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“The Misadventures of Ellery Queen” (by Dale C. Andrews)
Dale Andrews (along with his co-author Kurt Sercu) has the distinction of having received an award for his first published work. “The Book Case” (May 2007) received a second-place scroll in the EQMM...
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“Edgar, Agatha, Hammett, Glauser—and Me” (by Mary Tannert)
Translators are the unsung heroes of the literary world. What they do requires not just knowledge of the language to be translated from but a writerly feel for the language they are translating to....
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THE WIDE WORLD OF MYSTERY FICTION
The Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations for 2012 are out and the staff at EQMM wishes to congratulate Tom Piccirilli, author of the November 2012 EQMM story “The Void It Often Brings With It” and Teresa...
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“Why I Love the Policial: Brazil’s Bonanza of Crime Fiction” (by Clifford E....
Translator Cliff Landers’s work for EQMM goes back many decades. He’s also a professor—now professor emeritus at New Jersey City University—whose knowledge of Brazilian literature is extensive. He has...
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“Brazilian Crime Fiction: Vibrant, Original, and Multifaceted” (by Clifford...
Professor Clifford E. Landers’s July 10th post for this site left me wanting to know more about Brazilian crime fiction; he covers additional aspects of the subject here, with examples of how several...
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“Translating is Gezellig” by Josh Pachter
The last time Josh Pachter posted on this site he talked about his lifelong love affair with EQMM. This time he provides a fascinating look at the process of literary translation. He is himself a...
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“Barcelona Transfer” (by Peter Bush)
Since the debut of our Passport to Crime department in 2003, EQMM has been regularly featuring translated crime fiction. In that time, we’ve been pleased to publish the work of a number of talented...
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“The Beautiful Unfaithfuls” (by Olive-Ann Tynan)
Olive-Ann Tynan debuted in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 2013 with the story “A Case of Harassment.” Her second story, “Accessory to Murder,” appears in our upcoming February issue. Both...
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A FEW REFLECTIONS ABOUT SUSPENSE
A few days ago I received an e-mail from one of EQMM’s Passport to Crime translators, Josh Pachter. It contained a detailed synopsis of a story he proposed translating for us, but in the few lines of...
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“Seventy-two Years and Counting” (by Donald A. Yates)
On the 29th of this month, EQMM’s special “All Nations” issue, a tribute to the original All Nations issue of August 1948, will go on sale. It opens with a story EQMM has always been proud of having...
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ONE WORLD
“The outstanding development of last year’s Prize Contest,” wrote EQMM editor Frederic Dannay in his introduction to our magazine’s August 1948 “All Nations” issue, “was the unexpectedly large number...
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“When Bob’s Your Uncle” (by G.M. Malliet)
G.M. Malliet is an American, but she favors England, where she lived for several years, as a setting for her fiction. Her debut novel, which appeared in 2008 and introduced series character DCI Arthur...
View ArticleDONALD A. YATES: LIFELONG DEVOTEE OF MYSTERY FICTION
In my first days as editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine I was fortunate to have the hand of friendship extended to me by some of the magazine’s earliest contributors—people whose connection to...
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“What Pantsers and Language Learners Have in Common” (by Edith Maxwell)
Linguist, novelist, short-story writer, and current Agatha Award nominee Edith Maxwell describes herself as a better-than-average language learner. “One Too Many,” her first story for EQMM, featured...
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“Not From Around Here” (by Leslie Elman)
A current nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story for her January/February 2020 EQMM story “The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay,” Leslie Elman had short stories published in just two...
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