Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine - July/August 2022

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Summer, when any body of water offers opportunity for drowning, any mountain offers cliffs to push someone off, and any piece of sporting equipment offers potential uses not contemplated in the rules of the game. Several stories in this issue bring adventure and travel to the forefront, starting with Mary Angela’s “Five Bullet Friday,” in which a travel agent’s vocation comes with deadly consequences. New York City is the setting for the murder of a transplant from Iowa in “Death Will Take the High Line” by Elizabeth Zelvin. A hiker on a scavenger hunt finds danger in Maurissa Guibord’s thriller “Dead Letterbox.” A rookie cop in Hawaii has the wrong kind of romantic encounter in Albert Tucher’s “The Conversation Killer.” A stop at a greasy spoon and a poker game with bikers prove fortuitous for Peter Colt’s private eye in “Ladies and Deuces.” And Ecuador is the setting for Tom Larsen’s series featuring wily Capitán Guillén, who in “El Chico Maravilla” finds himself set up to take the fall for a murder. An aging actor known for a horror flick finds himself in real-life terror in Michael Mallory’s “Iguana Don.” In Rob Lopresti’s “The Lord of Falling Objects,” superpowers aren’t quite like in the movies. And a private investigator in the hospital solves a murder in Josh Pachter’s “Vampire Shift.” We welcome J.M. Taylor this month with a story of love and work in “Florence Uglietta Solari: A Full Life in 19 Fragments.” Janice Law brings us a tale of a sharp co-ed and her cat in “The Fitz.” Mark Thielman’s “Spud Stud” P.I. is back on the job at a turkey bowling competition in “A Case of Fowl Play.” And it turns out that the passing of years hardly dampens the shock of betrayal when South African ex-pats learn that a woman they considered a comrade had been a double agent in Linda Mannheim’s tale “The Confession.” Finally, this issue also features “The Man Who Went Down Under” by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, the 15th winner of our Black Orchid Novella Award.