Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

WOLVEN, SCOTT (books) (stories) (continued)

• Controlled Burn (ss) Harpur Palate Win 2002
• Crank (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• Barracuda (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2004
• Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men (co) Scribner 2005
• Vigilance (nv) Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men, Scribner 2005
• Pinwheel (nv) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• St. Gabriel (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Ball Lightning Reported (ss)
• The High Iron (ss)
• Outside Work Detail (ss)
• El Rey (ss)
• The Rooming House (ss)
• Taciturnity (ss)
• Tigers (nv)
• Underdogs (ss)

WOLZIEN, VALERIE (1948- ) (stories)

• Nosing Around for a Clue (ss) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• Just One Bite Won’t Kill You (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001

WOMACK, STEVEN (James) (1952- ) (stories)

• Like Alpo for Chocolate: A Short Story in Fragrances (ss) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• www.deadbitch.com (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001

WOO, X. L.; pseudonym of Xinglu Woo, (1937- ) (stories)

• An Old Portrait (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Sep 2002

WOO, XINGLU (1937- ); see pseudonym X. L. Woo (stories)

WOOD, BOB (stories)

• Middle Man Out (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1985

WOOD, ELLEN (Price) [Mrs. Henry Wood] (1814-1887); see under Wood, Henry, Mrs. (stories)

WOOD, MRS. HENRY [i.e., Ellen Price Wood] (1814-1887); see under Wood, Ellen (stories)

• The Mystery at Number Seven (nv) Argosy (UK) Jan-Feb 1877
• The Ebony Box (na) 1890
• Abel Crew (na)

WOOD, JONATHAN (stories)

• The Ear-Reddening Move of Shusaku (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• Holes (ss) EQMM Nov 1987

WOOD, KRIS (stories)

• Conspicuous Presumption [with Pat Wilson] (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997
• Fish or Cut Bait [with Pat Wilson] (ss) Dead in the Water, ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood, RendezVous Press 2006

WOOD, LYNN (stories)

• The Plain Brown Envelope (ss) Mysterious Erotic Tales, ed. Anon., O’Mara 1996

WOOD, MONICA (stories)

• Unlawful Contact (ss) Manoa 1996
• That One Autumn (ss) Ernie’s Ark, Chronicle Books 2002

WOOD, SIMON (stories)

• Crestfallen’s Getaway (ss) Fedora II: More Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2003 [Peter Crestfallen]
• Crestfallen’s Kink (ss) Never Safe, ed. Anon., Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

WOOD, STUART (stories)

• Satan Claims a Bride (nv) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

WOOD, TED; [i.e., Edward John Wood] (1931- ) (stories)

• “Ted Wood, Hardboiled Canadian” by Marv Lachman (ar) Hardboiled #6 1986
• Pit Bull (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987
• The Case of the Weeping Suicide (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• Murder at Angels One Niner (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
• Murder at Louisburg (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
• Murder in the Green (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994

WOOD, WILLIAM (1931- ) (stories)

• from “Remarks on the Plea of Insanity” (ms)

WOODCOCK, GEORGE R. (stories)

• Another Life? (pm) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992
• Arthur Symons: Mediator of Modernism (ar) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992
• The Maze (pm) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992

WOODFORD, JACK; pseudonym of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, (1894-1971) (stories)

• The Detective Who Went Wrong (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929
• The Perfect Gentleman (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929
• The Invisible Death (sl) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr 1930

WOODRELL, DANIEL (1953- ) (stories)

• Two Things (ss) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
• Uncle (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007
• The Echo of Neighborly Bones (ss) Murdaland #1 2007

WOODRUFF, SANDRA (stories)

• Cat’s Paw (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987; also as “Catspaw”.
• Catspaw (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987

WOODS, JIM (books)

• A Way with Murder: An Anthology by Arizona Mystery Writers [ed. with Marci Martin] (an) Xlibris Corporation 2004

WOODS, MAE (books) (stories)

• Murder by 13 [ed. with Priscilla English & Lisa Seidman] (oa) Crown Valley Press 1997
• An Open and Shut Case (ss) Murder on Sunset Boulevard, ed. Rochelle Krich, Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman, Top Publications 2002
• Preface (pr)

WOODS, PAULA L. (1953- ) (books) (stories)

• Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes [ed.] (an) Doubleday 1995
• The Watching Detectives (br) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• I’ll Be Doggone (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998 [Charlotte Justice]
• Motherwit and Tea Cakes (nv) Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie Bruce, Penguin US 2005
• Divine Droplets (ss) The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly, Little Brown 2008
• Introduction (in)

WOODS, STUART (Chevalier) (1938- ) (stories)

• Chiefs (ex)

WOODWARD, ANN (F.) (stories)

• The Girl from Ishikawa (ss) AHMM Oct 1 1980
• The Chinese Person (ss) AHMM Aug 1983
• The Curly-Haired Wife (ss) AHMM Oct 1983
• The Night of the Monkey (nv) AHMM Sep 1984
• Five Golden Ryo (ss) AHMM Oct 1984
• The Concrete Nothingness of the Letter Mu (ss) AHMM Nov 1984
• Sweet as No Fruit Is Sweet (ss) AHMM Dec 1985
• The Journey of the Second Man (ss) AHMM May 1987
• The Theft of the Fire Pearl (ss) AHMM Sep 1987
• Liftwing’s Young Wife (ss) AHMM Dec 1987
• The Lamp Tree (ss) AHMM Oct 1989
• An Inconsiderable Person (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• The Wearing of Purple (ss) AHMM Apr 1990
• The Education of the Kamo Virgin (ss) AHMM Feb 1992
• The Ninth Prince Sits and Talks (ss) AHMM Feb 1994
• Missing Since Monday (ss) AHMM Aug 1996
• The Lady of the Alley (ss) AHMM Dec 1997
• The Air of Day, the Air of Night (ss) AHMM Apr 1998
• The Affair of the Assistants (ss) AHMM Feb 2002
• The Burden of Pity (ss) AHMM Dec 2004
• Dai the Potter (ss) AHMM Apr 2006 [Aoi Lady]
• A Lesson from Purple (ss) AHMM Dec 2006 [Lady Aoi]
• The Ginkgo Leaf (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2008

WOODWARD, VICKY (stories)

• The Southpaw Bleus (nv) AHMM Mar 2003
• Gifted (ss) AHMM Mar 2006

WOODWORTH, DEBORAH (Lyn) (1949- ) (stories)

• The Moose Whisperer (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

WOOLEY, JOHN (Steven) (1949- ) (stories)

• I Love a Mystery (in)

WOOLF, VIRGINIA (Stephen) (1882-1941) (stories)

• from “Professions for Women” (ar)
• The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story (ss)

WOOLFOLK, JOSIAH PITTS (1894-1971); see pseudonym Jack Woodford (stories)

WOOLGAR, JACK (stories)

• Desert Detective (ss)
• The Foreign Spy (ss)

WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER (Humphreys) (1887-1943) (stories)

• Moonlight Sonata (ts) New Yorker Oct 3 1931
• Rien Ne Va Plus (ss) New Yorker Mar 5 1932

WOOLLINGS, DENIS (stories)

• The Story That Won: Recipe for Disaster (vi) AHMM Apr 2001

WOOLRICH, CORNELL; [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968); see pseudonym William Irish (books) (stories)

• Dead on Her Feet (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1935
• Cigarette (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 11 1936
• Change of Murder (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 25 1936
• Double Feature (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 16 1936
• Dilemma of the Dead Lady (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 4 1936
• The Phantom of the Subway (nv) Argosy Aug 22 1936
• You Pays Your Nickel (nv) Argosy Aug 22 1936; also as “The Phantom of the Subway”.
• Death in the Air (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 10 1936
• The Heavy Sugar (ss) Pocket Detective Magazine Jan 1937
• Blue Is for Bravery (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 27 1937
• I’ll Never Play Detective Again (ss) Black Mask May 1937
• If I Should Die Before I Wake (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 3 1937
• Murder at the Automat (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1937
• You Bet Your Life (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 25 1937
• Angel Face (nv) Black Mask Oct 1937 [Nick Burns]
• Face Work (nv) Black Mask Oct 1937; also as “Angel Face”. [Nick Burns]
• Dusk to Dawn (nv) Black Mask Dec 1937
• Death in the Yoshiwara (nv) Argosy Jan 29 1938
• Endicott’s Girl (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 19 1938
• The Dancing Detective (nv) Black Mask Feb 1938
• Dime a Dance (nv) Black Mask Feb 1938; also as “The Dancing Detective”.
• Detective William Brown (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 10 1938
• Three O’Clock (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 1 1938
• The Case of the Killer-Diller (ss) Dime Detective Magazine May 1939
• Through a Dead Man’s Eye (nv) Black Mask Dec 1939
• All At Once, No Alice (nv) Argosy Mar 2 1940
• Post-Mortem (nv) Black Mask Apr 1940
• Meet Me by the Mannequin (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1940
• C-Jag (nv) Black Mask Oct 1940; also as “Just Enough to Cover a Thumbnail”.
• Just Enough to Cover a Thumbnail (nv) Black Mask Oct 1940
• Momentum (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1940
• Murder Always Gathers Momentum (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1940; also as “Momentum”.
• The Fatal Footlights (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 14 1941
• It Had to Be Murder (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1942
• Rear Window (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1942
• Three Kills for One (nv) Black Mask Jul 1942; also as “Two Murders, One Crime”.
• Two Murders, One Crime (nv) Black Mask Jul 1942
• The Death Rose (nv) Baffling Detective Mysteries Mar 1943
• The Body of a Well-Dressed Woman (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1944 [Inspector Evans]
• What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1944; also as “The Body of a Well-Dressed Woman”. [Inspector Evans]
• Death Between Dances (ss) Shadow Mystery Dec 1947 (+1)
• Waltz Into Darkness (n.) J.B. Lippincott 1947
• I Married a Dead Man (n.) J.B. Lippincott 1948; expanded and rewritten from “They Call Me Patrice”, Today’s Woman Apr ’46.
• The Morning After Murder (ss) 5 Detective Novels Magazine Spr 1952; revised from “Murder on My Mind”, Detective Fiction Weekly, Aug 15, 1936, as by Cornell Woolrich.
• Black Bargain (nv) Justice Jan 1956; also as “The Night of February 17, 1924”.
• The Night of February 17, 1924 (nv) Justice Jan 1956
• The Penny-a-Worder (nv) EQMM Sep 1958
• Murder, Obliquely (nv) Violence, Dodd, Mead 1958; revised from “Death Escapes the Eye”, Shadow Apr-May 1947.; revised from “Death Escapes the Eye”, Shadow Apr-May ’47.
• The Number’s Up (ss) Beyond the Night, Avon 1959
• Money Talks (ss) EQMM Jan 1962
• One Drop of Blood (nv) EQMM Apr 1962
• Too Nice a Day to Die (ss) The Dark Side of Love, Walker 1965
• Mannequin (nv) The Saint Detective Magazine Oct 1966
• Intent to Kill (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Sep 1967
• For the Rest of Her Life (nv) EQMM May 1968
• New York Blues (nv) EQMM Dec 1970
• Rear Window and Four Short Novels (co) New York: Ballantine 1984; also as “Rear Window and Other Stories”.
• Rear Window and Other Stories (co) New York: Ballantine 1984
• “Reading Woolrich” by Richard A. Lupoff (ar) Detective Story Magazine Apr 1989
• The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories, I Married a Dead Man, Waltz into Darkness (co) Penguin USA 1998
• Night & Fear (co) Carroll & Graf 2003
• Tonight, Somewhere in New York: The Last Stories and an Unfinished Novel (co) Carroll & Graf 2005
• Even God Felt the Depression (ss)
• The Poor Girl (na)
• Tonight, Somewhere in New York (uw)

WOOTON, CARL (stories)

• Harmony’s Song (ss) EQMM Sep 1988

WOOTTON, ADRIAN (stories)

• Introduction (in)

WORCESTER, WAYNE (1947- ) (stories)

• Sweet Rewards (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Dr. Watson; Sherlock Holmes]

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850) (stories)

• from The Prelude (ex)

WORTH, L. S. (stories)

• Marijuana Vice Trap (ss) Vice Squad Detective 1933

WORTS, GEORGE F(rank) (1892-1967); see pseudonym Loring Brent (stories)

WOTTON, MABEL E. (stories)

• My First Patient (ss) A Pretty Radical and other stories 1890

WOZNICK, LEIGH (stories)

• The Mystery Crossword (pz) EQMM Mar, Apr, Nov 1993, May 1994, Nov 1995, Jan 1996, Jun 1998
• The Mystery Crossword: Outis? or The Father of Mystery (pz) EQMM Jun 2000

WREN, LASSITER (stories)

• The Elevated Transit Mystery [with Randle McKay] (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
• The Evidence on the Japanned Box [with Randle McKay] (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
• Who Murdered Ellington Breese? [with Randle McKay] (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
• Unsolved: (untitled) [with Randle McKay] (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
• Unsolved: The Gangster’s Valet [with Randle McKay] (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
• Unsolved: The Inspector Marquard’s Quandary [with Randle McKay] (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
• Unsolved: The Invitation to Crime [with Randle McKay] (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930

WREN, M. K.; pseudonym of Martha Kay Renfroe, (1938- ) (stories)

• “An Interview with M. K. Wren” by J. Alec West (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1997

WREN, P(ercival) C(hristopher) (1885-1941) (stories)

• The Dead Hand (ss) Stepsons of France, Murray 1917
• Presentiments (ss) Good Gestes, Murray 1929

WRIGHT, BETTY REN (1927- ) (stories)

• Born-Again Killer (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1980
• The Big One (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980
• The Survivor (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1982
• Morning Song (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1982
• The Way It Was (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1983
• The Lazarus Light (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984

WRIGHT, CHRIS (stories)

• Murder at the Snakepit Ball (ss) Racing Can Be Murder, ed. Brenda R. Stewart & Tony Perona, Blue River Press 2007

WRIGHT, DAPHNE (1951- ); see pseudonym Natasha Cooper (stories)

WRIGHT, E. E. (stories)

• Stolen Gun, Stolen Life (ss) Hardboiled #5 1986

WRIGHT, ERIC (1929- ) (books) (stories)

• The Cure (ss) Fingerprints, ed. Beverley Beetham-Endersby, Toronto: Irwin 1984
• Jackpot (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987
• Looking for an Honest Man (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987; also as “Jackpot”.
• Hephaestus (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989