Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May/June 2019

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In EQMM’s May/June 2019 issue, sunny shores contain dark secrets, as in Edgar Award nominated Art Taylor’s “Better Days” and the edge-of-your-seat ride “Hurricane Jonah” by T.J. MacGregor. Speaking of sunshine, join Pat Black’s policemen on a bittersweet day, “The First Day of the School Holidays”—and a private investigator in Mark Stevens’s “A Bitter Thing,” a story taking place in the world of hit rock musicians.

Classical-mystery fans will love the impossible-crime tale “Murder With a Flick of the Wrist” by William Burton McCormick and Carlos Orsi’s locked-room puzzle “Hatred in the House of Prayer.” Ellery Queen fans will delight in the return of The Puzzle Club in Josh Pachter’s pastiche “A Study in Scarlett!”

Several authors take a look at childhood: Anna Scotti in “From Deep Within the Earth, She Smiled” and Marilyn Todd in “Boys Will Be Boys” explore the temperaments of young men, while Sheila Kohler’s “The Darling” looks back on trauma and a family secret. Janice Law’s “My Companion” follows a lonely kid looking for friendship. Other stories explore different family dynamics .

Battles of the past wage on for a soldier in “A Question of Rabbits” by J.L. Orchard , a doomed activist in Adrian J. McKinty’s “From Hell,” and characters in the twisty tales “The Duelist,” a historical by David Dean, and “The Workout,” a noirish thriller by Brendan DuBois.

Also not to miss are Chad Baker’s wry “The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace,” where a miffed tenant in an assisted-living facility sleuths; a haunting bedtime story by Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen translated from the Bengali ; the satirical “The Girl on the Bandwagon” by Martin Edwards ; a poem by James Sallis , and the results of our 2018 Readers Award contest!

Contents
T.J. MacGregor “Hurricane Jonah” art by Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
David Dean “The Duelist”
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Mark Stevens “A Bitter Thing”
Martin Edwards “The Girl on the Bandwagon”
Dave Zeltserman “Brother’s Keeper”
J.L. Orchard “A Question of Rabbits”
Josh Pachter “A Study in Scarlett!”
Pat Black “The First Day of the School Holidays”
Bill Pronzini “The Shrew”
Chad Baker “The Smoking Bandit of Lakeside Terrace”
Carlos Orsi “Hatred in the House of Prayer”
Janice Law “My Companion”
James Sallis “Dear Interrogator”
Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen “The Queen and the Concubine” Translated from the Bengali by Apala G. Egan
Art Taylor “Better Days”
William Burton McCormick “Murder With a Flick of the Wrist”
2018 EQMM Readers Award
Anna Scotti “From Deep Within the Earth, She Smiled”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction
Adrian McKinty “From Hell” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Classified Marketplace
Brendan DuBois “The Workout”
Sheila Kohler “The Darling”
Marilyn Todd “Boys Will Be Boys”