Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

24/12/2024

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19/12/2024

This week we're pleased to feature a special blog post from our editor, Jackie Sherbow, who discusses how she learned to appreciate working from home.

From the editor’s personal collection. Print in frame is of the painting “Murder Mystery” by Margo Hoff (1945). When the COVID-19 quarantine came into effect in the spring of 2020…

12/12/2024

Check out this week's blog post, where journalist Pat Black discusses the unique appeal of reading crime fiction around Christmastime.

If you read EQMM and follow our blog, chances are you’re familiar with Pat Black, the Yorkshire-based journalist who regularly contributes to our magazine. In this special post, Black draws o…

06/12/2024

In this week's blog post, psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo offers some salient advice to writers of all backgrounds

“Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”-Louise Nevelson I have always been struck by this line from Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett’s 1983 novella: “Ever tried. Ever f…

27/11/2024

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Warm wishes and and thanks to all of our readers, contributors, and friends.

14/11/2024

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We’re looking forward to cozying up with a hot beverage and some exciting new mysteries in the months ahead. What will you be reading this winter?

07/11/2024

In this week's blog post, professor David L. Wallace describes his curious travels through the Vermont of Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries

David L. Wallace is a professor of English at Long Beach State University, and he has published a number of articles about the effects of closeting on q***r people. He lives in West Hollywood, CA, …

31/10/2024

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24/10/2024

In this week's blog post, psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo recounts how his experience as a consulting producer on Hulu's "The Patient" bled into his real-life work

Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT is a writer and licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues, primarily in the entertainment industry. His award-winning series of mystery…

10/10/2024

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Fall is arriving in our northeast United States HQ, and we’re thinking about our favorite fall reads. Let us know yours!

03/10/2024

Do you like modern police procedurals? Then check out this week's blog post, where Kevin Mims discusses how TV cops behave nonsensically compared to their real-life counterparts

In today’s post, essayist, short-story writer, prolific reader, and often a blogger on this site Kevin Mims talks about the frustrations of watching contemporary TV police dramas. We all know the f…

26/09/2024

Anthropologist Sue Parman returns to our blog and shares more insight on mystery fiction along with her adventures in the Scottish Hebrides

As I mentioned when Sue Parman first posted on this site a month ago, she is an anthropologist by profession. In that post she pointed out how something she learned through her anthropological…

19/09/2024

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A Shamus, Derringer, and ITW Thriller award-nominated fiction writer, Andrew Welsh-Huggins has produced eight novels in a series starring P.I. Andy Hayes. The latest, Sick to Death, releases this m…

12/09/2024

Check out this week's blog post, where Jim Allyn discusses the complicated role of guns in his own fiction, as well as the history of the United States

Jim Allyn doesn’t write a lot of fiction, but what he does write is always worth reading. Three of his last four stories for EQMM made best-of-the-year collections: see Best American Mystery Storie…

05/09/2024

Learn about the enduring relationship between mysteries and the supernatural in this week's blog post from Sarah Hilary

U.K. crime writer Sarah Hilary makes her EQMM debut in our current issue, September/October 2024, with the unforgettable story “Knock-Knock.” She is, of course, no newcomer to the crime scene. Her …

30/08/2024

Congratulations to Bill Bassman, who has been honored with the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best Short Story for his EQMM tale "Errand for a Neighbor"!

29/08/2024

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Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, and other novels…

22/08/2024

In this week's blog post, find out how Sue Parman's anthropological research inspired her debut story for EQMM, now available in our September/October issue

Sue Parman is an anthropologist by profession and her studies include a Gaelic-speaking community in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. She’s also an award-winning poet, short story writer, memoiri…