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“Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking the Locked Room” (by Tom Mead)

Posted on June 24, 2020 by somethingisgoingtohappen

British fiction writer and playwright Tom Mead has placed short stories with a variety of publications, including International Short Story Magazine, Lighthouse, Flame Tree Press, Mystery Weekly, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He makes his EQMM debut in our current … Continue reading →

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“EQMM and the Locked Room Mystery” (by Brian Skupin)

Posted on September 4, 2019 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Brian Skupin is Consulting Editor for the publishing company Locked Room International (founded by one of EQMM’s most prolific translators, John Pugmire!) and copublisher of Mystery Scene Magazine, for which he has won the Mystery Writers of America’s Ellery Queen Award, … Continue reading →

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“Cultivating Crime in the College Classroom” (by Hollis Seamon)

Posted on April 25, 2018 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Hollis Seamon‘s first short story for EQMM appears in our current issue (May/June 2018). She is the author of two novels and two critically acclaimed short-story collections, and the 2009 winner of the Al Blanchard Award for best crime story. … Continue reading →

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“The Thanksgiving Chicken” by Edward D. Hoch

Posted on November 22, 2017 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Perhaps the only Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America who was known almost exclusively as a short-story writer, Edward D. Hoch nearly single-handedly kept the classical whodunit alive at short-story length through the last decades of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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“Of Jigsaws, Roller Coasters, Crosswords, and Mazes” (by A.J. Wright)

Posted on December 14, 2016 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Although his work appears in EQMM for the first time in our January/February 2017 issue, on sale December 20, A.J. Wright is a historical mystery novelist who already has three books to his credit, all belonging to a series set … Continue reading →

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IT’S ALL ABOUT VARIETY

Posted on October 8, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

If you’ve been following the postings on this site regularly, you’ve probably noticed how many different points of view there are about the virtues (or lack thereof) of various types of mystery. In fact, you might well wonder how EQMM … Continue reading →

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“How I Do What I Do, and Why” (by Percy Spurlark Parker)

Posted on April 2, 2014 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Percy Spurlark Parker’s fiction debut was a story for EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 1972. Since then he’s authored two published novels and dozens of short stories, which have appeared not only in EQMM but in AHMM, Mike Shayne … Continue reading →

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES

Posted on November 7, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

In my last post I said I wished there was more talk of the work of classic authors in the field at mystery conventions. One writer who ought to be considered a luminary of the genre, and worthy of such … Continue reading →

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