From his first appearance in print in 1929, Ellery Queen became one of America's most famous and beloved fictional detectives. Over the course of nearly half a century, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, the duo writing team known as Ellery Queen, won the prestigious Edgar Award multiple times, and their contributions to the mystery genre were recognized with a Grand Master Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. Their fair-play mysteries won over fans due to their intricate puzzles that challenged the reader to solve the mystery alongside the brilliant detective. Queen's stories were among the first to dominate the earliest days of radio, film, and television. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which the writers founded and edited, became the world's most influential and acclaimed crime fiction magazine. Josh Pachter's short crime fiction first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1968. Since then, he's published over 120 stories in magazines and books in the US and around the world. He's also edited some twenty anthologies (for publishers in the US, England, Holland, Germany, France, Finland, and Brazil) and translated both fiction and nonfiction from Dutch and Flemish into English. In 2020, he received the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement and won the SMFS Derringer for Best Flash Story - the first time anyone has taken home a Golden Derringer and a competitive Derringer in the same year. In 2023, his first novel - Dutch Threat - was published, and the following year it was named a finalist for Left Coast Crime's Best Debut Mystery Novel Lefty Award, Malice Domestic's Best First Novel Agatha Award, and Mystery Readers International's Best Debut Mystery Macavity Award. In 2024, his first book for younger readers - First Week Free At The Roomy Toilet - was published to rave reviews. In 2022, Josh retired after a fifty-year "day job" in higher education. Nowadays - when he's not writing, editing or translating - he's either teaching adult learners as a volunteer at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Midlothian (VA), kayaking, or traveling with his wife Laurie and/or daughter Becca.