Monthly Archives: February 2023

Hardboiled Poetry (by Michael Wiley)

A Shamus Award winner and college professor Michael Wiley is one of the most innovative crime writers we’ve come across. He always seems to be trying something new, whether it be with his P.I. Sam Kelson, a character who cannot … Continue reading

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Why Agatha Christie Remains the Queen of Mystery (by Autumn Doerr)

This week we have a post from a reader of this blog who was inspired to submit an essay to us by some earlier posts on this site. She’s a mystery writer as well as a reader. We’re pleased to … Continue reading

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The Mystery of Writing Mysteries (by Terena Elizabeth Bell)

Terena Elizabeth Bell’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Playboy, The Yale Review, Juked, and other literary magazines, and she’s won grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is making a departure from … Continue reading

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What the Mystery Genre Gets Right by W.W. Mauck

W.W. Mauck made his fiction debut in the Department of First Stories of EQMM’s November/December 2022 issue with the story “A Ghost for Marcy’s Garden.” In case you missed the story when the issue came out, the author recorded it … Continue reading

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