Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

COLEMAN, REED FARREL (books) (stories) (continued)

• Pearls (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Due Diligence (ss) WlSNoir 2007; (Tegucigalpa, Honduras).
• No Roses for Bubbeh (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (Coney Island).
• Portrait of the Killer as a Young Man (ss)

COLFER, EOIN (stories)

• Taking on PJ (ss)

COLGAN, JENNY (stories)

• The Wrong Train (nv) Tart Noir, ed. Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Prime Crime 2002

COLGAN, NORMAN (stories)

• Murder for Pleasure (nf) Answers

COLLET, ROGER (stories)

• The Graveyard Sisterhood, by Guy de Maupassant (ss) Selected Short Stories, Penguin 1971

COLLEY, KIMBERLY (stories)

• Slow-Motion Tornado (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004

COLLIER, JOHN (Henry Noyes) (1901-1980) (stories)

• Sleeping Beauty (ss) Harper’s Bazaar (UK) May 1938
• Back for Christmas (ss) New Yorker Oct 7 1939
• The Chaser (ss) New Yorker Dec 28 1940
• Are You Too Late Or Was I Too Early (ss) New Yorker Apr 14 1951
• The Dog That Came to the Funeral (ss) EQMM Aug 1957

COLLINA, MAX ALLAN (stories)

• Shoot-Out on Sunset (nv) Mystery Street, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2001 [Nat Heller]

COLLINS, A. J. (stories)

• Mary Dies Tonight (ss) Mammoth Mystery Aug 1946
• Crime on My Hands (ss) Scientific Detective Jun 1947

COLLINS, ANDREW J. (stories)

• Homicide Hotbed (sl) Scientific Detective Nov, Dec 1946

COLLINS, BARBARA (1948- ); see pseudonym B. J. Mull (books) (stories)

• Homefront (ss) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990 [Dick Tracy]
• A Proper Burial (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• To Kill a Cat (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Seeing Red (ss) Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
• Cat Got Your Tongue [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• That Damn Cat (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• Father, Son and Holy Ghost (ss) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• World’s Greatest Mother (ss) Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• The Ten Lives of Talbert (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Dead and Breakfast (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• Lethal Ladies [ed. with Robert J. Randisi] (an) Berkley 1996
• Love Nest (ss) Lethal Ladies, Nancy Collins & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1996
• Obeah, My Love (ss) 1996
• Reunion Queen (ss) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
• Da Svidaniya, Khrushchev (ss) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• To Grandmother’s House We Go (ss) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
• Eddie Haskell in a Short Skirt [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
• Carry’s Cat (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• Flyover Country [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
• A Cruise to Forget [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999
• Too Many Tomcats and Other Feline Tales of Suspense (co) Five Star 2000
• Murder—His and Hers: Short Stories [with Max Allan Collins] (co) Five Star 2001
• Dalliance at Sunnydale (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• Trailer Trashed (ss) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• [untitled] (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• Aunt Emma’s Defense (ss)
• Introduction [with Robert J. Randisi] (in)
• Introduction: Hers (in)
• The Night It Rained Cats and Dogs (ss)
• Too Many Tomcats (nv)

COLLINS, CAT (stories)

• Breia’s Diamond (nv) Places to Be, People to Kill, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW 2007

COLLINS, DOROTHY A. (stories)

• A Fish Story (vi) EQMM Feb 11 1980

COLLINS, JOAN BARD (stories)

• Play Your Hunches (vi) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1988
• Road Test (ss) Detective Story Magazine Apr 1989

COLLINS, LARRY; [i.e., John Lawrence Collins, Jr.] (1929-2005) (stories)

• Baby-sitting Ingrid (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998

COLLINS, LORRAINE (stories)

• Predators (ss) EQMM Jul 1985
• Only in America (ss) AHMM Mar 1986
• The Hungry Ghost (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• Only Clay (ss) EQMM Dec 1986
• Song of the Open Road (ss) AHMM Jul 1987
• God Bless Pedestrians (ss) AHMM Sep 1987
• The Hand of God (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
• Exhibit A (ss) EQMM Mar 1988
• The Nature of the Beast (ss) EQMM Oct 1988
• A Nice Quiet Little Business (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
• Culture Shock (ss) EQMM Jun 1991
• The Second Chance (ss) AHMM Dec 1991

COLLINS, MAX ALLAN (Jr.) (1948- ) (books) (stories)

• Hard Cash (n.) New York: Pinnacle 1981 [Frank Nolan]
• Scratch Fever (n.) New York: Pinnacle 1982 [Frank Nolan]
• Red Light (ss) Files of Ms. Tree, Aardvark-Vanaheim 1984 [Ms. Michael Tree]
• The Strawberry Teardrop (ss) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984 [Nate Heller]
• Public Servant (ss) Hardboiled #1 1985
• This Is Mike Hammer [with James L. Taylor] (ar) Hardboiled #2 1985
• “Collins, All the Write Moves” by Wayne D. Dundee & Todd Moore (ar) Hardboiled #3 1985
• The Love Rack (ss) Hardboiled #4 1986
• House Call (ss) Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986 [Nate Heller]
• Enter Nolan (ss) Hardboiled #7 1987 [Nolan PI]
• Mourn the Living (n.) Hardboiled #8 1987, #9 1988, #10 1989 [Nolan PI]
• Primary Target (n.) Foul Play 1987 [Quarry]
• Scrap (ss) The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, ed. Ed Gorman, Black Lizard 1987 [Nate Heller]
• Marble Mildred (nv) An Eye for Justice, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1988 [Nate Heller]
• The Perfect Crime (nv) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• A Matter of Principal (ss) Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989 [Quarry]
• Dick Tracy: The Secret Files [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Tor 1990 [Dick Tracy]
• Not a Creature Was Stirring (ss) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990 [Dick Tracy]
• Private Consultation (nv) Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1990 [Nate Heller]
• Dying in the Post-War World: A Nathan Heller Casebook (co) Foul Play Press 1991 [Nate Heller]
• Dying in the Post-War World (na) Dying in the Post-War World, Foul Play Press 1991 [Nate Heller]
• I Owe Them One (aw) Dying in the Post-War World, Foul Play Press 1991
• Tough Tender (om) Carroll & Graf 1991 [Frank Nolan]
• Louise (ss) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992 [Ms. Michael Tree]
• Robber’s Roost (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman 2, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1992 [Batman]
• Cat Got Your Tongue [with Barbara Collins] (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Catgate (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• His Father’s Ghost (nv) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• Inconvenience Store (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994 [Ms. Michael Tree]
• Murder Is My Business [ed. with Mickey Spillane] (oa) Dutton 1994
• Guest Services (ss) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994 [Quarry]
• Murder Was His Business (in) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994
• Quarry’s Luck (nv) Blue Motel, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK 1994 [Quarry]
• The Night of Their Lives (ss) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• Mommy (nv) Fear Itself, ed. Jeff Gelb, Warner 1995
• The Chocolate-Chip Alarm [with Nathan Collins] (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• Firecracker Kill (nv) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996
• A Wreath for Marley (nv) Dante’s Disciples, ed. Peter Crowther & Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf 1996 [Richard Stone]
• Vengeance Is Hers [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Mickey Spillane] (oa) Signet 1997
• Vengeance Is Hers: An Introduction (in) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
• Private Eyes [ed. with Mickey Spillane] (oa) Signet 1998
• Kaddish for the Kid (nv) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998 [Nate Heller]
• Eddie Haskell in a Short Skirt [with Barbara Collins] (ss) Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
• A Bird for Becky (nv) Mob Magic, ed. Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1998 [Richard Stone]
• Flyover Country [with Barbara Collins] (nv) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
• Natural Death, Inc. (nv) Diagnosis Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket 1999 [Nate Heller]
• A Cruise to Forget [with Barbara Collins] (nv) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999
• A Woman’s Touch [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
• Screwball (nv) Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2000 [Nate Heller]
• Cat’s-Eye Witness (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Flesh & Blood [ed. with Jeffrey B. Gelb] (oa) Warner/Mysterious Press 2001
• Murder—His and Hers: Short Stories [with Barbara Collins] (co) Five Star 2001
• Crime in the Flesh (in) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
• Flowers for Bill O’Reilly (nv) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
• Kisses of Death (co) Crippen & Landru 2001 [Nate Heller]
• Kisses of Death (na) Kisses of Death, Crippen & Landru 2001; originally as a 90 minute promotional tape from B & B, given away at the 1996 ABA. [Nate Heller]
• Pinch-Hitter (nv) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001; also as “Strike Zone”. [Nate Heller]
• Unreasonable Doubt (nv) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Nate Heller]
• Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides (co) Five Star 2001
• Shoot-out on Sunset (nv) Mystery Street 2001 [Nate Heller]
• Strike Zone (nv) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001 [Nate Heller]
• A Century of Noir [ed. with Mickey Spillane] (an) New American Library 2002
• Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires [ed. with Jeffrey B. Gelb] (oa) Warner/Mysterious Press 2002
• My Lolita Complex [with Matthew V. Clemens] (nv) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin [ed. with Jeffrey B. Gelb] (oa) Warner/Mysterious Press 2003
• Introduction: Sinful Streets [with Jeffrey B. Gelb] (in) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• Lie Beside Me [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003 [John Sand]
• Quarry’s Greatest Hits (co) Five Star 2003 [Quary]
• Graveyard Shift [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) Hot Blood XI, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Kensington 2003
• “Stakeout on Rush Street,” Chicago, Illinois, 1943 [with Matthew V. Clemens] (nv) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2, ed. Anon., Simon Pulse 2003 [Buffy, the Vampire Slayer]
• A Pebble for Papa [with Matthew V. Clemens] (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• East Side, West Side [with Matthew V. Clemens] (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
• Introduction: I, the Writer [with Lynn F. Myers, Jr.] (in) Byline: Mickey Spillane, Crippen & Landru 2004
• A Tip of the Porkpie [with Lynn F. Myers, Jr.] (ms) Byline: Mickey Spillane, Crippen & Landru 2004
• That Kind of Nag (mv) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence [with Matthew V. Clemens & Tina L. Jens] (co) Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• Murderlized [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007
• Deadly Beloved (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2007 [Ms. Michael Tree]
• The Blonde Tigress (ss) EQMM Jun 2008
• There’s a Killer Loose! [with Mickey Spillane] (ss) EQMM Aug 2008
• Afterword (aw)
• Author’s Note (pr)
• Blue Christmas—An Introduction (in)
• Fast and Good—An Introduction (in)
• Foreword (fw)
• “I Had Bigfoot’s Baby!” [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) [Hellboy]
• Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with Jeffrey B. Gelb] (in)
• Introduction: A Short Story About Ed Gorman (in)
• Introduction: His (in)
• A Max Allan Collins Checklist (bi)
• Sand on the Beach [with Matthew V. Clemens] (ss) [John Sand]

COLLINS, MICHAEL; pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, (1924-2005) (books) (stories)

• If the Whiskey Don’t, the Women Will (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1962 [Slot-Machine Kelly]
• Freedom Fighter (ss) The Literary Review Win 1962
• Death, My Love (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1963
• Man on the Run (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1963
• Harness Bull (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1963
• Nobody Frames Big Sam (ss) AHMM Oct 1963
• No Way Out (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1964 [Slot-Machine Kelly]
• Silent Partner (ss) AHMM May 1964
• Hard Cop (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1964
• Homecoming (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1964
• The Sleeper (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1967
• Success of a Mission (ss) Argosy Apr 1968
• Hot Night Homicide (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1968
• No One Likes to Be Played for a Sucker (ss) EQMM Jul 1969 [Dan Fortune]
• Scream All the Way (ss) AHMM Oct 1969 [Dan Fortune]
• The Savage (ss) Argosy Jan 1970
• The Bizarre Case Expert (ss) EQMM Jun 1970
• Clay Pigeon (ss) Argosy Mar 1971
• Long Shot (nv) AHMM Jul 1972 [Dan Fortune]
• Who? (ss) AHMM Aug 1972 [Dan Fortune]
• Occupational Hazard (ss) AHMM Sep 1972
• The Choice (ss) AHMM Feb 1973
• Dan Fortune and the Hollywood Caper (ss) AHMM Nov 1983; also as “The Woman Who Ruined John Ireland”. [Dan Fortune]
• The Oldest Killer (ss) The Thieftaker Journals Nov 1983 [Dan Fortune]
• The Woman Who Ruined John Ireland (ss) AHMM Nov 1983 [Dan Fortune]
• Eighty Million Dead (ss) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984 [Dan Fortune]
• A Reason to Die (nv) The New Black Mask Quarterly No.2, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1985 [Dan Fortune]
• Killer’s Mind (nv) The New Black Mask No.6, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1986 [Dan Fortune]
• The Motive (nv) A Matter of Crime v2, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1987 [Dan Fortune]
• Black in the Snow (ss) An Eye for Justice, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1988 [Dan Fortune]
• Crime and Punishment (ss) A Matter of Crime v3, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1988 [Dan Fortune]
• The Chair (ss) Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1990 [Dan Fortune]
• Role Model (nv) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992 [Dan Fortune]
• Crime, Punishment and Resurrection (co) Fine 1992 [Dan Fortune]
• The Big Rock Candy Mountains (ss) Crime, Punishment and Resurrection, Fine 1992 [Dan Fortune]
• Murder Is Murder (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992 [Dan Fortune]
• Resurrection (ss) Crime, Punishment and Resurrection, Fine 1992 [Dan Fortune]
• Angel Eyes (nv) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994 [Dan Fortune]