Mystery Weekly Magazine June 2019

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. "Squeezer And Bongo" by Terrie Farley Moran is our cover feature asking the question--when the loathsome bully from your high school days traipses into your successful law office babbling about murder, are you sorry he is the suspect and not the victim? "The Other Woman" by Michael Thomas Smith is spotted by a nosy neighbor and she gets more than she bargained for when she believes she spots an affair across the street. In "A Locked Co-Op Mystery" by Merrilee Robson, the mayor was alone in the locked apartment where his family had once lived. The crowd of people outside had seen him go in and would swear no one had gone in before or after him. But he was dead. In "The Calm" by Ken Hueler, judgment and crime go together. This might be a crime story, or it might be a supernatural one, depending on whether you decide the man lived after driving off the road. And what judgment does he deserve? "Russian Dolls" by Eliot Hudson is a psychological thriller told from the perpetrator's own twisted imagination. In "Buick" by Bob Tippee, an intelligent? Buick Lacross manipulates its occupants into conducting misdeeds according to their existing natures. Who can you trust? Is anyone who they appear to be? Find out in the spy thriller, "Interdiction" by Michael A. Clark.