Earlier this year we added a magazine to the shelves that we were certain was going to be a big hit: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I can't help but feel that the reason no one has checked out so much as a single issue has to be due to location and size. It's a tiny little magazine on a low shelf in the far left corner, and I think it just doesn't get noticed. So I am taking this little wallflower under my wing and trying to set it up on a date with you.
Ellery Queen has been publishing the best in mystery and detective short stories for over 60 years. Some famous names in fiction have appeared in the pages of EQ over the years - Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer - and that tradition continues today. Just looking over some of the authors who have been featured this summer, I have come across many names that are currently on our fiction shelves. If you are a fan of authors like Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman and Peter Lovesey, you will find unique short stories from them and from up-and-coming authors who may be new to you. The cover art may put you off a bit, since they're going for the pulp fiction look. But the publishing house Hard Case Crime has been reviving the hardboiled detective genre that was made popular by authors like Mickey Spillane, so if you've enjoyed the nostalgia trip through the fifties and sixties, you'll find the covers of EQ fun. But, as always, don't judge a book by it's cover - open it up and dive into some of the best detective fiction around.
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