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In our August issue: EQMM's August issue is jam-packed with stories from the field's top writers. Jan Burke leads the issue with "The Fallen," the tale of a cop struggling to balance faith, trust, and love. A legendary writer from the past appears next, as Passport to Crime features another puzzler from Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges's classic "Death and the Compass." MWA Grand Master Mickey Spillane is also highlighted (posthumously) in his EQMM debut, made possible through the work of collaborator Max Allan Collins, who has adapted the 1953 Spillane radio thriller "There's a Killer Loose!" for our Black Mask section. Another MWA Grand Master, Edward D. Hoch, continues (posthumously, this time) his 35 year unbroken streak of publication in our magazine with "The War in Wonderland," a tale published recently in Britain but never before seen in the U.S. Hoch's characteristic sleight-of-hand dazzles the reader as murder at an English army outpost during World War Two is investigated.
Continuing the stellar lineup, the much-lauded Barbara Cleverly brings back her series sleuth, architect Ellie Hardwicke, who is doubly pleased with her dashing Detective Inspector date when they find a corpse at "A Black-Tie Affair." Later in the issue Nancy Pickard, an author the San Diego Union calls "one of today's best writers," introduces "A Nice Old Guy" to a wealthy, sweet old woman in a Florida coffee shop. Another gripping story with a Southern setting is O'Neil De Noux's new case for his popular New Orleans cop John Raven Beau: Out of the city on a relaxing antiquing trip, Beau finds himself in the midst of a modern "Bonnie and Clyde Caper." And the Crescent City features again in John Edward Ames's "Stone Boy Kicked That Blood Clot Around," in which a popular spiritualist's double-crossing bodyguard stirs up trouble. A bodyguard's role comes into question in Shamus Award winner Brendan DuBois's latest P.I. caper as well, as his sleuth, breaking from her usual type of work, unwittingly joins her client on a "Run for Justice."
Rounding out the issue, one of the most original of recent amateur sleuths, Kevin Pulaski, a 1940s hot-rodder and auto mechanic, investigates a hit-and-run in small-town Indiana in James H. Cobb's "Body and Fender." Finally, our Department of First Stories spotlights lawyer-turned-writer Thomas Humphrey, whose courtroom experience informs "Shooting the Moon," his lively tale of a most outrageous defense for murder.
"All of us at EQMM are profoundly saddened by the loss of Ed Hoch, long-time author and friend."
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