Category Archives: Ellery Queen

A Move and a Mystery

Posted on June 16, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 , , , , , , | 8 Comments

“If It Weren’t for Ellery Queen” (by Hal Charles)

Posted on June 9, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet have been writing together for more than forty-five years. Together, as Hal Charles, they are the authors of more than 200 short stories, one of which is “Nothing Good Happens After Midnight,” in our current … Continue reading →

Posted in Ellery Queen, Guest, History, Magazine, Publishing, Writers, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Characters, Classic Mystery, Conventions, Ellery Queen, Genre, History, Holmesian | 5 Comments

“Dorothy L. Sayers Reviews the Early Ellery Queen” (by Joe R. Christopher)

Posted on December 2, 2020 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Dr. Joe R. Christopher is an Emeritus Professor in the English Department of Tarleton State University in Texas. He’s written scholarly books (including C. S. Lewis: A Biography), essays, reviews, and short stories (in both the mystery and science-fiction genres). … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, reviews | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

“A Love Poem to Japan” (by Francis M. Nevins)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Francis M. Nevins is one of the leading scholars of mystery fiction, having written the highly acclaimed Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective and Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die. He is also the author of six … Continue reading →

Posted in Ellery Queen, Guest, History, International | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

EIGHTY YEARS OF PERSEVERENCE

Posted on October 7, 2020 by somethingisgoingtohappen

This week, the first issue of 2021—EQMM’s eightieth anniversary year!—will be released to the printer. It looks as if the beginning of 2021 will find the world still under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s perilous conditions have parallels … Continue reading →

Posted in Ellery Queen, History, Magazine | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

“Die Laughing” (by Mike McHone)

Posted on January 22, 2020 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Mike McHone is a relative newcomer to the mystery field, but his short fiction and poetry have previously appeared in such publications as Neo-Opsis Science Fiction and The Onion. He makes his EQMM debut in our current issue (January/February 2020) … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Guest, Writers, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

TO HAUNT OR NOT TO HAUNT?

Posted on October 30, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

With Halloween just hours away, I thought I’d try to answer a couple of questions that sometimes come up at the writers’ conferences and conventions we attend: 1) Does EQMM publish stories involving the supernatural? And 2) If not, why not? … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, Magazine, Supernatural | Tagged , , , , , , | 6 Comments

“Frederic Dannay Revisited” (by Francis M. Nevins)

Posted on October 2, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Earlier this year, on this site, Laird Blackwell talked about the inspiration for his latest scholarly work, Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story. This week, mystery-fiction scholar Francis M. Nevins reviews the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Ellery Queen, Genre, Guest, History, review | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

“The Legacy of Editor Queen” (by Laird Blackwell)

Posted on April 10, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

A professor emeritus at Sierra Nevada College, where he taught for over thirty years, and currently a teacher of  literature at Tahoe Expedition Academy, Laird Blackwell is an expert on detective fiction. His 2018 book The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Editing, Ellery Queen, Genre, Guest, Magazine, research | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments