Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

TWAIN, MARK (books) (stories) (continued)

• from Roughing It (ex) 1872
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm (ss) 1882
• The Stolen White Elephant (nv) The Stolen White Elephant, Webster 1882
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (na) Harper’s Aug 1896 (+1)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (na) Harper’s Monthly Dec 1899
• A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (na) Harper’s Monthly Jan 1902 (+1)
• The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories (co) Oxford University Press 1996
• A Curious Experience (ex)
• Making a Fortune (ss)

TWELVE, OTIS (stories)

• Fluff (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007

TWO bits (stories)

• Mortician’s Dream (pm) Murderous Intent Sum 1999

TWOHY, ROBERT (stories)

• Installment Past Due (ss) EQMM Sep 1978
• Down This Mean Street (ss) EQMM Jan 14 1980
• The System (ss) AHMM Feb 27 1980
• A Very Ordinary Murder (ss) EQMM May 5 1980
• The Elegant Murders (ss) AHMM May 21 1980
• Bottomed Out (ss) AHMM Jul 16 1980
• Hooray for Hollywood (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980
• A Masterpiece of Crime (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
• Tomorrow We Finish Ann (nv) EQMM Nov 3 1980
• Putting It on the Line (nv) AHMM Nov 19 1980
• The Fix (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981
• Flesh and Blood (ss) AHMM Mar 4 1981
• All the Hippies Are Dead (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• P. (ss) AHMM Apr 29 1981
• The Flow (ss) AHMM Jul 22 1981
• Mousie (ss) EQMM Nov 4 1981
• Coincidence (ss) AHMM Jan 6 1982
• The Night I Got Shot (ss) AHMM Feb 3 1982
• The Man in the Ratty Overcoat (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
• The Bathtub Murders (ss) EQMM Sep 1982
• A Somewhat Happy Ending (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
• The End of What? (ss) EQMM Apr 1983
• Seventeen (ss) EQMM May 1983
• A New Feeling (ss) EQMM Jun 1983
• What’s to Miss? (ss) EQMM Aug 1983
• The Naked Cab Driver (nv) EQMM Jan 1984
• Teeth Like Little Radios (ss) EQMM Mar 1984
• Breakfast at Ojai (nv) EQMM Sep 1984
• Philadelphia Story (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• Girl in a Dumpster (ss) EQMM Feb 1985
• Yellow One-Eyed Cat (ss) EQMM May 1985
• Marc in Love (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• The Raven (nv) EQMM Sep 1985
• TV Dope Show (ss) EQMM Dec 1985
• The Movie Game (ss) EQMM Jan 1986
• Jinja the Cat (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• Another Dead Nobody (ss) EQMM Jul 1986
• Going for Destiny (ss) EQMM Sep 1986
• The Ten-Dollar Bill (nv) EQMM May 1987
• Ojai Once Again (nv) EQMM mid-Dec 1987
• Maggie (ss) EQMM Feb 1988
• Snapshots (ss) EQMM Apr 1988
• Highway Girl (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• Everybody Goes Home (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988
• Sloat’s Last Case (nv) EQMM May 1989
• The Clean Place (ss) EQMM Jul 1989
• At a Rest Stop South of Portland (ss) EQMM Jan 1990
• At Scorpiant Towers (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• Seems I’ve Been This Way Before (ss) EQMM Nov 1993
• Woman in a Doorway Waving (ss) EQMM Feb 1994

TWYFORD, SEAN K. (stories)

• Rid Us of the Beast (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• Trial by Beast (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 2001

TYRE, NEDRA (1912-1990) (stories)

• Mr. Smith and Myrtle (ss) Red Wine First, Simon & Schuster 1947
• They Shouldn’t Uv Hung Willie (ss) Red Wine First, Simon & Schuster 1947
• Reflections on Murder (ss) Sleuth Mystery Magazine Dec 1958
• The Gentle Miss Bluebeard (ss) AHMM Nov 1959
• Murder Between Friends (ss) AHMM Aug 1963
• The Murder Game (ss) EQMM Feb 1970
• A Nice Place to Stay (ss) EQMM Jun 1970
• Recipe for a Happy Marriage (ss) EQMM Mar 1971
• Locks Won’t Keep You Out (ss) EQMM Feb 1973
• Laughter Before Dying (ss) EQMM May 1975
• The Same as Murder (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980
• Color Me Dead (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1983

TYRRELL, PATRICIA (stories)

• Two Legs or a Piece of an Ear (ss) Crimewave #3 2000

TYTELL, MARTIN, narr. (stories)

• The 7,500 Typewriter I Built for Alger Hiss [with Harry Kursh] (ar) True 1952

UCKER, WILLIAM A. (stories)

• The Secret Agent (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr 1930

ULLIAN, PETER (stories)

• Owen’s Blood (ss) Cemetery Dance Spr 1997

ULLMAN, JAMES MICHAEL (1925-1997) (stories)

• The Boy Wonder of Real Estate (nv) EQMM Apr 1963 [Michael Dane James; Ted Bennett]

UMANSKY, HARLAN L. (stories)

• Watson’s Mournful Reveries (pm) EQMM Feb 1997

UMBSTAETTER, H(erman) D(aniel) (1851-1913) (stories)

• The Red-Hot Dollar (ss) The Black Cat Oct 1895

UMLAND, ERIC (stories)

• Favors (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

UMPHREY, WALLACE (stories)

• Just a Bullet Between Friends (ss) New Detective Magazine May 1950

UNATIN, DON; pseudonym of Bud Ampolsk, (1923?- ) (stories)

• The Creep! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• Through the Gates of Hell! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957
• Dead: Do Not Disturb! (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• Lust’s Lone Witness (nv) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• Slaughter the Lovelies! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• Hate Needs Lovely Victims! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• There’s No Escape! (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• The Devil Is a Dame (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• Harness Bull (nv) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961

UNDERWOOD, J. A. (stories)

• “A Case of Fratricide”, by Franz Kafka (ex) 1981

UNDERWOOD, MICHAEL; pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn, (1916-1992) (stories)

• Murder at St. Oswald’s (ss) Verdict of 13, ed. Julian Symons, London: Faber & Faber 1979
• Death at the Opera (ss) Winter’s Crimes 12, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1980
• Finale (ss) Winter’s Crimes 12, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1980; also as “Death at the Opera”.
• The Man Who Scattered Crumbs (ss) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992

UNDERWOOD, VIRGINIA (stories)

• The Haunting (ss) AHMM Oct 1982

UNRUH, DAILE (books)

• Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories [ed. with Don Bailey] (oa) Quarry Press 1991

UNSWORTH, CATHI (books) (stories)

• London Noir [ed.] (oa) Akashic Books 2006
• Trouble Is a Lonesome Town (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (King’s Cross).
• Introduction (in)

UPDIKE, JOHN (Hoyer) (1932- ) (stories)

• Bech Noir (nv) New Yorker Jun 8 1998

UPPER, DENNIS (stories)

• Shaggy Dog (pm) EQMM Feb 2000
• Too Many Poets (pm) EQMM Dec 2000

URBACH, DAVID R. (stories)

• The Magician (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1986

URE, JEAN (Ann) (1943- ) (stories)

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

U’REN, BILL (stories)

• The Same, Only Different!, by Jiri Kajanë (nv) Minnesota Review 1995; from Wake Up. It’s Time to Go to Sleep, 1993.

USHER, FRANCES (stories)

• Early Retirement (ss) EQMM Mar 1994

USHER, (John) GRAY (1903-1987) (stories)

• The Butterfly Case (ss) EQMM Aug 1987

USHER, PETER (stories)

• Lifeline (ss) EQMM Apr 2002

USHER, SHAUN (1937- ); see pseudonym Jeffry Scott (stories)

• Talk for Your Life (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984

USTINOV, [Sir] PETER (Alexander) (1921-2004) (stories)

• “Interview: Sir Peter Ustinov” by Andrew F. Gulli (iv) The Strand Magazine #3 1999

UTLEY, STEVEN (1948- ) (stories)

• Slices of Sylvia (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1980
• The Dinosaur Season (ss) EQMM Mar 1992

VACE, GEOFFREY; pseudonym of Geoffrey Cave, sometimes used by his brother Hugh (stories)

• The Chair (ss) 1936
• Appointment with Yesterday (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941
• The Hard-Luck Kid (ss) AHMM Nov 1992

VACHSS, ANDREW (Henry) (1942- ) (books) (stories)

• “Andrew Vachss” by Wayne D. Dundee (iv) Hardboiled #8 1987
• It’s a Hard World (ss) A Matter of Crime v1, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1987
• Placebo (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• Value Received (vi) Hardboiled #10 1989
• Cough (vi) EQMM Aug 1989
• Exit (ss) New Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1989
• Mad Dog (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1990
• Family Resemblance (vi) EQMM Jan 1990
• White Alligator (vi) EQMM Apr 1990
• “Review [of Blossom by Andrew Vachss]” by C. J. Henderson (br) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1990
• Cripple (vi) Hardboiled Detective #10 1990
• Hostage (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990
• Joyride (vi) Cemetery Dance Win 1991
• Warlord (pl) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991
• Anytime I Want (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• A Tout’s Guide to Crime Fiction (br) Hardboiled #13 1992
• Treatment (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
• Born Bad (ss) EQMM Jun 1992
• Cain (vi) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
• Chocolate Bar (ss) Hard Looks Mar 1993
• A Flash of White (ss) Crossroads Press: Holyoke, MA 1993
• Alibi (ss) EQMM Apr 1995
• Homeless (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996
• Perp Walk (vi) EQMM Dec 1996 [Underground]
• Two-Way Radio (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998; reprint from Das Magazin, in Switzerland; first appearance in English language. [Cross]
• The Real Thing (ss) The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams, ed. J. O’Barr & Ed Kramer, Ballantine Del Rey 1998 [Crow]
• Goin’ Down Slow (vi) Esquire Jun 1999 [Underground]
• Reaching Back (ss) Enigmatic Tales Sum 1999
• Big Sister (vi) EQMM Jul 1999 [Underground]
• Everybody Pays (co) Vintage 1999
• Pigeon Drop (ss) AHMM Sep 1999 [Cross]
• Safe Sex (vi) Cyber-Psychos AOD #9 1999 [Underground]
• Veil’s Visit [with Joe R. Lansdale] (ss) Veil’s Visit, Subterranean Press 1999 [Leonard Pine; Hap Collins]
• They’re All Alike (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
• Dope Fiend (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001 [Underground]
• A Piece of the City (ss) EQMM Feb 2003
• Charmed Life (ss) [Underground]
• The Concrete Puppy (ss) [Cross]
• Curtains (ss) [Underground]
• Dress-Up Day (ss)
• Escort Service (ss) [Underground]
• Everybody Pays (na)
• Fireman (ss) [Underground]
• Gamblers (ss) [Underground]
• Going Home (ss)
• Good for the Soul (ss) [Underground]
• Harvest Time (ss) [Cross]
• Hit Man (ss) [Underground]
• Just the Ticket (ss) [Underground]
• Last Date (ss)
• Mission (ss)
• Piecework (vi) [Underground]
• Proving It (ss)
• The Real World (ss) [Underground]
• Searcher (ss) [Underground]
• Slow Motion (ss)
• Stepping Stone (ss) [Underground]
• Stuntman (ss) [Underground]
• Summer Girl (ss) [Underground]
• Tag (vi)
• Time Share (ss) [Underground]
• True Colors (ss)
• Word Play (ss) [Underground]
• The Writing on the Wall (ss) [Underground]

VALADÉS, EDMUNDO (stories)

• Permission for Death Is Granted (ss) Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985; tr. by Alberto Manguel

VALENTINE, DAVID (stories)

• The Eye and the Elephants (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2000
• The Stranger and the Long-Awaited Friends (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2000

VALENTINE, DEBORAH (stories)

• Kindness (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990

VALERO, RODOLFO PÉREZ (stories)

• A Man Is Knocking at the Door (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008

VALIN, JONATHAN (Louis) (1948- ) (stories)

• Malibu Tag Team (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• Loser Takes All (ss) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

VALTIN, JAN (stories)

• The Spy School in Leningrad (ar) Out of the Night 1941

VAN AKEN, ROBERT C. (stories)

• Flight to Reality (ss) Action Adventure Stories Oct 2003
• The Last Chapter (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #43 2003
• The Phantom Foe (ss) Action Adventure Stories Jan 2004
• Deadly Disadvantage (ss) Action Adventure Stories Apr 2004

VAN ASH, CAY (1918-1994) (stories)

• The Persian Apothecary (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
• The Halo of Islam (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• Bismillah (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993

van BELKOM, EDO (1962- ) (stories)

• Ice Bridge (ss) Northern Frights 4, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1997
• The Rug (ss) Psychos, ed. Robert Bloch, CD Publications 1997
• Catabolism (ss) Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000
• World Mystery Report: Canada (ar) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003

VAN BUSKIRK, W. R. (stories)

• The Son of Long John Silver (na) Pirate Stories Jul 1935

VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH (1879-1933) (stories)

• Old Man Menace (ss) The Saturday Evening Post 1927 [Lone Wolf]

VANCE, WILLIAM E. (1911-1986) (stories)

• Too Much Woman (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1957

VAN CLEAVE, RYAN G. (stories)

• Overland (ss) Crimewave #6 2002

VAN DEMARK, HARRY (Van Dusen) (1881-1948) (stories)

• Old Police Trails (ar) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929
• The Greatest Detective of His Time (ar) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Oct 1930

VANDERBILT, HEIDI; see pseudonym Lilly Carlson (stories)

• Sammy (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
• Last Call at the Belly-Up (ss) EQMM May 1987
• Blood Ties (ex) EQMM Jul 1987
• Gifts (ex) EQMM Oct 1987
• Stealing Junipers (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1987
• Judgments (ex) EQMM Aug 1988

VANDERBURGH, GEORGE A. (books) (stories)

• Afterword (aw)