Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine - March/April 2024

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A key element to the success of both a crime and a mystery story is misdirection: The criminal attempts to cast suspicion on others, the writer seeks to keep the reader guessing whodunit. In this issue we once again gather together tales that are anything but straight and narrow, but we won’t lead you astray in your pursuit of pleasurable reading.
In our lead story this issue, Sherlock Holmes’s chronicler, Dr. John Watson, is traveling in north Wales for the opening of the Snowdon Mountain Railway when a celebrated mountain climber, obscured by the thick mists, falls to his death in “The Mists of Yr Wyddfa” by James Tipton. Winter weather is just one enemy a grandfather encounters when he stops to aid a young motorist in trouble on an isolated Canadian highway in Marcelle Dubé’s story “The Boy.” A woman struggling to meet the needs of her family confronts the fog of dementia when her mother is visited by a confused stranger in “4th Floor Alice” by Mary Angela Honerman. Avaricious televangelists are no match for the exploits of a clever P.I. and his crew in “For Lydia” by James A. Hearn. In John F. Dobbyn’s story “The Moment of Truth,” the mists clear from a young bullfighter’s eyes when he learns the truth of his idol’s death in the ring. When the smoke clears, a fatal workplace mishap nudges a police detective’s memory in “Hindsight” by Chris Muessig.
Bob Tippee’s procedural pairs a crusty detective used to working alone with a rookie with some new ideas in “Ancillaries.” Ecuadoran detective Ernesto Guillén takes on a family problem for the mayor in “La Hermana del Alcade” by Tom Larsen. National treasures are at stake in Mark Thielman’s caper “Sfortuna,” set in Venice.