Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Books, Listed by Author

ACKER, KATHY (1944-1997) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Portrait of an Eye (Pantheon 0-679-40619-0, Feb ’92 [Jun ’92], $15.00, 310pp, tp) Omnibus of three short novels, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula (TVRT Press 1975), which is a crime novel about a Mississippi murderess and her love affair with a lawyer, plus I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining (Traveler’s Digest Editions 1980) and The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (TVRT Press 1978). (Contents)

ADAMS ROUND TABLE (chron.)

• * *A Body Is Found (Wynwood Press 0-922066-49-3, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $16.95, 288pp, hc) Mystery set in NYC with various solutions put together by ten mystery writers. (Contents)
• * *Justice in Manhattan (Longmeadow 0-681-45480-6, 1994, $17.95, 217pp, hc) Original anthology of 10 mystery stories. (Contents)
• * *Missing in Manhattan (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 0-681-41576-2, Oct ’92 [Dec ’92], $17.95, 297pp, hc) Original anthology of crime stories about someone or something being lost in New York, by members of an NYC writers’ group. With an introduction by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. (Contents)
• * *Murder Among Friends (Berkley 0-425-16700-3, Oct 2000, $21.95, 269pp, hc) Original anthology of 11 stories by members of The Adams Round Table. (Contents)
• * *Murder in the Family (Berkley Prime Crime 0-425-18335-1, Aug 2002, $24.95, 337pp, hc) Original anthology of 12 stories. (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Murder on the Run (Berkley 0-425-16146-3, Feb ’98, $21.95, 294pp, hc) (Contents)

ADEY, ROBERT (C. S.), ed. (1941- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _Banner Deadlines: The Impossible Crimes of Senator Brooks U. Banner See entry under Joseph Commings.
• * _Murder Impossible (with Jack Adrian) See entry under Jack Adrian.
• * _Murder Most Scottish (with Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Stefan Dziemianowicz) See entry under Stefan Dziemianowicz.

ADRIAN, JACK, ed.; pseudonym of Christopher Lowder, (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Detective Stories from The Strand (Oxford University Press 0-19-212306-8, Nov ’91, £15.95, 374pp, hc, cover by Mick Brownfield) Anthology of 25 mystery/detection stories originally published in Strand magazine, with a foreword by Julian Symons. (Contents)
• * _Hard-Boiled (with Bill Pronzini) See entry under Bill Pronzini.
• * +Murder Impossible (with Robert Adey) (New York: Carroll & Graf 0-88184-641-4, Dec ’90 [Jan ’91], $18.95, 321pp, hc) Anthology of 21 mystery stories propounding the solutions to impossible crimes, with an introduction by the editors. First American edition (Xanadu 1990 as The Art of the Impossible). (Contents)
• * *12 Mystery Stories (Oxford University Press 0-19-288074-8, Apr ’98, £4.99/$9.95, xii+232pp, tp) Anthology of genre and mainstream work, the majority from the 19th century. (Contents)
• * *12 Tales of Murder (Oxford University Press 0-19-288075-6, Apr ’98, £4.99, xii+203pp, tp) Anthology of crime/mystery stories. (Contents)

AIRD, CATHERINE; pseudonym of Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, (1930- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * +Chapter and Hearse and Other Stories (St. Martin’s Minotaur 0-312-29084-5, Feb 2004, $23.95, 293pp, hc) Reprint (Macmillan 2003) collection of 22 stories. First US edition. (Contents)
• * *Injury Time (Macmillan, 1994, hc) Collection of 16 stories. See US edition (St. Martin’s 1995).
• * +Injury Time (St. Martin’s 0-312-13095-3, Aug ’95, $19.95, 168pp, hc) Collection of 16 stories. First US edition (Macmillan 1994). (Contents)

ALEXANDER, RIC, ed.; pseudonym of Peter Haining, (1940- ) (chron.)

• * *Cyber-Killers (Millennium 0-75280-980-6, Jun ’97 [May ’97], £9.99, 408pp, tp, cover by BlackSheep) SF anthology of 23 murder stories involving technology. Each story has a brief preface on its author and first appearance, and there is an Introduction by Peter F. Hamilton. Authors range from Pratchett to Gibson, Bester to Koontz, Ballard to Niven; dates from 1953 to 1995. A hardcover edition (-783-8, £16.99) is also available. (Contents)

ALEXANDER, SKYE, ed. (1950- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Undertow: Crime Stories by New England Writers (with Kate Flora & Susan Oleksiw) (Level Best Books 0970098405, Nov 2003, $12.00, 196pp, tp) (Buy) (Contents)

ALLINGHAM, MARGERY (Louise) (1904-1966) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Allingham Case-Book (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-889-1, 1992, $3.95, 272pp, pb) Reprint (P. & M. Youngman Carter 1969) collection of 18 mystery stories. (Contents)
• * *Darings of the Red Rose (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-01-3, 1995, $15.00, tp) (Contents)
• * _Mr. Campion and Others (Avon 0-380-70579-6, Feb ’91 [Aug ’91], $3.95, 264pp, pb) Reprint (Penguin 1950) collection of 13 mystery stories, expanded from an earlier collection of the same title (Heinemann 1939). (Contents)
• * _Mr. Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-890-5, 1992, $3.95, 240pp, pb) Reprint (P. & M. Youngman Carter 1973 as The Allingham Minibus: More Short Stories) collection of 18 mystery stories. (Contents)
• * _No Love Lost (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-723-2, Apr ’91 [Aug ’91], $3.95, 176pp, pb) Reprint (World’s Work 1954) collection of two mystery novellas. (Contents)
• * +The Return of Mr. Campion (St. Martin’s 0-312-04413-5, Apr ’90 [Jul ’90], $15.95, 190pp, hc) Collection of 13 previously uncollected tales, four featuring Albert Campion, edited and with notes by J.E. Morpurgo, plus an Allingham tribute by Agatha Christie. First American edition (Hodder & Stoughton 1989). (Contents)

ALLYN, DOUG(las) (1942- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * *All Creatures Great and Small (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-32-3, 1999, $16.00, 194pp, tp, cover by Barbara Mitchell) [Dr. Dave Westbrook] Collection of seven stories, also published in a limited hardcover edition (-31-5). (Contents)
• * *The Hard Luck Klub (Five Star 0-7862-4332-5, Dec 2002, $25.95, 220pp, hc) Collection of eight stories. (Buy) (Contents)

AMBUEHL, JAMES, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Hardboiled Cthulhu (Elder Signs Press/Dimensions Books 0-9759229-7-1, Jul 2006, $17.95, 325pp, tp, cover by Dave Senecal) Original anthology of 21 stories (five reprints) and one poem of Lovecraftian hard-boiled mystery. (Contents)

ANDERSON, GARRETT, ed. (chron.)

• * _Kolchak: The Nightstalker Chronicles (with Lori Gentile & Joe Gentile) See entry under Joe Gentile.

ANDERSON, POUL (William) (1926-2001); see under Anon. (stories) (chron.)

• * _West by One and by One [as by Anonymous] See entry under Anonymous.

ANDREWS, DONNA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *Chesapeake Crimes (Quiet Storm Books 0974960802, Feb 2004, $24.95, 192pp, hc)

ANONYMOUS, ed. (stories) (chron.)

• * *An Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Sampler (Reader’s Digest LCC# 73-85754, 1974, ph) Booklet given free to buyers of Reader’s Digest books. (Contents)
• * *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959 (H.S.D. Publications, 1959, 50¢, digest) A rebinding of the January 1959 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the December 1958 issue of Sleuth Mystery Magazine. (Contents)
• * *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Stories #1 (Bonomo 101, 1979, 39¢, 64pp, 3¼" x 5" s/s, cover by Paula Blasband) (Contents)
• * *Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies [by Robert Arthur] (Random House 0-394-84901-9, 1982, 215pp, tp) Abridged (Random House 1966). (Contents)
• * *Bark M for Murder (Avon 006081537X, Mar 2006, $6.99, 320pp, pb) (Contents)
• * *Bedside Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Panther 1475, Feb ’63, 2’6, 126pp, pb) Anthology of seven stories. (Contents)
• * *The Best Crime Stories (Mallard Press 0-792-45245-3, Apr ’90 [May ’90], $7.98, 392pp, hc) Anthology of 24 classic mystery stories. This is an instant remainder edition from the Bantam/Doubleday/Dell promotion company. (Contents)
• * _The Best Crime Stories [by Michael Stapleton] (Hamlyn 0-600-38241-9, 1984, £4.95, 747pp, hc) Reissue (Hamlyn 1977) massive anthology of 49 crime stories from Somerser Maugham to Avram Davidson. A greatly abridged version (containing 24 of the stories) was subsequently published in the US (Mallard, 1990). (Contents)
• * *The Best Short Stories of 1983 (Davis, 1984, 72pp, ph) Booklet given free to subscribers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the five Edgar Award-nominated stories of 1983. (Contents)
• * *A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen (London: Daily Express, 1934, 1087pp, hc) (Contents)
• * *A Century of Thrillers: Second Series (Daily Express, 1935, 896pp, hc) Published in Australia as The World’s Best Mystery Stories, Melbourne: United Press, 1935. (Contents)
• * *Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Fall 1993 (Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 0-345-38635-3, Jun ’93, no price, 97pp, tp) An anthology of seven novel excerpts from mysteries being published by Ballantine, Fawcett, or Ivy. This is a promotional book distributed to bookstore customers at no charge.
• * *Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Spring 1993 (Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 0-345-39309-5, Jan ’93, no price, 103pp, tp) An anthology of seven novel excerpts from mysteries being published by Ballantine, Fawcett, or Ivy. This is a promotional book distributed to bookstore customers at no charge.
• * *Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Summer 1993 (Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 0-345-38448-2, Mar ’93 [Jun ’93], no price, 86pp, tp) An anthology of seven novel excerpts from mysteries being published in the spring by Ballantine, Fawcett, or Ivy. This is a promotional book distributed to bookstore customers at no charge.
• * *Classic Detective Stories (London: MQ Publications, Ltd. 1-84072-071-9, 1999, 143pp, pb) Anthology of six detective stories. Page 3 gives title as “Classic Detective Stories from a Suitcase of Suspense." (Contents)
• * _The Continental Classics Volume XVIII: Mystery Tales [by Julian Hawthorne] (Harper & Brothers, 1909, 370pp, hc) Reprint of The Lock and Key Library: North Europe Stories, by Julian Hawthorne.
• * *Corpses Can Walk and Other Stories (London: Pictorial Art Ltd., 1946, 9d, 64pp, ph) (Contents)
• * *The Crime Club Golden Book of Best Detective Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1933, $1.00, 313+38+41+288+76+24+11+67+300+35pp, hc) Contents reprinted from original plates, preserving pagination. Also abridged as Mammoth Golden Book of Best Detective Stories (A.L. Burt). (Contents)
• * *Crime: Free Classic Crime Sampler (House of Stratus 0-7551-1273-3, 2001, free, 301pp, tp) Anthology of 16 extracts from classic crime novels recently reprinted by “House of Stratus”. (Contents)
• * *Crimes of Passion (Worldwide Mystery 0-373-26407-0, Jan 2002, $6.99, 380pp, pb) (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Criminal Intent 1 (Dark Harvest 0-913165-69-7, 1993, $21.95, 244pp, hc) Original anthology of three novellas. (Contents)
• * *Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas (Worldwide Mystery 0373264739, Nov 2003, $6.99, 256pp, pb) Original anthology of four novellas. (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Deadly Morsels (Worldwide 0-373-26452-6, Apr 2003, $6.99, 380pp, pb) Original anthology of four mystery novellas. (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Desperate Journeys (Worldwide Mystery 0373264917, May 2004, $6.99, 384pp, pb) Original anthology of four novellas. (Contents)
• * *Drop-Dead Blonde (Signet 0451214447, Feb 2005, $6.99, 352pp, pb) (Contents)
• * *Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners (Robert Hale 0-7090-4532-8, 1992, 174pp, hc) Anthology of 14 Edgar Award winning stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. (Contents)
• * *Ellery Queen’s Mystery Stories #1 (Bonomo 100, 1979, 39¢, 64pp, 3¼" x 5" s/s, cover by Paula Blasband) (Contents)
• * *Ellery Queen’s Mystery Stories #2 (Bonomo 33, 1979, 49¢, 3¼" x 5" s/s) (Contents)
• * *Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television (Grove Press 0-8021-3383-5, 1993, $14.00, 274pp, tp) Anthology of six stories, each followed by a teleplay based on the story from the Showtime series Fallen Angels. (Contents)
• * *A Feast of Crime (Worldwide 0-373-26527-1, May 2005, $6.99, 379pp, pb) Original anthology of four crime novellas involving food, with recipes. (Contents)
• * *Five Classic Stories (Davis, 1986, free, 60pp, digest) Booklet given free to subscribers of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, five stories dramatized on the Hitchcock tv show. (Contents)
• * *Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century (Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1990, hc) (Contents)
• * _Great Tales of Terror (London: Chancellor Press 1-1851-521-062, 1991, £2.99, 638pp, hc) An anonymous reprint of H. Douglas Thomson’s The Great Book of Thrillers (revised edition, 1937), omitting six stories and rearranging part of the story sequence. (Contents)
• * *Gryphon Double Novel #1 (Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Publications 0-936071-20-6, Jan ’91, $5.95, tp, cover by Ron Wilber) Chapbook anthology of two original pulp adventure short stories printed a la the Ace Doubles. (Contents)
• * *Hollywood Kills (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-879-4, 1993, $21.00, 367pp, hc) Anthology of 13 stories set in Hollywood. (Contents)
• * *Homicide for the Holidays (Worldwide Library 0-373-26362-7, Oct 2000, $6.99, 506pp, pb) Anthology of two novels and an original short story of yuletide murder. (Contents)
• * *The Hope Chest (Harlequin 0373836457, Mar 2005, $5.99, 400pp, pb) Original anthology of three related romantic novellas. (Contents)
• * *Horror and Homicide (Checkerbooks #5, 1949, 15¢, 95pp, pb, cover by Bob Schwartz) Anthology of eight stories selected from Murder for the Millions, ed. Frank Owen (Fell 1946). (Contents)
• * *How Still We See Thee Lie (Worldwide 0-373-26437-2, Nov 2002, $6.99, 377pp, pb) Original anthology of four Christmas novellas. (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Jewel Cases: Five Classic Mysteries of Theft (Bob Jones Univ Press 1579248411, Jul 2002, $6.49, 122pp, pb) Young adult anthology of five stories. (Buy)
• * *Motherhood Is Murder (Avon 0-06-052501-0, Mar 2003, $6.99, 346pp, pb) Original anthology of four novellas by Carolyn Hart, Mary Daheim, Jane Isenberg, and Shirley Rousseau Murphy. (Buy) (Contents)
• * *Murder at the Movies (Worldwide Library 0-373-26305-8, Apr ’99, $6.99, 508pp, pb) Anthology of two novels and an original short story. (Contents)
• * *Murder Most Merry [by John Scognamiglio] (Zebra 0-8217-4763-0, Nov ’94, $4.99, 349pp, pb) Original anthology of six Christmas mysteries. (Contents)
• * *Murder Under the Tree (Zebra 0-8217-4376-7, Nov ’93, $3.99, 319pp, pb) Original anthology of six Christmas mystery stories. (Contents)
• * *Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe (Worldwide Mystery 0373264011, Nov 2001, $6.99, 384pp, pb) Original anthology of four stories. (Buy) (Contents)
• * _Mysteries (London: Bracken Books 1-85891-154-0, 1994, $12.99, 606pp, hc) Reprint (Odhams 1936 as The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries edited by J.M. Parrish & John R. Crossland) anthology of 44 stories (omitting seven stories from the original) with an Introduction (provenance uncertain) by Giles Gordon. (Contents)
• * *The Mysterious Bruce (The Brucedale Press 1-896922-02-3, 1997, C$9.95, 89pp, tp) Original anthology of six stories, the winners of a contest to support literacy programs in Bruce County, Ontario. Winners chosen by Ken Weber. (Contents)
• * +Mysterious Erotic Tales (Castle 0-7858-0725-X, Nov ’96, $8.99, 244pp, hc, cover by Delphin Enjolras) Reprint (O’Mara 1996) anthology of 13 stories, eight new. (Contents)
• * *Mystery (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-45996-6, 1989, $4.00, 151pp, tp) Textbook, includes discussions after each story and a glossary. (Contents)
• * *Mystery Cats (Signet 0-451-17101-2, Dec ’91, $4.99, 256pp, pb) Anthology of 16 crime & mystery stories featuring cats that originally appeared in EQMM and AHMM. (Contents)
• * *Mystery’s Most Wanted (St. Martin’s 0-312-96476-5, Nov ’97, $5.99, 336pp, pb) Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1996 as The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition) anthology edited by the staff of Mystery Scene. Contains 16 of the original 25 stories. (Contents)
• * *New York State of Crime (Worldwide Library 0-373-26317-1, Aug ’99, $6.99, 509pp, pb) Anthology of two novels and an original short story. (Contents)
• * *Purnell’s Book of Mystery Stories (Bristol: Purnell 0361052863, 1982, 111pp, hc) Anthology of mystery and supernatural stories for children. (Contents)
• * *Readers’ Choice (Davis no ISBN, 1990, free, ph) Booklet given free to subscribers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, four winners or runners-up for the EQMM Readers’ Choice Award. (Contents)
• * *Sherlock Holmes In: The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson/Sherlock Holmes In: The Grey Nun Legacy (Gryphon Books 0-93607-23-0, Mar ’92 [Feb ’92], $6.95, 42/17pp, ph) [Sherlock Holmes] Original anthology of two Sherlock Holmes pastiches, by Gary Lovisi and P. Smith respectively, presented in the style of the old Ace doubles. Gryphon Double #3. Available from Gryphon Publications, PO Box 209, Brooklyn NY 11228. (Contents)
• * *Southern Nights (Southern Star Publishing 1584449969, Nov 2001, $14.95, 224pp, tp) Mystery & Suspense Tales by Southern Writers. (Buy) (Contents)
• * +A Suit of Diamonds: Britain’s Celebrated Crime Club Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Volume (Dell 0-440-20840-8, Nov ’91 [Dec ’91], $4.50, 248pp, pb) Original anthology of 13 mystery stories commissioned to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Collins Crime Club. First American edition (Collins 1990). (Contents)
• * *Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries [by John Gawsworth] (Associated Newspapers, 1935, 864pp, hc) Anthology illustrated by Norman Keene. (Contents)
• * *’Tis the Season for Murder: Christmas Crimes (Worldwide Library 0-373-26290-6, Nov ’98, $6.99, 508pp, pb) Anthology of two reprint Christmas murder mystery novels and an original short story. (Contents)
• * *Very Merry Mysteries (Mystery Guild 544478, 2003, $12.49, hc) Omnibus of three Christmas mysteries. (Contents)
• * *West by One and by One [by Poul Anderson] (The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County, 1965, $5.00, 157pp, tp) [Sherlock Holmes] Anthology of Sherlockiana. Limited to 500 copies. (Contents)
• * *Wicked Women Whodunit (Brava 0758210264, Mar 2005, $14.00, 329pp, tp) (Contents)
• * *World’s Great Detective Stories (Kessinger Publishing Company 0766188167, Mar 2004, $34.00, 532pp, tp)