The gorgeous tail-wagging Bad Dogs issue of New Mystery Magazine features the world's best mystery, crime and suspense short stories from the masters and the upstarts. New Mystery is on newsstands now. Come lap up our special Bad Dogs Issue.

"These short stories are not hard-boiled they are cold-nosed," said a senior editor of the magazine.

Here find the newest and best mystery short stories from the world’s best and newest authors including a debut and an exclusive original piece by a master in the genre. Stories that bark and woof, featuring murder, revenge, loyalty and lust.

Mystery master author Howard Wandrei, long-admired for his mordant wit, ribaldly and masterful cynicism is here with a unique story of love gone wrong. See, this once great surgeon spends his days now in a seedy Bowery bar with this damn dog at his feet. Then, one night, she walks in. The discovery of George Is All Right, a long-missing short story manuscript from the infamous Wandrei, is a cause for great celebration. Remember you read it here first.

Next is The Barking Dog by Charlotte Epstein. She was just going to visit the neighbors, and try to be polite, and smile…but also mention that their damn dog barked all night long! So she knocked on the door, and her repressed anger turned into something else. Mrs Epstein, a novelist, is a Philadelphian.

Our next story features a lowlife New Orleans midnight and a woman alone, terrified that she might never make it home. Two shadows are following her…no, now there are three shadows. Try Fleahound In The Ninth District by novelist and actress, Tony Fennelly.

We are honored to present a new voice to you, David Ballard, in his professional debut, Child Support Dog Support. He wanted to play child custody games with the barking Frisbee champion. So he pushed the baby carriage, and he yanked on the dog leash and nursed sour thoughts about divorce and dollars.

The four color suspense cover by Dana Irwin is a knockout. Inside art and illustrations by Jeannine LaPorte and Bettina Caricola.

Our illustrious stable of New Mystery critics include: Leslie Horvitz, Karen and Bill Palmer, Linda Wong, Will Goldschein, Sibylle Barrasso and others join our regular gang of celebrity mystery authors, themselves, weighing in with reviews of the new mystery novels. Here find also the sharpest reviews of new mystery books, CD's, New Media and film. Plus many mystery ads and lists and news and views of the mystery world. New Mystery is a critically-acclaimed quarterly...and Larry Beinhart's short story, Death In A Small Town (IV#1), was an Edgar Nominee. New Mystery has also been nominated for a 1997 Macavity Award by the members of Mystery Readers International.

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