SMFS Member Diana Deverell has a short story up today at
Kings River Life Magazine. Her story is titled Texas
Two-Step: A Basketball Mystery Short
Story.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
SMFS Members Published in Chesapeake Crimes: Fur, Feathers, and Felonies
A number of SMFS Members are published in the new anthology,
Chesapeake Crimes: Fur, Feathers, and Felonies. They are:
Barb Goffman with “Till Murder Do Us Part.”
Eleanor Cawood Jones with “A Snowball’s Chance.”
Alan Orloff with “Bark Simpson and the Scent of Death.”
Josh Pachter with “The Supreme Art Of War.”
KM Rockwood with “Rasputin.”
Additionally, SMFS Member Barb Goffman was part of the
editorial team. Published by Wildside Press, the book is currently available in
print from Amazon.
Friday, March 30, 2018
SMFS Member Publication News: Nupur Tustin
SMFS Member Nupur Tustin has a short story online at Kings
River Life Magazine. The
Kantor’s Passion: Easter Mystery Short
Story is a never before
published tale blending history with mystery.
SMFS Member Publication News: John R. Lindermuth
SMFS MEMBER John
Lindermuth’s latest published book is titled, The Bartered Body. Published
by Mill House Press, this is the third entry in his Sheriff Tilghman Series. Available in print and eBook at Amazon
and elsewhere.
Amazon Synopsis:
Why would
thieves steal the body of a dead woman?
That’s the most challenging
question yet to be faced by Sylvester Tilghman, the third of his family to
serve as sheriff of Arahpot, Jordan County, Pennsylvania, in the waning days of
the 19th century.
And it’s not just any body
but that of Mrs. Arbuckle, Nathan Zimmerman’s late mother-in-law. Zimmerman is
burgess of Arahpot and Tilghman’s boss, which puts more than a little pressure
on the sheriff to solve the crime in a hurry.
Syl’s investigation is
complicated by the arrival in town of a former flame who threatens his
relationship with his sweetheart Lydia Longlow, clashes with his old enemy
former burgess McLean Ruppenthal, a string of armed robberies and a record
snowstorm that shuts down train traffic, cuts off telegraph service and freezes
cattle in the field.
It will take all of Syl’s
skills and the help of his deputy and friends to untangle the various threads
and bring the criminals to justice.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
SMFS Members Published in Malice Domestic 13: Mystery Most Geographical
A number of SMFS Members are published in the new anthology,
Malice Domestic 13: Mystery
Most Geographical. They are:
Michael Bracken with “Arroyo.”
Susan Daly with “Murder on the Northern Lights Express.”
Peter DiChellis with “The Belle Hope.”
Peter Hayes with “Ridgeline.”
William Burton McCormick with “The House in Glamaig’s
Shadow.”
Cheryl Marceau with "Payback With Interest."
Cheryl Marceau with "Payback With Interest."
Edith Maxwell with “A Divination of Death.”
Alan Orloff with “Dying in Dokesville.”
Josh Pachter with “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Murder.”
Anita Page with “Isaac’s Daughters.”
Harriette Sackler with “The Breaker Boy.”
Shawn Reilly Simmons with “Death on the Beach.”
Verena Rose with “Death at the Congressional Cemetary.”
Sylvia Warsh with “The Cabin in the Woods.”
Additionally, SMFS Members Gigi Pandian and the late B. K.
Stevens were part of the submission judging team on this project. SMFS Members
Verena Rose and Shawn Reilly Simmons were part of the editorial team. Published
by Wildside Press, the
book is currently available in print form from the publisher and Amazon.
The eBook will be released on April 24, 2018.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
SMFS MEMBER Publication News: Jim Doherty
SMFS MEMBER Jim Doherty, writing as
Peter Basile, has a short story, “The Adventure of The Manhunting Marshal” appearing
in the new Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Volume 11.
He follows the short story with a short article, “Sherlock Holmes and the
American West.” The book is available at Airship 27
as well as Amazon.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
SleuthSayers: Dubious Writing Advice by Michael Bracken
SleuthSayers: Dubious Writing Advice: by Michael Bracken My story “Montezuma’s Revenge” appears in Passport to Murder (Down & Out Books), the Bouchercon 2017 anthology e...
Little Big Crimes Review: The Submarine of Walker Lake by Brendan DuBois
Little Big Crimes: The Submarine of Walker Lake, by Brendan DuBois: "The Submarine of Walker Lake," by Brendan DuBois, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2018. Great title,...
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Little Big Crimes Review: Queen and Country by Robert Mangeot
Little Big Crimes: Queen and Country, by Robert Mangeot: "Queen and Country," by Robert Mangeot, Mystery Weekly Magazine, March 2018. This is the third appearance by Robert Mangeot ...
Saturday, March 17, 2018
SleuthSayers: 25 Years in Shorts by John M. Floyd
SleuthSayers: 25 Years in Shorts: by John M. Floyd No, this isn't a post about Jimmy Buffett. But I'll tell you this: the topics of my SleuthSayers columns com...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
SMFS Member Publication News: Alan Orloff
SMFS Member Alan Orloff’s thriller
novel, Pray
For The Innocent, is out now from Kindle Press.
His short story, “And The Water Kept
Rising” appears in The
Night Of The Flood: A Novel In Stories anthology edited by Ed Aymar
and SMFS Member Sarah Chen.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Little Big Crimes Review: High Explosive by Martin Limon
Little Big Crimes: High Explosive, by Martin Limon: "High Explosive," by Martin Limón, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2018. This is Martin Limón'...
SMFS Member Publication News: Peter DiChellis
SMFS Member Peter DiChellis had two
stories published recently. His You-Solve-It mini-mystery “Killer Workout”
appears in Woman’s World Magazine (March 19 cover date; on sale March
12).
Additionally, Peter’s creepy crime
story “The Lonely Gravedigger” is available to read online at Spelk
Fiction.
Monday, March 12, 2018
SMFS Member Publishing News: Josh Pachter
SMFS Member Josh Pachter’s short story, “E. Q. Griffen Earns
His Name” appears in the just released anthology, The
Misadventures of Ellery Queen. Josh is also a co-editor of the
anthology and will be a panel member at Malice
Domestic. Published by Wildside Press, the book is available in hardback
and paperback forms as well as eBook.
Saturday, March 10, 2018
SMFS Member Publication News: Gail Farrelly
Gail Farrelly’s short
story, Bull Wanders into Irish
Pub, Doesn’t Give It a Rave Review
is now available to read online at the current issue of Kings River Life Magazine.
Friday, March 9, 2018
SleuthSayers: Just the instrument
SleuthSayers: Just the instrument: by O'Neil De Noux 2:46 a.m., and I lift my fingers from the keyboard and look at what I've just written on the screen in front o...
Thursday, March 8, 2018
SleuthSayers: Write in Haste, Publish at Leisure
SleuthSayers: Write in Haste, Publish at Leisure: by Robert Lopresti There were so many killings that year I had to look up his name. It was Philando Castile. He was a Black man in...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
SMFS Member Publication News: Nancy Clark
SMFS Member Nancy Clark’s short story, “The One Before
Woodstock” is available to read online at the Eastern
Iowa Review.
SMFS Member Publication News: William Burton McCormick
As reported in
the recent blog
posting, several SMFS members are published in the Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine: March/April 2018 issue. Those members are,
G. M. Malliet, William Burton McCormick, and Josh Pachter. In further news,
William Burton McCormick’s tale, “Cleopatran Cocktails” is now online
and available to read.
As Mr.
McCormick recently noted on the SMFS list …
“Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has put
my short short (900 words) "Cleopatran Cocktails" on their website in
its entirety to be read for free. They were kind enough to do this because of a
small error in the March/April print edition and wanted to correct it. Great
people over there at Dell magazines.
Would love to hear what people think of
the story, good, bad and indifferent.”
SMFS Member Publication News: Sarah M. Chen
SMFS Member Sarah M. Chen has two pieces of publishing news
to share.
The anthology, The Night
of the Flood, which she co-edited with E. A. Aymar is now out from
Down & Out Books.
SMFS Member Publication News: Martin Roy Hill
Martin Roy Hill's short story, "The Witching Hour" is up online at Near To The Knuckle.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Nasty. Brutish. Short.: "Victory Garden" by G.M. Malliet
Nasty. Brutish. Short.: "Victory Garden" by G.M. Malliet: G.M. Malliet photo by Joe Henson Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , March-April 2018, p. 69-72 The current issue of EQMM includes ...
Little Big Crimes Review: Night Walker by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
Little Big Crimes: Night Walker, by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzbe...: "Night Walker," by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2018. This is...
SleuthSayers: The Left Hand of Leonard by R. T. Lawton (SMFS Member)
SleuthSayers: The Left Hand of Leonard: by R.T. Lawton AHMM March/April 2018 cover Con schemes have been going on since the serpent in the Garden of Eden sweet-talked Eve in...
Thursday, March 1, 2018
SMFS Members Published In Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: March/April 2018
Several SMFS members are
published in the Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine: March/April 2018 issue. Those members are:
G. M. Malliet with “Victory Garden.”
William Burton McCormick with “Cleopatran Cocktails.”
Josh Pachter with “A Young Man’s Game.”