SMFS Members Published in Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2020

SMFS list members are published in the Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2020 issue. The read is available from the publisher in both print and digital formats as well as at Amazon and other vendors.  The SMFS members in this issue are:

Bruce Harris with his solution to “A Numbers Game” which was the “A-You-Solve-It” mystery that began last month.  

Edward Lodi with “The Figurine.” This is also the cover story for the issue.

William Burton McCormick with “Two Taxis.”

Joseph S. Walker with “Golden Lives.”

Synopsis:

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 our cover story, “The Figurine” by Edward Lodi, a lead figurine of The Grim Reaper leads a failed artist in New Orleans to madness and murder.
“Neon Lights” by Shea E. Butler explores the age-old question, does the end justify the means? A burnt out, big city detective now working in a small southern town, has to ask herself just that when a serial killer and the FBI come to town.
“Two Taxis” by William Burton McCormick: Two thuggish-looking men. One feisty female. One overworked hotel concierge. Two waiting taxis in the French Rivera. What could go wrong?
In “Golden Lives” by Joseph S. Walker, Private Annalee Lincoln was overseas when her little brother Ike died. The police said it was a botched robbery and moved on, but Annalee can't. Now she's back in Sacramento, looking for answers.
“Cult Of Personality” by Nick LeGrand: Some say a man's character is his most prized possession, but what of his sanity? John Fielding, a down-on-his-luck attorney, has just received the offer of a lifetime, but first he'll have to pass an interview testing the very fabric of his reality.
In “The Case Of The Red Ribbons” by Benjamin Mark, Detectives Blunt and Sharpe are at it again in this new adventure. Jewelry is being stolen. All employees are scanned for metal upon entering and exiting the premises. And yet, the jewelry is disappearing. Time for Captain Elias Young to call in his prime detectives, Bartholomew Blunt and Samuel Sharpe.
In “Never Kidnap A Crime Novelist” by Stan Dryer, a young couple who kidnap Martin, the author of the Buck Slammer detective series, successfully collect the ransom, but then discover their lives will never be quite the same again.