Mystery Weekly Magazine: February 2018 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues)

At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world's best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty. Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery. In our feature story, Gary Cahill's "... On A Two-Way Street ...," a New York City bagman runs afoul of gunmen on a Cape Cod beach and into a femme who is fatale in just the right measure. While entertaining at a child's birthday party, a young woman becomes embroiled in the secrets of suburbia in "Magic Cat And The Girl In The Shadows" by Jack Bates. In Justin Rempel's "My Favourite Fungus," we are presented with a puzzle to unravel. Small towns are simple places. Their streets run in grid-like patterns. So why can he not find her? "I Gave Them The Finger" by Chad Lutzke takes us on a wild goose chase when a man finds a finger in his front yard and investigates the neighborhood to find the owner. "A Letter For The Bayou" by Craig A. Strickland gives us a poignant tale of an old detective hoping to spend his retirement with poetry and a quiet life. But when the peace of the Southern bayou in his backyard is violently shattered, suddenly he finds himself back on duty.