{"id":9093,"date":"2021-07-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2021-07-04T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T15:52:26","slug":"fireworks-from-ellery-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9093","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks from Ellery Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The July-August 2021 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine<\/a>,<\/em> \u201cThe World\u2019s Leading Mystery Magazine\u201d is once again filled with dazzling stories, 19 of them. Here are just a few of the standouts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elvie Simons\u2019s \u201cNot So Fast, Dr. Quick,\u201d shows how a tidbit of arcane knowledge can grow into a full-fledged plot. Engaging characters too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Helms\u2019s \u201cSweeps Week\u201d provides strong characterizations, then rewards with some old-fashioned retribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon L. Breen\u2019s \u201cThe Body in the Bee Library,\u201d wryly humorous, provides satisfying comeuppance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Zeltserman always makes me smile, even before I start reading. His characters Julius Katz and his cyber-assistant Archie delight once again in \u201cJulius Katz and the Two Cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Allan\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong with Harley Quinn?\u201d takes you to San Diego Comic-Con, and you can witness the attendees\u2019 shenanigans without donning your Spiderman costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce Carol Oates\u2019s \u201cBone Marrow Donor\u201d is only three pages long, but to me was the darkest story of the lot. I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about the nonfiction piece she has written about her own husband\u2019s last day in our local hospital and imagining how that colored this story, even subconsciously. As I remember what she wrote, she received an urgent call to come to the hospital, and, of course, she drove there pell-mell, pulled to the curb on one of the nearby residential streets, and rushed inside. The staff had been right. The end was very near. When she\u2019d signed all the paperwork, she walked to her car in a daze and found this awkwardly spelled note on her windshield: \u201cLearn to park, bich.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The July-August 2021 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, \u201cThe World\u2019s Leading Mystery Magazine\u201d is once again filled with dazzling stories, 19 of them. Here are just a few of the standouts: Elvie Simons\u2019s \u201cNot So Fast, Dr. Quick,\u201d shows … Continue reading →<\/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":"Fireworks from Ellery Queen another fine collection full of unexpected rewards.","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":[1335,61,52,126,120,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-detective","category-character","category-crime","category-reading-2","category-short-story","category-storytelling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","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=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9095,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}