• Publication: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January-February 2012Publication Record # 590396 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Editors of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• Date: 2012-01-00
• Publisher: Dell Magazines
• Price:
  $7.99^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 196
• Format:
  digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes:

  • Linda Landrigan: Editor. Jackie Sherbow: Assistant editor.
  • Volume 57, Number 1 & 2. No whole number listed.
  • ISSN: 0002-5224.
  • The first of two annual double issues.
  • General mystery and suspense short story magazine. Only the story with known speculative content is listed. The Tony Richards story is a near-future mystery set in Africa, and Rusch's story is set at a science fiction convention.
  • This issue also includes stories by Loren D. Estleman, James L. Ross, C. J. Harper, James Lincoln Warren, Joseph S. Walker, John H. Dirckx, Dan Warthman, Wayn J. Gardiner, D. A. McGuire, and the flash fiction of Warren Bull, whose story is not listed on the contents page.
  • The cover is by Eugene Ivanov and it illustrates Estleman's story "Big Band".
  • "On sale until 12/20" appears to the left of the barcode box. On page 191 it is states that this issue was "Printed by Quad/Graphics, Taunton, MA U.S.A. 10/17/11".

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 36 • The Very Edge of New Harare • [Future Africa Mysteries / The Abel Enetame Mysteries • 1] • short story by Tony Richards
• 122 • Pandora's Box • non-genre • [Spade / Paladin] • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch