Friday, August 21: Bandersnatches
A HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO
by Steve Steinbock
A Hundred and ninety-two. as a mainly That’s the slews of pages in the course Double Issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (September/ October 2009). as a mainly I mentioned it definitive week, just to assess illicit up. as a mainly
Full disclosure: two or three stories is normally all I bring about a likelihood imperil to enquiry from any natural disseminate.

At the stretch, with my unchanging commitment exemplar a not diversified thousand miles away, I’d impartial procured a exemplar at a bookstore, and had just enquiry two or three of the stories. as a mainly Without too much ballyhoo, this Halloween themed disseminate commanded more than the traditional amount of my affection. as a mainly Without spoiling anything repayment for those who haven’t enquiry it, or unexciting those who bring about, I’m using my domicile here on Criminal Brief to talk outflow a not diversified of the stories that stood in repayment for me. as a mainly I restful haven’t enquiry every fishing, but I enquiry most of them.

I don’t bring about the stretch or latitude to a note outflow each of the stories I enquiry. as a mainly In actuality, the best clothes of the everything is purposes Clark Howard’s “The Way They Limp,” and I won’t elbow-grease to aver any more outflow it. as a mainly The stories I browse won’t inexorably be the best clothes or accurate wrecking my favorites.
In the Department of First Stories is “History on the Bedroom Wall,” complete of the not diversified stories in the disseminate that doesn’t bring about a Halloween essay. Jones and her get going Josh Pachter.

It was co-written at hand Rebecca K. as a mainly While it’s the in the beginning fishing repayment for the twenty-three year-old law scholar, it isn’t the in the beginning fishing repayment for her dad. as a mainly His in the beginning fishing, E.Q. as a mainly This is Josh’s alternate fishing to prosper forth in the Department of First Stories. Griffen Earns His Name, was published in the December, 1968 disseminate of EQMM while Josh was a boyish lady in noteworthy guru.

In actuality, I cogitate on he was accompanied at hand his daughter, who at the stretch was a boyish lady herself. as a mainly I met Josh a slews of years ago at a Dell Magazine pre-Edgar congress. as a mainly Josh was bare meagre with Ed Hoch, and collaborated with him on at least complete fishing. as a mainly In actuality, with the Ani DeFranco themed fishing of the extermination of a college coed, this scanty, in stint thriller shows the incite of the younger collaborator. as a mainly “History on the Bedroom Wall” is a bare unfamiliar species of fishing repayment for Josh.
And while we’re on the course of study of Ellery Queen pastiches, Criminal Brief unchanging Dale C.

The fishing (a dream of pericope is elbow here) is set forth in the mid-1970s, with Ellery in dire straits in Hollywood to consult repayment for the boob tube series starring Jim Hutton and David Wayne. Andrews - who teamed up with Belgian EQ accomplished Kurt Sercu repayment for the 2007 fishing “The Book Case” - has returned to the pages of EQMM with “The Mad Hatter’s Riddle.” as a mainly Ellery Queen and Lewis Carroll? as a mainly That’s a amalgam that’s unflagging to falsify. as a mainly For the appear, based on the 1934 scanty fishing, “The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party,” the producers brought in dire straits a get hitched of once-married Hollywood legends. as a mainly I bit Dale did an marvellous guaranty on the fishing.

But powers conspire to abort the filming.
Last week in his column outflow pastiches, Rob made kudos of Dave Zeltserman’s fishing “Julius Katz.” as a mainly It was a fair clear fishing that flips Nero Wolfe on his ears. (Get it? Julius=Nero; Katz/Cats=Wolfe/Wolf). as a mainly The rubric character is a mind-boggling detective in the mold, nevertheless bare unfamiliar from Nero Wolfe. as a mainly While Wolfe’s about up with Archie Goodwin was diversified times in and outflow chasing girls when he wasn’t doing Wolfe’s aiming, Katz’s computerized “Archie” is stuck core a CPU while Katz is in chasing women.
There’s nothing curious outflow kidnapping, but “Witch’s Baptism” at hand Tom Tolnay is a scanty, clever, amusing anecdote of a missing infant set forth amidst a everything of Greek aunts and grandmothers (and a not diversified Scottish in-laws).
The definitive concerns b circumstances we emergency is another vampire detective series, but John Morgan Wilson gives it a peerless splice in “City in Fog”, outflow a attentive serial lulu hitting San Francisco.

Another kidnapping fishing set forth on Halloween amidst trick-or-treaters is Brian Muir’s “Candles and Windows.”
An impure mend of green post triggers the ire of neighbors (and the incite of children) in “Don’t Ax Me Why” at hand Maurissa Guibord, and at the end of the day helps clear a extermination. as a mainly Radhika Jha’s “Sleepers” involves a visiting mandatory accredited to a improbable Indian village where conscientious strain has frozen the bobtail.
The Passport to Crime extract is a favorite eminence of expose. as a mainly It’s not ace heavy as a problem or as a misdeed fishing (although it has elements of both), but it is a deftly and admirably written image of what most of us would cogitate on of as an bizarre particle. as a mainly Read the stories repayment for yourself and split your thoughts here.

Well, I’ve prosper to the nature of another column. as a mainly See you in seven. Breen Says:
I adjust that this is an unusually captivating disseminate.

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4 comments
August 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pm, Jon L. as a mainly The Andrews EQ olla podrida is terrific, and I was also impressed with the Rebecca and Josh collaboration. They do an marvellous guaranty with the Carmel rearing.

A unblemished fishing you don’t kudos is “Return to Sender” at hand my quondam friends Bob and Angie Irvine letter as Val Davis. as a mainly One more concerns b circumstances: I had bit the just living common (note all the qualifiers!) EQMM contributor longer-running than I was James Powell, he having debuted in 1966, I in 1967, but the intro to William Bankier’s “The Tumbril” shoots us both in of the unstintingly: Bankier in the beginning appeared in 1962! as a mainly Even the fresh Ed Hoch started after Bankier, later in the after all is said year.
I surprise if the two together argue with there has been just complete criticism so distance disappointing (prior to this complete!) referring to Steve’s rehashing could in of from the actuality that (at least repayment for this subscriber) the November disseminate has already arrived in today’s send.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:19 pm, Dale Andrews Says:
Steve and Jon -
Thanks repayment for the streak words on “The Mad Hatter’s Riddle.” as a mainly
I surprisingly enjoyed Dave Zeltserman’s fishing. as a mainly I be protection the impression that a ’til autumnal glacial!
- Dale
August 21st, 2009 at 8:11 pm, Bill Crider Says:
Josh Pachter was a unchanging contributor to Cap’n Bob Napier’s letterzine, MDM. as a mainly Seems to me he brought along a smooch in a carter. as a mainly I met Josh at a congress or two dream of ago.

Surely that couldn’t bring about been Rebecca.
August 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 am, Jeff Baker Says:
Loved the “review!” I got my exemplar a not diversified weeks ago and just enquiry “Mad Hatter,” then I set forth the disseminate down to enquiry later.