Category Archives: Passport

“The Importance of Titles” (by Josh Pachter)

Posted on March 31, 2021 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Josh Pachter is a frequent contributor to EQMM as both a writer and translator. In both of those capacities he’s found titles an inspiration, as he explains in this post. He’s also a prolific anthologist whose most recent books include … 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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“On Attending the International Murder Games Expo” (by Martin Edwards)

Posted on December 11, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Author of two highly regarded series of mystery novels and several standalone crime novels (including 2018’s critically acclaimed Gallows Court), Martin Edwards is also a short-story writer with dozens of stories in print, many of which appeared for the first … Continue reading →

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“Too Good to Be True?” (by Anne van Doorn)

Posted on September 11, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Last week, Mystery Scene magazine copublisher Brian Skupin did a post for this site about locked-room mysteries. In it, he mentioned a story in our current issue (September/October 2019) by Dutch writer Anne van Doorn entitled “The Poet Who Locked Himself … Continue reading →

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“And They Wrote Happily Ever After” (by De Paepe & Depuydt)

Posted on August 22, 2018 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Both from Ghent, Belgium, Herbert De Paepe and Els Depuydt have cowritten four highly acclaimed thrillers. They’ve been nominated for both Belgium’s Diamond Bullet Award and Holland’s Golden Noose Award. Their work first appeared in EQMM in May 2016, in … Continue reading →

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DONALD A. YATES: LIFELONG DEVOTEE OF MYSTERY FICTION

Posted on March 28, 2018 by somethingisgoingtohappen

In my first days as editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine I was fortunate to have the hand of friendship extended to me by some of the magazine’s earliest contributors—people whose connection to EQMM went back to founding editor Frederic … Continue reading →

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“When Terror Australis Meets Dingo Noir” (by Aoife Clifford)

Posted on July 19, 2017 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Australian writer Aoife Clifford has won Australia’s two premier crime short-story awards (the Ned Kelly and the Scarlet Stiletto) as well as earning an additional nomination for each. When her first novel, All These Perfect Strangers, was published (in Australia … Continue reading →

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“Making Sense of the Confusion of Tongues” (by Bertil Falk)

Posted on February 15, 2017 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Bertil Falk is a Swedish newspaper and TV journalist, an author of mystery fiction, a translator, and a former editor of DAST magazine (a Swedish journal devoted to detective stories, science fiction, and fantasy). His first novel saw print when he was … Continue reading →

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EQMM to Be Special Guest at Passport to Murder, the 2017 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Toronto, from October 12-15!

Posted on November 9, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

A couple of months ago, in the midst of our celebration of EQMM’s 75th anniversary year, our staff received the delightful news that the magazine will be honored for “Distinguished Contribution to the Genre” at the next Bouchercon World Mystery … Continue reading →

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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 →

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