{"id":5690,"date":"2016-05-24T07:48:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2016-05-24T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:52:25","slug":"ellery-queen-mystery-magazine-may-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5690","title":{"rendered":"***Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine &#8211; May &#038; June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5691\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5691\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/scarecrow-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"scarecrow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/scarecrow.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/scarecrow.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/scarecrow.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: Brady Wahl, creative commons license<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first mystery when dealing with \u201cThe World\u2019s Leading Mystery Magazine\u201d is, what\u2019s the name of this publication stuffed with short stories, anyway? The cover says <em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em>, but the website calls it <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=EQMM&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\">Ellery Queen\u2019s Mystery Magazine<\/a><\/em>. Best just to do what the cognoscenti do and call it <em>EQMM<\/em> and be done. Always a treasure-trove for mystery lovers, it\u2019s in its 75th year, and all year long is publishing celebratory content.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>The International Issue<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The May issue is devoted to stories from international authors. Some of those I enjoyed most were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Scarecrow\u2019s Revenge\u201d by Paul Halter (France) \u2013 this story is copyright 2016, but reads as if it is a Golden Age classic\u2014in style, plot, and theme. Deadly fun.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Miracle on Christmas Eve\u201d by Szu-Yen Lin (Taiwan) \u2013 a sweet story about a widowed father\u2019s determination to preserve the myth of Santa Claus for his young son.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn Elderly Lady Has Accommodation Problems\u201d by Helene Tursten (Sweden) \u2013 you shouldn\u2019t underestimate the determination of an old lady to cling to her apartment, in Scandinavia, as elsewhere!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other stories are from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges), Angola, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Belgium and prove, in case proof were needed, that mystery is a universal language.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Mystery Writers of America Issue<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the June issue, the editors pay their respects to the Mystery Writers of America and feature new stories from authors who have won at least one of MWA\u2019s several awards. Again, many riches to choose among, with special appreciation from me of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPuncher\u2019s Chance\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.com\/a\/doug-allyn\/\">Doug Allyn<\/a>, who is not only an MWA winner but a frequent and highly popular author in <em>EQMM<\/em>. This was one of the best of his I\u2019ve read. He captured the boxing world and the psychology of fighters superbly.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Unit\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trishjmacgregor.com\/7.html\">T.J. MacGregor<\/a>, whose 2002 novel <em>Out of Sight <\/em>won an Edgar Allen Poe award. I love how her website confesses upfront that her publisher advised her to use initials, not her name (Trish) because, and she quotes, \u201cmysteries by men or androgynous people [think JK Rowling] were outselling mysteries by women\u201d!<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Night Watchman\u2019s Wife\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darktexas.com\/\">William Dylan Powell<\/a>. I\u2019ve read a previous story about boat-dwelling, Lone Star-swilling, unlicensed Texas private investigator Billie and his pet monkey Ringo. Ringo is a charmer. Billie, too. Funny &amp; fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>EQMM<\/em> with the link below or find single-issues in the magazine section of your local B&amp;N.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=victoweisf-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B000066T06&amp;asins=B000066T06&amp;linkId=WFVUQQILAX4J2J7H&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first mystery when dealing with \u201cThe World\u2019s Leading Mystery Magazine\u201d is, what\u2019s the name of this publication stuffed with short stories, anyway? The cover says Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, but the website calls it Ellery Queen\u2019s Mystery Magazine. Best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5690\">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":"Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - May & June 2016 -- short mystery\/crime stories from international and award-winning authors!","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":[3,126,120],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-reading-2","category-short-story","tag-ellery-queen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1tM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","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=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}