Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

CUMMINGS, RAY (books) (stories) (continued)

• The Death Song (ss) Thrilling Mystery Nov 1939
• Ashes of Murder (ss) Thrilling Mystery Mar 1940
• The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jul 1940
• Castle of Horror (ss) Thrilling Mystery Nov 1940
• The Thing in the Bottle (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jan 1941
• Fear Rides the Stars (nv) Thrilling Mystery Mar 1941
• Souvenir of Doom (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jul 1941
• Morning Cheer (ss) Black Book Detective May 1949
• Fate Plays Postman (ss) Super-Detective Jun 1949
• Thrilling Mystery Stories (co) Pulpville Press 2005

CUNLIFFE, ALISON (stories)

• The Gray Brigade (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• Plumbing the Depths (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992

CUNNINGHAM, BILL (books)

• Lone Star Sleuths: An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction [ed. with Steven L. Davis & Rollo K. Newsom] (oa) University of Texas Press 2007

CUNNINGHAM, ELAINE (stories)

• Speaking with the Dead (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

CUNNINGHAM, EUGENE (1896-1957) (stories)

• Death Threat (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933
• Enter the Snake (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Dec 1933
• Twenty Grand Is Jack (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934

CUPP, SCOTT A. (stories)

• Night of the Blade (vi) Hardboiled #7 1987

CURRAN, TIM (stories)

• Sins of the Father (ss) Plots with Guns Aug/Sep 2000
• No Kind of Lady (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001
• Full Confession (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003
• Eldritch-Fellas (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006

CURRANS-SHEEHAN, TRICIA (stories)

• The Last Trapshoot (ss) The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum 2000

CURREY, RICHARD (stories)

• The Names of the Lost (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Shepherd Park, N.W.).

CURRY, LANCE (stories)

• A Dark and Stormy Night (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1997 [Callahan & Monahan]
• Deadline to Holocaust (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1997
• Visions Unwanted (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 1999

CURRY, MIKE (stories)

• Cereal Killer (pm) EQMM Mar 1993

CURRY, THOMAS ALBERT; see under Curry, Tom (stories)

CURRY, TOM; [i.e., Thomas Albert Curry, Jr.] (1900-1976) (stories)

• T N T (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927
• Hard Guys (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929
• Frontier Guns (na) The Rio Kid Western Dec 1939 [Bob Pryor]
• The Sign (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 16 1940

CURTIN, JACK (stories)

• Truth Is the Perfect Disguise (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) May/Jun 1999

CURTIS, ASHLEY (stories)

• Anomalies of the Heart (nv) AHMM Jul 1992
• The Photographic Miracle (nv) AHMM Jun 1993
• A Missing Person (nv) AHMM Aug 1993
• The Ice Cave (ss) AHMM Apr 1994
• Death by Water (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• Dead Flowers (nv) AHMM Aug 1994

CURTISS, URSULA (Reilly) (1923-1984) (stories)

• The Old Barn on the Pond (ss) EQMM Dec 1965
• Change of Climate (ss) EQMM Dec 1967
• The Marked Man (ss) EQMM Oct 1972
• The Right Perspective (ss) EQMM Mar 1975
• The Pool Sharks (ss) EQMM Oct 1976
• The House on Plymouth Street (ss) Cosmopolitan Jun 1981
• A Beneficial Walk (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• Something Green and Growing (ss) EQMM Nov 1984
• La Dress (nv) EQMM Feb 1986

CURZON, CLARE; pseudonym of Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan, (1922- ) (stories)

• Body Language (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 2, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1992

CUSHING, HILDA (stories)

• She Is Not My Mother (ss) AHMM Aug 1963

CUSHING, PETER (Wilton) (1913-1994) (stories)

• Foreword (fw)

CUSHMAN, DAN (1909-2001) (stories)

• Swamp Fetish (na) Jungle Stories Win 1949

CUSTER, BARBARA A. (stories)

• Bad Seed (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1999
• The Road Home (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1999
• Rose Garden (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2000
• Only the Beginning (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2000
• Old Man Winter (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 2001
• Uncle George’s Cement Mixer (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2001
• Grandma’s Birthday (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 2002
• Peace Offering (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• Meeting at Diane’s Office (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002
• Paula Manning (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003
• Second Chances (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #39 2003
• Saving Kathy (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003

CUTCLIFFE-HYNE, C. J.; see under Hyne, C. J. Cutcliffe (stories)

CUTLER, JUDITH (1946- ) (stories)

• Flying Pigs (ss) Missing Persons, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable 1999
• Maiden Over (ss) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• Doctor’s Orders (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003
• M. le Médecin’s Wives (ss) EQMM Jun 2003
• Stranger in Paradise (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Living with the Gilt (ss) EQMM Feb 2004
• Heaven’s Gate (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• Burying the Past (ss) EQMM Aug 2005
• Judith (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• The Living and the Dead (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
• Revenge on the High C (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• Shaping the Ends (ss) EQMM May 2006
• A House Divided (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• Girl’s Best Friend (ss) EQMM Aug 2007 [Griff]
• Not Cricket (ss) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007
• False Colours (ss) EQMM Feb 2008
• The Parson and the Highwayman (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2008 [Parson Tobias Campion]
• Where There’s a Will (ss) EQMM Nov 2008 [Lina Townend; Griff Tripp]

CUTLER, MARTIN (stories)

• For Service Rendered (ss) Mystery Stories #10 1937
• Peter’s Web (ss) Mystery Stories #13 1938

CUTTER, CHARLES (stories)

• Smoky Didn’t Send Me (ss) AHMM Dec 2001
• Sticks on the Prowl (ss) AHMM Nov 2002

CYPERT, RICK (books) (stories)

• Introduction (in)

CYR, HEIDI (stories)

• Parlor Tricks You Can Play on Yourself (ss) EQMM Sep 1995

CYRIAX, OLIVER (stories)

• from Crime: An Encyclopedia (ar)

CZAJKOWSKI, JIM; see pseudonym James Rollins (stories)

CZERNEDA, JULIE E. (stories)

• The Passenger (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

DADMUN, BENTLEY (stories)

• Down on the Farm (nv) AHMM Oct 1996
• Harry’s Game (nv) AHMM May 1998
• Emma (nv) AHMM Nov 1998
• Angie (nv) AHMM Feb 1999
• Annie’s Dream (nv) AHMM Dec 1999
• Short Round (nv) AHMM Nov 2000
• Harry’s Lament (nv) AHMM Jun 2001
• Sisters (ss) AHMM Apr 2002

DAENINCKX, DIDIER (1949- ) (stories)

• Goldfish (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993; tr. by Cécile Bloc-Rodot

DAHEIM, MARY (1937- ) (stories)

• Tippy Canoe (nv) Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997
• Gertrude’s Stein (ss) MHCMM Spr 1997
• Just So Much Garbage (nv) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• “An Interview with Mary Daheim” by Lisa D. Williamson (iv) Murderous Intent Win 1999
• Dial M for Mom (na) Motherhood Is Murder, ed. Anon., Avon 2003

DAHL, ROALD (1916-1990) (stories)

• Dip in the Pool (ss) New Yorker Jan 19 1952
• A Connoisseur’s Revenge (nv) Colliers Sep 4 1953
• The Devious Bachelor (nv) Colliers Sep 4 1953; also as “A Connoisseur’s Revenge”; also as “Nunc Dimittis”.
• Nunc Dimittis (nv) Colliers Sep 4 1953
• Lamb to the Slaughter (ss) Harper’s Sep 1953
• Galloping Foxley (ss) Town & Country Nov 1953
• Neck (ss) Someone Like You, Knopf 1953
• The Way Up to Heaven (ss) New Yorker Feb 27 1954
• The Landlady (ss) New Yorker Nov 28 1959
• In the Ruins (vi) World Bookfair Programme Jun 1964
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (pm) Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, Knopf 1982

DAHLSTROM, RICHARD C. (stories)

• illustration (il) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

DAHME, JOANNE (stories)

• Weeping Willows (ss) Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995
• Grandfather in a Box (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996

D’aigle, CHARLOTTE (stories)

• Peace Corpse (nv) AHMM Nov 2001

D’AIGLE, CHARLOTTE (stories)

• The Fried Crab Affair (nv) AHMM Sep 2002

DAILEY, JUDITH COBB (stories)

• The Widow Wore Silk (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug 2004

DAIN, CATHERINE; pseudonym of Judith Garwood, (1941- ) (books) (stories)

• Self-Defense (ss) Network 1990
• Defrauding the Cat (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Too Many Cooks (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• Caught in the Act (ss) For Crime Out Loud, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd. 1995
• Here Today, Dead to Maui (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• The Fountain Street Ghost (ss) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• Senses and Sensibility: Female PIs in the Nineties (ar) Writing the PI Novel, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Writer’s Digest 1997
• Billy the Goat (nv) Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
• Not in the Stars (ss) Death by Horoscope, ed. Anne Perry & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2001
• Cat, the Jury (ss) Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002
• Many Happy Returns (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Mirror, Mirror (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• Dreams of Jeannie and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2003
• Dreams of Jeannie (nv) Dreams of Jeannie and Other Stories, Five Star 2003
• Finding Charity (na) The Last Noel, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 2004

DALBY, RICHARD (1949- ) (books) (stories)

• Mystery for Christmas [ed.] (an) O’Mara 1990
• Crime for Christmas [ed.] (an) O’Mara 1991
• Foreword (fw)

DALE, ALZINA STONE (stories)

• Whimsey, Lost and Found (ar) The Armchair Detective Spr 1990

DALE, CELIA (Marjorie) (1912- ) (stories)

• Coming South (ss) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973; also as “Eleven Years After”.
• Eleven Years After (ss) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973
• Good Investments (ss) The Mystery Guild Anthology, ed. John Waite, Constable 1980
• The Listening (ss) AHMM Jul 22 1981
• What a Treasure! (ss) EQMM Sep 9 1981
• Faery Tale (ss) Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1983
• Wednesday Matinée (ss) A Classic English Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1990

DALE, O. R. (stories)

• The Bloodless Corpse (ss)

D’ALESSANDRO, JACQUIE (stories)

• Yesterday’s Magic (na) The Hope Chest, ed. Anon., Harlequin 2005

DALMAS, JOHN; pseudonym of John Robert Jones, (1926- ) (stories)

• The Ides of September (ss) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984

DALTON, ELIZABETH A. (stories)

• The Upstairs Flat (ss) EQMM Oct 1989
• Just Wait and See (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1989

DALTON, JOHN (1925- ) (stories)

• The Little Dog Cried (ss)

DALTON, JOHN (stories)

• The Mentality (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

DALY, CARROLL JOHN (1889-1958) (stories)

• The False Burton Combs (nv) Black Mask Dec 1922
• The Egyptian Lure (ss) Black Mask Mar 1928
• Excerpt from The Hidden Hand (ex) 1929
• The Flame and Race Williams (n.) Black Mask Jun 1931 (+2); also as “The Third Murderer”. [Race Williams]
• The Third Murderer (n.) Black Mask Jun 1931 (+2) [Race Williams]
• The Crime Machine (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1932
• Just Another Stiff (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Apr 1936 [Race Williams]
• Mr. Sinister (na) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Apr 1944
• “Pulp Pioneer of the Private Eye (Carroll John Daly)” by William F. Nolan (ar) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1980
• “Carroll John Daly: An Appreciation/Two Interviews” by James L. Traylor (iv) Hardboiled #4 1986

DALY, HAMLIN; pseudonym of E. Hoffmann Price, (1898-1988) (stories)

• Medusa’s Kiss (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories Jan 1936

D’AMATO, BARBARA (S.) (1938- ) (books) (stories)

• The Lower Wacker Hilton (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• Stop, Thief! (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• Freedom of the Press (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993 [Cat Marsala]
• If You’ve Got the Money, Honey, I’ve Got the Crime (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• Soon to Be a Minor Motion Picture (ss) Partners in Crime, ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet 1994 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• Hard Feelings (ss) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• I Vant to Be Alone (ss) Celebrity Vampires, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• Shelved (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996 [Susannah Maria “Suze” Figueroa]
• Too Violent [with Brian D’Amato] (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• See No Evil (nv) I, P.I. 1996 [Cat Marsala]
• Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable (ss) EQMM Nov 1998
• Dolley Madison and the Staff of Life (ss) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• Motel 66 (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2000
• Steak Tartare (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001
• On My Honor (co) Five Star 2004
• Introduction (in)

D’AMATO, BRIAN (1962- ) (stories)

• Too Violent [with Barbara D’Amato] (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996