Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 51, No. 1 & 2, January/February 2006

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This year we are celebrating a successful (and terrific) fifty-year publishing run. Although the magazine’s first issue was published in December of 1956, we are taking the whole year of 2006 to showcase some of the finest mystery stories that came out of the magazine. This first issue reprints DeLoris Stanton’s Forbes’s 1957 story “Just Watching.” We think it is as ever biting today as it was when it was first published.

— The Editors

It was the best of The New York Times. It was the worst of The New York Times. First Mel Gibbie read of the brutal murder of his associate Lamar Hooper. This he considered the “best” part, for performing Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” over the holidays had become a very crowded field. The “worst” came in the newspaper’s Arts and Entertainment section. Hollywood’s big animated movie this season was going to be SpongeBob Cratchit’s A SquarePants Christmas. Gibbie already knew Ice-Stravaganza productions planned touring companies of Cheapskates on Skates: the Ebenezer Scrooge Story. And last night, though it was still only November, the Late Show with David Letterman featured Fast Freddy Farmer with the big clock ticking in his two minute version of the Dickens classic, a lickety-split slurry of words punctuated with every “Bah Humbug!” and Tiny Tim’s “God bless us every one” jockeyed around to the end for the big finale.

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