Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

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
• I Scream, You Scream (ss) AHMM Nov 2001
• The Black Damp (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002
• Big Winner (ss) AHMM Nov 2003
• The Gun (ss) AHMM Sep 2004

BLACK, VERONICA; pseudonym of Maureen Peters, (1935- ) (stories)

• Daughter of Compassion (ss) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998

BLACKADAR, BRUCE (stories)

• Beach Sights (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992

BLACKMAN, MALORIE (stories)

• Cat and Mouse (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995

BLACKMAN, NICOLE (stories)

• Dumped (ss) Brooklyn Noir, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2004

BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON (Henry) (1869-1951) (stories)

• The Empty House (ss) The Empty House, Eveleigh Nash 1906 [Jim Shorthouse]
• Keeping His Promise (ss) The Empty House, Eveleigh Nash 1906
• The Willows (na) The Listener and Other Stories, London: Eveleigh Nash 1907
• The Woman’s Ghost Story (ss) The Listener and Other Stories, London: Eveleigh Nash 1907
• Ancient Sorceries (nv) John Silence, London: Nash 1908 [John Silence]
• Secret Worship (nv) John Silence, London: Nash 1908 [John Silence]
• By Water (ss) The Westminster Gazette Apr 18 1914
• The Decoy (ss) Lloyd’s Magazine Dec 1919
• The Substitute (ss) Lloyd’s Magazine Dec 1919; also as “The Decoy”.
• Confession (ss) The Century Mar 1921
• The Pikestaffe Case (nv) Tongues of Fire, Jenkins 1924

BLACKWOOD, GRANT (stories)

• Sacrificial Lion (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Henry Caulder]

BLACKWOOD, PAMELA (stories)

• Our Closing Hymn (nv) AHMM Nov 1996
• Under the Oaks (nv) AHMM Nov 1998
• Elephant Dreams (nv) AHMM Dec 1998
• The Tickler (ss) AHMM Dec 2000

BLADE, ALEXANDER; house pseudonym (stories)

• Curtain Call (ss) Mammoth Detective May 1945

BLAIN, W. EDWARD (1951- ) (stories)

• The Director’s Notes (nv) EQMM Dec 1995
• Driscoll Henley’s Last Day (nv) EQMM Aug 1997
• The Haunting of Driscoll Henley (nv) EQMM Aug 1999 [Driscoll Henley]

BLAINE, ANN (stories)

• One Shot—He’s Dead (nv) Homicide Hosts Presents, ed. Helen Esper Olmsted, Write Way Publishing 1996

BLAINE, MARGE (stories)

• My Complements to the Chef (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
• Goodbye, Wardsboro (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1983
• Isabella’s Eyes (ss) EQMM Jan 1984

BLAIR, ERIC (Arthur) (1903-1950); see pseudonym George Orwell (stories)

BLAISTEN, ISIDORO (1933- ) (stories)

• Uncle Facundo (ss) Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985; tr. by Alberto Manguel

BLAKE, ANDREW; pseudonym of Larry M. Harris, (1933-2002) (stories)

• A Lovely Bride for Satan (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• Terror Gallery (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

BLAKE, MARC (stories)

• The Man Who Shot Kennedy (ss) The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002

BLAKE, NICHOLAS; pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis, (1904-1972) (stories)

• The Snow Line (ss) The Strand Feb 1949; also as “A Study in White”.
• A Study in White (ss) The Strand Feb 1949
• The Assassins’ Club (ss) [Nigel Strangeways]
• from The Beast Must Die (ex)
• Long Shot (ss) [Nigel Strangeways]

BLAKE, W(illiam) H(ume) (1861-1924) (stories)

• A Tale of the Grand Jardin (ss) Brown Waters and Other Sketches, Toronto 1915

BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1827) (stories)

• A Poison Tree (pm)

BLAKESTON, OSWELL; pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher, (1907-1985) (stories)

• The Fear from the Lake (ss) Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935
• The Solution (ss) Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935
• Superintendent Deering Puts a Question (ss) Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935
• Superintendent Deering’s Dilemma (ss) Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935

BLAKEY, LOVEDAY (stories)

• Red Office (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995

BLANCHARD, ALFRED A. (1945?-2004) (books) (stories)

• The Best Friend (ss) Red Herring Mystery Magazine Win 1995
• Writers Block (ss) Pirate Writings #14 1997
• I’m Not Like Everybody Else (ss) The Edge, Tales of Suspense #7 2000
• The Stalker (ss) Blue Murder #20 2001
• The Stalker and Other Tales of Love and Murder (co) Koenisha 2004
• The Bluff (ss) The Edge, Tales of Suspense #18 2004
• Body Parts (ss)
• The Day Al Jolson Died (ss)
• Fertile Imagination (ss)
• The Final Kill (ss)
• Fire Down Below (ss)
• Foolproof (ss)
• Future Vision (ss)
• Get the Picture (ss)
• A Grave Situation (ss)
• Hatchet Job (ss)
• I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues (ss)
• Introduction (in)
• It’s a Family Affair (ss)
• The Last Picture Show (ss)
• The Man Who Collected Dylan (ss)
• On a Roll (ss)
• The Payback (ss)
• A Pound of Flesh (ss)
• The Right Call (ss)
• An Unforgivable Mistake (ss)
• The Woman Next Door (ss)

BLANCHE, AUGUST (1811-1868) (stories)

• Lars Blom and His Disappearing Gun (ss); from Hyrkuskens berättelser, 1863.

BLAND, ANTHONY (stories)

• Murder on the Southwest Chief [with Eleanor Taylor Bland] (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

BLAND, ELEANOR TAYLOR (1944- ) (books) (stories)

• The Man Who Said I’m Not (ss) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• Nightfire (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• Getting Robert (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• The Canasta Club (nv) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• Go Quietly into the Day (ss) The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 2000
• Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors [ed.] (oa) Prime Crime 2004
• Introduction: What a Difference a Decade Makes (in) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004
• Murder on the Southwest Chief [with Anthony Bland] (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

BLANFORD, DONALD F. (stories)

• Force of Instinct (ss) Detective Story Magazine May 1988

BLAS, SAMUEL (stories)

• Revenge (ss) Colliers Jan 11 1947

BLASSINGAME, WYATT (Rainey) (1909-1985) (stories)

• The Ranch of Vanishing Men (ss) Federal Agent Sep 1937
• The Corroding Death (nv) The Scorpion Apr/May 1939
• A Mask for a Killer (ss) Double Detective Apr 1940

BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER (1928- ) (stories)

• Kismet (ss) Sleuth Mystery Magazine Dec 1958

BLAU, KELLY H. (stories)

• “What Have You Been Doing All Day?” (ss) EQMM Oct 1973
• Services (ss) AHMM Dec 9 1981

BLAUNER, PETER (1959- ) (stories)

• Going, Going, Gone (ss) Hardboiled Brooklyn, ed. Reed Farrel Coleman, Bleak House Books 2006

BLEAKEN, SIMON (stories)

• Dark Madness (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994
• The Doorway of Secrets (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

BLEILER, RICHARD (James) (1959- ) (stories)

• E.W. Hornung’s Raffles (ar) The Strand Magazine #5 2000

BLESSINGAME, LURTON (stories)

• Blind Tiger (ss) Red Star Adventures Jan 1941

BLETZOE, ALAN (stories)

• The Body in the Tree (ss) AHMM Aug 1982

BLINCOE, NICHOLAS (1965- ) (stories)

• My Mother Was a Bank Robber (ss) Fresh Blood, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1996
• Half American (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• Middle East via Manchester (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

BLINN, WILLIAM (1938- ) (stories)

• One of Those Days (ss)

BLISH, JAMES (Benjamin) (1921-1975) (stories)

• Serpent’s Fetish (ss) Jungle Stories Win 1948

BLISS, MICHAEL (1941- ) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Annexationist Conspiracy [with Jack Batten] (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977; also as “Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure”. [Sherlock Holmes]
• Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure [with Jack Batten] (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977 [Sherlock Holmes]

BLIXEN, KAREN; [i.e., Baroness Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke] (1885-1962); see pseudonym Isak Dinesen (stories)

BLOCH, ROBERT (Albert) (1917-1994) (books) (stories)

• The Feast in the Abbey (ss) Weird Tales Jan 1935
• The Cloak (ss) Unknown May 1939
• A Bottle of Gin (ss) Weird Tales Mar 1943
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (ss) Weird Tales Jul 1943
• Death Is a Vampire (ss) Thrilling Mystery Fll 1944
• The Skull of the Marquis de Sade (ss) Weird Tales Sep 1945
• Hell Is My Legacy (ss) New Detective Magazine Jul 1948; also as “The Tunnel of Love”.
• The Tunnel of Love (ss) New Detective Magazine Jul 1948
• The Man Who Collected Poe (ss) Famous Fantastic Mysteries Oct 1951
• The Dynamics of an Asteroid (ss) The Baker Street Journal Oct 1953
• Comfort Me, My Robot (ss) Imagination Jan 1955
• Water’s Edge (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1956
• Man with a Hobby (ss) AHMM Mar 1957
• Luck Is No Lady (ss) AHMM Aug 1957
• Crime in Rhyme (ss) EQMM Oct 1957
• Is Betsy Blake Still Alive? (ss) EQMM Apr 1958
• Show Biz (ss) EQMM May 1959
• Hobo (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960
• Life in Our Time (ss) EQMM Oct 1966
• The Movie People (ss) F&SF Oct 1969
• See How They Run (ss) EQMM Apr 1973
• A Most Unusual Murder (ss) EQMM Mar 1976
• The Undead (ss) The Book Sail 16th Anniversary Catalog 1984
• Psycho-Paths [ed.] (oa) Tor 1991
• It Takes One to Know One (nv) Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor 1993
• Introduction (in)

BLOCHMAN, LAWRENCE G(oldtree) (1900-1975) (stories)

• Eyes in the Dark (ss) The Phantom Detective Sep 1936
• O’Reilly Sahib (nv) Argosy Oct 24 1936; also as “The Zarapore Beat”. [Terrence O’Reilly]
• The Zarapore Beat (nv) Argosy Oct 24 1936 [Terrence O’Reilly]
• Journey Backward Into Time, by Georges Simenon (ss) 1944; also as “Journey into Time”. [Insp. Jules Maigret]
• Journey into Time, by Georges Simenon (ss) 1944 [Insp. Jules Maigret]
• Rum for Dinner (ss) Colliers Feb 7 1948 [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee]
• The Phantom Cry-Baby (ss) Colliers Mar 27 1948 [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee]
• Maigret’s Christmas, by Georges Simenon (nv) EQMM Jan 1954 [Insp. Jules Maigret]
• The Killer with No Fingerprints (nv) EQMM Jun 1964 [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee]
• The Traitor (ss) Intrigue Mystery Magazine Oct 1965
• Dr. Coffee and the Other Twin (nv) EQMM May 1973 [Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee]
• In Vino Veritas (vi)

BLOCK, BARBARA (1943- ) (stories)

• Christmas, Margaritas and Murder (na) Murder Most Merry, ed. Anon., Zebra 1994

BLOCK, LAWRENCE (1938- ); see pseudonym B. L. Lawrence (books) (stories)

• You Can’t Lose (ss) Manhunt Feb 1958
• A Fire at Night (ss) Manhunt Jun 1958
• The Way to Power (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958
• The Dope (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jul 1958
• Man with a Passion! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958
• Murder Is My Business (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1958
• Lie Back and Enjoy It (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• The Bad Night (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Nov 1958
• One Night of Death (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Nov 1958
• Ride a White Horse (ss) Manhunt Dec 1958
• Bargain in Blood (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1959
• Make a Prison (ss) Science Fiction Stories Jan 1959
• The Burning Fury (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Feb 1959
• Look Death in the Eye! (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959
• Professional Killer (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959
• Sweet Little Racket (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959
• Hate Goes Courting! (nv) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• Bride of Violence (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Dec 1959
• The Badger Game (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960
• Hard Sell (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 1960 [John J. Malone]
• I Don’t Fool Around (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1961
• Package Deal (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1961
• A Shroud for the Damned (ss) Keyhole Mystery Magazine Apr 1962
• Frozen Stiff (ss) Manhunt Jun 1962
• Stag Party Girl (na) Man’s Magazine Aug 1962 [Ed London]
• The Naked and the Deadly (na) Man’s Magazine Oct 1962 [Ed London]
• Just Window Shopping (ss) Man’s Magazine Dec 1962
• If This Be Madness (ss) AHMM Jan 1963
• The Books Always Balance (ss) AHMM Jul 1963
• Good for the Soul (ss) AHMM Aug 1963
• Twin Party Girls (na) Man’s Magazine Aug 1963 [Ed London]
• When This Man Dies (ss) AHMM Apr 1964
• Bits and Pieces (ss) AHMM Jan 1966; also as “With a Smile for the Ending”.
• With a Smile for the Ending (ss) AHMM Jan 1966
• Passport in Order (ss) AHMM Feb 1966
• Pseudo Identity (ss) AHMM Nov 1966
• Some Things a Man Must Do (ss) AHMM Dec 1966
• Death Wish (ss) AHMM Mar 1967
• The Most Unusual Snatch (ss) AHMM Apr 1967
• That Kind of a Day (ss) AHMM Jun 1974
• The Gentle Way (ss) AHMM Jul 1974
• Sometimes They Bite (ss) AHMM Jun 1976
• Funny You Should Ask (ss) AHMM Aug 1976
• A Pair of Recycled Jeans (ss) AHMM Aug 1976; also as “Funny You Should Ask”.
• The Dettweiler Solution (ss) AHMM Sep 1976
• Strangers on a Handball Court (ss) AHMM Jan 1977
• Nothing Short of Highway Robbery (ss) AHMM Mar 1977
• A Bad Night for Burglars (ss) EQMM Apr 1977
• Gentlemen’s Agreement (ss) EQMM Apr 1977; also as “A Bad Night for Burglars”.
• Like a Dog in the Street (nv) AHMM Apr 1977
• This Crazy Business of Ours (ss) AHMM May 1977
• The Dangerous Business (ss) EQMM Jun 1977
• The Dangerous Game (ss) EQMM Jun 1977; also as “The Dangerous Business”.
• Collecting Ackermans (nv) AHMM Jul 1977
• Out the Window (nv) AHMM Sep 1977 [Matt Scudder]