At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world's best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty. Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery. In our cover feature story, D.S. White provides a rollicking caper with "Clowns On The Run": A carload of clowns tries to elude capture before they can break open a safe full of loot. Lani Steele's "How Mrs. Hitt Stopped Scrimping And Found Happiness With A Hit Man" finds Mrs. Hitt a satisfied customer of her mysterious hit man. Then Detective Snapp threatens to ruin everything. "A Man Is Worth A Thousand Pictures" by Erik Deckers explores Bonnie's love of a man she's never met, but stalked on camera every time he drives through one of Florida's toll gates. She tries to think of ways they can be together, but can't do anything about it until his wife finally disappears. In a curious mystery, ""Do Not Pass Go ..."" by James Blakey, a stranger arrives in an even stranger town and finds himself embroiled in corruption and murder. Greg Herren's "Keeper Of The Flame" challenges you to solve along, when an interview brings back horrifying memories for the daughter of a deceased crime writer. A darker tale, "A Silver .38" by Peter W. J. Hayes, finds that getting into the mob is easy; it's having a good plan to get out that's hard. Plus a short You-Solve-It by Laird Long: "Egg On His Face".