Category Archives: History

“The Hawthornden Castle Fellowship Experience” (by William Burton McCormick)

Posted on April 20, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

William Burton McCormick’s fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere. A four-time Derringer Award finalist for the year’s best short mystery fiction, he is also a novelist whose historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Gothic, Guest, History, International, Setting, Story, Writers, Writing | Tagged castle, craft, drafting, fiction, mystery, retreat, scotland, writers, writing | 24 Comments

ONE WORLD

Posted on March 30, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

“The outstanding development of last year’s Prize Contest,” wrote EQMM editor Frederic Dannay in his introduction to our magazine’s August 1948 “All Nations” issue, “was the unexpectedly large number of stories sent in from foreign countries and their remarkable range … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Mystery, Ellery Queen, Fiction, History, International, Magazine, Passport, Translation | Tagged all nations, classic mystery, crime, fiction, genre, history, international, magazine, mystery, translation, united nations | 3 Comments

“Seventy-two Years and Counting” (by Donald A. Yates)

Posted on March 16, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

On the 29th of this month, EQMM’s special “All Nations” issue, a tribute to the original All Nations issue of August 1948, will go on sale. It opens with a story EQMM has always been proud of having been the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Characters, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, International, Passport, Translation, Writers | Tagged argentina, borges, crime, ellery queen, international, literature, mystery, spanish, translation, translator, writing | 6 Comments

“Confessions of a Literary Safecracker” (by Joseph Goodrich)

Posted on February 24, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Joseph Goodrich will make his EQMM debut in this year’s issue in tribute to our magazine’s previous editors (August 2016). The star of his tale is EQMM‘s founding editor, Frederic Dannay, who joins forces with Dashiell Hammett to solve a … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Characters, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Story | Tagged adaptation, ellery queen, mystery, novel, play, playwright, stage, suspense, theatre | 5 Comments

“Analog Ellery and the Paperback Hoarder” (by Joseph D’Agnese)

Posted on February 17, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Award-winning journalist Joseph D’Agnese has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other papers, but the dream of writing fiction was born for him in childhood. His first short-story submission, at age twelve, was to … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, History, Novels | Tagged art, cover, ellery queen, literature, mystery, novel, paperback, pocket paperback, pop, whodunit | 8 Comments

“Playful Ghoulishness of a Crime Queen: The Short Fiction of P.D. James” (by R.T. Raichev)

Posted on February 10, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

R.T. Raichev is a lifelong fan of English crime fiction, even writing his university dissertation on the subject. His own fiction, which includes nine books in a classical whodunit series starring crime writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Major Payne, … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Story, Writers | Tagged author, history, james, list, noir, p.d. james, short story, suspense, thriller, whodunit | 8 Comments

MYSTERY ART

Posted on February 3, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

I spent part of this week looking over comments on the Readers Award ballots EQMM received for the 2015 awards. One reader suggested that we institute an award for artwork—covers, interiors, or both. In general, I think honoring artists is … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Business, Ellery Queen, Genre, History, Illustration, Magazine | Tagged art, artist, artists, collection, cover, gallery, illustration, illustrators, noir, pulp, pulp art | 5 Comments

“Report from Baker Street” (by Steve Steinbock)

Posted on January 20, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Steve Steinbock is well known to EQMM readers. He has been the magazine’s regular book reviewer since 2011 (relieved twice a year by longtime EQMM reviewer Jon L. Breen). In EQMM’s March/April 2010 double issue he debuted as a fiction … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Books, Characters, Conventions, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Holmesian | Tagged baker street, baker street irregulars, bsi, crime, detective, fiction, history, holmes, literature, sherlock, sherlock holmes, victorian | 4 Comments

“Drunks on Character” (by Suzanne Berube Rorhus)

Posted on January 13, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Suzanne Rorhus got her start as a writer in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in May 2013. Since then, her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Memphis Noir. Her next EQMM story, “Cletus Vanderbilt and the Theft of Lord … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Characters, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Story, Writers, Writing | Tagged aristotle, characters, craft, crime, dickens, leonard, mystery, novel, short story, writers, writing | Leave a comment

OUR DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY YEAR

Posted on December 16, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Last week, EQMM January 2016, the first issue in our 75th year in continuous publication, went on sale. I hope you’ve seen it! In celebration of this diamond anniversary year, special features are planned for each of the 2016 issues. … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthologies, Awards, Books, Business, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, History, Magazine, Readers, Writers | Tagged anniversary, celebration, diamond anniversary, eqmm, history, milton glaser, periodical, publishing, year ahead | 5 Comments