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“Writing to the Edge” (by Sandi Ault)
Adventure is a mystery-crossover category that we haven’t discussed much yet on this blog, but we’re correcting that today. Sandi Ault’s series of novels featuring Jamaica Wild, a Bureau of Land Management agent, are chock full of adventure, as EQMM … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Characters, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Setting, Writers
Tagged adventure, animals, characters, inspiration, landscapes, novel, research, setting, shortstory, suspense, technique, wild, wildlife
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“Collecting Detective Fiction” (by Martin Edwards)
The Ellery Queen Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction, housed at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center, derives from the personal libraries of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (though primarily from the rare-book collection of the former). It … Continue reading
Posted in Anthologies, Books, Bookshops, Fiction, Guest, History
Tagged archive, authors, bookshop, collecting, collection, crime, detective, literature, rare_books, secondhand
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MYSTERY’S BUSIEST WEEK
Last week the Mystery Writers of America held its annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards banquet in Manhattan. Each year, writers come from all across the country to attend this formal dinner and the many parties, signings, and panel discussions that … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Business, Conventions, Writers
Tagged ahmm, awards, celebration, convention, dell magazines, edgars, eqmm, malice, Malice Domestic, the edgars
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“You Do WHAT With Your Short Stories?” (by Brendan DuBois)
EQMM has published many prolific short-story writers over the years, most notably Edward D. Hoch, who, in the course of his lifetime, sold more than 900 short stories. A tenth of that number would be a lot by just about … Continue reading
Posted in Ellery Queen, Fiction, Guest, Writers
Tagged elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, literature, shortstories, short_form, writers
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“On Location in Paradise” (by Hayford Peirce)
EQMM’s August issue, which mails to print subscribers a few weeks from now, contains a story set in French Polynesia—often said to be the most beautiful region in the world. Entitled “The Lethal Leeteg,” the story forms part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Fiction, Guest, Historicals, History, Police Procedurals, Setting, Writers
Tagged elleryqueen, eqmm, exotic, fiction, hardboiled, short story, suspense, tahiti, technique, thriller
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THE SCIENCE OF CRIME?
I spent the week before last doing jury service on a medical malpractice case. After decades immersed in fictional recreations of trials and courtrooms (what mystery editor hasn’t encountered barrelsful of successors to Perry Mason), it was enlightening to see … Continue reading
Posted in Courtroom Mysteries, Editing, Fiction
Tagged courtroom, fiction, forensics, judges, mystery, neuroscience, true crime
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“A Post to Burn on the IRS Fire to Warm Mystery Writers and Those Who Plan to Be” (by Jim Weikart)
With the U.S. tax filing deadline just days away, what could be more opportune than some advice to writers from former tax accountant turned full-time mystery writer Jim Weikart? In the early 1990s, it was my privilege to acquire and … Continue reading
“For Love of Gothic: When Home is the Most Mysterious Place of All” (by Laura Benedict)
Laura Benedict’s first fiction publication was in EQMM in May of 2001. Since then, she has become a successful novelist with two dark suspense novels (Isabella Moon and Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts) to her credit, and, most recently, a modern … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Fiction, Gothic, Guest, Historicals, Setting, Supernatural, Thrillers
Tagged classic_mystery, fiction, foreign language, genre, gothic, historicals, literature, mystery, novel
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“History Mystery” (by Amy Myers)
Ellery Queen thought the historical mystery the hardest of all to write. But he must have been drawn to the form, because he produced some of our genre’s most memorable stories involving history, such as “The President’s Half Disme,” and … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Fiction, Guest, Historicals, History, Setting, Writers
Tagged elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, historical fiction, historicals, history, literature, setting, short story, writing_technique
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“Truth or Point of View?” (by V.S. Kemanis)
I read a lot of unsolicited manuscripts and it sometimes seems to me as if everyone who ever earned a law degree at some point tries to write a mystery. The reasons are obvious: The law is meant to serve … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Courtroom Mysteries, Fiction, Guest, Setting
Tagged courtroom mystery, judges, jury, lawyers, literature, mystery, setting, themes, trial, writers
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