{"id":7819,"date":"2019-03-13T07:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2019-03-13T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:35:36","slug":"short-crime-fiction-march-hare-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7819","title":{"rendered":"Short Crime Fiction – March Hare Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For a recent Chicago jaunt, my suitcase held short story magazines not getting read in the flurry of daily life. Since the temperature in my daughter\u2019s house was 63 degrees (the furnace repair man threw in the towel and refused to charge anything), my preferred keep-warm strategy was to wrap myself in a comforter with a cup of ginger tea and catch up with what\u2019s hot between the covers of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine <\/em>and Mystery Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellery\nQueen (Nov\/Dec 2018)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This issue is a perfect example of the diversity of story\ntypes the mystery\/crime genre embraces, everything from the echoes of Raymond\nChandler and his P.I.\u2019s in Bill Pronzini\u2019s \u201cSmoke Screen,\u201d to John H. Dirckx\u2019s\nnifty police procedural, \u201cWhere the Red Lines Meet,\u201d which every real estate\nagent should read. Ditto \u201cOpen House,\u201d by Reed Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O.A.Tynan\u2019s \u201cJenny\u2019s Necklace\u201d and Jehane Sharah\u2019s debut\nstory \u201cThe Screening\u201d show people haunted by deaths that took place long ago.\nThe future of crime prevention is secure too, as a couple of feisty kids help\nresolve some bad situations in Anna Scotti\u2019s entertaining \u201cKrikon the Ghoul\nHunter\u201d and Michael Sears\u2019s \u201cThe Honest End of Sybil Cooper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBug Appetit\u2019 by Barb Goffman, nominated for an Agatha Award,\noffers the author\u2019s trademark comeuppance for characters too clever for their\nown good! (If you\u2019ve read Barb\u2019s story, you appreciate the Asian insect buffet\nin the photo. And, if you haven\u2019t, you\u2019ve got a pretty good guess about the\nconnection right now.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mystery Tribune<\/a><\/em> (Fall 2018)<\/strong>\n\u2013 Kindle edition available online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love the mix of stories, essays and photo galleries that\nmake this magazine unique. Naturally, you know you\u2019ll get a good story from\nReed Farrel Coleman, who leads off this issue with \u201cThe Devil Always Knows.\u201d Joe\nDe Quattro\u2019s \u201cStill Life with Stalin\u201d was one of my favorites here, as were the\nphotos by Philip Kanwischer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellery Queen \u2013 March\/April 2019<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 <\/em>Kindle edition available online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked high and low for the Jan\/Feb issue, because I\nwanted to read Art Taylor\u2019s award-nominated story, \u201cEnglish 398: Fiction\nWorkshop,\u201d but that issue is buried somewhere. A pleasure to look forward to.\nThis current issue nevertheless contains some gems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLife and Death in T-Shirts\u201d by British author Liza Cody was\nfun, as was Susan Dunlap\u2019s tables-turning \u201cAunt Jenna Was a Spy.\u201d Paul D.\nMarks\u2019s \u201cFade Out on Bunker Hill\u201d and Robert S. Levinson\u2019s \u201cAll About Evie\u201d\nprove once again that Hollywood is the gift to mystery-writers that keeps on\ngiving. Even though I saw what was coming, I especially enjoyed the Peruvian\nconnection in John Lantigua\u2019s \u201cThe Revenge of the Puma.\u201d More great tales than\nI have room for here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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