Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

SPROUL, DAN A. (stories)

• Where Larceny Is a Way of Life (ss) AHMM Jul 1982
• The Legacy (nv) AHMM Feb 1984
• Major Problems (ss) AHMM Sep 1984
• Sidney’s Curse (ss) AHMM Nov 1984
• The Snakebit Principle (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1984
• The Sweetiepie Caper (nv) AHMM Jul 1985
• Praying to Dead Relatives (ss) AHMM Jul 1986
• Madame Ruby (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1986
• The Sure Thing (ss) AHMM Jan 1989 [Joe Standard]
• Spitting into the Wind (nv) AHMM Apr 1989 [Joe Standard]
• The Scholar (ss) AHMM Aug 1989 [Joe Standard]
• All About Heroes (ss) AHMM Dec 1998 [Joe Standard]
• Down and Out Stable (ss) AHMM Mar 1999 [Joe Standard]
• The Saga of Tommy Brokenbridge (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1999 [Joe Standard]
• Winston Churchill, I Presume (nv) AHMM Oct 1999 [Joe Standard]
• Princess Rolanda (ss) AHMM Dec 1999 [Joe Standard]
• Holy Ghost (ss) AHMM Feb 2000
• Here’s to Melvin Pilcher (ss) AHMM Mar 2000 [Joe Standard]
• Einstein’s Dog (nv) AHMM May 2000 [Joe Standard]
• Snakebit (ss) AHMM Jun 2000 [Joe Standard]
• Miracles (ss) AHMM Jan 2001 [Joe Standard]
• Oh, Mona (ss) AHMM May 2001 [Joe Standard]
• Reunion (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• North West 33rd Court (ss) Mystery Street, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2001 [Joe Standard]
• Daily Double Cross (ss) AHMM Mar 2002
• Cypress Dawn (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003
• Good Deed (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #40 2003
• Hunch (ss) AHMM Mar 2004 [Joe Standard]

SPROULE, DALE L. (stories)

• Labor Relations (ss) EQMM May 1984

SPURGEON, BRAD (stories)

• Murder in the Abbey (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• Ulysses Induced (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• A Demon in My Head, by Jean-Hugues Oppel (ss) Death by Espionage, ed. Martin Cruz Smith, Cumberland House 1999; tr. by Freddy Michalski

SQUIRE, ELIZABETH DANIELS (1926-2001) (stories)

• The Dog Who Remembered Too Much (ss) Malice Domestic 4, Carolyn G. Hart, Pocket 1995 [Peaches Dann]
• In Memory of Jack (ss) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998
• Down the Garden Path (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001 [Peaches Dann]
• A Passion for the Cook (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001

STAALESEN, GUNNAR (1947- ) (stories)

• The Corpse in the Attic (ss) EQMM Oct 1994; tr. by Stephen Murray
• Death Takes the Funicular (ss) EQMM Jan 1996

STAAT, SHERRI C. (stories)

• One-Way Streets (nv) AHMM Apr 1989

STABENOW, DANA (Helen) (1952- ) (books) (stories)

• Nooses Give (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994 [Kate Shugak]
• Missing, Presumed... (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Alaska]
• The Mysterious North [ed.] (oa) Signet 2002
• Cheechako (nv) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
• Wild Crimes: Stories of Mystery in the Wild [ed.] (oa) Signet 2004
• Wreck Rights (nv) Wild Crimes, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2004
• Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy [ed.] (an) Ace 2004
• Justice Is a Two-Edged Sword (nv) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004
• Introduction (in)

STABLEFORD, BRIAN (Michael) (1948- ) (stories)

• The Gardens of Tantalus (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996
• Taking the Piss (nv) Asimov’s Jun 2002
• Art in the Blood (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

STACEY, JOSEPH C.; pseudonym of Joseph G. Stasulewicz (stories)

• A Matter of 20 Grand (ss) Scientific Detective Dec 1946
• Some Must Die (ss) Scientific Detective May 1947

STACK, GILBERT M. (stories)

• Pandora’s Luck (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2006 [Corey Callaghan]
• The Christmas Club (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2007
• Pandora’s Defense (nv) AHMM Apr 2007 [Corey Callaghan]
• Pandora’s Journey (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2007 [Corey Callaghan]
• Pandora’s Fort (nv) AHMM Dec 2007 [Corey Callaghan]
• Pandora’s Ghost Town (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2008 [Corey Callaghan]
• Pandora’s Demon (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2008 [Corey Callaghan]
• Guilt (nv) AHMM Dec 2008

STACKPOLE, MICHAEL A(ustin) (1957- ) (stories)

• It’s the Thought That Counts (ss) Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992

STACPOOLE, H(enry) de VERE (1863-1951) (stories)

• Deep in the Forest (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jan 1927

STADLEY, PAT (Anna May Gough) (1918- ) (stories)

• The Waiting Game (ss) AHMM Aug 1961
• Kurdistan Payload (nv) AHMM Feb 1962

STAFFORD, CAROLINE; pseudonym of Carolyn L. T. Watjen, (c1935- ) (stories)

• Mrs. Dunlop’s First Case (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990
• Mrs. Dunlop’s New Hat (ss) The Fourth WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA 1991

STAFFORD, NORMAN E. (stories)

• Partners in Crime (ar) The Armchair Detective Sum 1990

STAGG, CLINTON H(olland) (1890-1916) (stories)

• The Keyboard of Silence (nv) 1923 [Thornley Colton]

STAGGS, EARL (stories)

• Battered (ss) The EX Factor: Justified Endings to Bad EXes, ed. Michey Anderson, Koboca Publishing 2006
• Brother-in-Law (ss) The EX Factor: Justified Endings to Bad EXes, ed. Michey Anderson, Koboca Publishing 2006
• Room Six (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006
• The Waitress (ss) The EX Factor: Justified Endings to Bad EXes, ed. Michey Anderson, Koboca Publishing 2006

STAHL, JERRY (stories)

• Twilight of the Stooges (ss) The Cocaine Chronicles, ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books 2005

STAIG, LAURENCE (stories)

• Mysteries (ss) The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Dennis Hamley, Oxford University Press 2003

STAINCLIFFE, CATH (1956- ) (stories)

• Who’s Smiling Now? (ss) Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards, Countyvise 1998
• Death in the Air (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• Rock-a-Bye-Baby (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• DOA (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002

STANDIFORD, LES(ter Alan) (1945- ) (books) (stories)

• The Big Wet Sleep (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995
• Miami Noir [ed.] (oa) Akashic Books 2006
• Tahiti Junk Shop (nv)

STANDISH, HERBERT LEE (stories)

• Five Thousand Dollars Reward (ss)

STANDISH, ROBERT; pseudonym of Digby George Gerahty, (1898-1981) (stories)

• Swindler in the Family (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 2 1960

STANDLEY, GERALD (stories)

• A Friend of Mario’s (ss) AHMM Nov 19 1980
• Trial of a Tradition (ss) AHMM Nov 1988
• The Megoolen (ss) AHMM Jun 2001

STANFORD, DEREK (1918- ) (stories)

• The Illuminated Office (ss) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990

STANGE, SANDRA WIGGINS (stories)

• Who Was the Killer? (pz) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1980
• Double Burden (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1981

STANLEY, BARBARA (stories)

• Eyes Watching (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

STANLEY, FAY GRISSOM (Shulman) (1924-1990); see pseudonym Fay Grissom (stories)

• The Last Day of All (ss) Twenty Great Tales of Murder, ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random 1951

STANSBERRY, DOMENIC (Joseph) (1952- ) (stories)

• The Prison (ss) San Francisco Noir, ed. Peter Maravelis, Akashic Books 2005; (North Beach).

STANTON, CATHERINE L. (stories)

• The Teddy Bears’ Wake (ss) AHMM Aug 1988
• Multiple Submissions (ss) AHMM Sep 1989

STANTON, JAMES P. (stories)

• COP (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

STANTON, JOHN N. (stories)

• Police Snapshots (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

STANTON, MARY (1947- ); see pseudonym Claudia Bishop (books) (stories)

STANWORTH, MICHELLE (1951- ); see pseudonym Michelle Spring (stories)

STAPLETON, MICHAEL (books) (stories)

• Introduction (in)

STARBIRD, GEORGE A. (1908-1994); see pseudonym Val Masterson (stories)

• Bad Men of the Cayugas (na) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Feb 1935 [Wayne Morgan, The Masked Rider]
• Bad Brand (nv) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Jan 1936 [Wayne Morgan, The Masked Rider]
• Outlaws of the Moccasins (na) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Feb 1936

STARR, CELESTE (stories)

• Dirty Blood (ss) Las Vegas Noir, ed. Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce, Akashic Books 2008; (Pahrump).

STARR, JASON (1966- ) (stories)

• Over the Edge (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• The PWG interview with Jason Starr (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2002
• The Last Pick (ss) Hardboiled Brooklyn, ed. Reed Farrel Coleman, Bleak House Books 2006
• The Last Bachelor of North Miami (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• Lucky Bastard (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• The Basher (ss) WlSNoir 2007; (Hoboken, New Jersey).
• Bar Fight (ss) Paris Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 2008
• Lost in Dublin (ss)
• One Way Out (ss)

STARR, JOHN; house pseudonym (stories)

• The Red Trail to Zanzibar (ss) Action Stories Aug 1929

STARR, KIMBERLEY (stories)

• Fool’s Gold (ss)

STARRETT, (Charles) VINCENT (Emerson) (1886-1974) (stories)

• Footsteps of Fear (ss) Black Mask Apr 1920
• The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet (ss) 1920 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Unique Hamlet (ss) 1920; also as “The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet”. [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Other Woman (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927
• The Eleventh Juror (nv) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Aug 1927
• The Tattooed Man (ss) The Quick and the Dead, Sauk City: Arkham House 1965
• Eighteen Steps (ss)

STASHOWER, DANIEL (Meyer) (1960- ) (books) (stories)

• A Deliberate Form of Frenzy (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• The Second Treaty (nv) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Adventure of the Second Violet (ss) More Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Murder in Baker Street [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2001 [Sherlock Holmes]
• A Peach of a Shot (ss) Murder Is My Racquet, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• Murder, My Dear Watson [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2002
• The Adventure of the Agitated Actress (ss) Murder, My Dear Watson, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2002
• A Sherlockian Library [with Jon L. Lellenberg] (ar) Murder, My Dear Watson, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2002
• Ghosts in Baker Street [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2006 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Selden’s Tale (ss) Ghosts in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2006 [Holmes Sherlock]
• Introduction (in)

STASIO, MARILYN (stories)

• Scenes of the Crime (ar) MHCMM Fll 1998
• Introduction (in)

STASULEWICZ, JOSEPH G.; see pseudonym Joseph C. Stacey (stories)

STATELY, JEAN (stories)

• The Story That Won: One Down (vi) AHMM Sep 1990

STEAD, ELIZABETH (1932- ) (stories)

• Twisty Turny Bertie Twine (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993
• Cameron and the Mother (ss) Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994

STEAD, PHILIP JOHN (1916- ) (stories)

• The Master of Ringsmark (ss) 1951

STEAD, ROBERT (stories)

• The Squad of One (pm) Why Don’t They Cheer? Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin 1918

STEEL, KURT; pseudonym of Rudolf Kagey, (1904-1946) (stories)

• Change for Twenty (ss) Colliers Mar 25 1944

STEELE, ALLEN (Mulherrin, Jr.) (1958- ) (stories)

• Riders in the Sky (nv) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• Doblin’s Lecture (ss) Pirate Writings #10 1996

STEELE, CATHERINE (stories)

• Ghost Town (pm) EQMM Sep 1993

STEELE, CURTIS; house pseudonym (stories)

• The Bloody Frontiers (na) Operator #5 Nov/Dec 1937 [Operator 5 (Jimmy Christopher)]
• The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (na) Operator #5 Jan/Feb 1938 [Operator 5 (Jimmy Christopher)]
• The Siege that Brought the Black Death (na) Operator #5 Mar/Apr 1938 [Operator 5 (Jimmy Christopher)]
• Revolt of the Devil Men (na) Operator #5 May/Jun 1938 [Operator 5 (Jimmy Christopher)]

STEELE, FREDERIC DORR (1886-1974) (stories)

• Sherlock Holmes: A Little History of the World’s Most Famous Fictional Character (ar) 1929

STEELE, GUNNISON; pseudonym of Ben Gardner (stories)

• Friendly Fangs (ss) Thrilling Detective Feb 1942

STEELE, JAKE (stories)

• Brothers of the Hunt (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #45 2004

STEELE, WILBUR DANIEL (1886-1970) (stories)

• Blue Murder (nv) Harper’s Oct 1925
• The Body of the Crime (nv) Ladies Home Journal Mar 1931

STEELE, ZACK (stories)

• The Trouble Beat! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959

STEELGRAVE, SANDRA (stories)

• The Overlook (ss) EQMM Dec 1989

STEEN, MARGUERITE (1894-1975) (stories)

• In View of the Audience (ss) The Strand Jun 1934

STEER, FRAN (stories)

• The Spider and the Fly (ss)

STEEVES, HARRISON R(oss) (1881-1981) (stories)

• from “A Sober Word on the Detective Story” (ex)

STEFANIE, JAMES R. (c1950- ) (stories)

• Mrs. Farintosh and the Opal Tiara (ss) Curious Incidents 2, ed. J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, Mad for a Mystery 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

STEFFENS, (Joseph) LINCOLN (1866-1936) (stories)

• The Compliments of the Chief (ss) Ainslee’s Jul 1900