Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast
Summary: Monthly readings and dramatizations of stories by the world’s leading writers of suspense chosen from the magazine’s archives. The full range of the genre is represented in these riveting audio renditions, from the drawing-room mystery to urban noir—including police procedurals, private-eye tales, psychological suspense, and locked-room and impossible-crime stories. Visit TheMysteryPlace.com for more stories, book reviews, subscription info, and more.
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Podcasts:
A pair of Old West cowboys try to prove they’re worthy of joining a detective agency by retrieving an incriminating letter, in “Dear Doctor Watson” by Steve Hockensmith (from the February 2007 issue of EQMM). But things are not all they appear to be in Missoula, Montana, circa 1890. . .
Ellery Queen returns in a case involving a cryptic dying message. Adapted by Ed Bogas, of Bogas Productions, from the story “A Lump of Sugar,” published in EQMM in February, 1953. (The story later appeared under the titles “Murder in the Park” and “The Mystery of the 3 Dawn Riders.”)
A TV writer goes missing, leaving her show's star without a script and opening up a perfect scenario for murder. In this fourth installment in her series of Diana Poole mysteries (published in EQMM in June 2003), former Hollywood actress Melodie Johnson Howe takes a penetrating look at the off-stage life of a TV idol.
A nosy neighbor alerts police to suspicious digging in the garden next-door—and she isn't the only one to get an unexpected comeuppance. Dramatized from the story "Groundwork," by Neil Schofield, published in EQMM in November 2001.
Ellery Queen receives a phone call from a murder victim in this clever play involving a witness of another species. Adapted by Ed Bogas, of Bogas Productions, from the story "Cut! Cut! Cut!", published in EQMM in September 1956.
