Josh Pachter

Josh Pachter is the author of more than a hundred short crime stories, which have been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and many other places. The Tree of Life (Wildside Press, 2015) collected of all ten of his Mahboob Chaudri stories, and The Adventures of the Puzzle Club and Other Stories (Crippen & Landru, 2023) contained five stories by Ellery Queen and nine by Pachter. He also edits anthologies and translates fiction and nonfiction from Dutch and other languages. In 2020, he received the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement. Dutch T(h)reat is his first novel.