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To our print subscribers:
Due to declining print quality and ongoing production delays with our previous printing partner, we made the decision to transition to a new printer. We’re pleased to share that the transition is now complete, our agreement with the new printer has been finalized, and production is moving forward.
The March/April issues are scheduled to ship from the printer in mid-July, with the May/June issues following shortly thereafter. While this transition has caused unfortunate delays, we expect the new partnership to provide a much more reliable production schedule and significantly improved print quality going forward.
In the meantime, you may access the digital version so that you don’t have to wait any longer to start reading. Create a free account here, and then visit this page to find the digital issue.
Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued support throughout this transition. We appreciate your loyalty and look forward to getting these issues into your hands very soon.
Warmly,
The Must Read Magazines Team
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On the occasion of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s 85th anniversary, we are accepting submissions of nonfiction articles, interviews, and art related to the magazine. We are looking to hear from fans and readers along with historians, writers, former staff, and friends of the magazine. Accepted pieces will be printed in the September/October 2026 issue or featured on our blog (pending your agreement). Please feel free to share this call.
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 Doug Allyn, Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Richard Helms, Melissa Yi, and more.
THE CRIME SCENE
Get the latest news, enjoy stories only available here, check out Editor Janet Hutchings’ blog, enjoy engaging podcasts, view the photo gallery of EQMM personalities. Check it out.
Farewell to Baytown
by William Bankier and Josh Pachter
My name is Luke, and I hustle trays of beer in the men’s beverage room at Baytown’s Coronet Hotel. I want to tell you about something that happened during the summer when the man who wrote the stories about Baytown died. I never read them, so I can’t say if they were any good. But a famous magazine published them, so they must have had something going for them.
The Banner printed the author’s obit and used a picture that showed a geezer with glasses, not much hair, and a sheepish grin on his face, like he knew the joke was on him. He was living in West Hollywood, California, when he died, and had been married for a second time. Cause of death was listed as a heart attack due to a burst aorta. He died instantly, which meant he had a free pass to Endsville, unlike many geezers who have to ride the slow train to the end of the line. READ MORE
The Poisons Garden
by Janet Hutchings
A package out for delivery. That’s what she was. Deposited on the train by Aunt Lyla’s butler in Manhattan and collected by the Havimores’ man-of-all-work from the station at Rhinecliff. Anything to make sure she got out of New York, where she was spending too many hours, in her aunt’s opinion, in the company of Mr. Ellery Queen.
She consented largely due to Ellery’s absence, but that was beyond Lyla’s comprehension. Not that Ellery wasn’t around; he phoned regularly, pleading with her to come over and type some correspondence or other. But mentally he was orbiting in another galaxy, caught in the gravity of his last case. The whole matter would have had the aspect of a Gothic novel—complete with penniless heiress, sinister relations, a rumored hidden fortune, and (incredibly) a disappearing house—were it not for the very real evil that had lain in wait for Ellery. READ MORE
