Showing posts with label Mystery Weekly Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery Weekly Magazine. Show all posts
Sunday, October 31, 2021
SleuthSayers: The Women in my Writing World by R. T. Lawton
SleuthSayers: The Women in my Writing World: Kathleen Jordan Thinking to give AHMM one more try back in the year 2000, I went to their website to see what type of story they wanted. Ka...
Saturday, October 16, 2021
SleuthSayers: Mystery Magazine by John Floyd
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Review: Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2019
The intense and chilling short story “The Box” by Paul D. Marks
begins the Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2019 issue and is referenced in
the cover art. Brett is the focus of attention by Sergeant Lomax, Deputy
District Attorney Alex Garza, and others who believe he murdered Julie Molina.
He keeps telling them he didn’t do it and they keep saying he did while his
entire life begins to fall apart.
“Sergeant Spinge and The Locked-Room Mystery” by Rob Nisbet is as
advertised by the title with a touch of science fiction and humor thrown into
the mix. Thanks to “Precog Flakes” which are a cereal with, all the usual stuff
of no added salt and eighteen essential flakes, some stuff that helps the eater
think better. After three robberies in as many days, the one man police force
of the Witchmarsh Constabulary needs all the help he can get. Then the thief
strikes again.
Jeffery Scott Sims’ “The Search For Doctor Vane” takes readers to
an inhospitable and feared place known as Ironfang Island. The small group led
by Professor Anton Vorchek is on a search for the good doctor because Vorchek
claims that Doctor Wallis Vane had consulted him on a project that was looking
into an aspect of local folklore and history. Vorchek says that Vane was
vanished while on Ironfang Island and wants to find him and ascertain what
happened. Locals know it is best to stay away from the place and yet a paying
job is money so one local with a boat as agreed to act as a ferry and guide for
Doctor Vane, his assistant, and two grad students.
Ervin Biggs can certainly dress well in “Evidence” by Dennis
Palumbo. That is a good sign as the blackmailer knows that Erwin Briggs killed
Larry Walker. One would think an attorney would have been better at concealing
what he did. His mistake is going to mean Ervin Biggs is going to pay a lot of
money to keep his secret.
“Gold, Jewels, Art, My Father” by David Rachels spins a tale where
the Dad always tells the son, usually after a few drinks, a fantastical story
about contents buried out in the background. He always warns the son not
to ever go digging in the backyard. The son really should have listened.
Sergeant Hagen is working in the cybercrimes unit when he works to
get the creeps that go after young girls. In “Hi! I’m Heather” by Thomas
Millstead, the cyber decoy is working very well. The latest suspect is becoming
quite the problem very rapidly.
Jenna has a job to do in “Storey” by Eric Cline. She is to go purchase
from private collectors any artwork by the legendary Storey. She is to do this
on behalf of a certain buyer who wishes to remain anonymous for a good reason.
The case revolves around a stolen bottle of wine in “For The Love
Of Wine” by Tatiana Claudy. Officer Vera Orloff and Officer Raymond Holland are
supposed to investigate the theft of a bottle of very expensive rare wine from
the wine collector, Gregory Rumden. They do so in this “You-Solve-It” mystery.”
As always, the
issue concludes with the detailed solution to “You-Solve-It” from the preceding
month. In this case, the answer to the April 2019 mystery, “Imperceptible” by
Susan Sundwall.
From the very first issue, Mystery Weekly Magazine has featured
mysteries covered the vast range of the mystery spectrum. Mysteries in this one
may be cozy or hardboiled in style, may have a touch of adventure, a hint of
the paranormal, a splash of futuristic science fiction, or something else that
adds flavor and spice to the tale. This is not a narrowly focused niche
magazine. Variety among several very good tales has always been the deal here
and that continues with the Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2019
issue. It is another good one.
Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2019
April 30, 2019
ASIN: B07RC8XS93
eBook (also available in print)
123 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 ©2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Review: Mystery Weekly Magazine: April 2019
Bond Elam’s “The Persistence of Illusion” starts things off in the
Mystery
Weekly Magazine: April 2019 issue. Detective Harry Sturgis occasionally
experiences a moment where it seems like the world has shifted in some way and
he is on another planet. He is having one such moment as he faces Professor Garrison’s
gun. It all started because he was assigned a cold case to solve.
It has taken him a year to get to this specific moment. A year of
anticipation and planning in “Honey’s Turn” by Michael Cahlin and Beth Slick.
He isn’t the only one who has been planning this past year.
Wrestling has always been a hard job and doing the circuit for
little money in 1976 was tough. For Jack Welch “One Night At The Pine Lake Motel”
is going to cost way more than the eighteen dollars he paid to get the room
key. Blu Gilliand takes readers back to the way it was before the WWE exploded
and made a lucky few wrestlers rich.
Kent has been playing the undercover game for six years now at the
Sun Meadows Mobile Home Estates. In “Paper Soldier” by Al Onia, the disguise
has held so far and nobody is the wiser. At least, that has been the case until
now.
Ben is back home and visiting his parents just in time for the
annual town event. He brought Sarah with him in “Tangerines and Wild Garlic” by
Steve Toase. Tradition must be honored and the festival, which dates back
before the Norman invasion, will go on even if at least one outsider is
present.
She came looking in the small bar in Boulder Creek for one Charlie
Kane. She had good reason in “Andromeda Smiled” by C. W. Blackwell. Back in the
day Detective Charlie Kane found Lacy Howell giving the family and the public a
rare feel good story where somebody missing was reunited with family and loved
ones. Blaze Moonriele has come to the bar seeking Charlie’s help in finding her
sister, Andie.
No One knows why the pawn broker died in “Imperceptible” by Susan
Sundwall. Hank Gates was healthy and yet died in his sleep in this “You-Solve-It”
mystery. Detective Pauline Ritter and Sergeant Dan McKinney are on the case and
begin by talking to the surviving business partner, Pete Winters.
The issue closes with the solution to the March “You-Solve-It”
puzzle titled “A Flap Over A Ring” by Jenna Weart.
Mystery Weekly Magazine: April 2019 is another mix of intriguing mystery stories across the wide
ranging mystery spectrum. As readers have come to expect, the tales in the
latest issue are complicated and use a variety of settings to achieve enjoyment
for the reader from start to finish. Mystery Weekly Magazine: April 2019
delivers that on every page.
Mystery Weekly Magazine: April 2019
March 30, 2019
ASIN: B07Q7TKH38
eBook (also available in print)
118 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 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
©2019
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