At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers.
The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.
Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery.
In this issue: Joe Park's Little Girl - by Nikki Dolson A father and daughter reunite but there aren't any hugs or happy endings to be found.
The Man Who Loved Pie - by Karl El-Koura An English professor, shot dead in his office -- a violent dispute over academic disciplines, or something more prosaic, and more sinister?
1G NETWORKS J.A. Becker Many years of hard work never paid off, until an aged employee begins taking his rewards by means of his own murderous hands.
LITTLE DAVID by Charles Roland In the six years spent looking for David Alamont, it never occurred to a wanna-be amateur sleuth retiree that he might actually find him.
THE MONTCLAIR DEAD-STAR COMEDY REVUE by Michael Mallory Jackie Plumm is the hottest television star of 1950, but when he turns up dead, it's up to his Buddy Barker, his comedy stooge, to find out who wanted his boss dead: the mob, the government, or one of his co-workers.
THE TATTOOED CORPSE by Jude Roy Two thousand dollars richer and with a dead client, John LeGrand must now find what happened.
IN WALKED A LADY by Anna Castle In our feature story, an Elizabethan law student under the investigative tutelage of Frances Bacon, solves a tangled riddle of a dead patriarch.
MRS. WALKER AND THE LADY IN THE LAUNDRY by Katie Ginger Curious old Mrs Walker investigates the death of the local barmaid when the killer dumps the body in her back garden.
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