Publisher's Synopsis
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 issue:
Stories filled with tricksters, femme fatales, dirty dealers, greedy relatives and slippery suspects.
In our cover feature, Bartholomew Blunt and Samuel Sharpe team up in the first of what they hope will be a series of adventures, "The Case Of The Jagged Edge" by Benjamin Mark.
In "The Dirtman" by Tony Deans, Johnny Turner is a world class dirtman. However when a mobster twists his arm into working for him, Johnny finds himself in a world of dirty cops, gunmen and psychotic criminals. This time he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
"Mutatis Mutandis" by Donald J. Bingle is a gold fever adventure that proves having more than you need does not preclude wanting more and risking all.
In "Within An Heir's Breath Of Death" by C. L. Cobb, a down-in-her-luck addict attends the deathbed of her errant uncle-and learns there is more to dying than death. Sometimes much more.
In "Foot Chase" by H.K. Slade, brand-new deputy Josh Tumblewhite had no idea when he made a routine traffic stop that he was going to be interrupting a human trafficking case. When the suspect takes off running, the rookie will have to use his brains as well as his feet to catch him.
In "Stumped" by Gary Pettigrew a well-meaning, newly-appointed village policeman stumbles though a cosy English mystery set in the 1920s.
The body of a former colleague is discovered in the aftermath of a car fire in Mike McHone's "Burn" and it's up to Detective Molly Fetterly to find the killer. But will the suspects confess to every aspect of the crime, or is Molly chasing smoke?
