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Tag Archives: detective
“When Terror Australis Meets Dingo Noir” (by Aoife Clifford)
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
Posted in Books, International, Novels, Passport, Readers, Writers
Tagged australia, authors, crime fiction, detective, literature, melbourne, mystery, mystery fiction, reviews, sydney
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“Ten Days’ Wonder” (1948) by Ellery Queen (review by Arthur Vidro)
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
Posted in Books, Characters, Criticism, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Guest, review
Tagged crime, detective, ellery queen, fiction, literature, mystery, review
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“The Last of the Kingdom of Romance: 90 years since the publication of The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes” (by R.T. Raichev)
2017 marks the 90th anniversary of the publication of the last book of Sherlock Holmes adventures. In honor of the occasion, R.T. Raichev, a lifelong fan of English crime fiction, gives his assessment of the stories in that volume, entitled The Case-Book … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Criticism, Fiction, Guest, History, Holmesian
Tagged conan doyle, detective, holmes, literature, mystery, review, sherlock, short story
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“Screaming Blue Murder—Writing For Television” (by Cath Staincliffe)
Cath Staincliffe’s work first appeared in EQMM in January 2016. Her latest EQMM story, “The Rat,” is featured in our current issue, March/April 2017, and a third story will appear in EQMM later this year. The Manchester writer is a founding member … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Characters, Editing, Guest, Police Procedurals, Writers, Writing
Tagged crime, detective, mystery, police, procedural, screenwriter, screenwriting, television, tv, writers, writing
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“I Know Words, the Best Words” (by Harley Mazuk)
Harley Mazuk has contributed four stories in the classical private-eye tradition to EQMM, beginning with his very first professional fiction publication, which appeared in the January 2011 issue of EQMM. Three of the stories, including the first, belong to a … Continue reading
“Ellery Queen—a Website on Deduction” (by Dale C. Andrews and Kurt Sercu)
Since readers will learn about the careers and literary work of Dale Andrews and Kurt Sercu in their own words in the following post, I will simply note that they are among the most dedicated and knowledgeable fans of Ellery … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Conventions, Ellery Queen, Guest
Tagged crime, detection, detective, ellery queen, fan, mystery, website, writers, writing
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“The Return of Poggioli: T.S. Stribling’s Sleuth Given a New Home in EQMM” (by Arthur Vidro)
Arthur Vidro is a freelance fiction editor who publishes a thrice-yearly print journal called (Give Me That) Old-Time Detection (please direct any inquiries to oldtimedetection@netzero.net). He is also the author of two stories for EQMM. The first of them, “The … Continue reading
“Report from Baker Street” (by Steve Steinbock)
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
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“Communicating the Unfamiliar: Writing the Underbelly in Africa” (by Meg Opperman)
Meg Opperman’s first story for EQMM was published earlier this year, and she has another tale coming up for us in 2016. Both stories take place in Tanzania, a country the author knows intimately. A former Fulbright scholar, she’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, International, Police Procedurals, Setting, Story, Writers, Writing
Tagged africa, anthropology, characters, crime fiction, detective, history, international, police procedural, politics, tanzania, writing
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“Dutch Treats” (by René Appel)
René Appel was a professor of Dutch as a second language at the University of Amsterdam until 2003. But he has been writing fiction since the 1970s, a decade in which his output was mostly short stories for literary magazines. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, International, Passport, Publishing, Readers, Writers
Tagged bestsellers, crime, detective, dutch, fiction, international, literary, netherlands, novels, writers
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