I’m so very pleased to have a new short story, “Of Stroganoff and Jerry Cans,” in the Sept/Oct 2024 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. In “Stroganoff,” a retired police officer decides to do something about the neighborhood bully. Then he gets a surprise.
Thomas Grant Bruso from Press-Republican wrote a great review of my Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine short story, “Chuck Berry Is Missing”:
“Marcelle Dube’s deftly handled story, “Chuck Berry is Missing,” is one of the collection’s highlights, with its wintery, atmospheric backdrop and well-paced investigation. If you’re looking for a solid missing person mystery and summer crime, I urge you to pick up or download a copy of the latest Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.”
I can live with that.
I just received my award from Crime Writers of Canada for the 2024 Best Crime Short Story. I quite like the look of the physical award, but I may be biased. It looks real purty next to the first one I got, in 2021. Thanks, Mystery Magazine, for publishing “Reversion.”
The July/August 2024 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is out. It includes my short story, “Chuck Berry Is Missing,” featuring retired RCMP superintendent Stella Martin. I am showing an amazing amount of self-control here, folks. What I really want to do is shout it from the roof tops!
This is my third appearance in AHMM and I couldn’t be more pleased. The other stories in this issue are by: Vicki Weisfeld, Ken Linn, Janice Law, Joslyn Chase, Steven Sheil, Craig Faustus Buck, Tom Larsen, John H. Dirckx, Irette Y. Patterson, and John M. Floyd.
On May 29, Crime Writers of Canada announced that I won the Award of Excellence for Best Crime Short Story, for “Reversion,” which appeared in the April 2023 edition of Mystery Magazine, edited by Kerry Carter.
I’m honoured and delighted (and also a little flabbergasted, considering my competition: M.H. Callway, Mary Keenan, donalee Moulton, and Zandra Renwick).