Thom Bennett

Melanie Allen

Bruce Harris

Peter DiChellis

Tom Tolnay

Tapanga Koe

Kevin Garvey

Rhonda Howard

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 our feature mystery, a jaded Edwardian Inspector follows a bloody trail through secret passages in "A Gastleigh Curse" by Melanie Atherton Allen. A claimed suicide leads a young detective on a dangerous investigation against some powerful players in "Smiling Gnome" by J. Michael Major. Borrowing money can lead to terrible consequences, even between relatives in "Uncle Charlie And The Passport" by Thom Bennett. Have you ever wanted to be a detective? How hard can it be? Even a blind man can solve a mystery in "Darkness, Darkness" by Peter DiChellis. A psychic foresees her death and it relates to an abundance of coincidences in "The Date" by Bruce Harris. Watch out editors! Too many rejections can lead to a desperate writer in "Publish Or Perish" by Kevin Z. Garvey. She is waiting for her transient brother to return, but death is in someone's future in "Landscaping" by Tapanga Koe. A verbal shoot out pits opinionated tavern patrons against each other in "Gun Control" by Tom Tolnay. Who is deceiving whom in this month's You-Solve-It: "The Red Herring" by Rhonda Howard.

Mystery Weekly Magazine: July 2017

After an exhausting trip across the country, writer Julianne Bentley and her 17 year old twins arrive at their new home in late October. They are drained, cranky and missing their friends and loved ones very much. None of them are thinking about Christmas. To make matters worse, Mr. Bentley can’t join them until late December, and Julianne’s editor-in-chief has just informed her that he doesn’t want just one Christmas story this year. Instead, he needs a dozen different stories for various newspapers in the chain! How in the world is she going to manage twelve in less than seven weeks? Life can’t be more depressing! However, she doesn’t know that just above her, in the old attic, there is a magical surprise just waiting to be discovered. Up there, Julianne will find a box of old Christmas ornaments that will change their lives forever! Enter the world of “The Christmas House” where the Bentley twins will discover new life skills, and Julianne will create seasonal tales of love, loss and laughter that will make you feel as warm as a cup of hot chocolate beside a crackling, winter fire.

12 Tales of Holiday Magic

The Christmas Book

Whatever happened to Ernest Hemingway’s missing manuscripts that disappeared in Paris, 1922? Why was he an undercover submarine hunter in the Caribbean during World War II? Why did he and his wife experience two airplane crashes in Africa, 1954? Why was Hemingway so paranoid that FBI agents were following him shortly before his death? Was it ossible he did not commit suicide in 1961, but lived for more than twenty years? And the most important question of all, who is the man with Hemingway’s face? Join detective Cass Gentry for the most exciting adventure of his career in this 1959 tale of revisionist history. The Man With Hemingway’s Face will take Gentry from Canada’s famous Bigwin Inn to the playground of Miami’s Fontainebleau Hotel, to a mysterious island in the Bahamas, where a mixture of modern science and ancient rituals can make the wildest dreams of the rich and famous come true! Follow Gentry, the hero of The Death Merchants, as he joins forces with gangster Frank Palladino and Frank’s beautiful daughter Eleanor, as they attempt to save the life of America’s Nobel prize winning author in The Man With Hemingway’s Face.

The Man with Hemingway’s Face

Featuring the coming of age novella PROMISES, this eclectic and often surprising collection of short stories will take readers on a trip from the rock and roll 50s through to the end of the century. Romantic, often humorous and sometimes mysterious, PROMISES and Other Tales of White Lies is sure to please readers of every taste. Promises is a poignant tale of young love in the late rock ‘n roll ’50s. It’s romantic, a bit bittersweet, but often tinged with timely humor. Halloween Fog is a nostalgic tale about four young trick-or-treaters who head into a fog-filled night with dreams of goodies in their hearts! When spooky events happen, only Mother can save them. Or will she? A Few Beers and a Few Laughs: It’s Friday night in the ’60s, so join three college students in this madcap comedy of selfish innocence. It’s the final days of their playtime—before graduation and a life of work begins. Eternal Beloved (Original title: The Christmas Reunion): This is no ordinary tale of lost love; it is a mystery that goes beyond the bounds of time and space. It is a tale of love eternal. This story was so popular in Thom’s Christmas collection, he just had to bring it back for his new readers who love romance and mystery. The Wingding Kid: Growing up, The Wingding Kid ran with a gang that included a future mobster named Frank and a future Broadway producer named Charlie. The Kid’s specialty was lying. Years later, The Kid is back in town and lying about the mobster! “If you see The Kid,” Frank says to Charlie, “tell him to stop lying about me, or he’ll be swimming in the Hudson River, wearing cement shoes!” A crooked comedy! Too Many Love Letters: Say hello to gentleman detective Cass Gentry, star of the mystery novels The Death Merchants and The Man With Hemingway’s Face. In this case, he and his girlfriend, Eleanor, are out to discover why a theater employee is getting numerous love letters from men who dislike her. A romantic mystery!

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