Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

FENTON, JAMES (stories)

• “A Staffordshire Murderer” (pm) 1982

FERGUS, JORUNN (stories)

• Violence Against a Defenceless Woman, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Jun 2003; tr. by Michael Fergus
• A Deadly Joke, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Aug 2005; first published in Norwegian in Dødelig spark, Aschehoug 1986.; tr. by Michael Fergus
• The Killer Who Disappeared, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006; tr. by Michael Fergus

FERGUS, MICHAEL (stories)

• Violence Against a Defenceless Woman, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Jun 2003; tr. by Jorunn Fergus
• A Deadly Joke, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Aug 2005; first published in Norwegian in Dødelig spark, Aschehoug 1986.; tr. by Jorunn Fergus
• The Killer Who Disappeared, by Richard Macker (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006; tr. by Jorunn Fergus

FERGUSON, DAVID (stories)

• The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone [with Poppy Z. Brite] (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

FERGUSON, KATHARINE (stories)

• Charlie’s House (ss) The Mysterious Bruce, ed. Anon., The Brucedale Press 1997

FERGUSON, TED (stories)

• The Hiding Place (vi) EQMM Feb 1990

FERRARS, E. X.; pseudonym of Morna Doris Brown, (1907-1995) (stories)

• A Sense of Crisis (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
• Instrument of Justice (ss) Winter’s Crimes 13, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1981
• “Pardon Me...It’s Murder!: E.X. Ferrars” by B. J. Rahn (iv) The Armchair Detective Fll 1990

FERRARS, ELIZABETH; pseudonym of Morna Doris Brown, (1907-1995) (stories)

• Scatter His Ashes (nv) Winter’s Crimes 2, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1970
• The Dreadful Bell (nv) 1980
• Fly, Said the Spy (ss) Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1983
• Justice in My Own Hands (ss) EQMM Jan 1988
• Custody (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
• The Cancelling of Mrs Arbuthnot (ss) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992
• Stop Thief! (ss) Winter’s Crimes 24, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1992

FERRELL, KAREN K. (stories)

• Unfaithful (pm) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

FERRIGNO, ROBERT (1947- ) (stories)

• The Hour When the Ship Comes In (ss) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Neal Pollack, Akashic Books 2007

FERRIS, MONICA; pseudonym of Mary Monica Pulver, (1943- ) (stories)

• Strung Out [with Denise Williams] (ss) Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie Bruce, Penguin US 2005

FESLER, PAMELA J. (stories)

• Comeback (vi) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• Lost at Sea (ss) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• Coin of the Realm (nv) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999

FESPERMAN, DAN (1955- ) (stories)

• As Seen on TV (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Fells Point).

FEST, JOACHIM C. (stories)

• from The Face of the Third Reich (ex) 1963

FESTER, ROBERT (stories)

• Three Dead Deadbeats [with Joe R. Lansdale] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1980

FEWELL, MARK (stories)

• The Ultimate Hamburger (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1997
• Hoosier Hospitality (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 1999
• The Imaginary Murder Case (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Oct 1999
• One Big Pest (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 2000

FICK, ALVIN S. (stories)

• A Shroud for the Railroad Man (ss) AHMM Oct 1977

FICKETT, HAROLD (L.) (1918-2000) (stories)

• Mysterious Ways (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

FIDLER, SU (stories)

• The Ransom of Harry Elbow’s Hand (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987

FIEDLER, JACQUELINE (stories)

• Amish Butter (ss) Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000

FIEDLER, JEAN(nette Feldman) (1928- ) (stories)

• The Snake Plant (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• Paso Doble (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991

FIELDER, JEFF (stories)

• All-American Murder (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002

FIELDHOUSE, WILLIAM L. (stories)

• The Two-Star Corpse (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1980
• “SM—” (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1980
• The Reaper’s Scythe (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1980
• Murder Under the Christmas Tree (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1980
• Murder in Bonn (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1981
• Ape Murder (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1981 [Major Lansing]
• Deadly Medicine (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1982
• Murder Behind the Bar (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1982
• Kill Lansing (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1982
• Million Dollar Murder (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1982
• Cestus (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1982
• The Nuremberg Ripper (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1982

FIELDING, HENRY (1707-1754) (stories)

• from Jonathan Wild the Great (ex)

FIELDING, JOY (Tepperman) (1945- ) (stories)

• Reflections (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1993
• Mother’s Day (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998

FIELDS, JERRY (stories)

• Caught Nappin’ (ss) EQMM Oct 1989

FILLMORE, J. ADRIAN (stories)

• The Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes (in) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996

FILSON, CHANTAL (stories)

• That Girl (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

FINCH, H. C. “DOC” (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Proxy Match (vi) AHMM Oct 2001
• Unicoryx (nv) AHMM Oct 2001
• Hot Watts (ss) AHMM Jun 2002
• Counter Measures (nv) AHMM Sep 2003

FINCH, FRANK (stories)

• Plucked (nv) Mysterious Erotic Tales, ed. Anon., O’Mara 1996

FINCH, PAUL (stories)

• Flibbertigibbet (na) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
• Trashman (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003
• The Mystery of the Hanged Man’s Puzzle (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

FINCH, TIMOTHY (stories)

• The Lament (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #47 2004

FINDLER, GERALD (1899-?) (stories)

• The House of Screams (ss) Doidge’s Western Counties Annual Sep 1932

FINE, MARTIN (stories)

• The Girl in Green D. (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003

FINEMAN, MORTON (stories)

• It’s the Little Things in Crime (ss) AHMM Apr 1960

FINN, LINDA (stories)

• Walking Fingers (ss) AHMM Mar 1985

FINN, PATRICK MICHAEL (stories)

• Where Beautiful Ladies Dance for You (ss)

FINNEGAN, JAMES (stories)

• Night of the Coon (ss) AHMM Apr 1990
• An American Beech (ss) AHMM Sep 1991

FINNEY, HOWARD, JR. (stories)

• Murder on the Limited (ss) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Sep 1932

FINNEY, JACK; [i.e., Walter Braden Finney] (1911-1995) (stories)

• The Widow’s Walk (ss) EQMM Jul 1947
• I’m Scared (ss) Colliers Sep 15 1951
• The Face in the Photo (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1962
• Time Has No Boundaries (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1962; also as “The Face in the Photo”.
• Such Interesting Neighbors (pl)

FINNEY, WALTER BRADEN (1911-1995); see under Finney, Jack (stories)

FINNIS, JANE (stories)

• The Cleopatra Game (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003

FIORINI, DEBRA ANN (stories)

• The Story That Won: Dial “S” for Spy (vi) AHMM Sep 1999

FIRTH, MATTHEW (stories)

• Can You Take Me There, Now? (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

FIRTH, N. WESLEY; pseudonym of Norman Firth, (1920-1949) (stories)

• Gavoti Was Yellow (ss) Vengeance Shorts #1 1945
• Lady! Here’s the Morgue! (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

FIRTH, NORMAN (1920-1949); see pseudonym N. Wesley Firth (stories)

FISCHER, BRUNO (1908-1992); see pseudonym Russell Gray (stories)

• I’ll Slay You in My Dreams (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1944
• Smile, Corpse, Smile! (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Feb 1948
• Five O’Clock Menace (ss) Black Mask May 1949
• We Are All Dead (nv) Manhunt May 1955
• Service Call (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1961

FISCHER, CURT (stories)

• Leonardo, Prefect of Verona (ss) AHMM May 1985
• Nethersled (ss) AHMM Aug 1985
• Book’m, Banquo (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 1990
• Wilderness Pilot (ss) AHMM Jul 1990
• Double Daylight (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994
• McMaster’s Captain (ss) Hardboiled #21 1996

FISH, FREDERICK A. (stories)

• In Death Preceded (ss) AHMM Nov 1993

FISH, ROBERT L(loyd) (1912-1981) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster (ss) EQMM Feb 1967 [Schlock Homes]
• Double Entry (ss) EQMM Jan 1969
• In the Bag (ss) Playboy Apr 1973
• Muldoon and the Numbers Game (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul/Aug 1973
• The Wager (ss) Playboy Jul 1973 [Kek Huuygens]
• The Adventure of the Odd Lotteries (ss) EQMM Jul 1975 [Schlock Homes]
• One of the Oldest Con Games (ss) EQMM Mar 1977
• The Adventure of the Patient Resident (ss) EQMM Feb 11 1980 [Schlock Homes]
• Punishment to Fit the Crime (ss) EQMM Apr 7 1980
• The Adventure of the Belles Letters (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980 [Schlock Homes]
• The Adventure of the Short Fuse (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980 [Schlock Homes]
• The Booby Trap (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
• The Adventure of the Ukrainian Foundling Orphans (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981 [Schlock Homes]
• The Adventure of the Pie-Eyed Piper (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981 [Schlock Homes]

FISHER, ARLENE (stories)

• Dying Words (pz) AHMM Jun, Jul/Aug, Dec 2003, Jun, Nov 2004, Jul/Aug, Sep 2005
• Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle (pz) AHMM Mar, Apr, May 2005, Jan/Feb, Mar 2006

FISHER, CARMEN (stories)

• Once Upon a Midnight Dreary (ss) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996

FISHER, EVE (stories)

• Grownups Are All Alike (ss) AHMM Apr 1997
• The Four Roasters (ss) AHMM Mar 1999
• Zoo Story (ss) AHMM May 1999
• At the End of the Path (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002
• Nude with Snow Geese (ss) AHMM Dec 2002
• The Camping Trip (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2003
• Houdini (ss) AHMM Nov 2003
• Drifts (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006
• Not the Type (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2007
• Sophistication (ss) AHMM May 2007

FISHER, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy) (1908-1992) (stories)

• Recipe for North Country Tart (ms) The Art of Eating, Macmillan 1949
• Twenty-Four Petits Fours (ss) EQMM Apr 1964
• The Young Weatherman (vi) EQMM Apr 1984

FISHER, PEGGY WURTZ (stories)

• The Pickup (ss) EQMM Oct 1984

FISHER, RUDOLPH (1897-1934) (stories)

• From The Conjure-Man Dies (ex) Covici 1932

FISHER, STEVE; [i.e., Stephen Gould Fisher] (1912-1980); see pseudonym Stephen Gould (stories)

• Shanghai Murder (ss) The Mysterious Wu Fang Dec 1935
• The Sacred Dragon (ss) The Mysterious Wu Fang Jan 1936 [Mark Turner]
• Emperor Blackmail (ss) Ten Detective Aces Mar 1937 [Mark Turner]
• If Christmas Comes (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 25 1937 [Tony Key]
• Goodbye, Hannah (ss) Double Detective Dec 1938

FISHKIN, SHELLEY FISHER (stories)

• Editor’s Note (pr)
• Foreword (fw)

FISHLER, BARRY (stories)

• The Street Where You Live (vi) Crimewave #6 2002

FISHMAN, JOSEPH FULLING (stories)

• Old Calamity Stages an Act (ss) Detective Fiction Apr 6 1929; also as “Old Calamity Tries a Bluff”.
• Old Calamity Tries a Bluff (ss) Detective Fiction Apr 6 1929
• Old Calamity’s Stick-up (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 23 1934

FITCH, JANET (1955- ) (stories)

• The Method (nv) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Neal Pollack, Akashic Books 2007

FITTERER, TERRY LERDALL (stories)

• Blank Check [with Katherine H. Brooks] (pm) EQMM Aug 2002
• He Auto Be Ashamed (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• Adios, Amigo! (pm) EQMM Apr 2003
• Snored to Death (pm) EQMM Feb 2004

FITZGEORGE-PARKER, MARK DANIEL; see pseudonym Mark Daniel (stories)

FITZGERALD, F(rancis) SCOTT (Key) (1896-1940) (stories)

• The Four Fists (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1920
• from The Great Gatsby (ex) 1925
• The Scandal Detectives (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 28 1928
• The Captured Shadow (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 29 1928
• The Fiend (ss) Esquire Jan 1935

FITZGERALD, KITTY (stories)

• At Loubles (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995

FITZGERALD, NIGEL (1906-1985) (stories)

• The Man in the Middle (ss) Suspense (UK) Mar 1960

FITZGERALD, TED (stories)

• Wild Card (nv) Gryphon Double Novel #1, ed. Anon., Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books 1991
• Very Slick and Very Deadly (ss) Hardboiled #14 1992
• The Cat That Got Away (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Nicole (nv) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998 [Matthew Gereghty]

FITZSIMMONS, PAUL MICHAEL (stories)

• The Night Before Christmas (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960

FLANAGAN, DALE FURUTANI (1946- ); see pseudonym Dale Furutani (stories)

FLANAGAN, JIM (stories)

• Taps for Willie (ss) EQMM Aug 12 1981

FLANAGAN, MARY (1969- ) (stories)

• The Wedding Dress (ss)

FLANAGAN, O. S. (stories)

• Uncle Grover’s Last Will and Test (ss) AHMM Nov 1993
• Wordsey’s Debut (ss) AHMM Apr 1994
• One More Drink for the Runway (ss) AHMM Jan 1995
• Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Herd of Scarletts (ss) AHMM Mar 1996