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September/October 2024

Welcome to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine! Discover original, spine-tingling stories by top-notch authors and new writers from all corners of the mystery genre, plus news, reviews, and more… to make your blood run cold!

EXCERPTS:
Midnight Movie
James Van Pelt

Roses for Beth
Bob Williamson

BOOK REVIEWS:
Booked & Printed
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

EDITOR’S NOTES:
Criminal Personas
Linda Landrigan

MYSTERIOUS PHOTOGRAPH:
The Story That Won
In 250 words or less…

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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!).

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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

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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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Meet the Who’s Who of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine authors! View The Lineup of contributors in the current issue, see what motivates our writers, and much more.

Detection necessarily implies deception. Criminals may deceive both to commit their crimes and to cover them up afterwards. And occasionally investigators themselves will resort to duplicitous behavior in order to bring perpetrators to justice. This issue’s stories offer some master classes in disguise, deception, and misdirection.

In “Masquerade” by Pat Black, a Halloween party is the perfect setting for a killer to hide in plain sight. In “The Final Was Murder” by John H. Dirckx, an educational skit at a police training academy goes awry when a student in the audience is shot. And Rick Peters looks into why a fellow photographer was murdered and a studio ransacked in Floyd Sullivan’s “Cover Shot.”

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.

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Midnight Movie
by James Van Pelt

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The Creep bought a ticket for the Friday night midnight movie five minutes before the trailers started. Long beige trench coat. Beige fedora. Dark pants and shoes. He wore the hat low and covered his eyes with black-rimmed sunglasses. How he could see through them at midnight was beyond me, and since he’d been coming for the last year, when I checked the theater on the half hour, he still wore them. The Creep is not his name. We don’t know who he is, but Louise started calling him that the first time he came in, and the tag stuck. I’m glad to see him though, after last week’s murder.

No concession stand for The Creep. He strode down the hallway to the theater with his hands in his pockets. READ MORE

 

Roses for Beth
by Bob Williamson

“You’re right. This picture was taken in nineteen sixty-two. I think it was March. April? That’s my father’s sixty-two Ford Galaxie. It was the only new car we ever bought.” I turned the faded black and white photo around so the two detectives could see it better. “We bought it at Galpin Ford in Encino. My mother didn’t like new cars; she always said that you were wasting your money when you drove a new car off the lot.”

“Would you like some coffee?” asked Detective Woodward, a tall muscular man with a wide jaw and blond hair. READ MORE

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