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Category Archives: Classic Mystery
2021, TWELFTH NIGHT, AND 80 YEARS
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
Posted in Characters, Classic Mystery, Conventions, Ellery Queen, Genre, History, Holmesian
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“Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking the Locked Room” (by Tom Mead)
British fiction writer and playwright Tom Mead has placed short stories with a variety of publications, including International Short Story Magazine, Lighthouse, Flame Tree Press, Mystery Weekly, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He makes his EQMM debut in our current … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Novels, Story, Writers
Tagged classic mystery, golden age, literary fiction, mystery fiction, mystery story, puzzle, short story
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“EQMM and the Locked Room Mystery” (by Brian Skupin)
Brian Skupin is Consulting Editor for the publishing company Locked Room International (founded by one of EQMM’s most prolific translators, John Pugmire!) and copublisher of Mystery Scene Magazine, for which he has won the Mystery Writers of America’s Ellery Queen Award, … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Mystery, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Story
Tagged locked room, mystery fiction, puzzle, traditional mystery
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“On Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the Nature of Truth in Detective Fiction” (by Chad Baker)
In the days when EQMM had a Department of Second Stories, legal-aid attorney Chad Baker would have qualified. He makes his EQMM debut in our current issue, May/June 2019, with the story “The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace.” Previously, he … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, Criticism, Fiction, Genre, hardboiled, mystery fiction, Noir, Writers
Tagged classic mystery, crime fiction, dashiell hammett, detective, edgar allan poe, genre, history, mystery, raymond chandler, sara gran
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“Daneel Olivaw & Me” (by Jan Grape)
When I and my colleagues at the Dell Mystery Magazines, Linda Landrigan and Jackie Sherbow, were interviewed on the blog SleuthSayers back in June, a corresponding invitation went out to members of SleuthSayers to blog for this site. Award-winning author Jan … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, Genre, Guest, History, Novels, Writers
Tagged asimov, classical mystery, inspiration, isaac asimov, mystery, science fiction, sf, writer, writers
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“Agatha Christie: Queen of Many Crimes” (by François Bloemhof)
South African thriller writer François Bloemhof’s prolific career, spanning more than twenty-five years, includes novels for adults, teenagers, and children, his most recent adult “noir” novels being 2016’s Double Echo and 2017’s Feeding Time. He has received numerous awards and is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, crime, Fiction, Guest, Readers, Writers, Writing
Tagged agatha christie, crime, detective, fiction, golden age, mystery, poirot, writers, writing
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“EXIT WITH THE BODY”
In the September 1966 issue of EQMM, editor Frederic Dannay responded enthusiastically to a reader’s assertion that William Shakespeare, in his plays, anticipated the modern detective story. He included the letter in the magazine—along with his own notes—and reprinted 101 … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Classic Mystery, Ellery Queen, History, Magazine
Tagged detective, history, mystery, shakespeare, writers, writing
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“Classic Murder Mystery Gets a Comic-Book Reboot” (by Maaja Wentz)
EQMM’s Department of First Stories has given a start to hundreds of authors, but in recent years, with developments in technology, what it means to give an author a start has changed. Some authors nowadays are able to get their … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Characters, Classic Mystery, Fiction, Genre, Noir, Police Procedurals, Pop Culture
Tagged comic book, comics, genre, izombie, jessica jones, mystery, readers, science fiction, television, tv, urban fantasy, writers
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“From Noir to Golden Age” (by Carlos Orsi)
Carlos Orsi is a Brazilian writer and journalist with three novels and five short-story collections published in Portuguese. His work first appeared in EQMM in the July 2014 issue, translated for our Passport to Crime department by Cliff Landers. Since … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, International, Noir, Pop Culture, Publishing, Readers, Writers
Tagged classic mystery, crime, golden age, literature, mystery, noir, short story, traditional mystery
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