Publisher: Lida E. Quillen
Co-Publisher: Ardy M. Scott
Founder & Executive Editor: Babs Lakey
Art Director: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)
Managing Editor: Barry Ergang
Editorial Staff: Virginia Lo Monaco, Marlene Satter, Chick Lang, Mary Schenten, Alfie
Editorial Consultant: Earl Staggs
Artists:Gin E.L. Fenton, Teresa Tunaley, Kevin Duncan, Gavin O’Keefe, Laura Givens, Teri Santitoro, Vivian Prince, Paul Campbell
Cartoonists: Kevin Duncan, Georiann Baldino, Dan Rosandich
Spot Illustration: Gin E.L. Fenton

Cover Artist for this issue
Gin E.L. Fenton (GinELF)

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Webmaster: Catherine Chant
FAME production manager: Ardy Scott
FMAM List Manager: Kimberly Brown
FMAM Masthead Layout & Design: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)

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Lida E. Quillen and
Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazinestories
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Special Guest Author
Death of the Mallory Queen Lawrence Block

Featured Authors...
Your Blood Is Sweet: A Tobias Talmo Tale Rus Morgan
Stuffed Shirt Barry Ergang

MYSTERY FICTION
Gnawing Suspicion Chick Lang
How I Learned to Play the Harmon Con Robert L. Iles
Blood Secrets R. B. Swets
The Perfect Marriage Neil Davies
The Frisco Frame Arthur C. Carey
The Hit Man Nancy Sweetland
Captain Square and the Turk’s Head Charles G. Mossop
The Penitentiary Son Timmy Waldron
No Strings Attached Mark SaFranko
The Deep Six Lox Crabtree
The Lookdown Frank Foster
Minor Fear John Hawfield
Her Eye In The Sky Ron Savage
The Samaritan Tom Brennan
Brainstorm Telett Lyketes
The Envelope, Please Charles Schaeffer

LITERARY, POETRY, MAINSTREAM...
Simplify, Unite, Delight Kristin R. Masterton

COLUMNS - INTERVIEWS - REVIEWS
The Informant Bret Wright
Moral Judgments G. Miki Hayden
The Crime Lab Guy John L. French
Meet the Staff - Webmaster & Review Co-ordinator Catherine Chant
Starfire Mary O’Gara
Murder-Go-Round Harriet Klausner
Spotlight on Teresa Tunaley Bret Wright

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