Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

CHESTERTON, G. K. (books) (stories) (continued)

• The Paradise of Thieves (ss) McClure’s Mar 1913 [Father Brown]
• The Man in the Passage (nv) McClure’s Apr 1913 [Father Brown]
• The Purple Wig (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine May 1913 [Father Brown]
• The Head of Caesar (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Jun 1913 [Father Brown]
• The Mistake of the Machine (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Oct 1913 [Father Brown]
• The Perishing of the Pendragons (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Jun 1914 [Father Brown]
• The Salad of Colonel Cray (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Jul 1914 [Father Brown]
• The Duel of Dr. Hirsch (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Aug 1914 [Father Brown]
• The God of the Gongs (nv) The Pall Mall Magazine Sep 1914 [Father Brown]
• The Wisdom of Father Brown (co) London: Cassell 1914 [Father Brown]
• The Five of Swords (nv) Hearst’s International Feb 1919
• from “The Garden of Smoke” (ex) The Storyteller Oct 1919
• The Garden of Smoke (ss) The Story-Teller Oct 1919 [Mr. Traill]
• The Tower of Treason (nv) The Popular Magazine Feb 7 1920
• The Vanishing Prince (nv) The Storyteller Feb 1920 [Horne Fisher]
• The Man Who Shot the Fox (ss) Hearst’s International Mar 1921
• The Oracle of the Dog (nv) Nash’s Magazine Dec 1923 [Father Brown]
• Dr. Hyde, Detective, and the White Pillars Murder (ss) English Life Jan 1925
• The White Pillars Murder (ss) English Life Jan 1925
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (ex) Dodd 1926
• The Purple Jewel (nv) The Storyteller Mar 1929 [Gabriel Gale]
• The Moderate Murderer (nv) Cassell’s Apr 1929
• Ring of Lovers (ss) The Story-Teller Dec 1935 [Mr. Pond]
• A Tall Story (ss) The Storyteller Feb 1936 [Mr. Pond]
• The Vampire of the Village (ss) The Strand Aug 1936 [Father Brown]
• Pond the Pantaloon (ss) The Storyteller Sep 1936 [Mr. Pond]
• from “How to Write a Detective Story” (ex) 1964
• Seven Suspects (co) Carroll & Graf 1990
• Father Brown Crime Stories (om) Avenel 1990 [Father Brown]
• “The Birth of Father Brown” by Tom Kreitzberg (ar) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• “The Great Detectives: G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown” by Barbara Roden (ar) The Strand Magazine #3 1999
• The Fairy Tale of Father Brown (nv) [Father Brown]

CHETWYND-HAYES, R(onald Henry Glynn) (1919-2001) (stories)

• Someone Is Dead (nv) The Elemental, Fontana 1974 [Francis St. Clare; Frederica Masters]

CHEYNEY, PETER; [i.e., Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney, born Reginald Southouse Cheyney] (1896-1951) (stories)

• A Double Double-Cross (ss) Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine May 1924
• Nice Work (ss) The (London) Evening Standard Oct 5 1936 [Lemmy Caution]
• Aces High (ss)
• Black Out (ss) [Slim Callaghan]
• Exit Permit (ss)
• Girl of My Dreams (ss)
• A Life for a Lamp (ss)

CHI, TA HUANG (stories)

• The Foreign Devil (ss) AHMM Aug 19 1981

CHIFFLOT, DOROTHÉE (stories)

• Hélène de Monaghan (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

CHILD, CHARLES B.; pseudonym of C. Vernon Frost, (1903-1993) (books) (stories)

• The Inspector Is Discreet (ss) Colliers Jun 21 1947 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Death Had a Voice (ss) Colliers Jun 26 1948 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• The Inspector Had a Wife (ss) Colliers Aug 21 1948 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• The Inspector Had a Habit (ss) Colliers Mar 26 1949 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• He Had a Little Shadow (ss) Colliers Jan 14 1950 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• All the Birds of the Air (ss) Colliers Jan 17 1950 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• There Is a Man in Hiding (ss) Colliers Sep 29 1951 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Death in the Fourth Dimension (ss) Colliers Sep 27 1952 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Death Had a Birthday (ss) Colliers Nov 13 1953 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Death Was a Wedding Guest (ss) Colliers Nov 26 1954 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• The Invisible Killer (ss) Colliers Jan 21 1955 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Royal Theft (ss) Colliers Apr 29 1955 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Death Starts a Rumor (ss) Colliers Jun 22 1956 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• The Man Who Wasn’t There (ss) EQMM Apr 1969 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• The Sleuth of Baghdad (co) Crippen & Landru 2002 [Chafik J. Chafik]
• Inspector Chafik Closes the Case (ss) [Chafik J. Chafik]

CHILD, LEE; pseudonym of James D. Grant, (1954- ) (books) (stories)

• James Penney’s New Identity (nv) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999 [Jack Reacher]
• Ten Keys (ss) The Cocaine Chronicles, ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books 2005
• The Greatest Trick of All (ss) Greatest Hits, Robert J. Randisi, Carroll & Graf 2005
• Safe Enough (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers [ed.] (oa) St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008
• Introduction (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

CHILD, LINCOLN (1957- ) (stories)

• Gone Fishing [with Douglas Preston] (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Lieutenant Douglas D’Agosta]

CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN (1881-1935) (stories)

• The Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Slap (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 3 1912

CHILDS, TIMOTHY (1941- ) (stories)

• A Place to Grow (ss) EQMM Jan 14 1980

CHINN, MIKE; [i.e., Michael James Chinn] (1954- ) (stories)

• Brindley’s Place (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

CHIREVAS, JASON (stories)

• Last Collar (vi) Hardboiled #33 2005

CHISHOLM, P. F.; pseudonym of Patricia Finney, (1958- ) (stories)

• The Duke of York (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006 [Sir Robert Carey]

CHITTENDEN, MARGARET (Rosalind) (1935- ) (stories)

• Between the Covers: What’s In a Name (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
• Between the Covers: How to Get an Author to Visit Your Town (cl) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• Between the Covers: Who Does the Writer Write For? (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• Between the Covers: To err is human—to forgive makes the reader divine (cl) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• Noir Lite (ss) EQMM Jan 1999
• Between the Covers: Too Many Notes? (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• Between the Covers: The Amateur Sleuth (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• Between the Covers: (cl) Murderous Intent Fll, Win 1999
• The Spirit of Washington (ss) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• The Frog that Croaked in the Night (ss) EQMM Feb 2006

CHIZMAR, RICHARD T(homas) (1965- ) (books) (stories)

• A Crime of Passion (ss) Gauntlet #2 1991
• The Season of Giving [with Norman Partridge] (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• A Capital Cat Crime (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• Homesick (ss) Midnight Promises, Gauntlet Publications 1996
• Midnight Promises (ss) Midnight Promises, Gauntlet Publications 1996
• The Silence of Sorrow (ss) Midnight Promises, Gauntlet Publications 1996
• Like Father, Like Son (ss) EQMM Mar 1997
• Blood Brothers (ss) Burton, MI: Subterranean Press 1997
• Night Call (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• Subterranean Gallery [ed. with William K. Schafer] (oa) Subterranean Press 1999
• Family Ties [with Barry Hoffman] (ss) Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002

CHOPIN, KATE (O’Flaherty) (1851-1904) (stories)

• Her Letters (ss) Vogue 1895

CHRISTENSEN, CAROL (stories)

• A Boy and His Dog, by Manuel Vásquez Montalbán (ss) 1988

CHRISTENSEN, JAN (stories)

• Warning Signs (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002
• Missing Ivy (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002
• The Envelope, Please (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #39 2003
• This Town’s for Dying (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #49 2004

CHRISTENSEN, THOMAS (stories)

• A Boy and His Dog, by Manuel Vásquez Montalbán (ss) 1988

CHRISTENSON, JAN (stories)

• A Fine Mess (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2002

CHRISTIAN, M. (books) (stories)

• State (ss) Selling Venus, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press 1995
• Wanted (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• One After Another (ss) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997
• Eyes Wide Open (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Needle Taste (ss) 2001; First appeared on www.erratta.com.
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops [ed. with Maxim Jakubowski] (oa) Robinson 2003
• Introduction [with Maxim Jakubowski] (in)

CHRISTIAN, PETER; pseudonym of Chris Steinbrunner, (1933-1993) (stories)

• Crime on Screen (mr) AHMM Jan 2, Jan 30, Feb 27, Mar 26, Apr 23, May 21, Jun 16, Jul 16, Aug 13, Sep 8, Oct 1, Oct 27, Nov 19 1980
• Alfred Hitchcock Photoquiz (pz) AHMM Dec 15 1980

CHRISTIE, AGATHA (Mary Clarissa, née Miller) (1890-1976) (books) (stories)

• The Adventure of the King of Clubs (ss) The Sketch Mar 21 1923; also as “Beware the King of Clubs”. [Hercule Poirot]
• Beware the King of Clubs (ss) The Sketch Mar 21 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim (ss) The Sketch Mar 28 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Adventure of the Western Star (ss) The Sketch Apr 11 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Kidnapped Prime Minister (nv) The Sketch Apr 25 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Adventure of the Cheap Flat (ss) The Sketch May 9 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (ss) The Sketch Sep 26 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Case of the Veiled Lady (ss) The Sketch Oct 3 1923; also as “The Veiled Lady”. [Hercule Poirot]
• The Veiled Lady (ss) The Sketch Oct 3 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly (ss) The Sketch Oct 12 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly (ss) The Sketch Oct 12 1923; also as “The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly”. [Hercule Poirot]
• The Submarine Plans (ss) The Sketch Nov 7 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (ss) The Sketch Nov 14 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Lost Mine (ss) The Sketch Nov 21 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Cornish Mystery (ss) The Sketch Nov 28 1923 [Hercule Poirot]
• A Chess Problem (ss) The Sketch Feb 13 1924 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Case of the Missing Lady (ss) The Sketch Oct 15 1924; also as “The Disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon”. [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• The Disappearance of Mrs. Leigh Gordon (ss) The Sketch Oct 15 1924 [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• The Sunningdale Mystery (ss) The Sketch Oct 29 1924 [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• The Sunninghall Mystery (ss) The Sketch Oct 29 1924; also as “The Sunningdale Mystery”. [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• The Affair of the Forged Notes (ss) The Sketch Nov 19 1924; also as “The Crackler”. [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• The Crackler (ss) The Sketch Nov 19 1924 [Tuppence Beresford; Tommy Beresford]
• Philomel Cottage (nv) The Grand Magazine Nov 1924
• Traitor’s Hands (nv) Flynn’s Jan 31 1925; also as “The Witness for the Prosecution”.
• The Witness for the Prosecution (nv) Flynn’s Jan 31 1925
• A Sign in the Sky (ss) The Grand Magazine Jul 1925; also as “The Sign in the Sky”. [Harley Quin]
• S.O.S. (ss) The Grand Magazine Feb 1926
• Wireless (ss) Mystery Magazine Mar 1 1926
• Swan Song (ss) The Grand Magazine Sep 1926
• At the Crossroads (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Oct 30 1926; also as “The Love Detectives”. [Harley Quin]
• The Love Detectives (ss) Flynn’s Weekly Oct 30 1926 [Harley Quin]
• By Road or Rail (ss) Sunday Dispatch Sep 23 1928; also as “Double Sin”. [Hercule Poirot]
• Double Sin (ss) Sunday Dispatch Sep 23 1928 [Hercule Poirot]
• In the Third Floor Flat (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jan 5 1929; also as “The Third Floor Flat”. [Hercule Poirot]
• The Third Floor Flat (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jan 5 1929 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Blue Geranium (ss) The Story-Teller Dec 1929 [Jane Marple]
• Accident (ss) The Daily Express 1929
• A Christmas Tragedy (ss) The Story-Teller Jan 1930 [Jane Marple]
• The Four Suspects (ss) Pictorial Review Jan 1930 [Jane Marple]
• The Hat and the Alibi (ss) The Story-Teller Jan 1930; also as “A Christmas Tragedy”. [Jane Marple]
• Never Two Without Three; or, A Christmas Tragedy (ss) The Story-Teller Jan 1930 [Jane Marple]
• The Herb of Death (ss) The Story-Teller Mar 1930 [Jane Marple]
• Behind the Screen, Chapter II (rr) The Listener Jun 25 1930
• The Murder at Hazelmoor (n.) London: Collins 1931
• The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest (ss) The Strand Jan 1932 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Second Gong (nv) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1932 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Case of the Discontented Soldier (ss) Cosmopolitan Aug 1932 [Parker Pyne]
• Peril at End House (n.) London: Collins 1932
• Express to Stamboul (ss) Cosmopolitan Apr 1933 [Parker Pyne]
• Have You Got Everything You Want? (ss) Cosmopolitan Apr 1933; also as “Express to Stamboul”. [Parker Pyne]
• How Does Your Garden Grow? (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1935 [Hercule Poirot]
• Poirot and the Crime in Cabin 66 (ss) The Strand Dec 1935; also as “Problem at Sea”. [Hercule Poirot]
• Problem at Sea (ss) The Strand Dec 1935 [Hercule Poirot]
• Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes (nv) This Week Feb 1936 [Hercule Poirot]
• Triangle at Rhodes (nv) This Week Feb 1936; also as “Poirot and the Triangle at Rhodes”. [Hercule Poirot]
• Yellow Iris (ss) The Strand Jul 1937 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Dream (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 23 1937 [Hercule Poirot]
• Easy to Kill (n.) London: Collins 1939
• Ten Little Indians (n.) London: Collins 1939
• Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds (ss) Colliers Nov 9 1940 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Case of the Retired Jeweller (ss) This Week Nov 16 1941 [Jane Marple]
• Evil Under the Sun (n.) London: Collins 1941 [Hercule Poirot]
• The Case of the Perfect Maid (ss) The Strand Apr 1942 [Jane Marple]
• The Perfect Maid (ss) The Strand Apr 1942; also as “The Case of the Perfect Maid”. [Jane Marple]
• Sanctuary (nv) Woman’s Journal Oct 1954 [Jane Marple]
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Volume II (co) Fontana 1990 [Hercule Poirot]
• “Agatha’s Stories” by B. A. Pike (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1991
• Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection (om) Avenel 1991
• “Agatha Christie and The Orient” by Mathew Prichard (ar) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• “The Great Detectives: Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence” by Katrina Andrews (ar) The Strand Magazine #11 2003
• from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (ex)
• Margery Allingham—A Tribute (ar)

CHRISTIE, MICHAEL (stories)

• Fed Up (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1984
• Finders Keepers (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1984
• The Wonderful Wax Museum (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984
• No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks (ss) AHMM Dec 1984

CHRISTMAS, JOYCE (1939- ) (stories)

• Secondhand Rose (ss) EQMM Aug 1993
• Takeout (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
• Up the Garden Path (ss) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998
• “Interview with Joyce Christmas” by Lisa D. Williamson (iv) Murderous Intent Fll 1999
• Social Death (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
• The Chosen (ss) Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000

CHRISTOPHER, MATTHEW F(rederick) (1917-1997) (stories)

• The Attackers (ss) Killers Mystery Story Magazine Nov 1956
• Blonde Bait! (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• There’s Death in Her Kiss! (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957