Michael Mallory’s fiction writing career is criminal…in a nice way. Under his own name and a pseudonym (no, he won’t tell you), he is the author some seventy-five short stories, mostly in the mystery field, which have been appeared in a host of magazines and anthologies, both in print and online. His story “Curiosity Kills” won the Derringer Award for Best Flash (under 1,000 words) Mystery from the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and prior to that he received Honors in the 1994 International Imitation Raymond Chandler Writing Competition. A more recent story, “The Great American Novel,” received a Pushcart Prize nomination (and although Mike did not win, he can nevertheless lay claim to having written “The Great American Novel.”).

Mike created and co-edited the anthology "Murder on Sunset Boulevard." He is best known, however, for his stories of Amelia Watson, the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson, the friend and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes. The first Amelia Watson novel, “Murder in the Bath,” is now out from Deadly Alibi Press, which also published a collection of Mike’s early Amelia short stories under the title “The Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson.” Over the last decade some twenty-five Amelia Watson adventures have appeared in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, the anthologies “The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers” and “My Sherlock Holmes." More are forthcoming.

Mike is a member in good standing of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and The Blustering Gales from the South-West, a scion society of the Baker Street Irregulars