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“The Greatest Year in the History of Crime Fiction” (by Kevin Mims)

Posted on March 10, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Short-story writer and popular-fiction fan Kevin Mims is back this week talking about seminal years in crime fiction and making a case for the greatest one of all. —Janet Hutchings What was the greatest year in the history of crime … Continue reading →

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“Not From Around Here” (by Leslie Elman)

Posted on March 3, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

A current nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story for her January/February 2020 EQMM story “The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay,” Leslie Elman had short stories published in just two other venues—Mystery Weekly and Vautrin Magazine—prior … Continue reading →

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“It Matters Who Killed Roger Ackroyd” (by Ray Bazowski)

Posted on February 24, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Last week, EQMM’s March/April issue went on sale. In it is the Department of First Stories debut of Ray Bazowski. The professor of politics at Toronto’s York University had previously submitted this first work of fiction, “Mother,” under a different … Continue reading →

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“Am I and My Detective the Same Person?” (by John Lantigua)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

John Lantigua’s fifth and latest Willie Cuesta novel, Remember My Face, was published in 2020 to rave reviews. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, John has been writing Willie Cuesta stories for EQMM for many years. In this post he gives … Continue reading →

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“Plot” (by Robert Cummins)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Colorado-based author Robert Cummins has had a successful academic career, and has now turned his pen (which authored four books from MIT and Oxford Press as well as sixty articles) to fiction writing. His two novels—Hariq, a Cold War spy … Continue reading →

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“Showdown: Levin vs. Goldman” (by Kevin Mims)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

This week we have another essay by short-story writer and popular-fiction fan Kevin Mims. In it he deals with two giants of our genre (and several other genres!) and sets up an interesting comparison.—Janet Hutchings Back in the early 1990s, … Continue reading →

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“The One-Month Retirement” (by Nick Mamatas)

Posted on January 27, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including Move Under Ground, I Am Providence, and The Second Shooter. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and dozens of other venues. He has also edited or co-edited … Continue reading →

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“This Death Called Strangeness: Some Reflections on Cornell Woolrich” (by R.T. Raichev)

Posted on January 20, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

R.T. Raichev, mystery scholar and author of the Antonia Darcy and Major Payne series, has written previously on this site about Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Sherlock Holmes, and others. Here, he turns his attention Cornell Woolrich—continuing the theme of last … Continue reading →

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“First You Read, Then You Write” (by Francis M. Nevins)

Posted on January 13, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

One of the highlights with which EQMM begins 2021, our eightieth anniversary year, is the presentation, in our January/February issue, of a heretofore unknown story by the great Cornell Woolrich. Woolrich wrote twenty-seven novels and scores of stories and won … Continue reading →

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2021, TWELFTH NIGHT, AND 80 YEARS

Posted on January 6, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

I’d intended to start this post with best wishes for Twelfth Night, which I always thought of as falling on January 6. These days I find myself checking a lot of my assumptions, however, and on consulting Wikipedia I found … Continue reading →

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