Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 128, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 781 & 782, September/October 2006

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Doug Allyn’s most recent novel, The Burning of Rachel Hayes, features Dr. David Westbrook, who debuted in EQMM and was the protagonist of three Readers Award-winning stories. We haven’t seen Westbrook for some time, but we’ve had some splendid entries (like this one) in Mr. Allyn’s Dan Shea series...

Ever rehab a church before?” Shea asked. They were driving through Saginaw in his battered Ram pickup truck. Windows down in the mid-August heat, air conditioner on the fritz. The breeze metallic with the smell of molten steel and paint baking in the auto plants.

“Not a church, exactly,” Puck said. “Rewired a barn for a big revival one time. Pentecostals, as I recall, outside of Menominee. Threw up a sixteen-by-eight-foot stage in front of a dairy barn. Ran in extra power lines for the P.A. and spotlights, trucked in a dozen Porta-Johns. Quite a show.”

“A barn?” Shea snorted. “Considering the size of this contract, better keep the barn story to yourself.”

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