{"id":6047,"date":"2016-09-14T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:58:46","slug":"ellery-queen-mystery-magazine-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6047","title":{"rendered":"***Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine – August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/em> continues its 75th year celebration with another collection of classic and new stories. Collectively, they demonstrate many of the forms this genre can take. Whether you prefer cozies or police procedurals or amateur detectives or hardboiled, you will find them in EQMM<\/em>\u2019s pages. From the August issue, which celebrates past EQMM<\/em> editors, here are four of my favorites:<\/p>\n

\u2022 In \u201cThe Ten-Cent Murder,\u201d the first EQMM<\/em> editor, Frederic Dannay, teams up with his real-life friend Dashiell Hammett to solve a crime in 1950s Manhattan. Joseph Goodrich, whose play Panic won the 2008 Best Play award from the Mystery Writers of America, adopted a period tone for this amateur sleuth outing.
\n\u2022 I always enjoy Dave Zeltserman\u2019s stories and their sly humor. This month Zeltserman deviates from his Julius Katz private-eye series to present a classic noir tale. In \u201cThe Caretaker of Lorne Green,\u201d a man on the run from the mob poses as a home health aide and plans to rob his elderly, wheelchair-bound client, but which of them is more ruthless?
\n\u2022 Jonathan Moore\u2019s compelling police procedural, \u201cA Swimmer from the Dolphin Club,\u201d begins with the discovery of a woman\u2019s backpack, shoes, and neatly folded clothes underneath San Francisco\u2019s Bay Bridge. Suicide? Murder? Disappearance? Will the truth come too late? Moore\u2019s most recent book is 2016\u2019s The Poison Artist, which Stephen King called \u201can electrifying read . . . I haven\u2019t read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon.\u201d High praise from the master.
\n\u2022 In Ruth Graviros\u2019s psychological tale \u201cTed Bundy\u2019s Father,\u201d you are gradually overtaken by the same horror that grips the late middle-aged protagonist, Warner Chadason. Chadason has \u201cenjoyed an unthreatened life,\u201d as the author puts it early on, a life about to explode disastrously. His name reveals all. Graviros was a pseudonym used by EQMM<\/em>\u2019s second editor, Eleanor Sullivan.<\/p>\n

EQMM<\/em> regularly includes reviews of new books, as well as a monthly rundown of mystery\/crime blogs and websites worth following up on, as well as additional features, especially in this 75th year. You can subscribe on the website or through Amazon. Or obtain the August issue here:
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