Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

EDMOND, DON (stories)

• Murder in the Air (nv) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933

EDMONDS, MARGUERITE H. (stories)

• Schooldays (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1983

EDMONDS, ROSEMARY (stories)

• The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin (nv) 1834

EDMONDSON, G. C.; pseudonym of José Mario Garry Ordoñez Edmondson y Cotton, (1922-1995) (stories)

• Tinhorn from Tarshish (nv) AHMM Apr 1994

EDMONDSON y COTTON, JOSÉ MARIO GARRY ORDOÑEZ (1922-1995); see pseudonym G. C. Edmondson (stories)

EDSON, GEORGE (Alden) (stories)

• Death Spins the Wheel (ss) Federal Agent Sep 1937

EDWARDS, AMELIA (Ann) B(lanford) (1831-1892) (stories)

• The Phantom Coach (ss) All the Year Round Christmas 1864

EDWARDS, ELEANOR M. (books)

• World-Famous Great Mystery Stories [ed.] (an) Hart 1960

EDWARDS, GRACE F(rederica) (stories)

• The Blind Alley (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

EDWARDS, GRAHAM (stories)

• Dead Wolf in a Hat (ss) Realms of Fantasy Oct 2005

EDWARDS, LYNNE (stories)

• On the Down Low: How a Buffy Fan Fell in Love with Veronica Mars (ar) NptNoir 2007

EDWARDS, MABEL (stories)

• Alternate Ending #3 (ms) EQMM Nov 1990

EDWARDS, (Kenneth) MARTIN (1955- ) (books) (stories)

• Are You Sitting Comfortably? (vi) EQMM Aug 1991
• Northern Blood [ed.] (oa) Didsbury Press 1992
• The Boxer (ss) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992 [Harry Devlin]
• When I’m Dead and Gone (ss) EQMM Mar 1994 [Harry Devlin]
• It’s Impossible (ss) EQMM Aug 1994 [Harry Devlin]
• A House Is Not a Home (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994 [Harry Devlin]
• Never Walk Alone (ss) EQMM May 1995 [Harry Devlin]
• Anglian Blood [ed. with Robert Church] (oa) Rampant Horse Limited 1995
• Northern Blood II [ed.] (oa) Flambard Press 1995
• Act of Kindness (ss) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995
• A Job for Life (ss) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995
• My Ship Is Coming In (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995 [Harry Devlin]
• Perfectly Criminal [ed.] (oa) Severn House 1996
• Where Do You Find Your Ideas? (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996
• The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Serpent’s Tooth (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Whydunit? Perfectly Criminal II [ed.] (an) Severn House 1997
• Diminished Responsibility (ss) Whydunit, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1997
• With a Little Help from My Friends (ss) Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998 [Harry Devlin]
• Wish You Weren’t Here (ss) EQMM Jul 1998
• To Encourage the Others (ss) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998
• Northern Blood III [ed.] (an) Countyvise 1998
• Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal III [ed.] (an) Severn House 1998
• Neighbours (ss) Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards, Countyvise 1998
• War Rations (ss) Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal III, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1998
• Natural Causes (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• Penalty (ss) Crimewave #2 1999
• Missing Persons [ed.] (oa) Constable 1999
• The Mind of the Master (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999 [Benjamin Jowett]
• A Stolen Life (ss) Missing Persons, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable 1999
• Scenes of Crime [ed.] (oa) Constable and Robinson, Ltd. 2000
• The Basement (ss) Scenes of Crime, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable and Robinson, Ltd. 2000
• Waiting for Godstow (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• Murder Squad [ed.] (oa) Flambard Press 2001
• Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and other crime stories (co) Countyvise 2001
• Corpse Candle (ss) Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and other crime stories, Countyvise 2001
• Eternally (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• I Say a Little Prayer (ss) Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and other crime stories, Countyvise 2001 [Harry Devlin]
• Bare Bones (ss) Crimewave #6 2002
• The Case of the Persecuted Accountant (ss) The Strand Magazine #8 2002
• Crime in the City [ed.] (oa) Do-Not Press 2002
• Sunset City (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• 24 Hours from Tulsa (ss) TheMammoth Book of on the Road, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2002
• Mindstalker (ss) The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003
• The Case of the Sentimental Tobacconist (ss) The Strand Magazine #11 2003
• Green for Danger [ed.] (oa) Do-Not Press 2003
• Mysterious Pleasures [ed.] (an) Little, Brown 2003
• Melusine (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• The House of the Red Candle (nv) Death by Dickens, ed. Anne Perry, Prime Crime 2004
• The Case of the Impoverished Landlady (ss) The Strand Magazine #14 2004
• Crime on the Move [ed.] (oa) The Do-Not Press 2005
• Introduction (in) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• The People Outside (nv) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• Test Drive (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• The Witching Hour (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
• The Restless Dead (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• I.D.: Crimes of Identity [ed.] (oa) Comma Press 2006
• InDex (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006
• The Mystery of Canute Villa (nv) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007
• An Index (vi) EQMM Dec 2007
• Author’s Note (pr)
• Foreword (fw)
• Foreword [with Robert Church] (fw)
• Introduction [with Robert Church] (in)

EDWARDS, OWEN DUDLEY (stories)

• The Romance Beneath Conan Doyle’s Science (ar) The Strand Magazine #4 2000

EDWARDS, RUTH DUDLEY (1944- ) (stories)

• Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana (vi) The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000

EFFINGER, GEORGE ALEC (1947-2002) (stories)

• Double Dribble (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990 [Batman]
• The World as We Know It (nv) Futurecrime, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Fine 1992
• The Ugly Earthling Murder Case (nv) More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993
• Shootout at Gower Gulch (nv) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• The Musgrave Version (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Adventure of the Celestial Snows (nv) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Reginald Musgrave). [Sherlock Holmes]

EGAN, GREG(ory Mark) (1961- ) (stories)

• Cocoon (nv) Asimov’s May 1994

EGGERS, DAVE (stories)

• Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly (nv) McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books 2003
• This Book Benefits 826 Valencia [with Michael Chabon] (ms)

EHLERS, JÜRGEN (1948- ) (stories)

• “Wangeroog, de Schone...” (ss) Death by Espionage, ed. Martin Cruz Smith, Cumberland House 1999
• Golden Gate Bridge—A View from Below (ss) Scenes of Crime, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable and Robinson, Ltd. 2000
• Unsettled Scores (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• The Chicken (ss) The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002; Originally as ‘Das Huhn’ in Der Morder Kommt Auf Sanften Pfoten (1995).
• Bank Holiday in Cambridge (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• Man Overboard (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• World Savings Day in Hamminkeln (ss) EQMM May 2007; originally published in German as “Weltspartag in Hamminkeln” in he anthology Mordsfeste, 2005.; tr. by Mary Tannert

EHRHART, PEGGY (stories)

• Family Matters (ss) Murder New York Style, ed. Randy Kandel, L & L Dreamspell 2007

EICHLER, SELMA (1941- ) (stories)

• Murder Can Hurt Your Ears (nv) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Desiree Shapiro]

EIDEN, PAUL (stories)

• Live a Little! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957

EIDSON, BILL; [i.e., William Eidson] (1956- ) (stories)

• The Stowaway (ss) AHMM Dec 1998

EIDUKAS, GEORGIANA (stories)

• Cliffhanger (ss) EQMM Feb 25 1981

EISENBERG, LARRY; [i.e., Lawrence Eisenberg] (1919- ) (stories)

• The Fastest Draw (ss) Amazing Oct 1963

EISENSTADT, JILL (stories)

• Golden Venture (ss) Queens Noir, ed. Robert Knightly, Akashic Books 2008; (The Rockaways).

EISTER, CRAIG V. (stories)

• What the Chairman Says (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002

ELIOT, GEORGE; pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, (1819-1880) (stories)

• The Lifted Veil (nv) Blackwood’s Jul 1859
• from Adam Bede (ex) 1859
• from Daniel Deronda (ex) 1876
• from Middlemarch (ex)

ELIOT, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888-1965) (stories)

• (untitled) (ex) The Criterion Jun 1927
• from Murder in the Cathedral (ex) 1935
• Macavity: The Mystery Cat (pm) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Faber 1939
• from Selected Essays (ex) London: Faber and Faber 1951
• Fragment of an Agon (pl)

ELKIND, MORT W. (stories)

• A Puzzle in Poesy (pz) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998

ELKIND, PETER (stories)

• from The Death Shift (ex) 1983

ELKINS, AARON J. (1935- ) (stories)

• “Skull-Duggery: Aaron Elkins” by Douglas G. Simpson (iv) The Armchair Detective Spr 1991
• Nice Gorilla [with Charlotte Elkins] (nv) Malice Domestic 1, Elizabeth Peters, Pocket 1992
• Shafted [with Charlotte Elkins] (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
• A Slight Mistake (vi) EQMM Nov 1997

ELKINS, CHARLOTTE (1948- ) (stories)

• Nice Gorilla [with Aaron J. Elkins] (nv) Malice Domestic 1, Elizabeth Peters, Pocket 1992
• Shafted [with Aaron J. Elkins] (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995

ELLETT, C. (stories)

• Backseat (ss) Chesapeake Crimes III, ed. Donna Andrews & Marcia Talley, Wildside Press 2008

ELLIN, STANLEY (Bernard) (1916-1986) (stories)

• The Specialty of the House (nv) EQMM May 1948
• Fool’s Mate (ss) Stanley Ellin’s Mystery Magazine 1948
• Death on Christmas Eve (ss) EQMM Jan 1950
• The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (ss) EQMM May 1950
• The Best of Everything (nv) EQMM Sep 1952
• The Betrayers (ss) EQMM Jun 1953
• The House Party (ss) EQMM May 1954
• The Moment of Decision (nv) EQMM Mar 1955
• Broker’s Special (ss) EQMM Jan 1956
• The Blessington Method (ss) EQMM Jun 1956
• from “The Blessington Method” (ss) EQMM Jun 1956
• You Can’t Be a Little Girl All Your Life (nv) EQMM May 1958
• Unreasonable Doubt (ss) EQMM Sep 1958
• The Day of the Bullet (ss) EQMM Oct 1959
• The Nine-to-Five Man (ss) EQMM Nov 1961
• The Great Persuader (ss) EQMM Mar 1964
• The Twelfth Statue (na) EQMM Feb 1967
• The Last Bottle in the World (nv) EQMM Feb 1968
• from “The Payoff” (ex) EQMM Nov 1971
• The Other Side of the Wall (ss) EQMM Aug 1972
• A Corner of Paradise (ss) EQMM Oct 1975
• Generation Gap (ss) EQMM Sep 1976
• Reasons Unknown (ss) EQMM Dec 1978
• Just Desserts (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
• Graffiti (ss) EQMM Mar 1983
• Mrs. Mouse (ss) EQMM Oct 1983
• Unacceptable Procedures (ss) EQMM Dec 1985
• “Collecting Mystery Fiction: Stanley Ellin” by Otto Penzler (bi) The Armchair Detective Win 1990

ELLIOT, KANDIS (stories)

• The Restless Gravestone (nv) EQMM Mar 1996 [Charles D. Farnsworth]
• The Lady Among the Tigers (ss) EQMM Jun 1996 [Charles D. Farnsworth]
• The Escape (ss) EQMM Jun 1997
• Death Threat (pm) EQMM May 1998
• Death at Eventide (nv) EQMM Jun 1998 [Charles D. Farnsworth]
• Fire in the Grass (nv) EQMM Jul 1999

ELLIOTT, BOB (stories)

• Mr. Treet, Chaser of Lost People [with Ray Goulding] (ss) 1975
• Rorshack [with Ray Goulding] (pl) Write If You Get Work, New York: Random House 1975

ELLIOTT, M. J. (stories)

• The Adventure of the Hanging Tyrant (ss) Curious Incidents 2, ed. J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, Mad for a Mystery 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

ELLIOTT, ROY A. (stories)

• Dead Man’s Dough (ss) Scientific Detective Jun 1947
• The Frightened Witness (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Feb 1967

ELLIS, CAROL (1945- ) (stories)

• The Dare (ss) Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995

ELLIS, DAVID (stories)

• The Adventure of the Shakespeare Cipher (ss) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• The Shining Knight (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006

ELLIS, ELIJAH; pseudonym of James Richard Ellis, (1927-1986) (stories)

• To Stop a Fire (ss) AHMM Nov 1963
• The Volcano Effect (ss) AHMM Sep 1966

ELLIS, JAMES RICHARD (1927-1986); see pseudonym Elijah Ellis (stories)

ELLIS, KATE; [i.e., Kate Ellis-Bullock] (1953- ) (stories)

• The Virgin’s Circlet (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• The Fury of the Northmen (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• The Odour of Sanctity (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• The Vacancy (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
• The Isle of Saints (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
• Bringing the Foot (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002
• Les Inconnus (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• The Wonders of Technology (ss) EQMM Jan 2003
• The Angel of Manton Worthy (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Dead Water (ss) EQMM May 2005
• Top Deck (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• A Man of Taste (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• The Dumb Bell (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• Revisiting (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006
• The Divine Nature (nv) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007

ELLIS, KAY (stories)

• The Story That Won: A-Mazed (vi) AHMM Oct 2000

ELLIS, LEO R(oy) (1909-1995) (stories)

• Make No Mistake (ss) AHMM Jun 1963 [Sgt. Andrew M’butu; Constable Kobari]
• Fresh Thuringer Today (ss) AHMM Jun 1964

ELLIS, N. A. TEMPLE; see under Temple Ellis, N. A. (stories)

ELLIS, PETER BERRESFORD (1943- ); see pseudonyms Peter MacAlan & Peter Tremayne (books) (stories)