A Word From the Editor
The Fall/Winter Issue and an Anniversary
Welcome to the Fall/Winter Issue of Mysterical-E which contains some treats for the mystery fan. This Fall marks the Tenth Anniversary of the publication of Murder on Camac, the first in my Marco Fontana Mysteries series. MURDER ON CAMAC When author Helmut Brandt is killed in an apparent mugging, his …
Stories
The Silver Sleuths and The Mystery of the Missing Reading Glasses
“Have you seen my reading glasses, Barb?” “Yes, Bernie, I have,” said Barb Silver with a sigh. They’re perched on top of your forehead…” Barb, Bernie’s wife of 30 years and his business partner in Silver Investigations since its founding five years ago, had heard this inquiry from Bernie many …
Stories
“Why do you call this contest ‘Chipped’?” Kenneth asked. He sat in the back row, his cup of green tea resting on the table in the corner booth of the Perky Bean Coffeehouse. Most days, he’d sit here teaching online classes in psychology. He’d returned this evening for the town’s …
Stories
Ashling stared at the pear shaped diamond glittering on her finger and then at the table which she had set with her grandmother’s fine china and sterling silver. She had covered the table with a white linen tablecloth from one of the most exclusive stores in Dublin. Everything was perfect …
Stories
“After your cousin chopped off the guy’s hand, the guy ran away, bled out, and died,” my mother said. Your cousin. That’s what she called Marcus when he did something wrong, like getting arrested for disorderly conduct. When he did something right, like graduating from high school, she hailed him …
Stories
It was a typical, snowy February evening in Rochester, New York. I was properly dressed for the snow and for my date with Anna Rizzo, a pretty Italian girl with dark, expressive eyes, a pleasant figure, and a sweet smile. This was the Rochester of the 1960s, and I had …
Stories
Being an actress is an arduous job, dear Reader, especially when someone murders one of your fellow players and the performance is canceled. Lady Bracknell was killed during our fourth rehearsal of The Importance of Being Earnest. Our sponsors were furious because all the advance ticket sales had to be …
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Harry Carvel tearfully handed Detective Morin at the police station a photo of his wife, Eunice, seated in a chair, bound and gagged. “I got this in the mail today.” His voice was barely audible. “Please do all you can to find her.” The detective studied it and handed it …
Stories
Grandma What New Teeth You Have
She stood in a foot of snow. Her cheap winter boots etched black quotation marks on the winter whiteness. A set of tire tracks stretched into the distance. A pick-up truck hurried away. The sound of its motor died. The sun’s brightness on the snow hurt her eyes, made her …
Stories
The young woman's body was dumped unceremoniously on the side of the road as though it were a bag of trash ready for the morning pick up. Her left arm was bent back behind her, at an angle that it was never meant to be. One of the bones of …
Columns
New Gay Mystery Titles for 2019, Part Two
December – Dead On Your Feet (Stan Kraychik Mystery Book 3) by Grant Michaels - A cute guy is killed; an unappealing one makes advances; and Stan and Rafik have relationship tussles. Then, Stan and the killer meet up in a fabulous balconied penthouse one last time … and discovers …
Columns
Thank Goodness for TV and Movies
This column is scheduled to run in December, but I'm writing it before U.S. Thanksgiving, especially thankful I don't have any struggling shows to report on in need of ratings boosts. The fall's new crime shows that interest me have all received full-season pickups. BATWOMAN - I'm intrigued by The …
Columns
The simultaneous crash of our TV and our DVD player a few months ago left us film-deprived but coping, with the help of the late night political talk shows that we accessed on our computer. So thank you CNN and MSNBC Of course we went to the movies on those rare occasions …
Interviews
Lisa Regan is the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series as well as several other crime fiction titles. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Master of Education Degree from Bloomsburg University. She is a member of Sisters In Crime, Mystery …
Interviews
An Interview with Lida Sideris
Lida Sideris’ first stint after law school was a newbie lawyer’s dream: working as an entertainment attorney for a film studio…kind of like heroine, Corrie Locke. Unlike Corrie, Lida has never been blackmailed, never investigated a suspicious death, an alien encounter, a catnapping, a missing corpse or been involved in …
