SMFS Members Published in Mystery Readers Journal: Murder Takes a Holiday, Volume 40, No. 2, Summer 2024

 

Several SMFS list members have published essays in the Mystery Readers Journal: Murder Takes a Holiday, Volume 40, No. 2, Summer 2024. Published earlier this week by Mystery Readers International, the read is available at the website. The SMFS list members that reported they were published in the issue are:

 

Elizabeth Elwood with “Holiday Time? No Lazing in the Sun for my Characters.”

 

J. R. Lindermuth with “A Detective Takes a Holiday.”

 

Josh Pachter with “Murder Takes a Lot of Holidays.”

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

·       The Odd Travel Note: John le Carré on Mysteries Real and Fictional by Rona Bell

·       Death on the Water by Beth Hankins

·       Agatha Christie Rides the Rails by Bradley Friedman

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

·       Please Proceed to Your Gate—To Begin Your (Murderous) Journey by Cathy Ace

·       Monkey Business Meets the Flying Dutchman by Donna Andrews

·       Travel Writer’s Revenge: A Novel Way of “Booking” a Trip by Dawn M. Barclay (D.M. Barr)

·       Travel as Transition? Or Not? by Anne Louise Bannon

·       Wanderlust by Kimberly Belle

·       How I Learned to Write More Than Thirty Pages by Simon Brett

·       When Art Imitates Life by Sally Carpenter

·       On the Road Again by Taffy Cannon

·       A Fatal Fan Fest by Maya Corrigan

·       Too Many Deaths, Too Few Holidays by James R. Coggins

·       Haunted Ofu by John Enright

·       Holiday Time? No Lazing in the Sun for My Characters by Elizabeth Elwood

·       Nero Does Nero by Cordelia Biddle and Steve Zettler (aka Nero Blanc)

·       Crossword: Nero Does Nero

·       Sun, Sand… and Sleuthing by Kate Fellowes

·       A Vacation at the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Dianne Freeman

·       A Killer on Board by Jan Gangsei

·       Murder on Vacation by Peter Heller

·       Murder Takes a Holiday in Caper Cove by Elle Jauffret

·       Mysteries Without Borders by Maria Hudgins

·       An Academic Brat Settles Down and Finds Her Paradise by Leslie Karst

·       Vacations and Holidays by Gay Toltl Kinman

·       A Detective Takes a Holiday by J. R. Lindermuth

·       Hot Grudge Crimes by Larry and Rosemary Mild

·       Never Go on Vacation with Miss Marple by Catherine Mack

·       From Action Scene to Ocean Liner by Edward Marston/Conrad Allen

·       A Golden Getaway with Raúl and Rita by Richie Narvaez

·       Murder Takes a Honeymoon by Neil Plakcy

·       Murder Takes a Lot of Holidays… by Josh Pachter

·       Creating the Vacation from Hell: The Origins of Devils Island by Midge Raymond

·       How Is Anyone Still Alive? by Philipp Schott

·       Have Pen, Will Travel by Tom Straw

·       Charlie Chan Takes a Holiday by John Swann

·       Crime Fiction and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann

·       Someone Else’s Vacation by Sarah Stewart Taylor

·       Murder Across the Ocean by Charlene Wexler

COLUMNS

·       Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lucinda Surber, Lesa Holstine, Dru Ann Love

·       Crime for the Holidays by Gay Toltl Kinman

·       Crime Seen: Vacation Video by Kate Derie

·       From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph