Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

SEKELSKY, JOSEPH A. (stories)

• The Charm Bracelet (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1985

SELBO, JULE (stories)

• Miss Nobody (ss) AHMM Jun 1986
• He Told Her at the Laundromat (ss) AHMM Jul 1986

SELBY, HUBERT, JR. (1928-2004) (stories)

• Tralala (ss) Last Exit to Brooklyn, Grove Press 1957

SELDON, BERNICE (stories)

• Murder in the Freud Archives (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #47 2004

SELLARS, CRIGHTON; pseudonym of Irma Peixotto Sellars (stories)

• The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard (ss) The Baker Street Journal Oct 1946 [Sherlock Holmes]

SELLARS, IRMA PEIXOTTO; see pseudonym Crighton Sellars (stories)

SELLERS, KIM (stories)

• A Gift For the Conklins (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 1998

SELLERS, LILLIAN (stories)

• Starch [with Mary Anna Evans] (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2004

SELLERS, PETER (A.) (1956- ); see pseudonym Jack Paris (books) (stories)

• Loss of a Faculty (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984
• Boogie Man (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985
• A Difference of Degree (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985; also as “Boogie Man”.
• Somewhere They Can’t Find Me (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
• Cold Blood III [ed.] (oa) Mosaic Press 1990
• Bush Fever (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• Dead Meet (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• This One’s Trouble (ss) AHMM Jul 1991
• Cold Blood IV [ed.] (oa) Mosaic Press 1992
• Last Resort (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
• Whistling Past the Graveyard (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
• Bombed (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• Cold Blood V [ed. with John North] (oa) Mosaic Press 1994
• Imposter (ss) Northern Frights 3, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1995; also as “The Vampires Next Door”.
• The Vampires Next Door (ss) Northern Frights 3, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1995
• Lost in Transit (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998
• The Best of Cold Blood [ed. with John North] (an) Mosaic Press 1998
• Arthur Ellis Awards [ed.] (an) Quarry Press 1999
• Whistling Past the Graveyard (co) Mosaic Press 1999
• Advertising Hell (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• Dents (ss) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• Freak Attraction (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• Murdoch’s Wife (ss) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• Trophy Hunter (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• Over the Edge [ed. with Robert J. Sawyer] (an) Pottersfield Press 2000
• Murder on the Polar Bear Express (ss) EQMM Jan 2001
• Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction [ed. with Kerry J. Schooley] (oa) Insomniac Press 2001
• Avenging Miriam (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001
• In the Hole (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• Hard Boiled Love: An Anthology of Noir Love [ed. with Kerry J. Schooley] (oa) Insomniac Press 2003
• Pack Animals (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• In the Fire (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005
• Warren Road (ss) AHMM Oct 2005
• Backroom Boys (ss) EQMM Jun 2006
• Blind Side (ss) AHMM Nov 2008
• Arthur Ellis Award Winners and Nominees (ms)
• Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with Kerry J. Schooley] (in)
• Introduction [with Robert J. Sawyer] (in)
• Songs in the Key of Death: The Fiction of William Bankier (in)

SELLYN, NATHAN (stories)

• The Emancipation of Christine Alpert (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (Toronto Airport).

SELZER, RICHARD A. (stories)

• Adele Cleary (ex) Taking the World In for Repairs, Morrow 1986

SEMENOFF, MIKE (stories)

• Left Dead Center (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2002

SEMIONOV, JULIAN (stories)

• The Summer of ’37 (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993; tr. by Anthony Olcott

SENESE, REBECCA M. (stories)

• Face Dances (ss) On Spec Sum 1996

SENTER, NANCY (stories)

• Why Sherlock Holmes? Nostalga for the Absolute (ar) Mystery Mar 1981 [Sherlock Holmes]

SERANELLA, BARBARA (1956-2007) (stories)

• Misdirection (nv) Greatest Hits, Robert J. Randisi, Carroll & Graf 2005

SERCU, KURT (stories)

• The Book Case [with Dale C. Andrews] (ss) EQMM May 2007

SERDIUK, RON (books)

• Ticket to Trouble [ed.] (an) CrimeWriters Queensland 2006

SERENI, ELIZABETH (stories)

• Mall Bimbo Script (ss) New Mystery v4 #1 1996

SERENY, GITTA; pseudonym of Gitta Serenyi, (1923- ) (stories)

• from Into That Darkness (ar)

SERENYI, GITTA (1923- ); see pseudonym Gitta Sereny (stories)

SERINI, ELIZABETH (stories)

• The Unhappy Hour (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

SERRA, ART (stories)

• The Gang Leader and the Witch (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jan 1960
• Kill for Your Woman (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960

SERVICE, ROBERT W(illiam) (1874-1958) (stories)

• The Shooting of Dan McGrew (pm) Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: Briggs 1907
• Clancy of the Mounted Police (pm) Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto: Briggs 1909

SESLING, ZVI A. (stories)

• Road Kill (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

SEWART, ALAN (1928- ) (stories)

• The Village Blacksmith Murder (ar) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992
• The Old Folks’ Home Murder (ar) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995

SEWELL, PAMELA (1966- ) (stories)

• The Grotto (ss) Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991

SEYMOUR, JOSEPH H. (stories)

• The Two-Ton Murder (ss) Scientific Detective Dec 1946

SEYMOUR, LEE EDWARD (1957- ); see pseudonym Edward Lee (stories)

SHAARA, MICHAEL (Joseph, Jr.) (1929-1988) (stories)

• The Wide and Starry Sky (ss) AHMM Dec 1958

SHADWELL, THOMAS (1642?-1692) (stories)

• from The Virtuoso (ex)

SHAFER, CHARLES (A.) (1942- ) (stories)

• Police Blotter: Tag Man (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• Police Blotter: Traffic Stop (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• Police Blotter (cl) Murderous Intent Fll, Win 1999
• Snookered (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2003

SHAFFER, ANTHONY (Joshua) (1926-2001) (stories)

• The Cold-Blooded Tigress of London (ar) London Mystery Magazine #16 1953
• Larger Than Life (ss) London Mystery Magazine #18 1953; also as “Sleuth”.
• Sleuth (ss) London Mystery Magazine #18 1953
• Murderer (pl) 1975

SHAFFER, HAL (stories)

• Million Dollar Bet (ss) AHMM Mar 1983
• Bantam Rooster (ss) AHMM Feb 1988

SHAHAR, ELUKI bes; see under bes Shahar, Eluki (books) (stories)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) (stories)

• The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (pl) 1603
• from Othello (ex) 1604
• from Othello, the Moor of Venice (ex) 1604
• from Macbeth (ex) 1606
• from 2 Henry IV (ex)
• from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ex)
• from Hamlet (ex)
• from Julius Caesar (ex)
• from King John (ex)
• from King Lear (ex)
• from Titus Adronicus (ex)

SHAKLEE, LEE (stories)

• Brand of Delinquency (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1958

SHALAMOV, VARLEM (stories)

• from “The American Connection” (ar)
• from “The Criminal World” (ar)

SHALLIT, JOSEPH (1915-1995) (stories)

• The Witch’s Way (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Nov 1947

SHANKMAN, SARAH (c1943- ) (books) (stories)

• Say You’re Sorry (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• Wish You Were Here (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
• You Never Know (ss) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• What Did You Expect? (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994
• Real Life (ss) Guilty as Charged, ed. Scott Turlow, Pocket 1996
• You Run (ss) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• If You Can’t Take the Heat (nv) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• Love Thy Neighbor (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• All You Need Is Love (nv) The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 2000
• A Confederacy of Crime [ed.] (oa) Signet 2001
• Just in Case (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
• No Neutral Ground (nv) EQMM Nov 2006
• Introduction (in)

SHANLEY, DAN (stories)

• The Bookkeeper (ss) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996

SHANNON, DELL; pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington, (1921-1988) (stories)

• Flash Attachment (ss) Tales for a Rainy Night, ed. David Alexander, HRW 1961

SHANNON, JAMES T. (stories)

• The Bathtub Mary (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005
• The Houseboat (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005
• A Sign of Peace (ss) AHMM Oct 2007

SHANNON, JOHN (H.) (1943- ) (stories)

• The Problem of Leon (ss) Murder on the Ropes, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001 [Jack Liffey]
• The Legend of Bayboy and the Mexican Surfer (ss) Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power, ed. Gary Phillips, Verso 2008

SHAPHREN, SUSANNE (stories)

• Beyond a Shadow (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1980
• Shepherd of the Valley (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981
• Saying Good-By to Richard (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1982
• The End of Joy (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1982

SHAPIRO, ELLEN S. (stories)

• About the Author (bg)
• Introduction (in)

SHAPIRO, FRED R. (books) (stories)

• Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories [ed. with Jane Garry] (an) Oxford University Press 1998
• Preface [with Jane Garry] (pr)

SHAPIRO, MELISSA J. (1963- ); see pseudonym M. J. Rose (stories)

SHARMAN, MIRIAM; pseudonym of Maisie Sharman Bolton, (1915-1994) (stories)

• A Kind of Murder (ss) EQMM Oct 1986

SHARMAN, RUTH (stories)

• Knife (pm)

SHARP, CAL (stories)

• My Summer Vacation (ss) AHMM Sep 1987

SHARP, JONATHAN (stories)

• The White Mountains (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006

SHARP, LUKE; pseudonym of Robert Barr, (1850-1912) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Second Swag (ss) [Sherlock Holmes]

SHARP, M. C. (stories)

• The Adventure of the New Neighbor (ss) AHMM Sep 1984

SHARP, MARILYN (Kay Augburn) (1941- ) (stories)

• Masterstroke (ex)

SHARP, PHILLIP (stories)

• The Smarter They Come... (ss) Mammoth Detective Mar 1947

SHARP, ZOË (stories)

• A Bridge Too Far (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Last Right (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• Tell Me (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006
• Served Cold (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

SHARPTON, BEN A. (stories)

• Persuasive Attitude (ss) Hardboiled #13 1992

SHARRATT, MARY (stories)

• Taking the Bullets Out (ss) Twin Cities Noir, ed. Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Akashic Books 2006; Cedar-Riverside (Minneapolis).

SHAW, BOB; [i.e., Robert Shaw] (1931-1996) (stories)

• Burden of Proof (ss) Analog May 1967 [Slow Glass]

SHAW, DAVE (stories)

• Twelve Days Out of Traction (ss) The South Dakota Review Win 1996

SHAW, FELICITY (1918-1989); see pseudonym Anne Morice (stories)

SHAW, IRWIN (1913-1984) (stories)

• Borough of Cemeteries (ss) New Yorker Aug 13 1938
• Triumph of Justice (ss) 1940
• Tip on a Dead Jockey (nv) New Yorker Mar 6 1954

SHAW, J. D. (stories)

• A Special Education (ss) Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995
• The Visit (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996

SHAW, LUCI (Northcote) (1928- ) (stories)

• The Muse Is Much Amused (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

SHAW, MARVIN L. (stories)

• The Orphan of Coventry Road (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1985

SHAW, RICHARD (stories)

• In the Name of Terror (ar) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• The Crypt Speaks (ar) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

SHAW, SAM (stories)

• Reconstruction (ss) Story Quarterly #40 2004

SHAWL, DENISE ANGELA “NISI” (stories)

• Little Horses (ss) Detroit Noir, ed. E. J. Olsen & John C. Hocking, Akashic Books 2007; (Belle Isle).

SHAYNE, DEBBIE (stories)

• The Story That Won: Hot Deal (vi) AHMM Feb 1995
• Windowpain (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

SHAYNE, MIKE ,narr.

• All in a Day’s Work [with Brett Halliday] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1984 [Michael Shayne]
• All in a Day’s Work [with Tim Rourke] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1984 [Michael Shayne]

SHEA, DOUGLAS (stories)

• Advice, Unlimited (ss) EQMM Dec 1976

SHEA, DOUGLAS G. (stories)

• The Day of the Fire Goddess (ss) EQMM Jun 1990

SHEA, JOHN (stories)

• The Man Who Was Too Nice (ss) AHMM Nov 1985

SHEA, JOSEPH (stories)

• The Land Beyond Feng Shui (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2002

SHEA, JOSEPH M. (stories)

• Enemy Sniper: A Vignette (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2001
• The Fountain Pen (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2001

SHEA, MICHAEL (1946- ) (stories)

• Pick and Grim (ss) AHMM Oct 1994