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.
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“Lost And Found” by Paul A. Freeman, DI Williamson and DC Page begin an investigation to find an entrepreneur who vanished without trace after visiting Carson’s Gymnasium.
“Humble Servant” by Victor Kreuiter: A self-ordained preacher, Samuel Harris, ministers to the lost and suffering, those not on the path of righteousness. His charge is to save those souls and deliver them to salvation, be they criminal or otherwise.
“Sweet Gum Head” by Blu Gilliand: A bad man is on the run, lost deep in the maze of Florida swamps and back roads. Unfortunately for him, whatever he's running from is nowhere near as bad as what he's about to run in to.
In “The First Law Of Plumbing” by Josh Pachter, a pair of home invaders learn that things don't always work out for the best.
“No One Goes Out To Eat Anymore” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins: Freelance mailman Mercury Carter finds himself in Toronto on a feel-good mission delivering an elderly woman's once-lost locket, when an alarming comment by the woman about her health leads him down a dark path of rescue.
In “Eye On The Ball” by Paul Vivari, a package stolen off a doorstep in a small town keeps trading hands as a group of criminals try to track it down.
“Words On Wheels” by Michael Bracken: Victoria Huptmann and her Border collie Maximillian spend winters driving Words on Wheels from RV park to RV park along the Texas coast, selling new and used books to Snowbirds escaping Midwestern winters. Then one of her customers is murdered.
“When Baby Cows Go Bad” by O'Neil De Noux: “Most of what we university police officers handle aren’t serious matters, then again, when I was NOPD, we got our share of ‘barking dog’ and ‘cat in a tree’ calls. But no baby cows chasing co-eds.”
“The Affair Of The Wayward Schoolmaster” by Martin Hill Ortiz And Keith Jones: Holmes and Watson investigate a popular school teacher who turned to armed robbery.
“A Messy Murder,” a You-Solve-It By Eric B. Ruark: It had all the earmarks of a bungled robbery, but Sheriff Tracy Hyers, with your help, will get to the bottom of the mystery.
Custom Cover Art By Robin Grenville Evans
