Category Archives: Real Crime

“‘Black Rock:’ The Making and Unmaking of the Social World” (by Steven Gore)

Posted on July 8, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Yesterday EQMM’s August 2015 issue went on sale. It contains the first EQMM story by Steven Gore, private investigator, short-story writer, and author of six crime novels (the most recent of which is February 2015’s Night Is the Hunter). Steven … Continue reading →

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“Gun Culture” (by Scott Mackay)

Posted on September 3, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Canadian Scott Mackay has been contributing stories to EQMM for twenty-five years, and a number of those tales have received favorable critical attention, including February 1998’s “Last Inning,” which won the Arthur Ellis Award for best short story. (Several other … Continue reading →

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“My Owen Keane Moment” (by Terence Faherty)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

The issue of EQMM that has just mailed to subscribers (September/October 2014), contains Terence Faherty’s seventh EQMM short story featuring series character Owen Keane.  Entitled “Ghost Town,” it is a characteristically thoughtful case for the former seminarian turned sleuth. The … Continue reading →

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“Talking The Talk” (by David H. Ingram)

Posted on June 18, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

David Ingram won the Mystery Writers of America’s Robert L. Fish Award for best short story by a new author for his January 2011 EQMM story “A Good Man of Business.” A subsequent story for EQMM, November 2013’s “The Covering … Continue reading →

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“The Devil Made Me Do It” (by Richard Helms)

Posted on February 26, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Although he is primarily a novelist, with sixteen published books—the most recent the standalone thriller The Mojito Coast—Richard Helms has made a mark in the world of short fiction too. His November 2010 EQMM story “The Gods for Vengeance Cry” … Continue reading →

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