{"id":3788,"date":"2014-12-12T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:01:31","slug":"three-ellery-queens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3788","title":{"rendered":"***Three Ellery Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3572\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3572\" class=\" wp-image-3572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Detroit-AZ-fall-05-043.jpg?resize=296%2C395\" alt=\"Green Door, Arizona\" width=\"296\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Detroit-AZ-fall-05-043.jpg?w=1728&amp;ssl=1 1728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Detroit-AZ-fall-05-043.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Detroit-AZ-fall-05-043.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: Vicki Weisfeld)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The three latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000N8V3FA\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000N8V3FA&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=victoweisf-20&amp;linkId=NU5LRQL52FILLYZM\"><em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines<\/em><\/a> contain 31 short stories\u2014historical, locked room, humorous, and many other splinter categories from U.S. and international authors. Reaching into this Santa\u2019s bag of offerings, I\u2019ll pull out some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Lure of the Green Door\u201d by Norizuki Rintar\u014d is a locked room mystery featuring a Japanese sleuth named, yes, Norizuki Rintar\u014d and his humorously prickly girlfriend Sawada Honami. Says <em>EQMM<\/em>, he\u2019s part of the \u201cnew traditionalist\u201d movement in Japanese mystery writing, emphasizing puzzles, and he\u2019s put together a good one here! (11\/14)<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne Arruda\u2019s \u201cDeep Shaft\u201d effectively conjures Prohibition-era Kansas and the trouble city slicker outsiders can get themselves into. She\u2019s the author of the mystery series featuring adventuresome, world-traveling photojournalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Suzanne-Arruda\/e\/B001IOBL6O\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=victoweisf-20&amp;linkId=SCEGSJ4PNJMDFJBY\" target=\"_blank\">Jade Del Cameron Mysteries <\/a>set in WWI and the 1920s. (11\/14)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGetaway Girl,\u201d by Zo\u00eb Z. Dean, her first published story and one with a great last line: \u201cthere was something terrifying about a girl that good at living.\u201d (11\/14)<\/li>\n<li>Joyce Carol Oates\u2019s equivocal \u201cEquatorial\u201d is an accomplished cat-and-mouse game, but who is which? (12\/14)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cConcrete Town\u201d by Michael Wiley is set mostly in a bar, perhaps inspired by work on his irresistibly titled detective novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312593007\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312593007&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=victoweisf-20&amp;linkId=G5XF24UDSMFEDALA\"><em>The Bad Kitty Lounge<\/em><\/a>. (12\/14)<\/li>\n<li>Another first story, \u201cChung Ling Soo\u2019s Greatest Trick,\u201d by Russell W. Johnson, was most entertaining, but then, I like mysteries featuring magicians! (1\/15)<\/li>\n<li>Accomplished novelist Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote the tension-filled \u201cChristmas Eve at the Exit\u201d about a woman\u2019s attempted escape from an abusive husband. (1\/15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Always something to admire in these<em> EQMM<\/em> collections! Available in many bookstores and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themysteryplace.com\/eqmm\/digital\/\">digitally<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three latest Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines contain 31 short stories\u2014historical, locked room, humorous, and many other splinter categories from U.S. and international authors. Reaching into this Santa\u2019s bag of offerings, I\u2019ll pull out some of my favorites: \u201cThe Lure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=3788\">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_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":"***Three Ellery Queens - new short tales","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,54,40,3,126,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-detective","category-fiction","category-mystery","category-reading-2","category-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-Z6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}