Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 130, No. 1. Whole No. 791, July 2007

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Doug Allyn returns to EQMM this month with a strong new protagonist and a tale that is characteristically atmospheric, suspenseful, and moving. The Michigan author never sets out to create series characters, but he’s so good at getting inside his fictional creations that they live in readers’ minds and demand a callback. It’s those unforgettable characters that have earned the Michigan author eight first-place finishes in the EQMM Readers Award voting.

“A girl asked me about killing Hitler today,” I said.

Janie gave me a taut smile but it was all she could manage. The hospice aide who was massaging Janie’s calves glanced up at me with arched eyebrows.

“I teach Political Science at Hancock State,” I explained. “We’re covering assassinations this week. Martin Luther King, JFK, Sadat. How destructive to society their deaths were. But if a student asks me about killing Hitler or Stalin, I know it’s going to be a good class.”

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