Saturday, March 06, 2010

Mr. Popularity

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has announced the winners of its 2009 Readers Choice Awards for the best stories published in that periodical last year.

First Place (tie): “Dolphin Junction,” by Mike Herron,
and “An Early Christmas,” by Doug Allyn

Second Place: “White Wolves,” by Clark Howard

Third Place: “Julius Katz,” by Dave Zeltserman

Fourth Place: “Famous Last Words,” by Doug Allyn

Fifth Place: “The Valhall Verdict,” by Doug Allyn

Sixth Place: “For the Jingle,” by Jack Fredrickson

Seventh Place: “The Bleeding Chair,” by Janwillem van de Wetering

Eighth Place: “The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold,” by Lee Goldberg

Ninth Place: “Central Islin, USA,” by Lou Manfredo

Tenth Place: “Dummy,” by Brian Muir

(Hat tip to Lee Goldberg.)

2 comments:

RJR said...

Don't they know when there's a tie for 1st there's no 2nd? You go right to 3rd.

RJR

kathy d. said...

No women at all. Kind of discouraging to women writers and readers.