Mystery Readers Journal: Murder Takes a Holiday (40:2)

Murder Takes a Holiday: Mystery Readers Journal 40:2

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Murder Takes a Holiday

Volume 40, No. 2, Summer 2024

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• The Odd Travel Note: John le Carré on Mysteries Real and Fictional by Rona Bell
• Death on the Water by Bev Hankins
• Agatha Christie Rides the Rails by Bradley Friedman

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• Please Proceed to Your Gate—To Begin Your (Murderous) Journey by Cathy Ace
• Monkey Business Meets the Flying Dutchman by Donna Andrews
• Travel Writer’s Revenge: A Novel Way of “Booking” a Trip by Dawn M. Barclay (D.M. Barr)
• Travel as Transition? Or Not? by Anne Louise Bannon
• Wanderlust by Kimberly Belle
• How I Learned to Write More Than Thirty Pages by Simon Brett
• When Art Imitates Life by Sally Carpenter
• On the Road Again by Taffy Cannon
• A Fatal Fan Fest by Maya Corrigan
• Too Many Deaths, Too Few Holidays by James R. Coggins
• Haunted Ofu by John Enright
• Holiday Time? No Lazing in the Sun for My Characters by Elizabeth Elwood
• Nero Does Nero by Cordelia Biddle and Steve Zettler (aka Nero Blanc)
• Crossword: Nero Does Nero 
• Sun, Sand… and Sleuthing by Kate Fellowes
• A Vacation at the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Dianne Freeman
• A Killer on Board by Jan Gangsei
• Murder on Vacation by Peter Heller
• Murder Takes a Holiday in Caper Cove by Elle Jauffret
• Mysteries Without Borders by Maria Hudgins
• An Academic Brat Settles Down and Finds Her Paradise by Leslie Karst
• Vacations and Holidays by Gay Toltl Kinman
• A Detective Takes a Holiday by J. R. Lindermuth
• Hot Grudge Crimes by Larry and Rosemary Mild
• Never Go on Vacation with Miss Marple by Catherine Mack
• From Action Scene to Ocean Liner by Edward Marston/Conrad Allen
• A Golden Getaway with Raúl and Rita by Richie Narvaez
• Murder Takes a Honeymoon by Neil Plakcy
• Murder Takes a Lot of Holidays… by Josh Pachter
• Creating the Vacation from Hell: The Origins of Devils Island by Midge Raymond
• How Is Anyone Still Alive? by Philipp Schott
• Have Pen, Will Travel by Tom Straw
• Charlie Chan Takes a Holiday by John Swann
• Crime Fiction and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann
• Someone Else’s Vacation by Sarah Stewart Taylor
• Murder Across the Ocean by Charlene Wexler

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Lucinda Surber, Lesa Holstine, Dru Ann Love
• Crime for the Holidays by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Crime Seen: Vacation Video by Kate Derie
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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