The Lineup

Pat Black is the author of several novels, including The Long Dark Road and The Beach House.

John H. Dirckx’s last appearance in AHMM was in the July/August 2024 issue with “Missing Links.”

Retired IBM researcher/developer and antiquarian bookseller Stan Dryer has published short stories in Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Mystery Magazine.

Marcelle Dubé recently won the Award of Excellence from the Crime Writers of Canada for her story “Reversion” in Mystery Magazine (April 2023).

Stories by Wayne J. Gardiner have appeared recently in Mystery Magazine and Black Cat Weekly.

Retired business systems analyst Stephen W. Herring has published books and articles on local histories and historical preservation as well as two short stories in AHMM in the 1990s.

T. Lawton won the 2022 Edgar Award for his AHMM tale “The Road to Hana.”

UK author Jane Pendjiky debuted in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 2015.

Editor and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch has published work in many genres.

Floyd Sullivan is a Hemingway Foundation and Illinois Manuscript Project finalist. This is his fourth Rick Peters story in AHMM.

Mark Thielman’s debut novel, The Devil’s Kitchen, will come out in April 2025 from Severn River Publishing.

Professor James Tipton has work in Modern Haiku and Nostos.

James Van Pelt’s work has also appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, Weird Tales, and other venues.

Hollywood native engineer, MBA, and writer Bob Williamson is the author of The Seriously Pink V (2002, Sterling House) and short fiction appearing in Mystery Weekly and Miami.

Dave Zeltserman’s latest short-story collection is Detectives and Spies.