Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

CLARK, GEOFFRY HERBERT (stories)

• The Horror of Manley’s Island (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936
• The Island of Ho Pin (ss) Mystery Stories #5 1936

CLARK, M. H. (stories)

• Bell, Book, and Suburbia [with Jeanne Leiter] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

CLARK, MARY HIGGINS (1929- ) (books) (stories)

• Deadline from Paradise (ss) Extension Aug 1958; also as “Milk Run”.
• Milk Run (ss) Extension Aug 1958
• Last Flight to Denubia (ss) Extension 1958; also as “Stowaway”.
• Stowaway (ss) Extension 1958
• “Interview: Mary Higgins Clark” by H. Edward Hunsburger (iv) Crime Digest Sep/Oct 1982
• Lucky Day (nv) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1986
• The Lost Angel (nv) Woman’s Day Dec 2 1986
• Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (na) Woman’s Day Aug 4 1987 (+1)
• Double Vision (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 23 1988
• Death on the Cape (nv) Woman’s Day Jul 18 1989 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories (co) Somon & Schuster 1989
• The Anastasia Syndrome (n.) 1989
• That’s the Ticket (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
• Voices in the Coalbin (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• The Body in the Closet (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 7 1990 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Plumbing for Willy (nv) Family Circle Aug 1992 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (oa) Pocket 1993
• As It Was in the Beginning (in) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• By the End of August (vi) 1993 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Lottery Winner (co) Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Bye, Baby Bunting (nv) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• A Clean Sweep (nv) Justice in Manhattan, Adams Round Table, Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Lottery Winner (na) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Bad Behavior [ed.] (an) Gulliver 1995
• Definitely, a Crime of Passion (nv) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
• In Defense of Suspense (pr) MHCMM #1 1996, Spr, Sum/Fll 1997, Sum, Fll 1998, Sum 1999, Sum 2000
• My Gal Sunday (oc) Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• A Crime of Passion (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Hail, Columbia! (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël (nv) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• They All Ran After the President’s Wife (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Lady Sleuth, Lady Sleuth, Run Away Home (nv) MHCMM Spr 1997
• The Plot Thickens [ed.] (oa) Pocket/Mystery Guild 1997
• The Man Next Door (nv) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997
• Power Play (nv) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
• Haven’t We Met Before? (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
• The Night Awakens [ed.] (oa) Pocket 2000
• Murder at the Roundtable (ms) MHCMM Sum 2000
• The Funniest Thing Has Been Happening Lately (nv) Murder in the Family, The Adams Round Table, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• Author’s Note (aw)
• Introduction (in)

CLARK, MITCH (stories)

• She Had Murder in Her Heart! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• Murder Is an Accident! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958

CLARK, MONICA (stories)

• The Story That Won: A Prickly Figure (vi) AHMM Mar 2007
• The Story That Won: Three Amigos? (vi) AHMM May 2007

CLARK, SARAH (stories)

• Serenade (nv) AHMM Apr 1991
• Paternity (nv) AHMM Jan 1993

CLARK, SIMON (1958- ) (stories)

• In This Sign, Conquer [with Gail-Nina Anderson] (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996; by-lined “Nina-Gail Anderson & Simon Clark” on contents page.
• The Adventure of the Fallen Star (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Now Fetch Me an Axe (nv) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Fenian Ram (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• Nightmare in Wax (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

CLARK, TRACY P. (stories)

• For Services Rendered (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

CLARKE, ANNA (1919- ) (stories)

• Caesar’s Wife (ss) EQMM May 1983
• The Laburnum Tree (nv) EQMM Aug 1983
• Outside the Law (ss) EQMM May 1984
• Triangle at Sea (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• Mr. Mundon’s Memoirs (ss) EQMM May 1985
• The Silver Teapot (ss) EQMM Sep 1985
• The Secret Path (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
• The Mystery of Percy’s Heart (ss) EQMM Aug 1989

CLARKE, ARTHUR C(harles) (1917- ) (stories)

• Crime on Mars (ss) EQMM Jul 1960

CLARKE, BRENDA MARGARET LILIAN HONEYMAN; see pseudonym Kate Sedley (stories)

CLARKE, PERCY C. (stories)

• Extremes Meet (ss) Mystery Stories #18 1939

CLAY, MALISSA A. (stories)

• ’Til Death Do We Part (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994
• Joe (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

CLAYTON, D. L. (stories)

• The Sidewinder (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1985

CLAYTON, DEBORAH HILLYARD (stories)

• The Move (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988

CLAYTON, DONET MEYNELL (stories)

• Crime Without Equity (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• The Weaver (pm) EQMM Apr 1998

CLAYTON, RICHARD HENRY MICHAEL (1907-1993); see pseudonym William Haggard (stories)

CLEARY, C. P. (stories)

• The Case of the Searching Widow (ss) Scientific Detective Annual 1944

CLEARY, MELISSA; house pseudonym (stories)

• You’ll Never Bark in This Town Again (nv) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• Good Dog Wenceslas (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999

CLEAVER, HYLTON (Reginald) (1891-1961) (stories)

• By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man (ss) The Strand Mar 1934

CLEEVE, BRIAN (Brendon Talbot) (1921- ) (stories)

• “Death” (ss) London Mystery #17 1953
• High Terror (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 15 1958
• Foxer (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 18 1965
• The Revenge of Big Michael (ss)

CLEEVES, ANN (Richardson) (1954- ) (stories)

• A Winter’s Tale (ss) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992
• The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
• The Plater (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• Sad Girls (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• A Rough Guide to Tanga (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• Games for Winter (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Owl Wars (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• Going Back (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007

CLEGG, DOUGLAS (Alan) (1958- ) (stories)

• Becoming Men (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999

CLEMEAU, CAROL; pseudonym of Carol Clemeau Esler, (1935- ) (stories)

• Curses (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
• Dead Wood (ss) EQMM Apr 1985

CLEMENS, ANTHONY (stories)

• Ink’s Jinx (ss) Secret Agent X Sep 1934

CLEMENS, BRIAN (Horace) (1931- ) (stories)

• The Embassy Incident (ss) 1982; also as “The Professionals”.
• The Professionals (ss) 1982

CLEMENS, MATTHEW (stories)

• Family Values (ss) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998

CLEMENS, MATTHEW V. (1956- ) (books) (stories)

• A Woman’s Touch [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
• My Lolita Complex [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Lie Beside Me [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• A Pebble for Papa [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• East Side, West Side [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
• My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence [with Max Allan Collins] (co) Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (1835-1910); see pseudonym Mark Twain (books) (stories)

CLENDENING, LOGAN, M.D. (1884-1945) (stories)

• The Case of the Missing Patriarchs (vi) 1934

CLEPHANE, IRENE (stories)

• from Les mots, Gallimard, by Jean-Paul Sartre (ex) London: Hamish Hamilton 1964

CLERC, SJAAN (stories)

• Perfectly Murderous (pm) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• Scuttlebutt? (pm) EQMM May 5 1980

CLEVERLY, BARBARA (stories)

• Here Lies (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003 [Ellie Hardwick]
• Love-Lies-Bleeding (ss) EQMM Aug 2004 [Ellie Hardwick]
• A Threatened Species (ss) EQMM Nov 2005

CLEWSEY (stories)

• Clewsey’s Cliché’s Frontispiece: ‘Have a care, Constable, it may be a clue’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Come, come, Major—did nothing peculiar strike you about the time?’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘How did you know the victim was a pawnbroker?’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Laverton-West gave him a fish-like stare’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Quick, chaps! The swine have got Phyllis again’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Wait! I think the dog knows something’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘While she waited for Nick to come round, Nora reviewed the facts of the case as she understood them’ (ct) Red Herrings

CLINTON, DIRK; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (stories)

• Real Tough Break (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• The Kidnapped Beauty (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961

CLINTON, EDWARD (stories)

• No Vivaldi (ss) EQMM Sep 1993
• My Little Brother (ss) EQMM Jun 2003

CLOETE, (Edward Fairly) STUART (Graham) (1897-1976) (stories)

• Congo (ss) Story Mar/Apr 1943
• Night Operation (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 24 1944

CLOPTON, LINDA E. (stories)

• A Little Yarn (ss) The Fourth WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA 1991

CLOUD, ROBERT J. (stories)

• Grampaw Lends a Hand (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861) (stories)

• from “Adam and Eve” (pm)

CLOUGH, B(renda) W(ang) (1955- ) (stories)

• Grow Your Own (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2000

CLOUGH, HERBERT D., JR. (stories)

• Editorial (ed) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984

CLOUSTON, J(oseph) STORER (1870-1944) (stories)

• The Envelope (ss) The Sphere Nov 24 1919
• Coincidence (nv) 1920 [F.T. Carrington]

COAKE, CHRISTOPHER (stories)

• His Mission (na) Murder in the Rough, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• All Through the House (ss)

COATS, YVONNE (stories)

• Where the Advantage Lies (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

COBB, IRVIN S(hrewsbury) (1876-1944) (stories)

• Faith, Hope and Charity (nv) Cosmopolitan Apr 1930 [Judge William Pitman Priest]

COBB, JAMES H. (1953- ) (stories)

• Monica Van Telflin and the Proper Application of Pressure (nv) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• Road Bomb (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004 [Kevin Pulaski]
• The Sound of Justice (nv) EQMM Jul 2005 [Kevin Pulaski]
• Framed (ss) EQMM Jun 2006 [Kevin Pulaski]
• Over the Edge (ss) EQMM Jul 2007 [Kevin Pulaski]

COBB, M. E. (stories)

• Strings Attached (pm) EQMM Mar 1992

COBEN, HARLAN (1962- ) (stories)

• Entrapped (ss) MHCMM Spr 1997
• “There oughta be a Law: An Interview with Harlan Coben” by Lisa D. Williamson (iv) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• A Simple Philosophy (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998

COBEN, HARLEN (books) (stories)

• Death Do Us Part [ed.] (oa) Back Bay Books 2006
• Entrapped (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• Introduction (in) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006

COBLEY, PAUL (stories)

• The Well Dressed Runner (ar) The Strand Magazine #8 2002

COBLITZ, KRISTINE (stories)

• Cold Feet (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #38 2003

COBURN, ANDREW (1932- ) (stories)

• A Woolf in Vita’s Clothing (ss) EQMM Dec 1995
• My Father’s Daughter (na) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003

COCHRAN, STACEY (stories)

• All That Changes When You Kill (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• The PWG Interviews: George Pelecanos (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• The Fast-Action Killers (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2004
• The Quiet Couple (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2004

COCKBURN, SARAH (Caudwell) (1939-2000); see pseudonym Sarah Caudwell (stories)

COCKEY, TIM (1955- ) (stories)

• The Haunting of Slink Ridgely (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Greenspring Valley).

COCKRELL, FRANK; [i.e., Francis M. Cockrell] (1906-1987) (stories)

• That Heel of a Seal (ss) Liberty Magazine Aug 23 1941

CODY, LIZA; pseudonym of Liza Nassim, (1944- ) (books) (stories)

• K.K. (ss) Murder and Company, ed. Harriet Ayres, Pandora 1988
• The Uniform (ss) New Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1989
• Spasmo (ss) A Classic English Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1990
• Lucky Dip (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
• In Those Days (ss) 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992
• 1st Culprit [ed. with Michael Z. Lewin] (oa) St. Martin’s 1993
• Where’s Stacey? (ss) EQMM Aug 1993
• 2nd Culprit [ed. with Michael Z. Lewin] (oa) St. Martin’s 1994
• Reconstruction (nv) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• 3rd Culprit [ed. with Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey] (an) Chatto & Windus 1994