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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!
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!
Join EQMM as we close out the year with our page-turning November/December issue. These months are for holidays, friends, and family—for better or worse. The Yuletide cheer is not without the backdrop of a cold chill in “Enough Thank-You” by K.L. Abrahamson, in which a former police officer tries to get out of an alcoholic morass; “Das Bescherkind” by Christiane Dieckerhoff (Passport to Crime), in which an old rite of the season is played out against the backdrop of a teenager’s dilemma; “Twenty Centuries” by James D.F. Hannah, a Hanukkah story that features a female sheriff and a local white-supremacist group; and “Nineteen Forty-Nine” by…
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Enough Thank-You
by K.L. Abrahamson
“Mary! Mary! Open the darned door! I know you’re in there!” The female voice came through the door along with a strident thump, thump, thump.
I groaned, rolled over, and hit the floor, my empty buddies clinking on the coffee table. The floor was cold. So was the air. The flipping fire had gone out. I’d forgotten to fill it before the gin took hold. Again. READ MORE
The Longest Night of the Year
by Melissa Yi
After we spoke to the police—
After I put my mom to bed, surrounded by my aunties—
After I ate and drank to show more aunties that I hadn’t died, even though I spit the food in my napkin, especially the jiaozi. Those were my dad’s favourite. We’d made them for him, joking about how he had to wait for tonight for the Dongzhi Festival—
I headed to Électronique Ly, in Montreal’s Chinatown, before dawn. READ MORE
