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Holiday lights and dark endless nights. Winter is a season of contrasts. December festivities and soft new snow give way to dreary days that dissolve into gloom and slippery gray ice.
OVER 60 YEARS OF AWARDS
157 Nominations from the full breadth of mystery genres
37 Award-winning stories
Edgar, Agatha, Barry, Arthur Ellis, Robert L. Fish, Macavity, Shamus, Thriller, Anthony
FROM THE EDITOR
Great stories of any genre are rooted in characters — well-drawn, individual, and credibly motivated…
ABOUT AHMM
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is one of the oldest and most influential magazines of short mystery and crime fiction in the world. Launched over 60 years ago, today AHMM maintains a tradition of featuring both promising aspiring writers and talented authors, spanning the full spectrum of sub-genres from dark noir to graphic works.
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As this issue arrives (whether as paper or pixels), Thanksgiving is just around the corner, kicking off a hectic season of parties and holidays. Anticipation runs high: rich food, travel snafus, and family dramas (oh my!). But no matter the stress, leave the crime to us, for here we’re serving up a full course of twelve delicious and twisty tales with all the trimmings.
Our sleuths and fixers have their thinking caps on this issue. Robert Lopresti’s “Christmas Dinner” takes us to New York City’s Chinatown, where a holiday dinner turns fatal and only Beat poet and sleuth Ellery Delgardo can untangle the mystery. In sixteenth century France, an animal avocat must make a case on behalf of a family of birds who are disrupting Mass in Mark Thielman’s “From Above.”
THE CRIME SCENE
“Skeletons in the Closet”… Get the latest news, check out Editor Linda Landrigan’s blog, enjoy lively podcasts, test your mystery puzzling mettle, see if you have what it takes to be a mystery writer. It’s all here.
Things Being How They Are
by Christopher Latragna
Downtown St. Louis, 1955
“Sir? Why are we going to the Jubilee?”
Vincent asked this question from the driver’s seat of his cab while Henry pondered his life’s choices from the back seat.
“I’ve going to see about getting into a poker game,” Henry said.
“Is that wise?” READ MORE
The Only Thing to Fear
by Clare Broyles
“Please keep your arms and legs off the conveyor belt,” the announcement interrupted the soft jazz Muzak. Cheryl looked around. She was at the airport. Who was she picking up? Or was she the traveler? She felt she could remember if she only tried. Perhaps if she got her bags. There was her battered blue suitcase she had taken to Las Vegas last year before the world closed down. She watched it inch toward her on the conveyor belt. A crowd of people appeared around her, grabbing their suitcases and jostling her as they passed. A sudden fear shot through her. A crowd, and none of them were wearing masks. She wasn’t wearing a mask. READ MORE
