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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Our cover story this month features the return of David Edgerley Gates's 1940's West Side wise guy Mickey Counihan. In "Skin and Bones" (excerpted here), Mickey's attempt to do a favor for a friend leads him into unexpectedly deep waters of international politics and arms dealing. This exciting tale climaxes at the site of the soon-to-be-constructed United Nations building.

We are delighted to welcome Robert S. Levinson back to our pages with his story "The Quick Brown Fox," a cautionary tale of how not to deal with writer's block. Also returning to our pages this month is D. A. McGuire's teen sleuth Herbie Sawyer. In "Catch Your Death," McGuire confronts Herbie with some typical-and some not-so-typical-adolescent challenges. He proves himself once again a remarkably astute young man.

We are delighted to welcome Darrell Schweitzer to our pages this month. His story "The Stolen Venus" (excerpted here) casts the Roman historian and statesman Pliny (the Younger) in the detective's role as he investigates activities in the Roman province of Bithynia in order to report to the Emperor Trajan. And making only his second appearance in AHMM is Terrence Faherty, last seen in the November 2007 issue. He returns with a tale of an idyllic Scottish vacation gone wrong in "The Four Castles."

Our Mystery Classic this month is R. Austin Freeman's "The Blue Sequin." Rounding out the issue are our two fine book and film columnists. In his Booked and Printed column, Robert C. Hahn looks at some new books coming out by Chicago-area authors. Meanwhile, J. Rentilly, in Reel Crime, surveys some cinematic serial killers from movies released over the past two decades and now available on DVD.

CONTENTS
Department: EDITOR'S NOTES: THE POST-AWARDS ISSUE by Linda Landrigan
Fiction: THE STOLEN VENUS: FROM THE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE OF THE YOUNGER PLINY by Darrell Schweitzer
Fiction: SKIN AND BONES by David Edgerley Gates
Fiction: THE FOUR CASTLES by Terence Faherty
Department: THE MYSTERIOUS CIPHER by by Willie Rose
Department: BOOKED & PRINTED by Robert C. Hahn
Fiction: CATCH YOUR DEATH by D.A. Mcguire
Department: REEL CRIME by J. Rentilly
Fiction: THE QUICK BROWN FOX by Robert S. Levinson
Mystery Classic: THE BLUE SEQUIN by R. Austin Freeman
Department: SOLUTION TO THE MYSTERIOUS CIPHER
Department: THE LINEUP

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2008

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Words: 56842
Reading time: 162-227 min.
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