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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Looking for something a little different? Pick up the November EQMM, full of delightfully offbeat stories from veteran authors and highly unusual characters and crimes. Peter Lovesey's story of one afternoon in a police psychiatrist's office kicks off the issue with a mind-bending twist. Regular contributors Ruth Francisco and Terence Faherty each offer their readers a rare treat: Francisco departs from her usual crime scenes with a thrilling story about a man in the wild, and Faherty sheds light on his series character Owen Keane's "lost years" in 1970s Boston. Brendan DuBois follows a New Hampshire policewoman, the daughter of the city's first female officer, on her unusual mission to re-examine her mother's first case. Venerable British writer Gwendoline Butler, known for her police procedural novels, brings out Inspector John Coffin for his second-ever short-story appearance to investigate the murder of an actor. And in a darkly funny story from Donald Olson, a murderer thinks he's committed the perfect crime, donning his wife's wardrobe and wig, packing up her dead body, and setting off on a road trip across the Southwest to dispose of it.

Appropriately for the back-to-school season, two of the stories from authors making their EQMM debuts take place at universities. Mike MacLean's anonymous P.I., treading close to the wrong side of the law and working strictly "off the books," discovers his wealthy coed client's unpleasant extra-curricular activities. In a different college town, a cop and his partner compete with the crime-scene forensics team to solve a case through old-fashioned detective work in a story by Ron Carlson. David Knadler debuted four years ago in EQMM's Department of First Stories; in his latest, somebody tries to sabotage a small-town mayor's reelection campaign by publicly slipping him hallucinogenic drugs.

Rounding out this issue are a new Dr. Sam Hawthorne story from Edward D. Hoch, and a Passport to Crime story from German author Andrea C. Busch, in which a romance-novelist's Baltic yachting holiday turns into an international thriller.

FICTION
Popping Round to the Post BY PETER LOVESEY
Little Secrets BY MIKE MACLEAN
Devoured BY RUTH FRANCISCO
The Problem of the Summer Snowman BY EDWARD D. HOCH
The Steaming Gun BY RON CARLSON
Strange Days BY DAVID A. KNADLER
Enter Coffin (Right) BY GWENDOLINE BUTLER
The Judas Clue BY TERENCE FAHERTY
The Best Revenge BY BRENDAN DUBOIS
Something Extra BY DONALD OLSON

POETRY
Benjamin's Demise BY HERSCHEL COZINE

REVIEWS
Blog Bytes BY BILL CRIDER
The Jury Box BY JON L. BREEN

PASSPORT TO CRIME
Baltic Bail-Out BY ANDREA C. BUSCH

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Words: 63910
Reading time: 182-255 min.
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