The Crime Writers’ Association

Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition 2022

Shortlisted


Alexandre Sadeghi

Weights and Biases

A wonderfully stylistic first sentence begins a story that continues to challenge the reader as a Private Artificial Investigator uses all its IT attributes in its pursuit of a killer.

The judges were full of admiration for the story’s command of PAI’S avatar role.

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