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
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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2 comments:
Currently reading this issue, Kevin, up to 'Mop Jockey'. I like the variety in these magazines, too.
Variety is a good thing, in my opinion.
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