Monthly Archives: May 2024

It’s All About the Emotions (by Yoshinori Todo)

This week we have a post from an author who will make his fiction debut in the Department of First Stories of our July/August 2024 issue (on sale June 11) with the moving story “Letters From Tokyo.”  Yoshinori Todo is a … Continue reading

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The Whole, The Parts, and the Gaps In-Between (by Art Taylor)

Art Taylor has won the Edgar and Anthony and multiple Agatha, Macavity, and Derringer awards for his short fiction. He is one of a very rare breed of writer these days: one who devotes most of his time to the … Continue reading

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Noir at the Bar and the ’Voir (by Josh Pachter)

In recent years writer, editor, and translator Josh Pachter, whose career in mystery fiction began with a story in EQMM when he was still in high school, added another role in which he contributes to our field: organizer of mystery events—something he talks … Continue reading

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See How We Celebrated the Edgars, the Robert L. Fish Award, and the EQMM Readers Awards This Year: Our 2024 Photo Gallery (by Janet Hutchings)

It’s time for our annual photo blog about the Dell Mystery Magazines’ cocktail party that immediately precedes each year’s Edgar Allan Poe Awards banquet. I’ll let the photos do most of the talking, with just a few clarifying remarks. Spring … Continue reading

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A Mystery Website—Easy to Launch, But So Hard to Keep Fresh (by Jiro Kimura)

Jiro Kimura is involved in almost everything related to mysteries as an English-into-Japanese translator, fiction writer, columnist/essayist, book reviewer, current managing editor of The Maltese Falcon Flyer (the official newsletter of The Maltese Falcon Society, Japan), and the webmaster of … Continue reading

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