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Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018
At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly 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
Tony Parker has a quick and dirty crime with “Lady Dick”: Samantha was a spy and assassin in the war. But now it’s 1947, and she’s trying to make an honest living as a private eye, seducing women’s husbands to give them grounds for divorce. But the cold war is starting, and someone has a more dangerous job offer for her.
“Mop Jockey” by Michael Ayoob shows how a confident, creative mind can efficiently accomplish a task. After witnessing a hate crime on the graveyard shift, a janitor takes it upon himself to seek retribution and blurs the line between justice and revenge.
In “A Detour Down Memory Lane” by John H. Dromey, our favourite amateur sleuth, Molly, is back. To what lengths would Molly Sullivan go to assist a blood relative claiming to be in potential jeopardy? Even if she wanted to help, could she adequately adapt her urban sleuthing skills to a rural setting?
“The Motor Court” by Jennifer Collins Moore is a light cozy mystery. If the police can’t solve this murder, the ladies at the motel will take over the investigation. The sweet old granny in room six wasn’t supposed to find the body, but 86-year-old Betty had as good a motive as anyone for killing the man.
Melodie Campbell provides cross-genre crime fiction with “A Ship Called Pandora.” Years ago, Tosh Molloy made the change from intergalactic smuggler to Witness Protection Marshal. She's particularly good at making people disappear. But now a troublesome showgirl client threatens to upend Tosh’s perfect record …
In “Stars” Peter W. J. Hayes brings back Tank in a crime story with grit and corruption. When a deal goes bad you’ve only got once choice. Get in deeper. It’s the only way to protect the ones you love.
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
Tony Parker has a quick and dirty crime with “Lady Dick”: Samantha was a spy and assassin in the war. But now it’s 1947, and she’s trying to make an honest living as a private eye, seducing women’s husbands to give them grounds for divorce. But the cold war is starting, and someone has a more dangerous job offer for her.
“Mop Jockey” by Michael Ayoob shows how a confident, creative mind can efficiently accomplish a task. After witnessing a hate crime on the graveyard shift, a janitor takes it upon himself to seek retribution and blurs the line between justice and revenge.
In “A Detour Down Memory Lane” by John H. Dromey, our favourite amateur sleuth, Molly, is back. To what lengths would Molly Sullivan go to assist a blood relative claiming to be in potential jeopardy? Even if she wanted to help, could she adequately adapt her urban sleuthing skills to a rural setting?
“The Motor Court” by Jennifer Collins Moore is a light cozy mystery. If the police can’t solve this murder, the ladies at the motel will take over the investigation. The sweet old granny in room six wasn’t supposed to find the body, but 86-year-old Betty had as good a motive as anyone for killing the man.
Melodie Campbell provides cross-genre crime fiction with “A Ship Called Pandora.” Years ago, Tosh Molloy made the change from intergalactic smuggler to Witness Protection Marshal. She's particularly good at making people disappear. But now a troublesome showgirl client threatens to upend Tosh’s perfect record …
In “Stars” Peter W. J. Hayes brings back Tank in a crime story with grit and corruption. When a deal goes bad you’ve only got once choice. Get in deeper. It’s the only way to protect the ones you love.
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First published June 1, 2018
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Mystery Weekly Magazine
108 books1 followernote: In 2022 the magazine changed its name from "Mystery Weekly Magazine" to simply "Mystery Magazine".
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.
Print editions of Mystery Magazine are available on Amazon. You can also ask your local library to carry us on Flipster.
ABOUT US
Chuck Carter Publisher
A graduate of Western University, Chuck has over 20 years experience in Internet software development. He is an award-winning amateur photographer and occasional writer, with his first mystery novel published in 2015 by Cozy Cat Press. He handles our web development, magazine production, marketing, and strategic development.
Kerry Carter Editor
Kerry holds a BA from The University of Manitoba and certificates from Western and Waterloo universities. She is an avid reader of mystery fiction, and is never far from her manual of style. Her responsibilities include copyediting, reading submissions, preparing contracts and paying writers. She also maintains our social media accounts.
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.
Print editions of Mystery Magazine are available on Amazon. You can also ask your local library to carry us on Flipster.
ABOUT US
Chuck Carter Publisher
A graduate of Western University, Chuck has over 20 years experience in Internet software development. He is an award-winning amateur photographer and occasional writer, with his first mystery novel published in 2015 by Cozy Cat Press. He handles our web development, magazine production, marketing, and strategic development.
Kerry Carter Editor
Kerry holds a BA from The University of Manitoba and certificates from Western and Waterloo universities. She is an avid reader of mystery fiction, and is never far from her manual of style. Her responsibilities include copyediting, reading submissions, preparing contracts and paying writers. She also maintains our social media accounts.
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December 17, 2018
The cover story “Lady Dick” starts off the Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018 and it is a good one. After WWII a woman has to put her war time earned skills to work at home in this tale by Tony Parker. It is 1947 and “DC coppers object to me ventilating mugs for adultery.” Well, it is Washington after all.
“A Ship Called Pandora” by Melodie Campbell follows next. A touch of science fiction, a damsel in the need of relocation through the witness protection program, and Tosh Malloy is on the job. Tosh is a very good at safely disappearing witnesses into their new lives. Not a single failure yet. He intends to make very sure that Crystal Starlight will not be his first.
Working the graveyard shift at the Donnelly Street subway station is never a good thing. Even worse when Tucker Clark is in town doing a concert. His brand of country rock seems bring in folks who think it is okay to trash the city. In “Mop Jockey” by Michael Ayoob, things are starting to escalate in a negative way with long lasting repercussions.
Family is not always as great as it is cracked up to be. Molly Sullivan has no interest in going back to Uncle Raymond’s farm in “A Detour Down Memory Lane” by John H. Dromey. When they were kids Liz was no fun then and was pretty much a bully. Molly is pretty sure things have not changed even though they both are adults now. Liz was never was one to take no for an answer and is very much motivated to get Molly to come visit.
The job has gone very wrong and now the man known as “Tank” is in real trouble. At least Tank still has the drugs and the cash if he can make it out of there in “Stars” by Peter W. J. Hayes. Even if he can, the aftermath is sure to be no party.
The body in the dumpster at the Harborside Motor Court was not supposed to be found by Betty. But, she was the one to find it in “The Motor Court” by Jennifer Collins Moore. It is August and all that entails for the body in a dumpster which, in this case, was and is the late and not so lamented Ronnie Murphy. Did the real estate deal with the place get him killed? Maybe so. Maybe not.
The last view Tommy Cevic had was of the wooded valley below. Chances he did not see his killer who was about to fire the fatal shot through the widow. Detective Perkins, as well as the reader, is left to figure it out in the “You-Solve-It” puzzle, “In The Crosshairs” by Laird Long.
Mr. Long also provides the solution to the previous “You-Solve-It” titled “Kidnapped” found in the May 2018 issue. My review of that issue can be found here.
From the striking cover all the way to the last page, Mystery Weekly Magazine June 2018 is another solidly good magazine. Mystery in all its many splendid flavors is welcome in this publication and that is certainly true with this issue as readers are even taken to space in the form of a tale set in a science fiction setting. Full of mystery, Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018 is another solidly good issue well worth your time.
Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018
http://www.mysteryweekly.com
May 29, 2018
ASIN: B07DF6T315
eBook (also available in print)
86 Pages
$2.99
For quite some time now I have been gifted a subscription by the publisher with no expectation at all of a review. I now read and review each issue as I can. To date, I have never submitted anything to this market and will not do so as long as I review the publication.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018
“A Ship Called Pandora” by Melodie Campbell follows next. A touch of science fiction, a damsel in the need of relocation through the witness protection program, and Tosh Malloy is on the job. Tosh is a very good at safely disappearing witnesses into their new lives. Not a single failure yet. He intends to make very sure that Crystal Starlight will not be his first.
Working the graveyard shift at the Donnelly Street subway station is never a good thing. Even worse when Tucker Clark is in town doing a concert. His brand of country rock seems bring in folks who think it is okay to trash the city. In “Mop Jockey” by Michael Ayoob, things are starting to escalate in a negative way with long lasting repercussions.
Family is not always as great as it is cracked up to be. Molly Sullivan has no interest in going back to Uncle Raymond’s farm in “A Detour Down Memory Lane” by John H. Dromey. When they were kids Liz was no fun then and was pretty much a bully. Molly is pretty sure things have not changed even though they both are adults now. Liz was never was one to take no for an answer and is very much motivated to get Molly to come visit.
The job has gone very wrong and now the man known as “Tank” is in real trouble. At least Tank still has the drugs and the cash if he can make it out of there in “Stars” by Peter W. J. Hayes. Even if he can, the aftermath is sure to be no party.
The body in the dumpster at the Harborside Motor Court was not supposed to be found by Betty. But, she was the one to find it in “The Motor Court” by Jennifer Collins Moore. It is August and all that entails for the body in a dumpster which, in this case, was and is the late and not so lamented Ronnie Murphy. Did the real estate deal with the place get him killed? Maybe so. Maybe not.
The last view Tommy Cevic had was of the wooded valley below. Chances he did not see his killer who was about to fire the fatal shot through the widow. Detective Perkins, as well as the reader, is left to figure it out in the “You-Solve-It” puzzle, “In The Crosshairs” by Laird Long.
Mr. Long also provides the solution to the previous “You-Solve-It” titled “Kidnapped” found in the May 2018 issue. My review of that issue can be found here.
From the striking cover all the way to the last page, Mystery Weekly Magazine June 2018 is another solidly good magazine. Mystery in all its many splendid flavors is welcome in this publication and that is certainly true with this issue as readers are even taken to space in the form of a tale set in a science fiction setting. Full of mystery, Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018 is another solidly good issue well worth your time.
Mystery Weekly Magazine: June 2018
http://www.mysteryweekly.com
May 29, 2018
ASIN: B07DF6T315
eBook (also available in print)
86 Pages
$2.99
For quite some time now I have been gifted a subscription by the publisher with no expectation at all of a review. I now read and review each issue as I can. To date, I have never submitted anything to this market and will not do so as long as I review the publication.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018
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