Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - May/June 2024

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The May/June 2024 issue of EQMM shows off the creative drive of characters in many artistic realms—and reminds us that this type of passion can lead to crime. Doug Allyn’s Upper Peninsula contractor can’t resist the opportunity to take on a historic renovation, but he isn’t the only one interested in “Capone’s Castle.” “Where’s Dookie?” by Gregory Fallis involves a unique visual-arts practice, and “Bermuda Triangle” by Michael Bracken a priceless musical instrument. “Blood and Butter” by Tyler Fiecke hits the “hot” spot of the culinary arts, and once again Antonia Darcy’s crime-writing career gets her caught up in a mystery in R.T. Raichev’s “Blind Witness.”
“A New Weariness” by Anna Scotti is another major turning point for her librarian on the run, and it involves movie-making, while “Maternity Leave” by LaToya Jovena involves a character’s love of fashion and her book club.
In “Seppuku” by Geneviève Blouin (Passport to Crime), an outcast Montreal detective takes a look at “a death scene resembling a contemporary work of art,” and upstages her colleagues, while in Josh Pachter’s “Texas Kinda Attitude,” a P.I. and music lover helps out the owner of a local laundromat. Bill Pronzini’s protagonist in “Friends” deals with a frame—but not the type you’d put a painting in, while Michael Kardos’s “Quick Change” involves the art of magic.
Celestial bodies may be traditional muses, but in Randall Silvis’s “And the Moon Disappears,” things go awry from the start. Artificial intelligence seems to find its own inspiration and proves dangerous in Twist Phelan’s “Artificial Hearts.”