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OVER 80 YEARS OF AWARDS
370 nominations from the breadth of the mystery genre
113 award-winning stories
Edgar, Agatha, Barry, Derringer, Arthur Ellis, Robert L. Fish, Macavity, Shamus, Thriller, Anthony, and more.
FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. My editorship of EQMM began in the summer of 1991 following a call from then editor Eleanor Sullivan, who was helping in the search for her successor. I was mystery-fiction editor at Walker & Company at the time, and had charge of a series of anthologies of EQMM stories. The connection would provide an entrée to a whole new world of publishing.
ABOUT EQMM
Launched in 1941, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine set the standard for the modern crime and mystery short story. EQMM offers outstanding literary quality, an expansive reach across the whole range of mystery and crime fiction, and a global orientation in its story selection.
AUTHOR’S CORNER
Meet Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s authors! In addition to discovering an impressive Who’s Who of internationally renowned writers, you’ll learn about authors in the current issue, read what they have to say at the EQMM blog, and more. Visit often—there’s always something new!
The January/February 2025 issue marks not only our time to celebrate the winter holidays, honor Sherlock Holmes’s birthday, and ring in the new year, but it is also EQMM’s 1,000th issue! And we offer plenty over which to toast in each category, such as “No Title, No Clout” by Marcelle Dubé, which takes place around a winter festival in the Yukon; “The Greek Interpreter,” part of Terence Faherty’s Sherlockian parody series, and “The Ellery Queen Job” by Peter Lovesey, set in the real EQMM office of the 1980s. With stories by Joyce Carol Oates (“Swiss Army Knife”) and Charlaine Harris (“The One That Got Away”), this issue would make the perfect gift for any reader.
THE CRIME SCENE
Get the latest news, enjoy stories only available here, check out Editor Janet Hutchings’ blog, enjoy engaging podcasts, view the photo gallery of EQMM personalities. Check it out.
The Ellery Queen Job
by Peter Lovesey
“So what’s this job we’re gonna pull?”
“Did I say anything about a job?”
Duke and Chuck, the go-to guy and the get-in guy, were New York crooks turned hot and bothered by the sweltering August of 1984, when the super-rich and executives had migrated to the Hamptons, leaving empty properties that cried out to be broken into—if only the owners had forgotten to activate their alarm systems. READ MORE
The One that Got Away
by Charlaine Harris
Noah Bernard had no idea I was following him. I’d gotten good at it in the past few years. I’d slipped from housecleaning to being a private detective without much of a ripple. Both required attention to detail and showing up on time. And both brought order out of chaos.
I enjoyed detecting much more. READ MORE
