Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 39, No. 13, Mid-December 1994

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About a year ago, in AHMM’s December 1993 issue, we published a story called “Nobody Wins” by Charles Ardai. We are pleased to let you know that the story has been nominated for a Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story of 1993, given by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). The PWA awards will be announced at Bouchercon in October; we will bring you the complete list of nominees and winners in all categories in our February 1995 issue.

In the meantime, of course, we’ll keep our fingers crossed. Mr. Ardai has written ten stories for us starting with “From Zaire to Eternity” in 1989 (about a mysterious African diamond) and including such varied tales as “The Balancing Man,” which defies description but has to do with an old man on a tightwire in an old barn; “The Investigation of Things,” set in Sung Dynasty China about A.D. 1000; and “Carmine and the Christmas Presence,” the story of a woodcarver and a brush with magic, in 1992. He published his first story in EQMM when he was seventeen.

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