Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

BUTLER, GWENDOLINE (stories) (continued)

• The Child Cannot Speak (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 2, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1992
• The Searcher (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• A Bad Winter’s Day in Windsor (ss) Crime Time v2 #1 1998 [Major Mearns; Sergeant Denny]
• Bloody Windsor (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999 [Major Mearns; Sergeant Denny]

BUTLER, H. C. (stories)

• The Murder Stalks the Big Top (ss) Black Book Detective Spr 1951

BUTLER, JACKLYN (stories)

• A Bit of Flotsam (ss) AHMM Jan 1992
• The Messenger (ss) AHMM Oct 1992
• One Night (ss) EQMM Mar 1998

BUTLER, JOHN K. (1908-1964) (stories)

• The Saint in Silver (na) Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1941 [Steve Middleton Knight (Steve Midnight)]

BUTLER, RAYMOND (stories)

• Captain Nash and the Wroth Inheritance (n.) Harwood-Smart Publishing 1975

BUTLER, RICHARD (Miles) (1925- ) (stories)

• Murder Most Foul (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• The Last Legion (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001

BUTLER, RON (stories)

• The Courage of Akira-Kun (ss) AHMM Jun 24 1981
• The Divine Wind (ss) AHMM Oct 14 1981
• Theft by Hanko (ss) AHMM Nov 11 1981
• The Willow Woman (ss) AHMM Jan 6 1982
• Merry Christmas, Noriko (ss) AHMM Feb 3 1982
• A Matter of Chances (ss) AHMM Sep 1982
• The Village Crime (ss) AHMM Oct 1982
• Inspector Ueki’s Day (ss) AHMM Dec 1982
• Inspector Ueki and the Potter’s Gift (ss) AHMM Jan 1983
• The Beckoning Eye (ss) AHMM Mar 1983
• Death, Kabuki-Style (nv) AHMM May 1983
• The Faithful Gardener (ss) AHMM Jul 1983
• The Irreverent Reverend Abbot (nv) AHMM mid-Sep 1983
• The Man from the Misted Lake (nv) AHMM Sep 1983
• The Blush-Pink Room (nv) AHMM Nov 1983
• Days of Crime, Days of Friends (nv) AHMM Mar 1984
• The Occidental and Catfish Express (nv) AHMM Aug 1984
• By the Terrible Mountain (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1984
• The Case of the Numbered Navel (nv) AHMM Apr 1985
• Inspector Ueki and the Red Ape (nv) AHMM Oct 1985
• Inspector Ueki and the Crying Man (nv) AHMM Aug 1989

BUTLIN, RON (stories)

• How the Angels Fly In (ss) Talk of the Devil

BUTOR, MICHEL (Marie Francois) (1926- ) (stories)

• Passing Time (ex) London: Faber and Faber 1961

BUTTON, ROBERT E. (stories)

• American Telephone and Telepathy Company? (ar) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984

BUZO, ALEX (stories)

• The Man from Croweatia (ss) Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994

BUZZATI, DINO (1906-1972) (stories)

• The Bewitched Jacket (ss) Restless Nights, North Point Press 1983

BYERLY, ANN (stories)

• The Bouchercon Report (ar) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1981

BYERS, RICHARD LEE (1950- ) (stories)

• H (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

BYFIELD, BARBARA NINDE (1930-1988) (stories)

• The Blushing Bride (ss) AHMM Aug 1982
• Poison Clean (ss) AHMM May 1983
• The Finishing Touch (ss) AHMM Jun 1985
• Slippers of Glass (ss) AHMM Nov 1986

BYRD, ELIZABETH (1912- ) (stories)

• The Royal Bedchamber (ss) EQMM May 1988
• Prodigal Grandson (ss) EQMM Aug 1988
• The Message (ss) EQMM Dec 1988

BYRNE, DONN; pseudonym of Bryan Oswald Donn-Byrne, (1889-1928) (stories)

• Tale of the Piper (vi) Destiny Bay, Little Brown 1928
• An Infringement of the Decalogue (ss) The Smart Set

BYRNE, JACK (stories)

• The Scent of Murder (vi) 1992

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824) (stories)

• from Cain (ex) 1821
• from Don Juan (ex)
• John Keats (pm)

C., B. E. (stories)

• Mother Goose Mayhem: Little Jack Horner (pm) EQMM Dec 1992
• Mother Goose Mayhem: Jack Be Nimble (pm) EQMM Mar 1994

CABRAL, O. M. (stories)

• The Dead and the Damned (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jan 1936

CADDEN, DOMINIC (stories)

• The Big Fairy Tale Sleep (ss) Crosstown Traffic, ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Five Islands Press 1993

CADIGAN, PAT(ricia Oren Kearney) (1953- ) (stories)

• Angel (ss) IASFM May 1987
• True Faces (nv) F&SF Apr 1992
• Nothing Personal (na) Alien Crimes, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC 2007

CAGIN, RUTH (stories)

• The Mechanique Affair (ss) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002

CAIL, CAROL (1937- ) (stories)

• Garden of Evil (ss) EQMM Dec 1973
• Blood from a Turnip (ss) AHMM May 21 1980
• What’s Out There? (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• Out of Her Misery (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
• A Bump in the Night (vi) EQMM Jul 1989
• Martha and Her Brothers (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1989
• Supper on the Table (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
• The Storyteller (vi) EQMM Dec 1990
• Sinkhole (ss) AHMM Dec 1995
• Waiting on Lowella (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1996
• Taking Care of Business (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
• The Jewel Monkeys (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• A Murder in the Family (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2004

CAIN, JAMES M(allahan) (1892-1977) (stories)

• Pastorale (ss) The American Mercury Mar 1928
• The Baby in the Icebox (ss) The American Mercury Jan 1933
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (ex) London: Cape 1934
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (n.) New York: Knopf 1934
• Dead Man (ss) The American Mercury Mar 1936
• Brush Fire (ss) Liberty Magazine Dec 5 1936
• The Embezzler (na) Liberty Magazine Mar 9 1940
• Money and the Woman (na) Liberty Magazine Mar 9 1940; also as “The Embezzler”.
• from Double Indemnity (ex) New York: Knopf 1943
• Pay-Off Girl (ss) Esquire Aug 1952
• Cigarette Girl (ss) Manhunt May 1953

CAIN, MICHAEL SCOTT (stories)

• The Stray (ss) AHMM Feb 4 1981
• Retirement Job (ss) AHMM Jun 24 1981
• On Different Tracks (ss) AHMM Aug 19 1981
• The Custody Thing (ss) AHMM Nov 11 1981
• The Next One’s For Real (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1981
• Crazy Old Man (ss) AHMM Mar 3 1982
• Willie Meets the Man (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1982

CAIN, PAUL; pseudonym of George Sims, (1902-1966) (stories)

• Black (ss) Black Mask May 1932
• Fast One (ex) Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran 1933
• Trouble-Chaser (ss) Black Mask Apr 1934

CAINE, HAMILTON T.; pseudonym of Stephen Smoke, (1949- ) (stories)

• Ace Carpenter, Detective (sl) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980
• Hollywood Highness (ss) Mystery Jan 1981
• Interview: Stephen J. Cannell (iv) Mystery Jan 1981
• The Case of the Empty Fortune Cookies (ss) Mystery May 1981 [Ace Carpenter]

CALABRO, JOSEPH (stories)

• Operation Vengeance (ar) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987

CALBURN, CAROLYN (stories)

• Time-Share (ss) MHCMM Spr 1997

CALDWELL, BO (stories)

• His Moods (ss) Story Magazine Win 1997

CALFEE, ROBERT (stories)

• The Delivery (ss) EQMM Dec 1989

CALI, LUCILLE (stories)

• Saint Valentine’s Revenge (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003

CALLAHAN, BARBARA (stories)

• Lavender Lady (ss) EQMM Apr 1976
• The Pinwheel Dream (ss) EQMM Jul 1977
• Hidden Springs (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
• Have You Seen This Woman? (ss) EQMM Apr 1983
• Voices (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
• The Mists of Ballyclough (nv) EQMM Sep 1994
• Talked Out of It (nv) EQMM Mar 1995
• Makeover (ss) EQMM Nov 1999
• The Forbidden Key (ss) EQMM Aug 2003
• To Catch a Falling Star (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004
• The Day After (nv) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007

CALLAHAN, BETTY SUE; pseudonym of Colleen Drippé (stories)

• A Date with Napoleon (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 2001

CALLARD, DAN (stories)

• The Supercilious Tourist (vi) EQMM Nov 3 1980

CALLINAN, IAN (David Francis) (stories)

• Crime and Deduction (ss)
• A Federation Event (ss)
• The Long Return (ss)

CALLOW, JESSICA (stories)

• Storm Over Longvalley (nv) AHMM Jun 1982
• The Ghost of Tall Trees (ss) AHMM Jan 1983
• The Jinx Place (nv) AHMM Apr 1983
• The Black Pearl (nv) AHMM Mar 1984
• The Doll (nv) AHMM Mar 1985
• Trouble at Tillingford (ss) AHMM May 1986

CALVERT, JAMES M., JR. (stories)

• Death Before Midnight (na) Dan Dunn Detective Magazine Sep 1936 [Dan Dunn]

CALVINO, ITALO (1923-1985) (stories)

• Cities & the Dead (vi) Invisible Cities, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974
• The One-Handed Murderer (ss) Italian Folk Tales: Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino, Harcourt Brace 1980

CAMERON, CADDO; pseudonym of Charles Richard Beeler, (1888-1961) (stories)

• Gunman’s Christmas (ss)

CAMERON, IVAN (stories)

• Murder by the Clock (ss) Black Book Detective May 1941

CAMERON, NEIL (stories)

• On Reading the Daughter of Time for the Third Time as Well (pm) EQMM Feb 1992
• On Viewing the Olivier Version of the Tragedy of Richard III for the Third Time (pm) EQMM Feb 1992

CAMERON, SILVER DONALD (stories)

• The Fiend in the Fortress (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

CAMERON, VICKI (books) (stories)

• Cottage Country Killers [ed. with Linda Wiken] (oa) General Store Publishing House 1997
• Zebra Mussels (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997

CAMERON, WALDA (stories)

• Inherit the Wind (vi) About Mysteries; There are times when you inherit just what you deserve — take, for instance, the situation in this original mini-mystery.
• Lady Luck (vi) About Mysteries; Sometimes the only real luck you have is the kind you make for yourself —.

CAMILLERI, ANDREA (stories)

• Double Edged Motive (ss) The Strand Magazine #14 2004

CAMP, JOHN (1944- ); see pseudonym John Sandford (stories)

• Memories of Wartime London (ar) Espionage Magazine Aug 1986

CAMPBELL, ANN (stories)

• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Annie O’Hara; Claudius]

CAMPBELL, DONALD (stories)

• Who Shall the Victim Be? (ss) AHMM Jan 1959

CAMPBELL, FEDERICO (stories)

• Highway Patrol (ss)

CAMPBELL, [Sir] GILBERT (Edward) (1838-1899) (stories)

• The Mystery of the Essex Stairs (ss) 1891

CAMPBELL, J. RAMSEY; see under Campbell, Ramsey (stories)

CAMPBELL, JENNY (stories)

• Little Ones [with Ramsey Campbell] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

CAMPBELL, MARK (stories)

• Denise Danks (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• Jerry Raine Comes Home (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• Douglas E. Winter: Ratchetting Up the Prose (iv) Crime Time #23 2001

CAMPBELL, (John) RAMSEY (1946- ) (stories)

• The Stocking (ss) Tandem Horror 2, ed. Richard Davis, London: Tandem Books 1968
• Jack’s Little Friend (ss) Jack the Knife, ed. Michel Parry, Mayflower 1975
• Little Ones [with Jenny Campbell] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

CAMPBELL, ROBERT (Wright) (1927-2000) (stories)

• Mice (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• The Journeyer (ss) EQMM May 1992
• This Church Is Open (ss) EQMM Oct 1992
• Body Parts (ss) EQMM Apr 1994
• Caring for Uncle Henry (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
• Souvenir de Mme. H. Thuret (ss) EQMM Jun 1995
• Coffee to Go (ss) EQMM Dec 1995
• Death Song (ss) EQMM Apr 1996

CAMPBELL, SHERITA SAFFER (stories)

• One Last Picture (ss) AHMM Sep 1987

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM EDWARD MARCH (1893-1954); see pseudonym William March (stories)

CAMUS, ALBERT (1913-1960) (stories)

• from The Outsider (ex) 1942
• The Guest (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1957

CANARY, GLENN (stories)

• Interference (ss) Manhunt Oct 1963

CANE, WILLIAM (stories)

• Gangsters and Killers in Love: The Intimate Lives of America’s Most Deadly Men and Women (ar) Detective Story Magazine Jun 1990

CANFIELD, THOMAS (stories)

• Knock Wood (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1999

CANN, MARTY (stories)

• Outrage at the Short Mystery Club (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993

CANN, RACHEL (stories)

• The Piano Bar (ss) Hardboiled #31 2004

CANNELL, DOROTHY (1943- ) (books) (stories)

• Come to Grandma (ss) Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1989
• The High Cost of Living (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• The January Sale Stowaway (ss) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
• Rats! (ss) Murder British Style, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• Telling George (ss) Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• The Family Jewels (nv) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
• One Night at a Time (nv) Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
• Cupid’s Arrow (nv) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995
• The Cat Who Knew Too Much (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• The Gentleman’s Gentleman (nv) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
• Poor Lincoln (ss) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
• Naked Came the Farmer, Chapter 13: Oh, Brother! (rr) Accent Apr 24 1998
• The Purloined Purple Pearl (nv) Mystery Guild Catalog May, Jun, Sum 1998
• Fetch (nv) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• What Mr. McGregor Saw (ss) Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess, Avon 2000
• Bridal Flowers (nv) Love and Death, ed. Carolyn Hart, Berkley Prime Crime 2001
• The Family Jewels and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2001