Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

SKINNER, QUINTON (stories)

• Loophole (ss) Twin Cities Noir, ed. Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Akashic Books 2006; Downtown (Minneapolis).

SKINNER, ROBERT (stories)

• “Kent Westmoreland Interviews Robert Skinner” by Kent Westmoreland (iv) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• Introduction (in) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2002
• Tellin’ Stories (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2002
• Spanish Luck (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003

SKINNER, ROBERT E(arle) (1948- ) (stories)

• Payback (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994
• A Morning for Remembering (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994

SKOWRON, KAREN; also as Karen Parker (stories)

• The Neighbors (ss) AHMM Oct 1992
• Urban Pageant (ss) AHMM Oct 1994
• For Shame’s Sake (nv) AHMM Jun 1998
• City Tracks (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2001

SKOYLES, KATHRYN (stories)

• A Friend in Need (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002

SKVORECKÝ, JOSEF (Vaclav) (1924- ) (books) (stories)

• The Classic Semerák Case (ss) EQMM Oct 1967
• The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka (co) Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Aristotelian Logic (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• The Case of the Horizontal Trajectory (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Crime in a Girls’ High School (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Death on Needlepoint (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• The End of an Old Tom-Cat (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Falling Light (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• His Easiest Case (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• The Sax Solo (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• The Scientific Method (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• The Supernatural Powers of Lieutenant Boruvka (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• A Tried and Proven Method (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Whose Deduction? (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Sins for Father Knox (co) Toronto: Lester 1988
• Ab-solutions (ms) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• An Atlantic Romance (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• An Intimate Business (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam]
• Just Between Us Girls (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• The Man Eve Didn’t Know from Adam (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• The Mathematicians of Grizzly Drive (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• Miscarriage of Justice (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• Mistake in Hitzungsee (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• A Question of Alibis (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Eve Adam]
• The Third Tip of the Triangle (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam]
• Why So Many Shamuses? (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988 [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam]
• Humbug (ss) The End of Lieutenant Boruvka, Toronto: Lester 1989 [Lieutenant Boruvka]
• Introduction (in)

SKYES, KIM (stories)

• Slaves in Brooklyn (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (Weeksville).

SLADEK, JOHN (Thomas) (1937-2000) (stories)

• The Purloined Butter (vi) New Worlds Quarterly 3, ed. Michael Moorcock, London: Sphere 1972

SLATER, DAVID (stories)

• Stiffed (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Thomas Circle, N.W.).

SLATER, HAROLD (stories)

• Dark Nebula (nv) Suspense Stories #1 1954

SLATER, SUSAN (Samson) (1942- ) (stories)

• A Way to the Manger (na) Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2003

SLATTERY, JESSE (c1946- ) (stories)

• Painkiller (ss) AHMM Oct 1992

SLAUGHTER, CHELSEA (stories)

• Phaedra (ss) MHCMM #1 1996

SLAUGHTER, KARIN (stories)

• Necessary Women (ss) Tart Noir, ed. Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Prime Crime 2002

SLAVSKA, CORETTA (stories)

• Checkmated! (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1950

SLEDZIK, PAUL (stories)

• The Haunting of Carrick Hollow [with Jan Burke] (nv) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000

SLEEMAN, W. H. (stories)

• from Ramseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs (ar)

SLESAR, HENRY (1927-2002); see pseudonyms Jeff Heller, O. H. Leslie & Jay Street (stories)

• Alibi on the Steve Allen Show (ss) EQMM May 1956
• A Victim Must Be Found (ss) EQMM Jun 1956
• The Trouble with Ruth (ss) AHMM Jan 1957
• Fraternity Hell Week (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1957
• The Right Kind of House (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1957
• 40 Detectives Later (ss) Manhunt May 1957
• The Day of the Execution (ss) AHMM Jun 1957
• Mad Dog! [with Jay Charby] (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• Something Short of Murder (ss) AHMM Nov 1957
• Examination Day (ss) Playboy Feb 1958
• Dear Mrs. Fenwick (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
• Not So Sudden Death (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
• Homicide Only Knocks Once (ss) AHMM May 1959
• Letter from a Very Worried Man (ss) AHMM Jul 1959
• Hunt the Tiger (ss) AHMM Nov 1959
• The Deadly Telephone (ss) AHMM Jan 1960
• Voodoo Doll—$1.98 (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
• Blood Bargain (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Sep 1961
• Thicker Than Water (ss) AHMM Nov 1961
• And Beauty the Prize (ss) 1963; broadcast as “The Throwback” on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Feb ’61.
• The Witness (ss) The Diners Club Magazine 1963
• The Cop Who Loved Flowers (ss) EQMM Nov 1966
• The Bluff (nv) AHMM Apr 1967
• The Slave (ss) 1970
• The Poisoned Pawn (ss) AHMM Jun 1974
• The Kidnaping (ss) EQMM Jan 1975
• The Kindest Man in the World (ss) EQMM Jul 1979
• The Game As It Is Played (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980
• Bottom Line (ss) EQMM Jan 27 1982
• The Contessa Collection (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• The Bracelet (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1983
• The Tin Man (ss) EQMM Jun 1984
• The Bottle (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• A Pair of Eyes (ss) EQMM Jul 1987
• Harley’s Destiny (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
• Possession (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
• An Affair of the Heart (ss) EQMM Oct 1989
• The Fifty-Third Card (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990 [Batman]
• Dick Tracy and the Syndicate of Death (nv) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990 [Dick Tracy]
• Hanged for a Sheep (ss) EQMM Jun 1990
• Home Again (ss) EQMM Nov 1991
• What Do I Do About Dora? (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1991
• A Letter Too Late (ss) EQMM Jul 1992
• Happen to Anyone (ss) EQMM Nov 1993
• The High Price of Amazonas (ss) New Mystery v1 #3 1993
• The Inside Track (ss) EQMM Dec 1993
• The Deal (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
• The Other Woman (ss) EQMM May 1994
• The Final Paragraph: Amos’s Last Words (pz) EQMM Jun 1994
• The Final Paragraph: One More Question (pz) EQMM Sep 1994
• The Final Paragraph: Murder on the Internet (pz) EQMM Oct 1994
• The Final Paragraph: The Last Battlefield (pz) EQMM mid-Dec 1994
• The Operation (ss) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994
• Breaking and Entering (ss) New Mystery v3 #1 1994
• The Acrostic Mystery (pz) New Mystery Spr 1995
• The Final Paragraph: 800-Pound Gorilla (pz) EQMM Jul 1995
• The Final Paragraph: Killing with Calories (pz) EQMM Sep 1995
• The Final Paragraph: Out of the Woods (pz) EQMM Oct 1995
• The Final Paragraph: Door to Door (pz) EQMM Nov 1995
• The Final Paragraph: The Best Disguise (pz) EQMM Feb 1996
• The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer (ascribed to W. Somerset Maugham) (ss) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Final Paragraph: Good for the Soul (pz) EQMM Jun 1996
• The Final Paragraph: Murder Set to Music (pz) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• The Theft (ss) New Mystery v4 #4 1996
• The Darlington Substitution Scandal (ss) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Final Paragraph: The Principal (pz) EQMM Aug 1998
• Boredom (ss) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• The Final Paragraph: The Cabin Killer (pz) EQMM Jul 2000
• Outsourcing (ss) EQMM Dec 2000
• Lucrezia and the Thief (vi) EQMM Apr 2001
• The Housebreakers (ss) EQMM May 2001
• Killing Teddy Ballgame (nv) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• Light Switch, Mirror, Stairs (ss) EQMM Jun 2001
• Changing Partners (ss) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• A Mother’s Kiss (vi) AHMM Jun 2002
• The Discount Club (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• The Day of the 31st (nv) Blood on Their Hands, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2003
• The Houdini Homicide (vi) About Mysteries; Only the master illusionist Houdini could solve this homicide...

SLIGO, JOHN (1944- ) (stories)

• Killing Time (nv) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• A Family Affair (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993

SLOAN, BOB (1956- ) (stories)

• The Good Rabbi (ss) Reform Judaism Magazine 1999

SLOANE, KIT (stories)

• The Sting (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

SLOCOMBE, ROMAIN (stories)

• Guy Georges’ Final Crime (ss) Paris Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 2008

SLOMAN, H. N. P. (1885-?) (stories)

• from “A Vendetta”, by Guy de Maupassant (ex)

SLOVO, GILLIAN (1952- ) (stories)

• Looking for Thelma (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991

SLUNG, MICHELE B(eth) (1947- ) (books) (stories)

• Murder for Halloween [ed. with Roland Hartman] (an) The Mysterious Press 1994
• Murder by the Book (br) MHCMM Spr, Sum/Fll 1997, Sum, Fll 1998, Sum 1999, Sum 2000
• Murder & Other Acts of Literature [ed.] (an) Book-of-the-Month Club 1997
• Editor’s Foreword (fw)
• Preface [with Roland Hartman] (pr)

SLUPETZKY, STEFAN (stories)

• The Copyist [with Christoph Spielberg, Anke Gebert, Paul Lascaux, Richard Lifka & Thomas Przybilka] (ss) EQMM Dec 2006; tr. by Mary Tannert
• A Viennese Romance (vi) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007; first published in German as “Eine Weiner Romanze” in Absurdes Glück, 2004.; tr. by Mary Tannert

SMALL, AUSTIN J(ames) [originally Austin Small Major] (1894-1929); see pseudonym Seamark (stories)

SMALL, J. M. (stories)

• A Free Man (ss) EQMM Sep 1982
• Nothing Ventured (ss) EQMM Jan 1986

SMALL, SIDNEY HERSCHEL (1893-?) (stories)

• King Cobra (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 13 1931

SMART, HAWLEY (1833-1893) (stories)

• Great Tontine (n.) London: Chapman & Hall 1881

SMASUNDRUM, MITHRAN (stories)

• On Soi Arab (ss) AHMM May 2005

SMEDEGAARD, PAUL B. (stories)

• Introduction (in)

SMILEY, PATRICIA (stories)

• Party’s Over (ss) EQMM Dec 2007

SMILEY, ROBIN (stories)

• A Leigh Brackett Bibliography (bi) Firsts 1997

SMITH (stories)

• Karate Babes from the Year 3000 [with Victor Gischler] (ss) Plots with Guns Oct-Dec 2000

SMITH, A. E. D. (1881-?) (stories)

• The Coat (ss) Powers of Darkness, ed. Anon., P. Allan 1934

SMITH, AL (stories)

• Witches from the Past (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999
• The Murders That Weren’t (sl) Detective Mystery Stories Jan, Mar 2001
• The Fools (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• The Medics (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2001
• The Monster from Chartier’s Creek (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2001

SMITH, ALEXANDER McCALL (1948- ) (stories)

• Smiles (ss) The Strand Magazine #14 2004
• He Loved to Go for Drives with His Father (ss) A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
• In the Eyes of Children (ss) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007

SMITH, ALI (1962- ) (stories)

• Kasia’s Mother’s Mother’s Story (ss) Other Stories and other stories, Granta 1999

SMITH, ANDREA (stories)

• A Lesson in Murder (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• Fatal Flaw (ss) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• Elected to Die (ss) MHCMM Fll 1998 [Ariel Lawrence]
• Race to the Rescue (ss) Racing Can Be Murder, ed. Brenda R. Stewart & Tony Perona, Blue River Press 2007

SMITH, ANTHONY NEIL (books) (stories)

• The Black Hole of Luck (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Jun 2000 [David Junior]
• Paying the Bill (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001
• Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology [ed.] (an) Dennis McMillan 2005
• Find Me (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Lovers Throughout All Eternity and Forevermore (ss) Murdaland #1 2007
• Introduction (in)

SMITH, ARTHUR D. HAUDEN; see under Smith, Arthur D. Howden (stories)

SMITH, ARTHUR D(ouglas) HOWDEN (1887-1945) (stories)

• Swain Kingsbane (nv) Adventure Sep 30 1924

SMITH, BARBARA A. (stories)

• The Sylvan (nv) AHMM Jul 1994
• The Watchdog (ss) AHMM Apr 1995

SMITH, BARBARA BURNETT (1947-2005) (stories)

• Mistletoe from Purple Sage (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1997 [Jolie Wyatt]
• Writer’s Revenge (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• Death of a Damn Moose (ss) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002

SMITH, BRAD (stories)

• The Package (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

SMITH, BROOKE (stories)

• Reunion (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2003

SMITH, CECIL LEWIS TROUGHTON (1899-1966); see pseudonym C. S. Forester (stories)

SMITH, CLARK ASHTON (1893-1961) (stories)

• Murder in the Fourth Dimension (ss) Amazing Detective Tales Oct 1930