Diary Review: ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – January 1968.

ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – January 1968. Overall rating: ***½. JOE GORES “File #2: Stakeout on Page Street.” (Dan Kearney Associates) Involving a delinquent car,, narcotics, and racial prejudice in Hashbury. (4) EDGAR WALLACE “The Father Christmas Job.” (Felix Jenks) First published in The Grand Magazine, January 1923, as “The Buoy That Did Not Light.” Ship’s steward sees behind on-board activities. (1) STUART CLOATE “The Second Nail.” First published in 1966. An African witch doctor’s magic soothes a broken love affair. Quiet sophisticated evil. (5) STEPHEN DENTINGER “First Offense.” A bank robbery fails to come off. Young bored kids with big ideas. [Dentiger is a pen name for Edward D. Hoch.] (3) MICHAEL HARRISON “The Murder in the Rue Royale.” [C. Auguste Dupin] “Unpublished” Dupin pastiche, perhaps the first locked room murder. A complicated business.. (3) EVE CHRISTMAS “The Burning of a Witch.” First story, Poorly told story of the mistress of a Nazi prison camp commander.…