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November 2007
* Fiction by
Jonathan Gash, John Mortimer,
Peter Lovesey,
David Stuart Davies,
Dennis Palumbo.
* Interviews
Robert B Parker,
Alexander McCall Smith, Galloping Ghosts.
 
 
In the Mag

 
In this Issue...

advertisingWe’re in the midst of what we here at The Strand call “crunch time” and as inundated as I am with work, I can’t seem to tear myself away from news of the elections. For a political junkie, like myself, this election year is a dream! I take elections seriously, yet I also enjoy them enormously. The candidates, their surrogates, the debates, the spin, the low-blows, the shameless self-promotion, the analysts as they attempt to anticipate each campaign’s next move—it doesn’t get any better than what we have going on this year!

But here at The Strand we know that compared to politics, the world of murder and mayhem is sometimes easier to decipher, which is why we’re in this business. In this issue, John Mortimer has Rumpole tracking down a murderer in Minchingham Hall in part 2 of “Rumpole’s Slimmed-Down Christmas,” while Martin Edwards (no relation to Senator John Edwards!) has Holmes and Watson investigating “The Case of the Eccentric Testatrix.” Charles Todd takes us back to World War I with Inspector Rutledge and Hamish attempting to capture a killer in their ranks in “The Necklace.” In “A Favorable Favor,” Brendan DuBois spins a tale of deceit in New Hampshire (nothing to do with politics, surprisingly). Terence Faherty pays homage to British writer Saki with “The Empty Seat,” while F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre warns us of the dangers lurking in an English country garden in “Down the Garden Path.” Continuing with our Great Detectives series, Dashiell Hammett-expert Mike Humbert follows the trail of The Thin Man.

For this issue I had the chance to interview two excellent mystery authors: Elizabeth George and Sue Grafton. Elizabeth George, who has delighted fans for years with her Inspector Lynley series, talked about, among other things, her successful approach to the writing process. And I had a great time chatting with the ever-entertaining Sue Grafton, who has reached the letter “T” in her alphabet mystery series. How will she continue the adventures of Kinsey Millhone past the letter “Z?” I’ll bet she gets around that one.

The mystery world lost a great writer with the passing of Edward Hoch early this year. When I was growing up I read many of his stories, not knowing that I’d one day have the honor to edit his fiction for The Strand. Back in the 1980s, I used to watch a television show called Tales of the Unexpected. One of the episodes, “The Vorpal Blade,” was based on Ed’s story of the same name. While I’ve forgotten other episodes of that show, I’ve never forgotten “The Vorpal Blade.” Ed knew that it was one of my favorite stories and so he wrote for The Strand a similar story, also set in Germany and involving fencing. He was a true gentleman. I’ll miss his presence at the Edgar awards, among other conventions, and will always remember the singular pleasure of opening a Word file and reading a new Ed Hoch story for the first time.

Please don’t forget to get out and vote. I hope you enjoy the magazine.

Andrew F. Gulli
Managing Editor

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