Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

BETANCOURT, JOHN GREGORY (stories) (continued)

• Pit and the Pendulum (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005 [Peter “Pit” Geller]
• A Christmas Pit (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006 [Peter “Pit” Geller]
• Pit on the Road to Hell (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2006 [Peter “Pit” Geller]
• Horse Pit (na) AHMM Jul/Aug 2008; Black Orchid Novella Award Winner, presented by AHMM and the Wolfe Pack. [Pit Gellar]

BETANCOURT, LUIS ADRIÁN (stories)

• Guilty (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004; tr. by Donald A. Yates

BETHKE, BRUCE (Raymond) (1955- ) (stories)

• Spectre in Blue Doubleknit (ss) AHMM Sep 1988

BEVILLE, EDMUND (stories)

• The Curse of the Rusty Roses (ss) Vice Squad Detective #1 1934

BEYER, DEBORAH J. (stories)

• Itchy Trigger Finger (pm) Murderous Intent Spr 1999

BEYER, JOHN (stories)

• The Biggest Crime [with Kathryn Burdette] (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BHABRA, H(argurchet) S(ingh) (1955-2000); see pseudonym John Ford (stories)

BIBO, TERRY (R.) (1948- ) (stories)

• Naked Came the Farmer, Chapter 10: Extra-Cellular Communications (rr) Accent Apr 3 1998

BICKEL, BILL (stories)

• Someone Oughta (ss) AHMM Apr 1986

BIDDY, FRANCIS C. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Brain Food (vi) AHMM Nov 1996

BIEDERMAN, MARCIA (Squire) (1949- ) (stories)

• Listen and Listen Good (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990

BIERCE, AMBROSE (Gwinnett) (1842-1914?) (stories)

• One of the Missing (ss) San Francisco Examiner Mar 11 1888
• A Tough Tussle (ss) San Francisco Examiner Sep 30 1888
• A Horseman in the Sky (ss) San Francisco Examiner Apr 14 1889
• The Boarded Window (ss) San Francisco Examiner Jul 14 1889
• The Suitable Surroundings (ss) San Francisco Examiner Jul 14 1889
• The Affair at Coulter’s Notch (ss) San Francisco Examiner Oct 20 1889
• The Man and the Snake (ss) San Francisco Examiner Jun 29 1890
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (ss) San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890
• A Watcher by the Dead (ss) Short Stories Jul 1890
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (ss) San Francisco Examiner Aug 17 1890
• Oil of Dog (ss) Oakland Daily Evening Tribune Oct 11 1890
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher (ss) San Francisco Examiner Feb 22 1891
• The Damned Thing (ss) Tales from New York Town Topics Dec 7 1893
• Moxon’s Master (ss) San Francisco Examiner Apr 16 1899
• A Vine on a House (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1905
• Staley Fleming’s Hallucination (vi) Cosmopolitan Mar 1906
• The Moonlit Road (ss) Cosmopolitan Jan 1907
• Beyond the Wall (ss) Cosmopolitan Dec 1907
• The Famous Gilson Bequest (ss)
• The Story of a Conscience (ss)

BIERMANN, PIEKE (1950- ) (stories)

• The Law of the Eye (ss) Violetta 1990
• 7.62 (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996; tr. by Ines Rieder

BIGGERS, EARL DERR (1884-1933) (stories)

• The Dollar Chasers (na) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 16 1924 (+1)

BIGGLE, KENNETH (books) (stories)

• Introduction [with Donna Biggle Emerson] (in)

BIGGLE, LLOYD, JR. (1923-2002) (books) (stories)

• The Face Is Familiar (ss) AHMM Aug 1957 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Greatest Robbery on Earth (ss) AHMM Aug 1957; also as “The Face Is Familiar”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• Girl with a Big Hate (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1958
• A Case of Heredity (ss) EQMM Jun 1959 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Gentle Swindler (ss) EQMM Feb 1960 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Gentle Swindler (ss) EQMM Feb 1960; also as “The Gentle Swindler”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather Predicts a Murder (ss) EQMM Aug 1960; also as “The Lesser Thing”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Lesser Thing (ss) EQMM Aug 1960 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Great Horseshoe Mystery (ss) EQMM Apr 1962; also as “The Great Horseshoe Mystery”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Great Horseshoe Mystery (ss) EQMM Apr 1962 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Fabulous Fiddle (ss) EQMM May 1963 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Have You a Fortune in Your Attic? (ss) EQMM May 1963; also as “The Fabulous Fiddle”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Great Alma Mater Mystery (ss) EQMM Nov 1964; also as “The Unmurdered Professor”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Unmurdered Professor (ss) EQMM Nov 1964 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Labor Day Mystery (nv) EQMM Oct 1965; also as “The Pair of Knaves”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Pair of Knaves (nv) EQMM Oct 1965 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Phantom Thief (nv) EQMM May 1968; also as “The Phantom Thief”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Phantom Thief (nv) EQMM May 1968 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Automation Mystery (ss) EQMM Aug 1969 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Automation Mystery (ss) EQMM Aug 1969; also as “The Automation Mystery”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Right Question (nv) EQMM Oct 1971; also as “The Unasked Question”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Unasked Question (nv) EQMM Oct 1971 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Grandfather and the Little Bone (ss) EQMM Jan 1972; also as “The Mother Goose Murder”. [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Mother Goose Murder (ss) EQMM Jan 1972 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Knave of Hearts (ss) EQMM Nov 1998 [Grandfather Rastin]
• The Case of the Headless Witness (ss) AHMM Nov 1999 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Unlikely Cat Tale (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the London Safari (nv) AHMM Jun 2001 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Worf with Two Tales (ss) AHMM Apr 2002 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Fractured Puzzle (nv) AHMM Sep 2002 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Sickley Mansion (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2003 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Chinese Santa Claus (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2004 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Case of the Unrepentant Ghost (nv) AHMM Sep 2006 [Lady Sara Varnley]
• The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries (co) Crippen & Landru 2007 [Grandfather Rastin]
• Drawn from Death (nv) AHMM Apr 2007
• A Matter of Friendship (ss) The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2007 [Grandfather Rastin]

BIGUENET, JOHN (stories)

• It Is Raining in Bejucal (ss) Zoetrope All-Story Sum 2001
• Rnsom (vi) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001

BIGWOOD, JAMES (stories)

• The Light Dawns (pm) EQMM May 5 1980
• Decisions, Decisions (pm) EQMM Jun 30 1980

BILGREY, MARC (stories)

• Living the Lie (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• A House Divided (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
• The Bet (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #1 2008

BILICHKA, SEAN (stories)

• True Love Waits (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003

BILLINGHAM, MARK (stories)

• Dancing Towards the Blade (nv) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
• Steppin Up (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• Introduction (in) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007

BINCHY, MAEVE (1940- ) (stories)

• Oxford Circus (ss)

BING, STANLEY (stories)

• It’s On the House! (hu) 1993

BINGHAM, JOSH (stories)

• The Outcast (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1997

BINYON, T(imothy) J(ohn) (1936-2004) (stories)

• Wimsey and Strong Drink (ar) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991

BIRKETT, NORMAN (stories)

• from The Newgate Calendar (ar)

BIRMINGHAM, GEORGE A.; pseudonym of James Owen Hannay, (1865-1950) (stories)

• A Lunatic at Large (ss)

BIRRELL, HEATHER (stories)

• Wanted Children (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (Bloor West Village).

BISCHOFF, DAVID (Frederick) (1951- ) (stories)

• The Dames Behind the Pulps (ar) MHCMM Sum 2000
• Club Macavity (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BISHOP, ANNE (stories)

• By the Time the Witchblood Blooms (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000
• The Price (nv) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004 [Black Jewels]

BISHOP, CLAUDIA; pseudonym of Mary Stanton, (1947- ) (books) (stories)

• Death Dines at 8:30 [ed. with Nicholas A. DiChario] (oa) Berkley 2001
• Dead and Berried (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001
• Death Dines In [ed. with Dean James] (oa) Berkley 2004
• Waiting for Gateau (nv) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004 [Sara & Meg Quilliam]
• Introduction (in)
• Walk Right In... (fw)

BISHOP, DANIEL J. (stories)

• Graphic Clues (br) Shred of Evidence Feb, May, Aug, Nov 2003, Feb 2004

BISHOP, MICHAEL (Lawson) (1945- ) (stories)

• Unlikely Friends (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
• Wished-For Belongings (ss) AHMM Dec 1982

BISHOP, PAUL (1954- ) (books) (stories)

• The Daily Occurance Sheet (ar) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980
• The Last Word (aw) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980, Jan 1981
• The Longest Goodbye (ar) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980
• The Enigma of the Policeman/Writer (ar) Mystery Jan 1981
• Legwork (cl) Mystery Mar, May 1981
• The Samaritan (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1982
• Dead Easy (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1983
• The Saint on the Air (ar) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• Squeeze Play (ss) Hardboiled #3 1985 [Blaine Pope]
• The Trenchcoat Files (cl) Hardboiled #3 1985
• Quint and the Braceros (ss) Hardboiled #5 1986 [Ramon Quintana]
• Day of Asphalt, Day of Guns (ss) Hardboiled #9 1988
• The Neighbor Hood (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1988
• Concrete Killer (ss) Hardboiled #9 1988 [Blaine Pope]
• Derringer (ss) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991 [Blue Mackenzie]
• The Man Who Shot Trinity Valance (ss) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994
• The Framing Game (ss) Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995
• Pattern of Behavior (co) Five Star 2000
• Pattern of Behavior (na) Pattern of Behavior, Five Star 2000 [Fey Croaker]
• Celtic Noir (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• Mercy (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• The Ferryman (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004
• Ebenezer (ss) Mysteries To Die For’s Christmas booklet
• Going Postal (ss) Woman’s Magazine
• Introduction (in)
• The Legend of Charlie McQuarkle (ss) [Charlie McQuarkle]
• Night of the Frankengolfer (ss)
• The Thief of Christmas (ss) Mysteries To Die For’s Christmas booklet [Fey Croaker]

BISHOP, RICHARD W. (stories)

• Feature Attraction—Murder (vi) Mammoth Detective Nov 1944

BISHOP, STEVE (books) (stories)

• Birmingham Noir [ed. with Joel Lane] (oa) Tindal Street 2003
• Safe as Milk (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

BISKIN, MIRIAM (stories)

• A Spy by Any Other Name (ss) EQMM Feb 1992

BITNER, WILLIAM (stories)

• Thrills, Inc. (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1984

BIZER, DOROTHY H. (stories)

• I Wonder (pm) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• It Happens Every Time (pm) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• Reading Taste (pm) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

BLACK, CARA (1951- ) (stories)

• Cabaret Aux Assassins (nv) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Irene Adler). [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Redhead (ss) Paris Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 2008

BLACK, DAVID (1945- ) (stories)

• Laud (nv) 1978

BLACK, MICHAEL A.; see pseudonym James G. Dancer (stories)

• All the Players (ss) Hardboiled #11 1990
• The Mann Act (ss) Hardboiled #13 1992
• The Rosary (ss) 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• True Crime (cl) Hardboiled #19 1994
• The Pigeon Drop (ss) 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• The Bandit Wolves (ss) Hardboiled #20 1995
• Devil’s Wind (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• Whodunit (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1997
• Anatomy of a Gunfight (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1997
• Life Is Seven Years (nf) Hardboiled #24 1998
• A Matter of Honor (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1999
• Reasonable Doubts (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 1999
• Uncivil Re-Enactments (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jul 1999
• Santa’s on the Way (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Dec 1999
• Dress Blues (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2000
• Six-Toed Ollie (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Violent Crimes (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2000
• Going Ballistic (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 2001
• Smiling Buddha (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• Prying Eyes (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #30 2002
• Realizing a Dream (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003
• Inquest (ss) AHMM Mar 2004
• The Black Rose (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• Chasing the Blues (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007
• The Savant (ss)

BLACK, REBECCA HARDY (stories)

• Dead Man Waitin’ (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000
• Keepsakes (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• Road to Nowhere (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

BLACK, RUPERT (stories)

• Spawn of the Elder Pits (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2001
• Nocturne Macabre (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2001
• The Gallows (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 2001
• Sons of the Serpent (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 2002
• The Crossing (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2002

BLACK, TERRY (stories)

• Looney Tune (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1980
• Saturday Night Special (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1981
• The Perfect Crime Revisited (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1982
• Dimple Indemnity (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1984
• All That Glitters (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1984
• Over a Barrel (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984
• Long Odds (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1984
• Special Delivery [with J. B. Allen] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1985
• It Ain’t Necessarily So (ss) AHMM Sep 1989
• The Not-So-Big Sleep (ss) AHMM Apr 1990
• Repeat Business (ss) AHMM Jun 1990
• Dying for Dollars (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Cold Shoulder (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995