Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

WASKIN, DAVID (stories) (continued)

• Lightning and Justice (nv) AHMM Oct 1999

WASSER, LAWRENCE (stories)

• That’s How the Caper Crumbles (ss) AHMM Sep 1966
• Ex Spots the Mark (ss) AHMM Oct 1967

WASYLYK, STEPHEN (1922-1996) (stories)

• The Death of the Bag Man (ss) EQMM Sep 1977
• A Rather Curious Corpse (ss) AHMM Feb 27 1980
• Death Rattle (ss) AHMM Mar 26 1980
• The Man in the Red Suit (ss) AHMM Jun 16 1980
• One Hour to Doom (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980
• Weekend Retreat (ss) AHMM Sep 8 1980
• Middle-of-the-Night Call (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
• Good Riddance (ss) AHMM Dec 15 1980
• Death of an Englishman (ss) AHMM Jan 7 1981
• The Vindication of Pharo Grindle (ss) AHMM Feb 4 1981
• The Runaways (ss) AHMM Apr 29 1981
• The Timetable (ss) AHMM Jun 24 1981
• The Witnesses (ss) AHMM Dec 9 1981
• Currents and Undercurrents (ss) AHMM Jan 6 1982
• The Vandal (ss) AHMM Jul 1982
• The Katzenbacher Principle (ss) EQMM Dec 1982
• Phebus (ss) AHMM Jan 1983
• The Spring That Ellie Died (ss) AHMM Apr 1983
• The Wall (ss) AHMM Jun 1983
• Game Plan (ss) AHMM Sep 1983
• Tears for Maggie Shannon (ss) AHMM Feb 1984
• The Friday Killings (nv) AHMM Mar 1984
• Not a Day to Die (ss) AHMM May 1984
• The Shooting of Jesse Casion (ss) AHMM Jun 1984
• A Twenty-Five-Dollar Case (ss) AHMM May 1985
• The Stainless Steel Cart (ss) AHMM Jan 1986
• A Bag of Grief (ss) AHMM Feb 1986
• Another Word for Murder (ss) AHMM Mar 1986
• The Holdup (ss) AHMM Apr 1986
• Man of Principle (ss) AHMM May 1986
• An Unprejudiced Eye (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1986
• A Long Walk Home (ss) AHMM Jun 1987
• Musicians Don’t Kill Each Other (ss) AHMM Sep 1987
• The Search for Olga Bateau (ss) AHMM Nov 1987
• Fallen Leaves (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• An Apple for the Teacher (ss) AHMM Apr 1988
• The Thawing of Gerald McCreedy (ss) AHMM Jul 1988
• Situation Wanted (ss) AHMM Aug 1988
• Element of Doubt (ss) AHMM Oct 1988
• The Alley (ss) AHMM Nov 1988
• Homecoming (ss) AHMM Jan 1989
• Common Ground for Murder (ss) AHMM Feb 1989
• Yellow Drums (ss) AHMM Apr 1989
• Bargain Getaway (ss) AHMM May 1989
• For Loyal Service (ss) AHMM Aug 1989
• The Suit Box (ss) AHMM Oct 1989
• Career Choice (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• Denbow’s Code (ss) AHMM Win 1989
• Hard Evidence (ss) AHMM May 1990
• Change (ss) AHMM Oct 1990
• Collision (ss) AHMM Nov 1990
• Survival (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
• Jump Start (ss) AHMM Aug 1991
• Confession (ss) AHMM Oct 1991
• What’s in a Name? (ss) AHMM May 1992
• A Pint of Revenge (ss) EQMM Jul 1992
• What Santucci Said (ss) AHMM Jul 1992
• Floater (ss) AHMM Nov 1992
• The Supermarket Bandit (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• The Knife (ss) AHMM Jan 1993
• A Minor Mystery (ss) AHMM Feb 1993
• Spousal Secrets (ss) EQMM Apr 1993
• Parental Discretion (ss) EQMM Jun 1993
• Body by the Creek (ss) AHMM Jul 1993
• Anomalies (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• Kinship (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• Teamwork (ss) AHMM Dec 1993
• Maternal Instinct (ss) EQMM Apr 1994
• Crosscurrents and Eddies (ss) AHMM May 1994
• Changes (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• Explosive Mixtures (ss) AHMM Oct 1994
• The Notes of Morrow’s Horn (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994
• One of These Days... (ss) AHMM Dec 1994
• Ice Storm (ss) AHMM Apr 1995
• Line of Duty (ss) AHMM Jun 1995
• Bright Paint and the White-Faced Man (ss) AHMM Aug 1995
• Sticks and Stones and the Chocolate Shop (ss) AHMM Nov 1995
• The Case of the Oriental Star (ss) AHMM Feb 1996
• The Nine O’Clock Woman (ss) AHMM Mar 1996
• To Kill a Ghost (ss) AHMM Jul 1996
• Thousand Dollar Question (ss) AHMM Jan 1997
• Kill in Haste (ss) AHMM Apr 1997
• Alligators Don’t Ask for Payment (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1997
• The Web (ss) AHMM Nov 1997
• Marital Maneuvers (ss) EQMM Jan 1998
• The Crossbow Incident (ss) AHMM Feb 1998
• Food for the Tiger (ss) AHMM Apr 1998
• Fog (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1998
• Generational Conflicts (ss) EQMM Nov 1998
• Never Anything Good in the Mail (ss) AHMM Dec 1998

WATERMAN, DANIEL (stories)

• A Lepidopterist’s Tale (ss) Bomb Fll 2001

WATJEN, CAROLYN L. T. (c1935- ); see pseudonyms Caroline Stafford & Charles Todd (stories)

WATJEN, DAVID CHARLES (?) TODD; see pseudonym Charles Todd (stories)

WATKINS, ALEX(ander?) (1899?-1983?); see pseudonym J. Lane Linklater (stories)

WATKINS, RICHARD HOWELLS (1895-?) (stories)

• An Hour in She-Devil Bay (ss) Adventure Jul 1937
• Hell Bent for Aves (nv) Argosy Oct 16 1937

WATKINS, WAL(ter James) (1922- ) (stories)

• Feud in Fire (ss)

WATKINS, WILLIAM JOHN (1942- ) (stories)

• Machiavelli’s Corollaries (ss) AHMM May 1997

WATKINS, WILLIAM JON; see under Watkins, William John (stories)

WATSON, ALFRED E(dward) T(homas) (1849-1922) (stories)

• To Win a Race (ss) Longman’s May 1897

WATSON, BRAD (stories)

• Kindred Spirits (ss) The Last Days of the Dog-Men 1996
• Water Dog God (ss) Oxford American Sep/Oct 1999

WATSON, DEBI (stories)

• One of Those Days (ss) Racing Can Be Murder, ed. Brenda R. Stewart & Tony Perona, Blue River Press 2007

WATSON, DR. JOHN H. (stories)

• Introduction (in)

WATSON, GEORGE (1927- ) (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Alien (vi) AHMM Jul/Aug 1997

WATSON, IAN (1943- ) (stories)

• Virtually Lucid Lucy (ss) New Worlds 2, ed. David S. Garnett, London: Gollancz 1992
• The Shape of Murder (ss) Odyssey #4 1998

WATSON, JOHN H., M.D. (stories)

• Foreword (fw) Ghosts in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2006

WATSON, JOHN H., M.D. (stories)

• A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger (nv) 1995; also as “The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger”, by Michael Moorcock. [Sherlock Holmes]

WATSON, MARY (stories)

• Hostage to Love (nv) Murder Most Romantic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Denise Little, Cumberland House 2001

WATSON, RICHARD F.; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (stories)

• The Big Kick (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• Bloody Saturday (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• Blood in the Streets (nv) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959

WATT, LESLIE B. (stories)

• A Packet of Stones (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

WATT-EVANS, LAWRENCE (1954- ) (stories)

• One-Shot (vi) IASFM Jan 1991
• Dropping Hints (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004
• I’m in Love with My Car: Automotive Symbolism on Veronica Mars (ar) NptNoir 2007

WATTS, CAROLYN JENSEN (stories)

• A Case for Clara Cates (nv) AHMM Mar 1985
• Clara Cates and the Hatchett Murder (nv) AHMM Jul 1987
• The Neighborly Clara Cates (ss) AHMM Nov 1988

WATTS, TOMOTHY (stories)

• The Haircut (ss) EQMM Apr 1991

WAUGH, CAROL-LYNN RÖSSEL (1947- ) (books)

• The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [ed. with Jon L. Lellenberg & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 1987 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Santa Clues [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Signet 1993
• Holmes for the Holidays [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg] (oa) Berkley 1996 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The More Holmes for the Holidays [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg] (oa) Berkley 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]

WAUGH, CHARLES G. (1943- ) (books) (stories)

• Isaac Asimov’s Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction # 5: Tin Stars [ed. with Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) NAL/Signet 1986
• Death in Dixie [ed. with Frank D. McSherry, Jr. & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Rutledge Hill Press 1987
• Supernatural Sleuths [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Penguin/Roc 1996
• Sci-Fi Private Eye [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Roc 1997
• Introduction [with Martin H. Greenberg] (in)

WAUGH, EVELYN (Arthur St. John) (1903-1966) (stories)

• Mr. Crutwell’s Outing (ss) Harper’s Bazaar May 1935; also as “Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing”.
• Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing (ss) Harper’s Bazaar May 1935
• from Decline and Fall (ex)

WAUGH, HILLARY (Baldwin) (1920- ) (stories)

• Some Explaining to Do (ss) EQMM Apr 1983
• Fred Dannay and Manny Lee (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999

WEADOCK, LOUIS (stories)

• Rocks are Hot (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

WEAGLY, JOHN (stories)

• The Overall Gang (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2001
• Job Hunt (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003

WEATHERLY, LINDA (stories)

• Editor’s Notes: Season’s Greetings from the Staff of AHMM (il) AHMM Jan 2003
• Editor’s Notes (ed) AHMM Feb, Mar 2003

WEAVER, INGRID (stories)

• The Man in the Shadows (na) Cornered, ed. Anon., Silhouette Books 2005

WEAVER, ROBERT (1921?-2008) (stories)

• D-Day: Tricks and Deception (ar) Espionage Magazine Sep 1987

WEAVER, ROBERT WAYNE (stories)

• Hide and Seek (pm) EQMM Apr 7 1980

WEAVER, WILLIAM (1923- ) (stories)

• Cities & the Dead, by Italo Calvino (vi) Invisible Cities, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974

WEBB, BETTY (stories)

• Desert Deceit (na) Desperate Journeys, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2004

WEBB, GEOFFREY (1920- ) (stories)

• The Garage Racketeers [with Edward J. Mason] (ss) [Dick Barton]

WEBB, JACK; [i.e., John Alfred Webb] (1916- ); see pseudonym Douglas Farr (stories)

• And Start with a Blonde (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960 [Father Joseph Shanley; Sammy Golden]
• Day of the Tiger (ss) AHMM Dec 1966
• The Stranger in Church (ss)

WEBB, JAMES F. (stories)

• Haste Makes Waste (pm) EQMM Aug 1991

WEBB, JEAN FRANCIS (1910-1991); see pseudonym Roswell Brown (stories)

• Jungle Justice (ss) The Skipper Feb 1937

WEBB, RICHARD WILSON (1902-1965); see pseudonyms Q. Patrick & Patrick Quentin (stories)

WEBBER, EVERETT M. (1909- ) (stories)

• The White Square (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Sep 1946
• Crowbait (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Jan 1947

WEBER, KEN(neth J.) (1940- ) (stories)

• Unsolved: (untitled) (pz) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
• Unsolved: A Double Assassination at “The Falls” (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
• Unsolved: An Interrupted Patrol (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
• Unsolved: Cutting Up the Pierce Arrow (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
• Unsolved: From “Sine Timore” (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
• Unsolved: The Antique Store Shooting (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
• Unsolved: The Boshkung Mystery Rectangle (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
• Unsolved: The Case of the Scalpel Murder (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
• Unsolved: The Results of the Eighth Race (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
• Unsolved: To Be or Not to Be—Authentic (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988

WEBER, THOMASINA (stories)

• Nobody Listens to Cartwright (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
• Apostrophe (ss) AHMM Oct 1983
• The Terrible Three (ss) AHMM Dec 1983
• The Four Nets of Angelo (ss) AHMM Feb 1984
• Touch Me Not (ss) AHMM Nov 1984
• Everything’s Going Up (ss) AHMM Dec 1984
• The Christmas Spirit (ss) AHMM Jan 1985
• The Simplest Thing in the World (ss) AHMM Sep 1985
• A Little Bit of the Boy (ss) AHMM Oct 1985
• Next in Line (ss) AHMM Nov 1986
• Nature’s Own (ss) AHMM Jul 1987
• Packer’s Fortune (ss) AHMM Oct 1987
• Spring Bloom (ss) AHMM Oct 1991
• Money in the Bank (ss) AHMM Aug 1996

WEBSTER, DANIEL (1782-1852) (stories)

• The Fatal Secret (vi) 1850

WEBSTER, [Captain] F(rederick) A(nnesley) M(itchell) (1886-c1951); see pseudonym Michael Annesley (stories)

• The Secret of the Singular Cipher (ss) The Blue Magazine 1925 [Ebbie Entwhistle]
• Old Anthony’s Ghost (ss) Mystery Stories #9 1937

WEBSTER, JOHN (1580?-1625?) (stories)

• from The Duchess of Malfi (ex)

WEBSTER, JONATHAN (stories)

• God’s Hacker (ss) EQMM Aug 1989

WECHSLER, ROBERT (stories)

• Footprints, by Karel Capek (ss) AHMM Aug 1990; “Slépeje,” from Povídky z jedné kapsy, 1929.; tr. by Peter Kussi

WECK, PHILIP (stories)

• One Day of Fear (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961

WEDEMAR, LOU (stories)

• The $1,000,000.00 Card (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934

WEED, PEGGY (stories)

• The Perfect Knight (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003

WEEKS, DENISE (stories)

• Cartoon Logic (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #33 2003

WEHEN, JOY DeWEESE (1936- ) (stories)

• The Trap (ss) Detective Book Magazine Win 1951

WEHR, JEFFREY (stories)

• The Swimmers (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

WEIDMAN, JEROME (1913-1998) (stories)

• Good Man, Bad Man (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1967

WEIGH, IRIS (1906-1984) (stories)

• The Finishing Touch (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

WEIGHELL, MARSHALL (stories)

• The Best Laid Plans (ss) Mystery Stories #15 1939

WEIGHELL, RON (1950- ) (stories)

• The Case of the Fiery Messengers (nv) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990 [Sherlock Holmes]