Amateur Sleuth
Put Out the Lights and Cry (Outcast Press), Malice, Matrimony, and Murder, BOULD Awards 2021, Cozy Villages of Death, Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories
“Pickup at the Main Street Diner,” in Put Out the Lights and Cry, November 2023, Outcast Press “Til Death Do Us Part,” in Malice, Matrimony, and Murder, November 2023, ed. Marla Bradeen “Christmas Cookie Caper,” Mysteryrat’s Maze podcast, December 2023, Kings River Life (reprint) “Garden Photography,” Jan/Feb 2022, Texas Gardener Magazine “They Shoot Pumpkins, Don’t They?” Mysteryrat’s Maze podcast, November 2022, Kings River Life “Once a Kappa,” BOULD Awards, vol 1, December 2021, ed. Jake Devlin (reprint) “Killer Weeds,” SEEDS weekly newsletter, January 20, 2021, Texas Gardeners Magazine “Twilight Easter Egg Hunt,” April 2021, Kings River Life (reprint) “Black Market Baby,” Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories, 2020, Level Best Books “Dealing at the Dump,” Cozy Villages of Death, 2020, Camden Park Press “4BR/3.5BA Contemporary,” Mid-Century Murder, 2020, Darkhouse Books “Busted at the Booksale,” Mysteryrat’s Maze podcast, May 2020, Kings River Life “Double Crust Corpse,” Cooked to Death: Cold Cut Files, v. IV, 2019 Obscura Productions (reprint) “The Yard Police Meet Their End,” October 2018, Kings River Life “Baby Killer,” Day of the Dark: Stories of Eclipse, 2017, Wildside Press “Three Corpse Meal,” December 2017, Kings River Life “Taste Before You Buy,” October 2017, Kings River Life “Once a Kappa,” Best Short Stories, 2016, Southern Writers Magazine "Double Crust Corpse," November 2016, Mysterical-E “Screaming Coffins, Lurking Zombies,” October 2016, Kings River Life “Born on the Fourth of July,” June 2016, Kings River Life “Killer Pie: An international Pi Day mystery short story,” March 14, 2016, Kings River Life “Christmas Cookie Caper,” December 2015, Kings River Life “The Headless Horseman,” October 2015, Kings River Life “Father’s Day Road Race,” June 2015, Kings River Life “Twilight Easter Egg Hunt,” March 2015, Kings River Life "The Bride Wore Gold: A New Orleans Wedding,” Destination: Mystery!, 2015, Darkhouse Books “Corn Maze Corpse,” October 2014, Kings River Life
Margaret S. Hamilton has published over thirty short stories in various anthologies and on-line publications. Her debut amateur sleuth mystery, WHAT THE ARTIST LEFT BEHIND, is on submission.