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MARCH/APRIL 2022

Welcome to EQMM! Featuring the world’s most celebrated crime writers alongside brilliant new voices. Cutting-edge content includes suspense thrillers, whodunits, and noir, reviews, and an editor’s blog. Join us … if you dare!

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Now Go We in Content
Peter Tremayne

33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister
Joyce Carol Oates

DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES:
Rising Sun
Jameson Trahearne

PASSPORT TO CRIME:
Russian for Beginners
Dominique Biebau

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EQMM’s May/June 2022 issue celebrates Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and the spring season with signature mystery and mayhem. In “The Manglik Curse” by Smita Harish Jain, a daughter tries to bend her parents’ marriage . . .

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FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. My editorship of EQMM began in the summer of 1991 following a call from then editor Eleanor Sullivan, who was helping in the search for her successor. I was mystery-fiction editor at Walker & Company at the time, and had charge of a series of anthologies of EQMM stories. The connection would provide an entrée to a whole new world of publishing.

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Launched in 1941, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine set the standard for the modern crime and mystery short story. EQMM offers outstanding literary quality, an expansive reach across the whole range of mystery and crime fiction, and a global orientation in its story selection.

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The characters of mystery fiction are often described as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. That’s true of the characters in the March/April 2022 issue of EQMM, and readers will be able to sympathize with them better than ever after the two years of extreme conditions we’ve all just endured.

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Now Go We in Content

by Peter Tremayne

Now go we in content
To liberty, and not to banishment
—As You Like It, Act I, Scene III

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“If I were paid a silver groat for every corpse that floated along this river, I doubt not to be able to buy myself both title and estate somewhere with a good trout stream running through it.”

With such disdain Master Hardy Drew, the constable of the Bankside Watch, spoke to the young boy who had brought him an appeal to attend Master Redweard’s mortuary to view such a cadaver. READ MORE

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33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister

by Joyce Carol Oates

Silky white fabric, bodiless. Pool of silk, in languid-liquidy folds on the floor where (the viewer/ voyeur avidly assumes) she’d shrugged her naked body out of the shift, let it fall slithering like a snake, but a sheerly white, purely white, camelia-white silky snake falling past her hips, her thighs, and to the carpeted floor in a hiss.

Though bodiless, boneless, smelling faintly, fragrantly of a (female) body. READ MORE