James Powell James Powell is one the most highly regarded writers of short crime fiction. He has been published in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Playboy. He is a multi-Arthur Award nominee, winner of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award and co-ecipient of the CWC's Derrick Murdoch Award in 1992. In 2003, Powell received their Arthur Ellis Award for best short story of the year and that same year one of his stories was nominated for a Shamus award by the Private Eye Writers of America. Powell now lives in Pennsylvania. Read More Read Less