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After 68 years in print Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is not only America’s oldest, it continues to be its most celebrated crime-fiction publication—called by Stephen King “the best mystery magazine in the world, bar none.” Featured in its pages are short stories by the world’s leading writers of suspense: Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffery Deaver, Val McDermid, Margaret Maron, Andrew Klavan, Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Peter Lovesey, Chuck Hogan, S.J. Rozan and many more.
The full range of the genre is represented, from the cozy to the hardboiled, the historical to the contemporary—including police procedurals, P.I. stories, psychological suspense, locked-room and impossible-crime tales, classical whodunits, and urban noir.
Regular features include Passport to Crime (crime fiction in English translation); the Department of First Stories; Black Mask (featuring mean-streets crime and dark suspense); Jon L. Breen’s award-winning book review; and Bill Crider’s Blog Bytes (which reviews mystery/crime-fiction blogs and Web sites).
EQMM stories include scores of award winners (more than any other publication in the field): among them Edgar, Agatha, Shamus, Anthony, Derringer, Macavity, Barry, Aruthur Ellis, and Robert L. Fish award winners. Because of the high literary quality of the stories published, the magazine’s appeal extends beyond the mystery/crime genre and attracts many readers who are simply in search of good short stories.
Readers:
Meredith Anthony, “Murder on the Main Line” (July 2008)
S. J. Rozan, “Silverfish” (March/April 2009)
Sarah Weinman, “Boy Inside the Man” (May 2007)
Elizabeth Zelvin, “Death Will Tie Your Kangaroo Down” (August 2009)

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,