Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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About Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Launched in 1941, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is credited with setting the standard for the modern crime and mystery short story. The magazine has been cited as “the finest periodical of its kind” by The Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature, and as “the best mystery magazine in the world, bar none” by author Stephen King. The full range of the genre is covered, from the cozy to the hardboiled, the historical to the contemporary-including police procedurals, P.I. stories, psychological suspense, locked-room and impossible-crime tales, classical whodunits, and urban noir.EQMM has received more than 100 awards, including more than 20 Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America. Contributors to EQMM form a pantheon of great American crime and mystery writers, past and present. More than 40 Nobel, Pulitzer, and National Book Award winners have appeared in its pages, including William Faulkner, Chuck Hogan, Jan Burke, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, and frequent current contributor Joyce Carol Oates.Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, featuring six 192-page double issues each year, continues to receive recognition for its outstanding stories, authors, and editors.