Tag Archives: crime

“Balancing with Your Eyes Closed” (by Susan Dunlap)

Posted on March 21, 2018 by

Susan Dunlap got her start in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 1978. Her body of work in the mystery field since that auspicious debut includes twenty-five novels in four popular series, featuring, respectively, Berkeley Police Officer Jill Smith, PG&E … Continue reading →

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“Poster Child” (by Michael Bracken)

Posted on February 14, 2018 by

Michael Bracken is the winner of two Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and in 2016 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in Short Mystery Fiction. That award has special significance in regard to … Continue reading →

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“From Noir to Golden Age” (by Carlos Orsi)

Posted on February 7, 2018 by

Carlos Orsi is a Brazilian writer and journalist with three novels and five short-story collections published in Portuguese. His work first appeared in EQMM in the July 2014 issue, translated for our Passport to Crime department by Cliff Landers. Since … Continue reading →

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“Great God! This is an awful place.” (by Christine Poulson)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by

Setting always features interestingly in Christine Poulson’s fiction, whether it is Cambridge and the surrounding Fens as depicted in her Cassandra James mystery series; Sweden, Hong Kong, and Devon in her novel Invisible; or the cathedral of her upcoming EQMM … Continue reading →

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“Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe” (by Elizabeth Elwood)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

With Christmas less than two weeks away, Elizabeth Elwood is about to debut in EQMM with her story “Ghosts of Christmas Past” (January/February 2018—on sale December 19). Although she is new to EQMM, she is not new to mystery writing, … Continue reading →

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“Edgar Allan” (by David Dean)

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

David Dean, an EQMM Readers Award winner and an Edgar nominee, has blogged for this site a couple of times before (See “The Human Condition” and “A Day in the Life of the Creative Writer”), and his evocative stories have … Continue reading →

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“Ten Days’ Wonder” (1948) by Ellery Queen (review by Arthur Vidro)

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

As I mentioned when he last blogged for this site, in January of this year, in addition to being a freelance editor and a writer of short stories (two can be found on EQMM’s website and blog), Arthur Vidro is … Continue reading →

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“My Favorite Murderers” (by Graydon Miller)

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

Graydon Miller was an American expatriate in Mexico for nine years, at the start of his writing career. He was first published not in English but in Spanish, with “Un invierno en el infierno” (“A Winter in Hell”). Some of … Continue reading →

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“Radio Days” (by Kevin Mims)

Posted on May 24, 2017 by

Kevin Mims is known to readers of the Dell mystery magazines primarily as a short-story writer. In 2013, one of his stories for EQMM received a nomination for the International Thriller Award, and he has also contributed memorable stories to … Continue reading →

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“The Whys of Murder” by Sharon Hunt

Posted on May 17, 2017 by

Sharon Hunt is a widely published food writer who also wrote for many literary magazines before turning to crime fiction. Her first story for EQMM, 2015’s “The Water Was Rising,” earned nominations for two prestigious best-short-story awards, Canada’s Arthur Ellis … Continue reading →

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