Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vol. 108, No. 3 & 4. Whole No. 661 & 662, September/October 1996

Джордж Чесбро, Майкл Гилберт, Хэйфорд Пирс, Реджинальд Хилл, Перри О'Шонесси, Генри Слезар, Эдвард Д. Хох, Эрик Мейер, Джон Л. Брин, Батя Свифт Ясгур, Дональд Олсон, Сюзанна Джонс, Джеймс Пауэлл, Дуг Аллин, Мэри Рид, Питер Тернбулл, Джанет Хатчингс, Барбара Оуэнс, Майкл А. Блэк, Кэтрин Х. Брукс, Донет Мейнелл Клейтон, С. К. Ходсон, Анджи Ирвин, Билли Джеймс Кирк, Дэннис Паламбо

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With three first-place wins in the EQMM Readers Award competition and a half-dozen Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations and awards for his short stories, Doug Allyn is one of the most celebrated of all mystery short story writers. “Puppyland” is the fourth entry in a series that has appeared only in this magazine.

The bitch had golden eyes, liquid and deep. Her coat was sleek, a lustrous liver color with white ticking on her shoulders and rump. She was a four-year-old German shorthaired pointer, weight, about seventy-five pounds. She looked exhausted. She was lying on her side on a red velvet pillow in an elaborate wicker dog basket. Her name was engraved on an ornate brass plate on the front. Hilda Von Holzweg. Five squirming furballs were sucking at her swollen breasts.

A sixth wasn’t squirming anymore. She’d pushed it to the edge of the basket away from the others. David picked up the dead pup. It was already cooling. Hilda raised her head a moment and glowered at him, but didn’t growl. Probably didn’t have the energy.

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