Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 26, No. 6, May 27, 1981

May 27, 1981

Dear Reader:

The twists and turns of the tales in this month’s issue may make your head spin. A couple of business partners try to double-cross each other as well as a hit man in David Morrell’s “The Partnership.” Two muggers find a new variation on the old game in “Spinning the Bottle” by Edwin P. Hicks. A young con man as a client in “The Man Who Flim-Flammed Hiwassee County” by William M. Stephens. Robert Edward Eckels describes an elaborate con in “The Swindle,” and an ex-con returns to a home that’s not quite the way he left it in “Picking Up” by Ernest Savage.

A young man who makes a living writing poetry falls victim to a frameup in “A Cleverly Rearranged Murder” by Richard Purtill, and in Donald Olson’s story a man picks up a hitchhiker who tells him how he can make “An Easy Fifty Bucks.”

We only hope that the crookedness of the plots in this issue doesn’t leave you too dizzy to focus on the printed page.

Good reading.

The Editors