One of the great pleasures of producing Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is that we’re able to offer stories that feature a range of interesting protagonists. Sure, we love our cops and P.I.s, but in just this issue, we also have a PhD working as a janitor, a beach bum, a movie production designer, and a management consultant. Each brings their own history, skills, and expertise to the investigations they pursue.

T. Lawton holds down the police procedural spot in this issue with “Murder Alley,” set during Prohibition, while Matthew Wilson’s procedural takes us to postwar Germany in “A Widow’s Suitors.” Steve Liskow features a cop sidelined by injury who’s alerted to an investigation by his physical therapist in “I Ain’t Got No Home.” An aggrieved father with a gun in his pocket seeks vengeance in Bill Pronzini’s “The Back End of Nowhere,” while sibling kidnap victims turn the tables on their captors in Mat Coward’s humorous tale “Come Forth and Be Glad in the Sun.”

Wheel of Fortune
by Bill Cameron

Had he cared to fit in with the other custodians, he might have groused, “I’ve run the buffer up this hallway more times than my daddy whipped me.” But that would be a lie, for Caspar Bresman had never known his father, and he was a diligent recordkeeper. READ MORE

The Angler’s Guide to Walleye Ice Fishing
by Mark Thielman

Finding the walleye is often the most challenging part of
successful fishing. Understand what goes on
beneath the surface of the lake.
The Angler’s Guide to Walleye Ice Fishing

The key to ice fishing was learning to wait. Mavis’s trip proved the worth of patience. Here at the lake, Bill had awakened. In the beginning, he had been sullen. READ MORE