Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 34, No. 13 & 14, Winter 1989

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Welcome to our New Special Winter Double Issue, which takes the place of the Mid-December issue of previous years. It’s a collection of stories numerous enough, we hope, to take you through a number of those “long winter nights” mentioned on the cover, a combination of new and vintage tales.

We’re pleased, by the way, to welcome four authors to our pages for the first time. Geoffrey Hitchcock, whose delightful tale, “What’s Afoot?” opens the issue, hails from New Zealand. Now retired and able to devote more time to writing, he says, “I’ve worked at being an electrical engineer, a fruit farmer, and a scientist. And a sort of soldier.” Herb Henson, author of “Paquette’s Birthday,” is also familiar with the engineering game, and is also a soldier; he’s a technical writer for an electronics engineering firm and is a retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer, was a Green Beret, and served in the Marine Corps. “I have,” he says, “a special affection for the Far East and the Pacific islands where I have spent a significant part of my life.” It shows, we think, in his charming treatment of Paquette’s friends and neighbors.

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