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(12 issues)
A three year subscription to the Strand brings you the best mysteries by best-selling writers such as Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, and Alexander McCall Smith. Whether it’s a hard-boiled mystery, or an English country house whodunit, The Strand is the magazine for mystery lovers. Our interview section has featured exclusive interviews with David Baldacci, R.L Stine, Harlan Coben, Sue Grafton, Mary Higgins Clark, and David Suchet. We have also published unpublished gems by Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dashiell Hammett, James M Cain, H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, and Joseph Heller. Our articles section looks at mystery characters and crime novelists past and present, from Agatha Christie’s Poirot to Allingham’s Campion. Our book review section is unsurpassed containing the latest reviews of your favorite mystery books, Sherlockian pastiches and audiobooks. The Strand magazine is the only mystery magazine that is large format, full color and printed on glossy paper. The Strand is a magazine which mystery fans find hard to resist! (As an added bonus, you’ll receive our email newsletter which will feature interviews with writers, short stories, and articles. You can opt out of receiving our e-mail newsletter at any time)
Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.
“Crime writers, forgive the pun, are killing it right now creatively,” writes guest editor Alafair Burke in her introduction. “It was difficult—painful even—to narrow this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense to only twenty stories.” Spanning from a mediocre spa in Florida, to New York’s gritty East Village, to death row in Alabama, this collection reveals boundless suspense in small, quiet moments, offering startling twists in the least likely of places. From a powerful response to hateful bullying, to a fight for health care, to a gripping desperation to vote, these stories are equal parts shocking, devastating, and enthralling, revealing the tension pulsing through our everyday lives and affirming that mystery and suspense writing is better than ever before.
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 includes
JENNY BHATT• GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD• GABINO IGLESIAS• AYA DE LEÓN• LAURA LIPPMAN DELIA C. PITTS• ALEX SEGURA• FAYE SNOWDEN• LISA UNGER and others
Our special holiday issues features a poem by none other than the dean of hard-boiled noir, Raymond Chandler. Written around 1955, “Requiem” shows the softer, sensitive side of the man who gave us the ever brusque, wise-cracking PI Philip Marlowe. Fans of Chandler will enjoy Judith Freeman’s excellent biography of Chandler, The Long Embrace (2007) which also features this poem as well as wonderful insight into Chandler’s private life. Joining Chandler this issue are a number of modern-day writers who need no introduction. In “Mr. Slope, he fall,” Alexander McCall Smith turns the English country-house mystery on its head when a party of backstabbing academics gathers for a weekend in the Scottish Highlands. In “The Usual Suspect,” Jeffery Deaver blends existential dread with humor as he plays on the latest paranoia concerning the power of artificial intelligence. Turning to pastiche, Mike Adamson sends Holmes and Watson on foot into the mean streets of East London in “King of the Rats.” And bringing it home, John Floyd, a Strand stalwart ever since Issue 2, strikes a karmic chord in his perfect getaway tale “The Florida Blues.”
This issue will be a tough act to follow when it comes to interviews. Here we are lucky to feature conversations with three great talents. Bob Odenkirk has mastered all kinds of mediums, from sketch-comedy (think cult-classic Mr. Show) to dramatic acting (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad) to memoir (Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama). Last month, he and his daughter Erin—a painter and illustrator—joined me for a thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion about the importance of the written word, art, and what it was like to collaborate on Zilot and Other Important Rhymes, recently released by Little, Brown and Company. Also, on the heels of a new book—Not Forever, But For Now, published by Simon and Schuster—Chuck Palahniuk of Fight Club fame dropped in for a chat, offering some of the real-life inspirations for his debut novel and other minimalist postmodern masterpieces.
liday classic. In its new size, it’s perfect for reading alone or reading aloud, or following along while listening to the audio version.
Truman Capote Issue
Truman Capote’s unpublished, complete, lost short story “Another Day in Paradise” has now been published for the first time ever here in The Strand. The story remained unpublished until it was found handwritten in the pages of a red and gold scrolled Florentine notebook. It has, like so much of Capote’s other works, some autobiographical elements, as well as Capote’s signature style—evocative descriptions, wry humor, and all too human characters. While Capote will forever be associated with his 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, made more famous by the 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and his 1966 true-crime novel In Cold Blood, it was short stories that were the author’s first love and enduring passion. And once again, here is an unforgettable story from the quintessential mid-century American author.
Also in this issue, the incomparable, always unique, and ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates returns to The Strand with “The Chair of Tranquility,” a haunting tale that feels simultaneously classic and contemporary. John M. Floyd, speeds us to more modern times with an AI-inspired caper involving a couple of teenagers and a captivating car in “Liz and Drew and Mary Lou.” And what would an issue of The Strand be without a Sherlock Holmes yarn? Derrick Belanger, has Holmes taking a back seat this time, allowing Watson to try his hand at detecting in “Dr. Watson Takes the Case.” Headlining this issue’s interview is Martin Cruz Smith, the legendary creator of the Arkady Renko series. In this insightful interview with Strand managing editor Andrew Gulli, Cruz Smith shares his perspective on writing, his career in journalism, and the state of affairs in Eastern Europe. As usual, The Strand’s team of expert book reviewers has the scoop on the latest offerings from the mystery world.
In addition featuring this unpublished short story by Truman Capote, we’ve featured scores of unpublished works by legendary authors including Shirley Jackson,Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, H.G. Wells, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Tennessee Williams, Louisa May Alcott and Ray Bradbury.
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