{"id":4544,"date":"2015-06-30T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:21:14","slug":"ellery-queen-february-to-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"***Ellery Queen &#8211; February to May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4545\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4545\" class=\" wp-image-4545\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sherlock_Holmes_statue_at_Meiringen1_converted.jpg?resize=163%2C245\" alt=\"Sherlock Holmes, detective\" width=\"163\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sherlock_Holmes_statue_at_Meiringen1_converted.jpg?w=256&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sherlock_Holmes_statue_at_Meiringen1_converted.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The short stories in the <em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em> sometimes lead me to authors whose books I also enjoy. Here are several of the stories I especially liked from the February, March\/April, and May 2015 issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terence Faherty\u2019s \u201cThe Man with the Twisted Lip\u201d\u2014a Sherlock Holmes parody\u2014very entertaining. Faherty is an award-winning mystery writer with two long-running series. His most recent stand-alone novel, <em>The Quiet Woman<\/em>, set in Ireland, was published last year. [February issue]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLeap of Faith\u201d by Brendan DuBois about the lengths a boy will go to in order to protect his sister. DuBois\u2019s most recent book is <em>Fatal Harbor<\/em> (2014) features his \u201cfascinating character\u201d (<em>Boston Globe<\/em>), former Defense Department analyst Lewis Cole.[February issue]<\/li>\n<li>Loren D. Estleman\u2019s story, \u201cThe Black Spot,\u201d has hitman Peter Macklin doing clean-up for a Detroit-area mafia chieftain. Estleman\u2019s 2014 book <em>Don\u2019t Look for Me<\/em> is book 23 in a series featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker, \u201cwho views a dishonest world with a cynical eye\u2014and is still disappointed\u201d (<em>Booklist<\/em>).[March\/April]<\/li>\n<li>In \u201cThe Lovers of Traber,\u201d private eye Willie Cuesta travels from the Miami he inhabits in Pulitzer-winning journalist John Lantigua\u2019s crime novels to a rural Florida farming area to sort out a romantic interest gone too far afield. His most recent Latin-flavored book is <em>On Hallowed Ground<\/em>. [March\/April]<\/li>\n<li>Art Taylor\u2019s first-person story \u201cCommission\u201d is told with a good sense of humor and will appear this fall in his book of short stories, <em>On the Road with Del and Louise<\/em>. [May]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Loneliness to the Thought,\u201d by Michael Caleb Tasker, is set in New Orleans, with a teenage narrator whose life has that amber-enclosed feel of adolescence, while a series of murders takes place in the city. Nice evocation of place. Watch for his short stories. 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Here are several of the stories I especially liked from the February, March\/April, and May 2015 issues: Terence Faherty\u2019s \u201cThe Man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4544\">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":"Ellery Queen - February to May 2015 - short stories with criminal intent","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":[53,54,3,126,120],"tags":[381,275,421],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal","category-detective","category-mystery","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-ellery-queens-mystery-magazine","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1bi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}