SMFS list members are published in the Mystery
Magazine: May 2024 issue. The read is available at the publisher and at Amazon. The SMFS list members
that reported their presence in the issue are:
John M. Floyd with “Bad Eagle Road.”
Julie Hastrup with “The Pool Boy.”
Bruce W. Most with “The Mysterious Woman in the
Lifeguard Chair.”
Amazon 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.
★ In
this issue ★
Our cover feature is “The
Mysterious Woman In The Lifeguard Chair” by Bruce W. Most: Weegee, New York
City's most famous crime photographer, photographs a mysterious woman one night
on a Coney Island beach. When a woman's body turns up on the beach days later,
Weegee finds himself investigating a possible murder.
“My Son, My Son” by Kathleen Gerard: In this comic mystery story a Southern
woman becomes exasperated by her notorious, small-time criminal son, her
‘do-good’ of a husband, and the stifling nature of her small-town.
“Bad Eagle Road” by John M. Floyd: After the disappearance of a team of
scientists in search of Bigfoot, a Native American woman stumbles upon an
injured and escaped survivor—and discovers that he’s still being hunted.
“The Pool Boy” by Julie Hastrup: Three rules for running a pool cleaning
business: 1) Don’t wake the wealthy. 2) Be invisible. 3) Nothing you do will
ever be enough. The pool boy is forced to cover up a crime and winds up paying
for it—literally.
“Villains, Vipers, And Dogs” by A.D. Price: A down-on-his-luck PI breaks into a
rival PI's office, intending to steal incriminating photos for a rich,
cash-paying client. When he discovers a puppy manning the office, however, what
should have been an easy gig, turns weirdly dangerous.
“The Asphalt Bungle” by Jon Wesick is a noir parody in which grade school
students plan a heist of Mad Magazines.
“A Failure To Communicate,” a You-Solve-It by John H. Dromey: Some eyewitness
accounts are better than others, but can detectives afford to pick and choose?
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Cover Art By Robin Grenville Evans
