Mystery Weekly Magazine: November 2019 is a six-course
smorgasbord of mystery dishes along with a couple of detectable appetizers. As
always, this is a magazine that embraces a wide range of mystery readers and
this issue is no exception.
The issue
opens with “Giving Up The Ghost” by Shea E. Butler. Belle Lopez was a hooker at
one time. These days she is a private investigator. The recently departed, Conrad
Charles, was her client. The problem is that he was really the client of her
mentor and boss, Leo Gillepski, who was also recently murdered. She knew
nothing about the case before his death and Conrad Charles did not tell her
much when she took it over beyond why he had hired Leo. She is sure the cases
are linked and starts poking around and things get really weird.
Heidi is going to marry Greg as “Cold Feet” by Nils Gilbertson
begins and her brother is less than impressed. But Mitch knows how his sister
is and Greg seems to understand her as well. He seems to have had a good
influence on her so Mitch is reserving judgement and hoping for the best. That
is until she starts expressing misgivings about who Greg really is or what he
might be in this technologically crazy world.
Clearly the driver was shot in the head before he crashed the car
in “Midnight In A Sea Of Marble” by Dev Bennett. He wasn’t the only one shot
and killed. Dead guys in a stolen Cadillac SRX are eventually identified as
guys with links to organized crime. A neighborhood canvas is going to be done
for an area the dead guys had a keen interest in acquiring. This is an intense
and complicated story and was my personal favorite in this issue.
The need for a shovel should have clued Nathan Shields into
thinking that things were going to go wrong in a bad way. The fact that the
property was posted should have warned him off as well. Neither did and soon he
was under the glare of police lights and guns in “Digging Up Bones” by Brandon
Abbott.
Things have gone decidedly wrong and now a certain food critic is
very much dead in the historical mystery “Murder On The First Night’s Feast” by
Robert Mangeot. The murder charge is against Vicomete Montvaste and he is in
custody. Now, Madam Feubert and others must put up with an investigation led by
Duplanche who, not only is beneath her in stature and dress, may also be poor
at his job.
If you are going to complain, you need to do it in writing and do
so in a certain way as explained in “To Whom It May Concern” by Kathleen Gerard.
Listen to the expert who parlayed her talent in written complaints into a quite
well-paying gig that improved her quality of life dramatically.
The “You-Solve-It” puzzle this month is “Disappearing Diamonds” by
Peter DiChellis. Ms. Olivia Hadlowe is quite upset and for very good reason.
Her best diamond earrings are gone. She wants them found and can’t have the
police involved. She wants the narrator, a private detective, to find them and to
do so quickly.
The solution to the October “You-Solve-It” puzzle “Cater-Wail” by
Laird Long brings the issue to a close.
The eight in total tales here on all good ones. Like any good
mystery, each one is far more complicated than the brief synopsis here would
suggest. Variety is the spice with this publication, and such is the case here
with Mystery Weekly Magazine: Nov 2019. It is well with your time
and money.
For quite some time now I have been gifted a subscription by the publisher with no expectation at all of a review. I 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 ©2020
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