Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

MYERS, TIM (stories) (continued)

• Bingo (ss) Woman’s World Feb 9 1997
• The Armored Car (ss) Woman’s World Feb 17 1997
• Dance with Me (ss) The Case WWW Mar 10 1997
• The Psychic (ss) Woman’s World May 19 1997
• Lucy Gets Lucky (ss) Woman’s World Jul 28 1997
• False Alarm (ss) Woman’s World Aug 4 1997
• Catknap (ss) Whispering Willow Oct 1997
• Have Yourself a Merry Christmas (ss) The Case WWW Dec 24 1997
• Blackmail (ss) Red Herring Mystery Magazine v3 #4 1997
• Looking for Freedom on the Southbound Bus (ss) Murderous Intent 1997
• Community Service (ss) The Case WWW Feb 18 1998
• Email (ss) The Case WWW Apr 1 1998
• Dunbar’s Last Case (ss) Potpourri Apr 2 1998
• The Stay-at-Home Thief (ss) A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2003
• Waxing Moon (ss) Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie Bruce, Penguin US 2005
• The Fugitive (vi) About Mysteries; Fate has a funny way of bringing her own brand of justice—even to a fugitive who’s having a really bad day...
• A Halloween Surprise (vi) About Mysteries; Halloween holds many surprises — and things are rarely as they seem.... a halloween mini-mystery.
• Trick or Treat (vi) About Mysteries; The true rewards in life, even on Halloween, are not what treats you receive but what treats you give out.... a halloween mini-mystery.

MYERS, WALTER DEAN (1937- ) (stories)

• Searching for the Edelweiss (ss) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986

MYERSON, JULIE (1960- ) (stories)

• Maureen (ss) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

MYETTE-VOLSKY, ALINE (stories)

• The Woman (ss) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998 [Sherlock Holmes]

MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA (books)

• Crime-Craft (an) Corgi 1957
• The Second Book of Crime-Craft (an) Corgi 1958
• The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft (an) Corgi 1959
• The Third Book of Crime-Craft (an) Corgi 1959
• The New Edgar Winners (an) Wynwood Press 1990

NABER, SABINA (stories)

• Peter in St. Paul’s (ss) EQMM Jan 2008; first published in German in the anthology Mörderisch unterwegs, Milena-Verlag, 2007.; tr. by Mary Tannert

NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (Vladimirovich) (1899-1977) (stories)

• from Lolita (ex) 1955
• from Pale Fire (ex)

NABORS, CECILY (stories)

• A Classic Crime (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1984

NACCARATO, CHARLES (stories)

• Who Dares Tell the President? (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1986

NADEL, BARBARA (stories)

• Poor Old Frankie (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008
• The House That Got Shot (ss) EQMM Nov 2008 [Cetin Ikmen]

NADEL, JENNIFER (stories)

• from Sara Thornton, The Story of a Woman Who Killed (ex) 1993

NAGLE, P. G. (stories)

• The Courtship of Captain Swenk (ss) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001

NAIL, JIMMY; pseudonym of James Michael Aloysius Bradford, (1954- ) (stories)

• All a Matter of Balance (ss)

NAOMI (stories)

• A Missunderstanding (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2000
• A Canadian Catastrophe (pm) EQMM Mar 2003

NAPARSTECK, MARTIN (stories)

• The 9:13 (ss) EQMM Feb 1992
• Doing Things Backwards (ss) EQMM Aug 1995
• Two in Love (ss) EQMM Jul 1996
• The Poet’s Wife’s Cat (ss) EQMM May 1997
• Skiing Uphill (ss)

NAPIER, BOB (stories)

• Dicks and Janes: A Hardboiled Quiz [with Dave Lewis] (qz) The Not So Private Eye #11 1983

NARCEJAC, THOMAS; pseudonym of Pierre Ayraud, (1908-1998) (stories)

• Toto [with Pierre Boileau] (vi) Manigeances, Paris: Editions De Noel 1971
• The Will (ss) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992; tr. by Gerry Keenan

NAROGIN, MUDROOROO (1938- ) (stories)

• Westralian Lead (nv) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• The Healer (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991

NARVAEZ, RICHIE (stories)

• El Bohemio (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2007

NASH, FRANK (1912- ) (stories)

• Dead Man’s Choice (ss) Scientific Detective May 1947

NASH, OGDEN (1902-1971) (stories)

• Don’t Guess, Let Me Tell You (pm) New Yorker Apr 20 1940
• Kill or Be Killed (ss) Colliers Oct 25 1947
• The Other Mind Reader (ss) Colliers Oct 25 1947; also as “Kill or Be Killed”.
• The Three D’s (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Apr 1948
• Victoria (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Apr 1948; also as “The Three D’s”.

NASHE, THOMAS (1567-1601) (stories)

• from The Unfortunate Traveller (ex)

NASSIM, LIZA (1944- ); see pseudonym Liza Cody (books) (stories)

NATHAN, BETTY (stories)

• One in Every Family (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997

NATSUKI, SHIZUKO (1938- ) (stories)

• The Pawnshop Murder (ss) EQMM May 5 1980
• The Sole of the Foot (ss) EQMM Sep 9 1981
• I Can’t Help Loving Him (ss) EQMM Jul 1982
• The Stairs (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• A Very Careful Man (ss) EQMM Jan 1987
• The Taste of Cocoa (ss) EQMM Mar 1988
• The Love Motel (nv) EQMM Jul 1989; tr. by Robert B. Rohmer
• The Woman on the Phone (nv) EQMM May 1990; tr. by Robert B. Rohmer
• Divine Punishment (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• A Midnight Coincidence (nv) EQMM May 1992; tr. by Gavin Frew
• Harder Than To Die (ss) New Mystery v1 #2 1992
• Solitary Journey (ss) New Mystery Win 1994; tr. by Gavin Frew

NAVAR, MARIO KESH; pseudonym of K. A. Gannon (stories)

• Brazilian Fairy Tale (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1998

NAYLER, RAY (stories)

• Cutting Wood, Carrying Water (ss) Crimewave #4 2000
• Hang on St. Christopher (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001
• Saturday Night Special (ss) EQMM Feb 2001
• How They Kill You at Thousand Palms (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2001
• Catch (ss) Crimewave #7 2003
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

NAYLOR, CHRIS; see pseudonym Chris Fox (stories)

NAYLOR, RAY (stories)

• The Bat House (ss) EQMM Apr 2002

NcCAFFERTY, TAYLOR (stories)

• Just a Thought (ss) AHMM Apr 1995

NEACE, LESA (stories)

• The Story That Won: For Whom the Bell Dings (vi) AHMM Jun 1994
• The Story That Won: A Place in the Lake (vi) AHMM Jan 1996

NEBEL, (Louis) FREDERICK (1903-1967) (stories)

• Raw Law (nv) Black Mask Sep 1928 [Richmond City]
• Dog Eat Dog (nv) Black Mask Oct 1928 [Richmond City]
• The Law Laughs Last (nv) Black Mask Nov 1928 [Richmond City]
• Law Without Law (nv) Black Mask Apr 1929 [Richmond City]
• Graft (nv) Black Mask May 1929 [Richmond City]
• Wise Guy (nv) Black Mask Apr 1930
• Hell’s Pay Check (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1931
• Backwash (nv) Black Mask May 1932
• Chains of Darkness (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jul 1 1933

NEEL, JANET; pseudonym of Janet Cohen, (1940- ) (stories)

• A Family Affair (ss) EQMM Feb 1990

NEEL, ROSIE O. (stories)

• No Regulars Here (vi) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994

NEELY, BARBARA (1941- ); see under BarbaraNeely (stories)

• “Steel Hands in Velvet Gloves: An Interview with Barbara Neely” by Lisa D. Williamson (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1999

NEELY, ESTHER JANE (1915-1985?) (stories)

• Violets in the Rain (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1985

NEFF, EMILY (stories)

• Partner in Crime (ss) Wicked Women, ed. Lee Wright, Pocket 1959

NEIDER, CHARLES (1915-2001) (stories)

• from Great Shipwrecks and Castaways (ex) 1952

NEIGHBORS, JIMMIE L. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Swing by the Cabin (vi) AHMM Jun 2007

NEIHART, BEN (1965- ) (stories)

• Frog Cycle (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Inner Harbor).

NEIL, ARTHUR FOWLER (stories)

• More Tales of a Man Hunter (na)
• Tales of a Man Hunter (na)

NEILSEN, D. SANDY (stories)

• Thorval’s Laugh (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1999

NELLIGAN, CAPTAIN ANTHONY (stories)

• The Probers (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960

NELMS, HENNING (Cunningham) (1900-1986); see pseudonym Hake Talbot (stories)

NELSCOTT, KRIS; pseudonym of Kristine Kathryn Rusch, (1960- ) (stories)

• Guarding Lacey (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007

NELSON, ANDRE (stories)

• The Case of the Disappearing Gun (ss) AHMM Feb 1983

NELSON, ANTONYA (stories)

• The Expendables (ss) The Expendables, University of Georgia 1990

NELSON, CATHERINE M. (stories)

• Trouble Is Her Business: Sara Paretsky (iv) The Armchair Detective Sum 1991
• The Lady Who...: Lilian Jackson Braun (iv) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

NELSON, CORDNER (stories)

• Love, Honor and Kill [with Larry Becker] (ss) Scientific Detective May 1947

NELSON, JOHN (1947- ) (stories)

• Magwitch Returns (ss) AHMM Apr 1986

NELSON, KENT; pseudonym of Barry Gifford, (1946- ) (stories)

• Tides (nv) Georgia Review 2000
• Public Trouble (ss) The Antioch Review Fll 2004

NELSON, LOIS (stories)

• The Easy Life (ss) EQMM Aug 1983

NELSON, N. (stories)

• Death Penalty (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1998

NELSON, NANCY (stories)

• The Casa Grande (ss) Chesapeake Crimes, ed. Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Books 2004

NELSON, PAULY; pseudonym of Polly Nelson (stories)

• Shirley Hillman (ss) EQMM Aug 2005

NELSON, POLLY; see pseudonym Pauly Nelson (stories)

• Burying Mr. Henry (ss) The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly, Little Brown 2008

NELSON, ROBERT (c1919-c1936) (stories)

• Altar Ego (tc)

NELSON, STEVEN (stories)

• Another Day at Home (ss) EQMM May 1989
• Bride of Mister Hand (ss) AHMM Nov 1992
• Statue of a Swine (ss) AHMM Sep 1993
• Escape of the Egg (ss) AHMM Jan 1994

NERI, KRIS(tin Hillary) (1948- ) (stories)

• L.A. Justice (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997
• “An Interview with Kris Neri” by G. Miki Hayden (iv) Murderous Intent Win 1999
• Sentence Imposed (nv) A Deadly Dozen, ed. Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz & Cynthia Lawrence, Uglytown 2000
• Roscoe’s Little Secret (vi) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Deadly Obsessions (ss) And Some of Them Are Dead, ed. Margaret Searles & Victoria Heckman, Deadly Alibi Press Ltd. 2002
• Nothing Good Ever Came of a Bad Hair Day (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• Malibu Dreamin’ (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006
• Capital Justice (ss) Never Safe, ed. Anon., Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

NERSESIAN, ARTHUR (stories)

• Hunter/Trapper (ss) Brooklyn Noir, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2004

NERWINSKI, L. A. (stories)

• The Yankee Lady (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1984

NESBIT, E(dith) (1858-1924) (stories)

• Man-Size in Marble (ss) Grim Tales, London: Innes 1893

NESS, ELIOT (1903-1957) (stories)

• The Flushing of Al Capone (ar)

NETTLETON, MICHAEL A. (stories)

• Exit Interview (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• Take It Like a Man (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1999

NEUMAN, WILLIAM I. (stories)

• Manufacture of a Legend, by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
• A Man of Honor, by Justo Vasco (ss) New Mystery Win 1994
• Lost Dreams, by Myriam Laurini (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• The Hookers of Zacatecas, by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II (ss) New Mystery v4 #2 1996

NEUSTADTL, SARA (stories)

• Black Widow (vi) EQMM Sep 1993

NEVILLE, KATHERINE (1945- ) (stories)

• La Bellini’s Favors (nv) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
• The Tuesday Club (nv) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Benjamin Franklin]

NEVILLE, LELAND (stories)

• The Morgue (ss) EQMM Nov 1983
• Writers Anonymous (ss) EQMM Sep 1988

NEVINS, FRANCIS M(ichael), JR. (1943- ) (books) (stories)

• After the Twelfth Chapter (ss) EQMM Sep 1972
• Leap Day (ss) EQMM Jul 1973
• Because the Constable Blundered (ss) AHMM Jul 1974
• Buford’s Last Case (ss) EQMM Jul 1974 [Fred Buford]
• The Scrabble Clue (ss) EQMM Jul 1974; also as “Buford’s Last Case”. [Fred Buford]
• The Kumquats Affair (ss) EQMM Oct 1975 [Loren Mensing]
• Funeral Music (ss) EQMM Feb 1976
• Superscam (ss) AHMM Aug 1976
• Dogsbody (ss) EQMM Feb 1977
• The Dogsbody Case (ss) EQMM Feb 1977; also as “Dogsbody”.
• Fair Game (ss) AHMM May 1977
• Flimflam (ss) EQMM Jun 1978
• Doomchild (ss) AHMM Sep 1978
• Evensong (ss) EQMM Mar 1979
• Black Spider (ss) EQMM Aug 1979
• The Last Passenger (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1980
• The Other Man in the Pinstripe (ss) EQMM May 5 1980
• Bagworms (nv) EQMM Oct 6 1980 [Milo Turner]
• The Western Film Scam (nv) EQMM Oct 6 1980; also as “Bagworms”. [Milo Turner]
• Counterplot (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981
• Bad Bargain (ss) AHMM Jan 7 1981
• The Shape of the Nightmare (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1982
• The Garrulous Garrity Grand Scam (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1982
• The Lobsenz Intrusion (ss) AHMM May 1982
• Cop to Cop (ss) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• Judgment Reversed (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984
• Interview with James Altee Phillips (iv) Espionage Magazine Nov 1985
• David Atlee Phillips: Reflecting Agent (iv) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987
• Consultation in the Dark (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• Mr. President, Private Eye [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Ballantine 1989