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OVER 80 YEARS OF AWARDS
370 nominations from the breadth of the mystery genre
113 award-winning stories
Edgar, Agatha, Barry, Derringer, Arthur Ellis, Robert L. Fish, Macavity, Shamus, Thriller, Anthony, and more.
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.
ABOUT EQMM
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.
AUTHOR’S CORNER
Meet Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s authors! In addition to discovering an impressive Who’s Who of internationally renowned writers, you’ll learn about authors in the current issue, read what they have to say at the EQMM blog, and more. Visit often—there’s always something new!
Don’t miss memorable new tales from Kevin Egan, Terena Elizabeth Bell, O’Neil De Noux, LaToya Jovena, Joseph S. Walker, and more.
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Tree of Life
by Kevin Egan
Doonan’s Pub, owned by an Irish expat, observed a daily holy hour like the pubs back home. At two p.m., the bouncer strongly urged the white-collar lunch crowd to return to their fancy offices. He locked up, keeping the pub immaculately empty until three p.m. when the first of blue-collar guys—the true backbone of the pub’s clientele—scratched at the door.
And then there was Bobby Beck. For years, Bobby yearned to become a tradesman, though his manifold attempts to learn an actual trade came to naught. His grandfather had been a master stonemason; his father had been a finish carpenter. But the skills, the patience, and the work ethic needed to learn a trade eluded Bobby, as did most of the tradesmen who arrived at the close of Doonan’s daily holy hour. Still, Bobby affected a blue-collar vibe with work boots, jeans, flannel shirts, and, occasionally, a bandanna. And he burned with the fervent desire to take his place among the men who had fired him, refused to hire him, or simply laughed at the thought of him during those long years before he finally “made it.” READ MORE
