Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

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MASTERTON, GRAHAM (1946- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Charnel House and Other Stories (Five Star 0-7862-4312-0, Oct 2002, $25.95, 273pp, hc) Collection of three suspense and horror stories plus the title novel. (Buy) (Contents)
MATERA, LIA (1952- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Counsel for the Defense and Other Stories (Five Star 0786225378, Jun 2000, $20.95, 173pp, hc) (Contents)
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* *Irreconcilable Differences (HarperCollins 0-06-019225-9, Dec ’99, $24.00, 354pp, hc) Original anthology of 20 mystery and suspense stories of relationships gone wrong. (Contents)
MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE; pseudonym of Marthayn Pelegrimas, (1948- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Gentle Insanities and Other States of Mind (Five Star 0-7862-3555-1, Oct 2001, $23.95, 267pp, hc) Collection of 14 stories. (Buy) (Contents)
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* *Deadly Housewives (Avon 0060853271, Apr 2006, $13.95, 283+24pp, tp) (Contents)
* *Lethal Ladies II (with Robert J. Randisi) (Berkley 0-425-16268-0, Apr ’98, $6.99, 324pp, pb) Original anthology of 15 detective stories (three reprints) by women writers. (Contents)
* _Mayhem in the Midlands (with Robert J. Randisi) See entry under Robert J. Randisi
MEDAWAR, TONY, ed. (stories) (chron.)

* _The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham’s Casebook See entry under Anthony Berkeley.
* _The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill’s Casebook See entry under Christianna Brand.
MEREDITH, D(oris) R. (1944- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *A Woman’s Place and Other Mysterious Tales (Five Star 0-7862-3550-0, Dec 2001, $23.95, 200pp, hc) Collection of eight stories. (Buy) (Contents)
MERTZ, BARBARA (Louise) G(ross) (1927- ); see pseudonym Elizabeth Peters (stories) (chron.)
MILES, KEITH (1940- ); see pseudonym Edward Marston (stories) (chron.)
MILLAR, KENNETH (1915-1983); see pseudonym Ross Macdonald (stories) (chron.)
MILLAR, MARGARET (Ellis, née Sturm) (1915-1994) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *The Couple Next Door (Crippen & Landru 1-932009-29-9, Dec 2004, $19.00, 248pp, tp, cover by Deborah Miller) Collection of six stories. Also in limited hc edition (-28-0). (Contents) [ed: Tom Nolan]
MILLER, JOHN, ed. (chron.)

* *San Francisco Thrillers (with Tim Smith) (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 0-8118-1043-7, 1995, $14.95, 252pp, tp) (Contents)
MITCHELL, GLADYS (Maude Winifred) (1901-1983) (stories) (chron.)

* *Sleuth’s Alchemy: Cases of Mrs. Bradley and Others (Crippen & Landru 1-932009-31-0, Mar 2005, $19.00, 195pp, tp, cover by Gail Cross) Collection of 31 stories. Also in limited hc edition (-30-2). (Contents) [ed: Nicholas Fuller]
MONAHAN, JAMES L., ed. (chron.)

* *Masterpieces of Surprise (Hart LCC# 66-23131, 1966, $1.50, 256pp, pb) (Contents)
MONFREDO, MIRIAM GRACE, ed. (1940- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Crime Through Time (with Sharan Newman) (Berkley 0-425-15761-X, Aug ’97, $6.99, 373pp, pb) (Contents)
* *Crime Through Time II (with Sharan Newman) (Berkley 0-425-16410-1, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], $6.99, 352pp, pb) (Contents)
MORGAN, J(ill) M(eredith), ed. (1946- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Creature Cozies (Berkley Prime Crime 0-425-20127-9, Mar 2005, $23.95, 311pp, hc, cover by Lisa Desimini) Original anthology of 11 stories. (Contents)
* _Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories (with Robert E. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg
* *Till Death Do Us Part (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Berkley 0-425-17197-3, Nov ’99, $6.99, 294pp, pb) Original anthology of 18 stories of love, marriage and murder, by suspense authors and their significant others. Includes photos of each couple. (Contents)
MORRIS, LOUIS, ed. (chron.)

* *Masterpieces of Adventure (Hart LCC# 66-15781, 1966, $1.50, 252pp, pb, cover by Stanislaw Fernandes) Back cover and spine list compiler as James L. Monahan, title page lists Morris. (Contents)
MORRIS, ROSAMUND, ed. (chron.)

* *Great Detective Stories (Hart, 1965, 191pp, hc) (Contents)
MORRISON, DANIEL PAUL, ed. (stories) (chron.)

* _Secrets & Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim See entry under E. Phillips Oppenheim.
MORTIMER, JOHN (Clifford) (1923- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *Rumpole à la Carte (Viking 0-670-83284-7, Dec ’90 [Apr ’91], $18.95, 240pp, hc) [Horace Rumpole] Collection of six stories featuring British barrister Horace Rumpole. (Contents)
* +Rumpole on Trial (New York: Viking 0-670-84459-4, Dec ’92, $21.00, 243pp, hc) [Horace Rumpole] Original collection of seven Rumpole stories. First American edition. (Contents)
* *Rumpole Rests His Case (Viking 0670031399, Nov 2002, $24.95, 224pp, hc) [Horace Rumpole] Collection of seven stories. (Buy) (Contents)
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* *Great Law and Order Stories (Bellew Publishing 0-947792-35-X, 1990 [Mar ’98], £12.95, 369pp, hc) Crime anthology. (Contents)
* +Great Law and Order Stories (Norton 0-393-03079-2, Jan ’92 [May ’92], $25.00, 356pp, hc) Anthology of 14 legal and courtroom stories, with an introduction by the editor. First American edition (UK 1990), omits one story. (Contents)
MOSIMAN, BILLIE SUE, ed. (1947- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *August Is a Good Time for Killing and Other Blood-Curdling Stories of Murder in the East (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Rutledge Hill Press 1-55853-576-4, Apr ’98, $9.95, 224pp, tp) (Contents)
* *Blowout in Little Man Flats and Other Spine-Tingling Stories of Murder in the West (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1-55853-573-X, May ’98, $9.95, 213pp, tp) (Contents)
* *Death in Dixie (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Rutledge Hill Press 1-55853-495-8, Nov ’97, $9.95, 240pp, tp) (Contents)
* *The Fifth Grave and Other Terrifying Tales of Homicide in the Heartland (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Rutledge Hill Press 1-55853-574-8, Apr ’98, $9.95, 224pp, tp) Anthology of 13 stories. (Contents)
* *Never Shake a Family Tree and Other Heart-Stopping Tales of Murder in New England (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1-55853-577-2, 1998, $9.95, 212pp, tp) (Contents)
MOSLEY, WALTER (Ellis) (1952- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Washington Square Press 0-671-01499-4, Oct ’98, $14.00, 208pp, tp) [Socrates Fortlow] Reprint (Norton 1997) collection. (Contents)
* *Six Easy Pieces (Atria Books 0743442520, Jan 2003, $24.00, 288pp, hc) [Easy Rawlins] Collection of seven Easy Rawlins stories, one original. (Buy) (Contents)
MOYES, PATRICIA; [i.e., Patricia Moyes Haszard] (1923-2000) (stories) (chron.)

* *Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-09-9, 1996, $16.00, tp) Also available in a signed, limited clothbound edition (1-885941-08-0, $40.00), with a tipped-in typescript or carbon page from the author’s files. (Contents)
MULLER, MARCIA (1944- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *Deceptions (Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1-56146-013-3, Oct ’91 [Nov ’91], $4.95, 102pp, tp) Collection of seven stories with an introduction by the author. Author’s Choice Monthly #1. A signed leatherbound edition ($25.00) is also available. (Contents)
* *McCone and Friends (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-38-2, 2000, $16.00, 202pp, tp, cover by Carol Heyer) [Sharon McCone] Collection of eight stories, also published in a limited hardcover edition (-37-4). (Contents)
* *The McCone Files (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-05-6, 1995, $15.00, tp) [Sharon McCone] (Contents)
* *Season of Sharing (with Bill Pronzini) (Crippen & Landru, Dec 2001, 19pp, ph) [Sharon McCone; Nameless private eye] Original short story pamphlet published for friends of Crippen & Landru, Publishers. Limited edition of 323 copies.
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* *A Century of Mystery 1980-1989 (with Bill Pronzini) (MJF Books 1-56731-155-5, 1997, $8.98, 308pp, hc) (Contents)
* *Detective Duos (with Bill Pronzini) (Oxford University Press 0-19-510214-2, Nov ’97, $30.00, 444pp, hc) Anthology of 25 stories of crime-solving twosomes. (Contents)
MYERS, AMY (1938- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Murder, ’Orrible Murder (Crippen & Landru 1-932009-51-5, Nov 2006, $18.00, 237pp, tp, cover by Gail Cross) (Contents)
MYERS, LYNN F., Jr., ed. (stories) (chron.)

* _Byline: Mickey Spillane See entry under Mickey Spillane.
MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA (chron.)

* _Crime-Craft (London: Corgi, 1957, pb) Abridged from Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds (Simon & Schuster 1950). (Contents)
* _The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft (London: Corgi, 1959, pb) Abridged from Maiden Murders (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946). (Contents)
* *The New Edgar Winners (New York: Wynwood Press 0-922066-35-3, 1990, $17.95, 255pp, hc) The 1990 Mystery Writers of America anthology, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. (Contents)
* _The Second Book of Crime-Craft (London: Corgi, 1958, pb) Abridged from 20 Great Tales of Murder (Random 1951). (Contents)
* _The Third Book of Crime-Craft (London: Corgi, 1959, pb) Abridged from Murder Cavalcade (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946). (Contents)
NASSIM, LIZA (1944- ); see pseudonym Liza Cody (stories) (chron.)
NEVINS, FRANCIS M(ichael), Jr. (1943- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Leap Day and Other Stories (Five Star 0-7862-4321-X, Jun 2003, $25.95, hc) (Buy) (Contents)
* *Night of Silken Snow and Other Stories (Five Star 0-7862-3419-9, Jul 2001, $23.95, 226pp, hc, cover by Smith & Powers) Collection of 10 stories. (Buy) (Contents)
_____, ed. * _Mr. President, Private Eye (with Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg * _Night & Fear See entry under Cornell Woolrich. * _The Night, My Friend See entry under Edward D. Hoch.
NEWMAN, SHARAN (Elizabeth, née Hill), ed. (1949- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _Crime Through Time (with Miriam Grace Monfredo) See entry under Miriam Grace Monfredo.
* _Crime Through Time II (with Miriam Grace Monfredo) See entry under Miriam Grace Monfredo.
* *Crime Through Time III (Berkley 0-425-17509-X, Jun 2000, $6.99, 332pp, pb) A New Collection of Original Historical Mysteries. (Contents)
NICKLÈS, SARA, ed. (stories) (chron.)

* *Lying Cheating & Stealing (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 0-8118-1820-9, 1997, $12.95, 200pp, tp) (Contents)
NOLAN, TOM, ed. (stories) (chron.)

* _The Archer Files See entry under Ross Macdonald.
* _The Couple Next Door See entry under Margaret Millar.
* _Strangers in Town See entry under Ross Macdonald.
NOLAN, WILLIAM F(rancis) (1928- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *Down the Long Night (Five Star 0-7862-2892-X, Nov 2000, $21.95, 220pp, hc) Collection of 12 stories. (Contents)
NORTH, JOHN, ed.; pseudonym of Ian Wilkes, (1932- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _The Best of Cold Blood (with Peter Sellers) See entry under Peter Sellers.
* _Cold Blood V (with Peter Sellers) See entry under Peter Sellers.
OATES, JOYCE CAROL, ed. (1938- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (Houghton Mifflin 0-618-51744-8, Oct 2005, $27.50, 324pp, hc) Anthology of 20 stories. (Contents)
O’CALLAGHAN, (Helen) MAXINE (1937- ) (stories) (chron.)

* *[2001*DealWDv]Deal with the Devil and Other Stories (Five Star 0-7862-3142-4, Apr 2001, $23.95, 158pp, hc, cover by Carol Pringle) Collection of 14 stories, two new. (Buy) (Contents)
OGDEN, JULIE, ed. (chron.)

* _Case Reopened (with Stuart Coupe) See entry under Stuart Coupe.
* _Crosstown Traffic (with Robert Hood & Stuart Coupe) See entry under Stuart Coupe.
* _Hardboiled (with Stuart Coupe) See entry under Stuart Coupe.
OLEKSIW, SUSAN (Prince), ed. (1945- ) (stories) (chron.)

* _Undertow: Crime Stories by New England Writers (with Skye Alexander & Kate Flora) See entry under Skye Alexander.
OLMSTED, HELEN ESPER, ed. (stories) (chron.)

* *Homicide Hosts Presents (Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing 1-885173-14-8, Sep ’96, $25.00, 273pp, hc) (Contents)
OLSON, D. H., ed. (stories) (chron.)

* _Frost See entry under Donald Wandrei.
O’NEILL, THOMAS K. (1947- ); see pseudonym Thomas Sparrow (stories) (chron.)
OPPENHEIM, E(dward) PHILLIPS (1866-1946) (stories) (chron.)

* *Secrets & Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim (Stark House 0-9749438-0-0, May 2004, $19.95, 251pp, tp, cover by Campbell Shepard) Collection of 19 mystery stories, plus an essay on his writing, by Oppenheim. Edited, with an introduction and bibliography, by Daniel Paul Morrison. (Contents)
O’SHAUGHNESSY, MARY (1951- ); see pseudonym Perri O’Shaughnessy (stories) (chron.)
O’SHAUGHNESSY, PAMELA (1947- ); see pseudonym Perri O’Shaughnessy (stories) (chron.)
O’SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI; pseudonym of Pamela O’Shaughnessy & Mary O’Shaughnessy (stories) (chron.)

* *Sinister Shorts (Delacorte Press 0-385-33797-3, 2006, $21.00, 302pp, hc, cover by Jae Song) (Contents)
O’SULLIVAN, MAURICE J., ed. (stories) (chron.)

* *Orange Pulp (with Steve Glassman) (University Press of Florida 0-8130-1803-X, 2000, $24.95, 311pp, hc) Anthology of two stories, six novel excerpts and a complete novel set in Florida. (Contents)
PALMER, (Charles) STUART (Hunter) (1905-1968) (stories) (chron.)

* *Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landru 1-885941-85-4, Sep 2002, $19.00, 197pp, tp, cover by Gail Cross) Collection of 11 stories. Also available in hc (-84-6). (Buy) (Contents)
PARETSKY, SARA (1947- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *Windy City Blues (Delacorte 0-385-31502-3, 1995, 258pp, hc) [V.I. Warshawski] Collection of nine V.I. Warshawski stories, one original. (Contents)
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* *A Woman’s Eye: Featuring the Finest Female Sleuths By the Best Women Crime Writers Ever (Delacorte 0-385-30000-X, Sep ’91 [Aug ’91], $19.00, 448pp, hc) Original anthology of 21 stories featuring female sleuths, with an introduction by Paretsky and Martin H. Greenberg. The book is copyrighted by Paretsky & Greenberg. (Contents)
* _A Woman’s Eye: Featuring the Finest Female Sleuths By the Best Women Crime Writers Ever (Mystery Guild #18711, Sep ’91, $9.98, 317pp, hc) Reprint (Delacorte 1991) original anthology.
* *Women on the Case (Delacorte 0-385-31401-9, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $21.95, 367pp, hc) Original anthology of 26 crime stories by women writers. (Contents)
PARGETER, EDITH (Mary) (1913-1995); see pseudonym Ellis Peters (stories) (chron.)
PARKER, ROBERT B(rown), ed. (1932- ) (stories) (chron.) (assoc.)

* *The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (Mariner Books 0-395-83583-6, Sep ’97, $13.00, 357pp, tp) (Contents)

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