Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine - May/June 2024

In this issue

You can learn a lot from murder (at least, the entertaining kind you find in these pages). The psychology of the calculating criminal, the explosiveness of the crime of passion, the cool rationality of the investigator, or the emotional fallout of the event all offer the reader valuable lessons in human nature and its passions. Here for your edification, then, are fourteen tales of murder and mayhem: School is in session.
A veteran of grief and homelessness schools a widower on important life lessons in the face of despair in Mark Thielman’s “Streetwise.” Kevin Egan’s court officer checks in on a colleague’s freshman son and discovers a scam targeting naïve students in “Foxx Goes to College.” A professor learns the extent of his students’ valor when their classroom is taken over by two gunmen in “Dark Equation” by Michael Nethercott. An actor from a beloved, long ago children’s program learns you can’t escape the past in “Professor Pie Is Going To Die” by Robert Lopresti. LaToya Jovena’s busy working mom has learned a thing or two over the years, lessons that come in handy when she’s kidnapped in “Downhill.”
A WWI soldier’s poem about life in the trenches sets off explosive events in “Verses on the Vesle” by Chris Muessig. Radio commentator Philip St. Pierre lures a colleague into going undercover at a tony New York City mansion to unmask WWII German spies in Terence Faherty’s “Margo and the Femme Fatale.” Three friends in a cozy London club dissect a miscarriage of justice stemming from a long-ago murder in Liverpool in “What The Hell Has It Got to Do with Me” by John Paxton Sheriff.