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The Mystery of Mastery (by Jay Randall)Jay Randall is the fiction-writing pseudonym of a freelance author who lived in Asia for many years. His articles and essays have appeared in...
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A Golden Age, Maybe . . . But The Challenge Persists (by John J. McKeon)In 1991, John J. McKeon’s first novel, The Serpent’s Crown, was called “powerful, riveting and timely” by the New York Times Book Review . But...
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It’s All About the Emotions (by Yoshinori Todo)This week we have a post from an author who will make his fiction debut in the Department of First Stories of our July/August 2024 issue (on sale...
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The Whole, The Parts, and the Gaps In-Between (by Art Taylor)Art Taylor has won the Edgar and Anthony and multiple Agatha, Macavity, and Derringer awards for his short fiction. He is one of a very rare...
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Noir at the Bar and the ’Voir (by Josh Pachter)In recent years writer, editor, and translator Josh Pachter, whose career in mystery fiction began with a story in EQMM when he was still in...
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See How We Celebrated the Edgars, the Robert L. Fish Award, and the EQMM Readers Awards This Year: Our 2024 Photo Gallery (by Janet Hutchings)Michael Bracken, Janet Hutchings, Stacy Woodson (Credit: Ché Ryback) It’s time for our annual photo blog about the Dell Mystery Magazines’...
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A Mystery Website—Easy to Launch, But So Hard to Keep Fresh (by Jiro Kimura)Jiro Kimura is involved in almost everything related to mysteries as an English-into-Japanese translator, fiction writer, columnist/essayist,...
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“Ten Questions for William Link” (with Andrew McAleer)Andrew McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and co-editor (with Gay Toltl Kinman) of the mystery anthology Edgar...
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“Tell Me Why” (by Pat Gaudet)Pat Gaudet was born and raised in south Louisiana, and she’s worked a number of different jobs, including owning a shrimp boat. She makes her...
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When Mysteries and Westerns Meet (by Larry D. Sweazy)Larry Sweazy, whose work was last featured in our pages more than a decade ago, returns to EQMM in our current issue (May/June 2024) with the...
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Mystery Writing Prompts from English 101 (by H. Hodgkins)H. Hodgkins is a professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of Style and the Single...
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ShortCon (by Michael Bracken)A winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement from the Short Mystery Fiction Society and many other honors,...
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SPRING WISHES FROM EQMM!Happy reading this season and all others!
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Behind The Sinister Door: Acknowledging The Unsettling and Undeniable Presence of Captive Women in Mystery Fiction (by Sophia Lynch)Sophia Lynch made her fiction debut with the story “Rendering,” in the Department of First Stories of EQMM’s January/February 2024 issue. The...
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How Stories Unearth Memories (by Janice Law)Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee Janice Law created one of the first fictional female private eyes with her Anna Peters series, launched in 1976....
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Patricia Highsmith’s Two Severed Hands (by R.T. Raichev)R. T. Raichev’s articles related to mystery fiction have appeared on this site frequently. This time, he trains his critical eye on Patricia...
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The Long-Ago Death (by Peter Lance Graves)Peter Lance Graves told EQMM that it was his discovery of the Ellery Queen novel T he Greek Coffin Mystery, as an adolescent, that sparked his...
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Frederick Forsyth’s Final Fictions (by Kevin Mims)Two years ago, essayist and short story writer Kevin Mims contributed a post to this site about the work of Frederick Forsyth. He’s clearly a big...
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THE MOST DANGEROUS EMOTIONP.D. James once said, in an interview about her famous series sleuth Dalgliesh, “An experienced senior detective told Adam Dalgliesh, when Adam...
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The Peculiar Noir of Friedrich Dürrenmatt (by Nils Gilbertson)The Black Mask department of EQMM’s March/April issue (on sale next Wednesday) features a story by Nils Gilbertson entitled “Apple Juice.”...
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The Trail of Breadcrumbs out of Goblin Wood (by Lawrence Ong)Lawrence Ong (who writes under a pseudonym based on a family name) is an instructor in the writing program at the University of Chicago, where he...
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The Detective Out of Town (by Sam Wiebe)Sam Wiebe is a winner of a Crime Writers of Canada Award and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. He’s also been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett,...
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Insider Secrets from Top Mystery Writers (by Andrew McAleer)Andrew McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and co-editor, with Gay Toltl Kinman, of the mystery...
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“Middlemarch” as Murder Mystery (by Sheila Kohler)The author of nearly a dozen acclaimed novels, Sheila Kohler is also a distinguished short-story writer; among the honors she’s received for her...
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Dead or Alive? (by Charley Marsh)Charley Marsh is the pseudonym of a writer who has authored novels in several genres, mostly science fiction and mystery. Her first story for...
