, appropriate to the plot device Alfred Hitchcock himself made famous. I laughed out loud!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHome Game\u201d by Craig Faustus Buck is another story moving along smoothly in one direction that takes a sudden tum and ends up somewhere else altogether. Very clever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really loved John M. Floyd\u2019s romantic \u201cMoonshine and Roses\u201d about\u2014well, about a lot of things. Lost fortunes, lost loves, and how they may be found again, along with justice for some notorious bad guys in the wilds of Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmong the Long Shadows\u201d by Vicki Weisfeld (me!) is my fourth published story featuring young Sweetwater, Texas, reporter Brianna Yamato, fighting the good fight against crime in her community and the prejudices of the good ol\u2019 boys. The story takes place at Avenger Field outside Sweetwater, the place where, during World War II, women pilots were trained to take on aircraft support missions, freeing up the men for combat. It\u2019s now home to the Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) World War II Museum<\/a>. When I\u2019m writing a story, I like to include an element that gives me the excuse to do some research, which always stimulates new ideas for plot and character\u2014in this case, a murdered woman flying instructor and former stunt-pilot with the Aero-Belles. Read an excerpt here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sister publication to the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, AHMM also has a reputation for bringing fine short mystery and crime stories to its avid readers. This particular issue is full of notable ones and leads off with one of my … 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":"Stories that intrigue and satisfy. The current issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is full of them--including one of my own.","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":[1335,52,40,126,120],"tags":[2199],"class_list":["post-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-detective","category-crime","category-fiction","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-alfred-hitchcock-mystery-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2S2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038","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=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}