Fiction Podcast: "The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats" by Ellery Queen : Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats" by Ellery Queen was reprinted in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine's January 2016 issue and was originally published in the 1934 short-story collection The Adventures of Ellery Queen. This ingenious whodunit by one of the best-selling mystery writers of all time is read here by Mark Lagasse.

Source: Episode 79 on the podcast page at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine's website

Fiction Podcast: "The Adventure of 'The Two-Headed Dog'" by Ellery Queen : Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Listen to a recording of Mark Lagasse reading a detective story by Ellery Queen, founder of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and one of the best-selling mystery writers of all time. That detective story, "The Adventure of 'The Two-Headed Dog'," was collected in the 1934 volume The Adventures of Ellery Queen.

Source: Episode 68 on the podcast page at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's website

Fiction Podcast: "The Fruit Cellar" by Joyce Carol Oates : Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"The Fruit Cellar" is a haunting suspense story by National Humanities Medal winner Joyce Carol Oates. In addition to being one of the nation's most celebrated literary writers, Joyce Carol Oates is a distinguished member of the community of crime-fiction writers. "The Fruit Cellar" first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's March/April 2004 issue. It is read here by Dorothy Cummings.

Source: Episode 36 on the podcast page at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's website

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Read the Wikipedia article about Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which this year is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Nicholas Solovioff's cover painting

for a 1955 issue of

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

A murder story by Walt Whitman

"One Wicked Impulse!" is a murder story by (in the words of Mark Van Doren) "the most original and passionate American poet" -- Walt Whitman. The story was first published in book form in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days & Collect (Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882-83), and it was reprinted in the January 1954 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Read Walt Whitman's murder story "One Wicked Impulse!" I ask that you pay particular attention to the ending of the story -- to the very last paragraph. When you have finished reading Walt Whitman's murder story, read the paragraph below.

If you were "shocked" by the last paragraph of Walt Whitman's murder story, read "One Wicked Impulse! (1845)," a commentary by Patrick McGuire on that story.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

at about 50

The First Detective: Daniel, Susanna and the Elders

Read this short story, The History of Susanna, from the deuterocanonical Apocrypha in the Catholic Edition of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible; it is a short story about Daniel, the first detective: Susanna (Daniel 13)

The History of Susanna from the King James Version of the Apocrypha was reprinted in the August 1960 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. To listen to a recording of David Shamp reading the King James Version of The History of Susanna, click here.


SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS
A cinquain by Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)

"Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?"  "For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore."

Adelaide Crapsey : The Poetry Foundation