SMFS list members are published in the Mystery Magazine: June 2023
issue. The read is available in print and digital formats from Amazon.
The SMFS list members that reported their presence in the issue are:
Michael Bracken with "Words on Wheels."
O'Neil De Noux with “When Baby Cows Go Bad.”
Martin Hill Ortiz with “The Affair of the Wayward
Schoolmaster.” (A Sherlock Holmes pastiche and cowritten with Keith Jones.)
Josh Pachter with "The First Law of Plumbing."
Andrew Welsh-Huggins with "No One Goes Out to Eat Anymore."
Description:
At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery 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.
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In this issue★
“Lost And Found” by Paul A. Freeman, DI Williamson and
DC Page begin an investigation to find an entrepreneur who vanished without
trace after visiting Carson’s Gymnasium.
“Humble Servant” by Victor Kreuiter:
A self-ordained preacher, Samuel Harris, ministers to the lost and suffering,
those not on the path of righteousness. His charge is to save those souls and
deliver them to salvation, be they criminal or otherwise.
“Sweet Gum Head” by Blu Gilliand: A bad man is on the
run, lost deep in the maze of Florida swamps and back roads. Unfortunately for
him, whatever he's running from is nowhere near as bad as what he's about to
run in to.
In “The First Law Of Plumbing” by Josh Pachter, a pair
of home invaders learn that things don't always work out for the best.
“No One Goes Out To Eat Anymore” by Andrew
Welsh-Huggins: Freelance mailman Mercury Carter finds himself in Toronto on a
feel-good mission delivering an elderly woman's once-lost locket, when an
alarming comment by the woman about her health leads him down a dark path of rescue.
In “Eye On The Ball” by Paul Vivari, a package stolen
off a doorstep in a small town keeps trading hands as a group of criminals try
to track it down.
“Words On Wheels” by Michael Bracken: Victoria
Huptmann and her Border collie Maximillian spend winters driving Words on
Wheels from RV park to RV park along the Texas coast, selling new and used
books to Snowbirds escaping Midwestern winters. Then one of her customers is
murdered.
“When Baby Cows Go Bad”
by O'Neil De Noux: “Most of what we university police
officers handle aren’t serious matters, then again, when I was NOPD, we got our
share of ‘barking dog’ and ‘cat in a tree’ calls. But no baby cows chasing
co-eds.”
“The Affair Of The Wayward Schoolmaster” by Martin
Hill Ortiz And Keith Jones: Holmes and Watson investigate a popular school
teacher who turned to armed robbery.
“A Messy Murder,” a You-Solve-It By Eric B. Ruark: It
had all the earmarks of a bungled robbery, but Sheriff Tracy Hyers, with your
help, will get to the bottom of the mystery.
Custom Cover Art By Robin Grenville Evans
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