EPISODE 64: “Special Delivery” by Steve Hockensmith

12/01/14 • 32 min

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast

The holidays are here and we celebrate in this episode in our podcast series with a Christmas tale from Steve Hockensmith. EQMM readers know this Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus-nominated author not only for his Christmas stories but for the Sherlockian Westerns featuring cowboys Big Red and Old Red that have appeared in our pages—and also in a series of Hockensmith novels. “Special Delivery,” from EQMM’s January 2002 issue, is read here by professional voiceover artist Mike Wiltrout.
http://www.stevehockensmith.com/

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This month, in another episode in a series of radio plays produced by Dave Amaral, Dr. Sam Hawthorne solves the seemingly instantaneous disappearance of a boy from a school playground. Adapted from the short story “The Problem of the Little Red Schoolhouse,” by Edward D. Hoch, first published in EQMM in September 1976, the tale harkens back to the early days of the fictional Hawthorne’s career.

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EPISODE 65: “Fontaine House” by Terrie Farley Moran

Terrie Farley Moran launched a new mystery series at novel length in 2014 with Berkley Prime Crime (see Well Read, Then Dead). Prior to that she had already established herself as a short-story writer, shortlisted twice for Best American Mystery Stories. Her first short story for EQMM was August 2012’s “Fontaine House.” Here she is with a reading of it recorded at the 2014 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
http://terriefarleymoran.com/