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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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