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Title: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery
Magazine
Series: July/August 2012
Editor:
Linda Landrigan
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Crime Fiction
Pages: 207
Words:
81K
With this being a double issue of the magazine, there were more stories, but there was a longer novella size story at the end, a story that won the Black Orchid novella award. Some award given by hoity toity gate keepers of Rex Stout’s stories, ooh lah lah. Whatever, I stick my thumb in their eyes and drag their pathetic brains out, as they writhe in agony while I watch them slowly die.
I was fully prepared to hate that novella, just for winning. But you know what? It was decent. “I” never would have given it an award, but it did help bring the quality of writing up for this magazine.
More stories helped though. Made me feel like I was reading one of Hitchcock’s old anthology books instead of a dodgy ezine.
This was interesting enough that I’ll try the next one.
★★★☆☆
Table of Contents:
Department: EDITOR'S NOTE: DETECTION ON THE DOUBLE by Linda Landrigan
Department: THE LINEUP
Fiction: THE BEST THING FOR THE LIVER by Janice Law
Fiction: AUTUMN CHILL by John H. Dirckx
Fiction: MARLEY'S RESCUE by John C. Boland
Department: MYSTERIOUS PHOTOGRAPH
Fiction: DEATH ON THE RANGE by Elaine Menge
Fiction: ASSIGNMENT IN CLAY by Donald Moffitt
Fiction: BURNING DAYLIGHT by David Edgerley Gates
Fiction: TIGHTENING OF THE BOND by R. T. Lawton
Fiction: GHOST NEGLIGENCE by John Shepphird
Department: BOOKED & PRINTED by Robert C. Hahn
Fiction: 364 DAYS by John R. Corrigan
Black Orchid Novella Award: INNER FIRE by Jolie McLarren Swann
Department: THE STORY THAT WON
Department: COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2012
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