Steve Hockensmith

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Steve Hockensmith was born in Derby City on August 17, 1968 and first gained fame covering the entertainment industry for The Hollywood Reporter, Total Movie, Newsday and others. In 1999 he left the industry to focus on writing mysteries and quickly won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award for his story "Erie's Last Day," published in the May 2000 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (AHMM). Two subsequent Larry Erie stories, "Tricks" (AHMM, August 2004) and "The Big Road" (AHMM, May 2005), were both finalists for the Shamus Award for Best Short Story from the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). [1]

Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer made their debut in the February 2003 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (EQMM) and quickly become very popular with readers. Three more stories appeared in the magazine (always in the February Sherlock Holmes themed issue) before the brothers made the leap to novel length with Holmes on the Range in 2006, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 2007. On the Wrong Track was published in 2007, and the latest book in the series, The Black Dove, was released on February 19, 2008.

Hockensmith originated the monthly "Reel Crime" column for AHMM.


[edit] List of Works

Year
Published
Title Information
2001 Erie's Last Day AHMM
2004 Tricks AHMM - Erie follow-up
2003 Dear Mr. Holmes EQMM Feb - Old Red & Big Red debut
2005 The Big Road AHMM - Erie follow-up
2005 Gustav Amlingmeyer, Holmes of the Range EQMM Feb - Old Red & Big Red story
2006 Wolves in Winter EQMM Feb - Old Red & Big Red story
2006 Holmes on the Range Novel - Old Red & Big Red
2007 Dear Dr. Watson EQMM Feb - Old Red & Big Red story
2007 On the Wrong Track Novel - Old Red & Big Red
2008 The Black Dove Novel - Old Red & Big Red
2008 New Old Red & Big Red Story EQMM - Pub date TBD
2009 Untitled Old Red & Big Red Novel Pub date TBA

[edit] External Links

Author's web site

Shamus Awards list