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Fresh Meat: Luis Alberto Urrea’s Queen of America

By Clare Toohey

November 28, 2011

We’ve been fans of Luis Alberto Urrea’s since before he allowed us to launch this site with his excellent contemporary crime story “The National City Reparation Society” from Akashic Books’ anthology San Diego Noir. If you’ve only read that, you may not know about his historic novels about Teresita Urrea, a distant relative of his.…

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 2011 Issue

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: 70 years of Quick Fixes

By Terrie Farley Moran

June 10, 2011

This year Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine celebrates the seventieth anniversary of its first issue, which included stories by such leading lights as Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, and Cornell Woolrich, among others, plus a story by author-editor Ellery Queen, pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. On my fourteenth birthday, a favorite aunt gave me…