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Category Archives: Classic Mystery
“This Location Screams for a Murder” (by Elvie Simons)
A Canadian currently residing in the Pacific Northwest, Elvie Simons has had stories in a variety of publications, including The Dark City Mystery Magazine, The Prairie Journal, and Island Writer Magazine. She debuts with EQMM in our current issue (July/August … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Classic Mystery, mystery fiction, Setting
Tagged canada, christie, crime, fiction, murder mystery, mystery, setting, train, writer, writing
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“Who’s Ready for Another Roaring Twenties?” (by Tehra Peace)
Portland, Oregon author Tehra Peace is a marketing copywriter by day. To say that she is a fan of mystery fiction would be to understate her interest; her passion for our genre is evident in the webzine she cofounded, Mystery … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Mystery, History
Tagged 1920s, 2020, 2021, agatha christie, crime fiction, dorothy sayers, fiction, golden age mystery, history, mystery
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A Move and a Mystery
Of the many changes COVID-19 has wrought in our lives, one of the most wide ranging has been the change from a physical to a virtual workplace. A year after the pandemic began, a majority of Americans were still working … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Mystery, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, History, Magazine, mystery fiction
Tagged central america, collecting, eqmm, history, magazine, mystery fiction, stamps
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“Summer Reading: Intro to Shakespeare and Agatha Christie” (by Roger Vaccaro)
Roger Vaccaro’s professional fiction debut, the story “Satan’s Circle,” appears in EQMM’s current issue (May/June 2021). The author is a professor of English at St. Johns River State College in St. Augustine, Florida, where, as he mentions in the following … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Classic Mystery, Readers
Tagged christie, classics, crime, mystery, poe, readers, reading, shakespeare, summer reading
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“The Most Versatile of All Genres?” (by Mike Adamson)
Mike Adamson made his EQMM debut in our January/February 2021 issue with the story “The Shadow of the New.” Previously, most of his stories were in the field of speculative fiction, where he’s received nominations for the Hugo and Aurealis … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Characters, Classic Mystery, Genre, Guest, hardboiled, Historicals, History, Holmesian, Pop Culture, Writers, Writing
Tagged classical mystery, crime, fiction, golden age, mystery, readers, romance, science fiction, western
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“It Matters Who Killed Roger Ackroyd” (by Ray Bazowski)
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
Posted in Business, Characters, Classic Mystery, Fiction, Genre, Guest, hardboiled, History, mystery fiction, Noir, Novels, Pop Culture, Readers
Tagged classic mystery, contemporary, detective fiction, hardboiled, history, mystery, noir, readers, writing
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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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