Welcome to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine! Each issue of our print publication is packed with new mystery short stories — at least seven, varying in length from short-shorts to novellas — and one "Mystery Classic" — an outstanding tale from the genre's past. Every type of mystery fiction is represented, from the classic whodunit to the hardboiled tale to suspense — and everything in between! For a taste of what’s inside the print issue, see our story excerpts, author interviews, profiles of mystery bookstores, and a mystery puzzle. Subscribe today!
Breaking News! AHMM is teaming up with The Wolfe Pack, the official Nero Wolfe appreciation society, to sponsor a new annual writing prize, The Black Orchid Novella Award, to honor an unpublished work of fiction written in the tradition of the Nero Wolfe mystery stories by Rex Stout. Rex Stout was a master of the novella form and published dozens of novellas featuring the corpulent and irascible detective Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin. Today, the novella is uncommon, though AHMM has a long tradition of publishing novellas. For more information on the contest, including submission guidelines, go to www.NeroWolfe.org.
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This time of year, if you've had it with crowds in the mall and piped-in carols, too many candy canes and too much forced cheer, then our holiday double issue may be the antidote for you with its fourteen tales of crime and its consequences. This month's stories include some mobsters on a mission (see Jas. R. Petrin's "Nothing Is Easy," excerpted here) and a satisfyingly snarky post-campaign tale of politicians (John M. Floyd's "Remembering Tally," excerpted here). Whether it's something dark and noirish or light and cosy, this month's issue provides a holiday sampler of criminous tales.
We also have mystery book reviews by Robert C. Hahn, a challenging, mystery-themed acrostic puzzle, and our ever popular Mysterious Photo short-short contest. J. Rentilly's Reel Crime column also returns this month for a look at the new television series True Blood and Life on Mars.
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Brimstone P.I.
by Beverle Graves Myers
The poke of a pitchfork punctured my dream bubble of floating on cool, blue water. Suddenly, my back remembered it was lying on a bed of ten-inch nails, and my throat gagged on fumes wafting off the mountain of flaming bitumen…
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by John M. Floyd
Art by Kelly Denato
"Try to look impressed, sir," Fenton whispered.
J. Talmadge Byrd snorted as they stood in the office doorway. It was his first visit to what his campaign staff called their "blue-collar location"-a large, seedy-looking room on the second floor of a West Side office building.…
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Nothing Is Easy
by Jas. R. Petrin
Art by Hank Blaustein
"Look," Lenny Lorpa said, hunching a little closer to Skig, thin fingers working nervously at the chipped surface of Skig's kitchen table, "twenny big ones an' I'm back in the game. Eight points, Skig, I'll give you eight..…
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A Mysterious Photograph contest — Submit your 250-word story inspired by an imagination-stirring photograph. The winning story is published in a future issue.
An intriguing, and challenging, mystery-themed puzzle.
Booked and Printed — Book reviews of interest to mystery readers.
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