Mystery Weekly Magazine : April 2021

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:
Scott Von Doviak's "A Dark Place On The Strand" is our cover feature this month: A hit man hired to kill a client's wife makes a better deal for himself, but learns the hard way that double-crosses can backfire.
In "Weather Days" by Blu Gilliand, everybody thinks they know what happened to Becky the day the tornado struck Hadleyville, Alabama. Her brother has a different idea, one he keeps buried ... except for those days when the skies boil over with black clouds and thunder shakes the ground.
After a stroke, a lover of music develops a recognized disorder called "Amusia" by Brad Munson And Bruce McAllister.
In "Absence Of Evidence" by M.C. Tuggle, Treka Dunn, an investigator with the Medical Examiner's office, doesn't believe Ron Washburn when he claims his father was murdered. All the evidence points to natural causes. But then Ron mentions one seemingly minor detail that changes everything.
"Ghost Of A Ghost" by Martin Hill Ortiz: P.I. Phillip Prince learns that his client is trying to kill him-even after the client's death.
"Full Service" by Bruce Arthurs: Hank was a crippled old man living alone in a dying desert town. The gunman thought he was helpless.
"The Butler Didn't Do It" Adam Beau Mcfarlane: If P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves solved a crime, then it might be a story similar to this cozy.
E.M. Schorb presents "A Man Of Conscience" with murder on his mind meets a terrorist on the heavily misted streets of London.
Custom Cover Art by Robin Grenville Evans.