What better way to pass the chill nights of winter than with an issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, full of inflamed passions and hot-blooded murder?
Passion in a variety of forms courses through the stories in our December issue — academic romantic, moral, professional, even voyeuristic ("A Photo's Worth" by David Hagerty). From the cloistered cells of a Southwestern monastery ("My Heart's Abhorrence" by Marianne Wilski Strong) to an air-conditioned criminal court room ("Interpretation of Murder" by B. K. Stevens), from a hospital in Bath, England ("Love and Death" by Michael Z. Lewin) to a bar in Kansas City ("Lucille" by Wayne J. Gardiner), from the streets of San Francisco to the cafés of Paris, hot-tempered crime is everywhere.
And for those whose passion is classic mysteries, a special treat this month. Melville Davisson Post is a well-remembered mystery writer of the turn of the twentieth century, but "A Critique of Monsieur Poe" is his charming, little-known homage to one of the mystery genre's founding figures. Russell Atwood provides an insightful introduction to the story and the work of Melville Davisson Post.
