Editor-in-Chief:
Kevin Burton Smith

Fiction Editors
Gerald So

Fiction Editor Emeritus
Victoria Esposito-Shea

Contributors, Regulars and Drive-Bys
Anders Ahlerup
Chris Baldemor a Beeper
Peter M. Bellani
Marcel Bernadac
Jim Blue
Booster 67
John Boyle
Geoff Bradley
Randal Brandt
Diana Killian
Nathalie Bumpeau
Bryan Clough
Max Allan Collins
Colin Clynes
Bill Crider
O'Neil De Noux
William Denton
Dermot
Ron DeSourdis
Dave Dial
Jim Doherty
Wayne D. Dundee
Philip Eagle
Bryan English
Sue Feder
Ted Fitzgerald
Jack French
Christopher Friesen
Mark Geldmeyer
Christopher Gooch
Ed Gorman
Christopher Gumprich
Al Guthrie
Bill Hagen
Greg Harness
Mike Harris
John Heaton
Monte Herridge
Don B. Hilliard
Allen J. Hubin
Rudyard Kennedy
Marcia Kiser
Terrill Lankford
Darren Latta
Robert Lee
Laurent Lehmann
Hugh Lessig
Steve Lewis
Dick Lochte
Keith Logan
Geoff Loker
Janice Long
Dennis Lynds
Marianne Macdonald
Jane Maranghi
Todd Mason
Don McGregor
Christopher Mills
Richard Moore
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Jenifer Nightingale
David Nobriga
Juri Nummelin
George Pelecanos
J. Kingston Pierce
Bill Pronzini
James Reasoner
Rick Robinson
Brian D. Rubendall
Michael Ryan
Kerry Schooley
Duke Seabrook
Gerald So
James Stephenson
Dale Stoyer
Mark Sullivan
Duane Swierczynski
Mario Taboada
Dick Tartow
George Upper
Peter Walker
David White
James R. Winter
Stewart Wright

See also Staff Bios.

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BACK TO BLACK: THE NEW BLACK MASK by Mark Coggins

THE COVER GALLERY by Kevin Burton Smith

WORD ON THE STREET by the editors

The Thrilling Detective Web Site, 10th Anniversary Issue. Published quartlerly by Kevin Burton Smith. Please send all review copies and promotional materials to: Kevin Burton Smith, The Thrilling Detective Web Site, 3053 Rancho Vista Blvd., Suite 116, Palmdale, California, U.S.A., 93551 or contact the editor via e-mail.

This issue's cover probably looks more than a little familiar to anyone who first became interested in hard-boiled crime fiction bck in the seventies and eighties.

It's based, of course, on a cover of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, arguably the last mainstream periodical to regularly feature hard-boiled crime fiction. The cover on which this issue's cover was taken was the February 1983 issue, and in fact featured a story by a contributor and pal to this site: Dick Stodghill, perhaps best known in these pages for his Jack Eddy stories.

By 1985, MSMM was on its last legs -- in another year or so, it would be gone. And even in it's glory days, it was looked upon as a down-market magazine; forever lurking in the shadows of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Manhunt and even Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock, but in its almost thirty year run, it managed to run a Mike Shayne short story and usually four or five short stories in each issue, many by some of the great hard-boiled authors of the era: Dennis Lynds, Richard S. Prather , Frank Kane and Henry Kane were all regular contributors.

By the way, if you 've enjoyed our covers over the years, But if this is your sort of thing, have patience. Wwe are planning to eventually have a sort of gallery of previous covers, reproducing the full-size covers. I'll save some brimstone for you.

In the meantime, you can take a gander at the collage of covers we used for our tenth anniversary issue right here.