Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

ANONYMOUS (books) (stories) (continued)

• Five Classic Stories [ed.] (an) Davis 1986
• Mystery [ed.] (an) Houghton Mifflin 1989
• Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century [ed.] (an) The Franklin Library 1990
• Readers’ Choice [ed.] (an) Davis 1990
• Gryphon Double Novel #1 [ed.] (oa) Gryphon Publications 1991
• A Suit of Diamonds: Britain’s Celebrated Crime Club Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Volume [ed.] (oa) Dell 1991
• Mystery Cats [ed.] (an) Signet 1991
• Great Tales of Terror [ed.] (an) Chancellor Press 1991
• Sherlock Holmes In: The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson/Sherlock Holmes In: The Grey Nun Legacy [ed.] (oa) Gryphon Books 1992 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners [ed.] (n.) Robert Hale 1992
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1992
• Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Spring 1993 [ed.] (an) Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 1993
• Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Summer 1993 [ed.] (an) Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 1993
• Chapter One: A Mystery Sampler, Fall 1993 [ed.] (an) Ballantine/Fawcett/Ivy 1993
• Murder Under the Tree [ed.] (oa) Zebra 1993
• Criminal Intent 1 [ed.] (oa) Dark Harvest 1993
• Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television [ed.] (an) Grove Press 1993
• Hollywood Kills [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1993
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1993
• Editorial (ed) New Mystery Win 1994
• Book Dealers We Like (ms) New Mystery v2 #1, Win 1994
• Murder Most Merry [ed.] (oa) Zebra 1994
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1994
• Anancy Climbs The Wall, An Afro-Jamaican Fable (ss) New Mystery v3 #1 1994
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1995
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1996
• Mysterious Erotic Tales [ed.] (an) O’Mara 1996
• Mystery’s Most Wanted [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1996
• Highwayman Down, early Teutonic detective fable (ss) New Mystery v4 #4 1996
• The Mysterious Bruce [ed.] (oa) The Brucedale Press 1997
• A Record-Breaking 25th Anniversary (ed) EQMM May 1998
• ’Tis the Season for Murder: Christmas Crimes [ed.] (an) Worldwide Library 1998
• Murder at the Movies [ed.] (an) Worldwide Library 1999
• New York State of Crime [ed.] (an) Worldwide Library 1999
• Classic Detective Stories [ed.] (an) MQ Publications, Ltd. 1999
• Lector Returns (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• Homicide for the Holidays [ed.] (an) Worldwide Library 2000
• Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe [ed.] (oa) Worldwide Mystery 2001
• Southern Nights [ed.] (oa) Southern Star Publishing 2001
• Crime: Free Classic Crime Sampler [ed.] (an) House of Stratus 2001
• Crimes of Passion [ed.] (oa) Worldwide Mystery 2002
• Jewel Cases: Five Classic Mysteries of Theft [ed.] (an) Bob Jones Univ Press 2002
• How Still We See Thee Lie [ed.] (oa) Worldwide 2002
• Motherhood Is Murder [ed.] (oa) Avon 2003
• Deadly Morsels [ed.] (oa) Worldwide 2003
• Introduction (is) EQMM Jun 2003
• Egg by James McConnell (br) Detective Mystery Stories #40 2003
• Samsara by John Hamilton Lewis (br) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003
• Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas [ed.] (oa) Worldwide Mystery 2003
• Very Merry Mysteries [ed.] (om) Mystery Guild 2003
• World’s Great Detective Stories [ed.] (an) Kessinger Publishing Company 2004
• Desperate Journeys [ed.] (oa) Worldwide Mystery 2004
• The Last Noel [ed.] (oa) Worldwide Library 2004
• Drop-Dead Blonde [ed.] (oa) Signet 2005
• The Hope Chest [ed.] (oa) Harlequin 2005
• Wicked Women Whodunit [ed.] (oa) Brava 2005
• A Feast of Crime [ed.] (oa) Worldwide 2005
• Cornered [ed.] (oa) Silhouette Books 2005
• Bark M for Murder [ed.] (oa) Avon 2006
• Never Safe [ed.] (oa) Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006
• Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota’s Premier Writers [ed.] (oa) Nodin Press 2007
• Candy Cane Murder [ed.] (oa) Kensington 2007
• Sleuth Mystery Magazine (mg)
• Acknowledgements (ms)
• After a Clew (ss)
• Blown Upon: or The Sagacious Reporter (ss)
• Business Detectives Have Strange Tasks (nf) Fact Digest
• The Case of the Luckless Gambler (cs) Thrilling Comics [Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom Detective)]
• “Clubnose” (ss)
• The Costly Kiss: A New York Detective Experience (ss)
• The Cruel Midwife (ms)
• Daniel and Susanna (ex)
• Daniel and the Destruction of Bel (ex)
• Daniel’s Case of the Babylonian Idol: An Apocryphal Scripture (ss)
• The Detective (ss)
• The Detective from Baltimore (ss)
• A Detective’s Story (ss)
• Edward (pm)
• The False Knights Tragedy (pm); collected by John Clare.
• The First Case (ss)
• from Genesis 4: 1-16 (ex)
• from Genesis 9: 6 (ex)
• from Genesis IV (ex)
• from II Samuel XI (ex)
• from Judges 3: 12-30 (ex)
• from Judges 4: 13-22 (ex)
• from Judges IV (ex)
• from Judith XXII (ex)
• from Numbers 35: 9-19 (ex)
• The Ghost of the Count (ss)
• The Girl Detective (ss)
• The Gramercy Park Mystery (ss)
• Hawkshaw the Detective (cs)
• He Killed for the Thrill of It! (nf) Answers
• The Hob-Nailed Shoes (ss)
• An Ingenious Defense (ss)
• The Inheritance (vi)
• Introduction (in)
• Jellon Grame (pm)
• Judgement of Daniel (ss)
• The Left-Handed Thief (ss)
• “Lizzie Borden took an ax” (pm)
• Lord Randal (pm)
• The Missing Centurion (ss)
• The Mute Witness (ss)
• Phantom Detective (cs) Thrilling Comics [Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom Detective)]
• Publisher’s Preface (pr)
• The Puzzle (nv)
• “The Recent Murders” (pm)
• The Secret Cipher: A Detective’s Story (ss)
• A Spanish Ghost Story (ss)
• A Spanish Story (ss)
• Spent Her Life and Fortune Hunting a Killer (nf) The American Weekly
• Story of a Detective “Expert” (ss)
• A Tell-Tale Ink Mark (ss)
• The Tell-Tale Key; or A Woman as a Detective (ss)
• The Torn Glove (ss)
• Tracing a Murderer (ss)
• The Twisted Ring (ss)
• Vidocq, or the Charcoal Burner of France (ss)
• Who Killed Cock Robin? (pm)
• World of Fantasy (nf) News of the World
• Written in Blood (ss)

ANTHONY, BILL (stories)

• The Devil Wants Blood (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962

ANTHONY, CASH (stories)

• The Stand-In (ss) Dead and Breakfast, ed. Lisa René Smith & Linda Houle, L & L Dreamspell 2007

ANTHONY, MEREDITH (stories)

• Murder at the Butt End of Nowhere (ss) EQMM Dec 2006
• Murder on the Main Line (ss) EQMM Jul 2008

ANTIEAU, KIM (1955- ) (stories)

• At a Window Facing West (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1990

ANTONI, BRIAN (1959- ) (stories)

• South Beach Serenade (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995

ANTONI, ROBERT (stories)

• How to Make Photocopies in the Trinidad & Tobago National Archives (ss) Trinidad Noir, ed. Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason, Akashic Books 2008

ANVIL, CHRISTOPHER; pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby, (1922- ) (stories)

• The Problem Solver and the Spy (ss) EQMM Dec 1965 [Richard Verner]
• The King’s Legions (na) Analog Sep 1967 [Colonization; Vaughan Nathan Roberts]
• The Speleologist Spy (ss)

APODACA, JENNIFER (stories)

• Fast Boys (na) Wicked Women Whodunit, ed. Anon., Brava 2005

APPEL, BENJAMIN (1907-1977) (stories)

• Murder of the Frankfurter Man (ss) 1934
• Dock Walloper (nv) Dock Walloper, Lion 1955

APPEL, RENÉ; (1945- ) (stories)

• Bloody Hot (ss) EQMM Aug 2006; originally published in Dutch in Elsevier, 2004.; tr. by Josh Pachter

APRIL, STEVE; pseudonym of Leonard S. Zinberg, (1911-1968) (stories)

• “But You Don’t Know Me!” (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Feb 1966

AQUINO, JOHN T(homas) (1949- ) (stories)

• When the Dead Rise Up (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• The Name-Catcher’s Tale (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• The Mysterious Death of the Shadow Man (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999 [Henry Bagnet]
• A Dead Man’s Wish (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006

ARADAI, CHARLES (stories)

• Fathers and Sons (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006

ARANGO, ARTURO (stories)

• Murder, According to My Mother-in-Law (ss) Havana Noir, ed. Achy Obejas, Akashic Books 2007

ARCHER, JEFFREY (Howard) (1940- ) (books) (stories)

• Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories (oc) St. Martin’s Press 2007
• The Alibi (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• Charity Begins at Home (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• The Commissioner (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• Don’t Drink the Water (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• A Greek Tragedy (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• In the Eye of the Beholder (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• It Can’t Be October Already (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• Know What I Mean? (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• Maestro (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• The Red King (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• The Wisdom of Solomon (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• Preface (pr)

ARCHER, JULES (1915- ) (stories)

• Takeo Yoshikawa: Success at Pearl Harbor (ar) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986
• One Man Invasion of Mexico (ar) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987

ARCHER, MILES (stories)

• For What It’s Worth (ss) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• Il Beso di Morta (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002
• Hell Hath No Fury (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #32 2003

ARCHER, PETER (stories)

• Darkly, Through a Glass of Ale (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

ARCHIBALD, JOE; [i.e., Joseph Stopford Archibald] (1898-?) (stories)

• Rumble Seat (ss) The Phantom Detective Apr 1934
• China Wary (ss) Ten Detective Aces Jul 1937 [Dizzy Duo]
• Two-Timing Willie (ss) Popular Detective Dec 1944 [Willie Klump]

ARDAI, CHARLES (1969- ); see pseudonym Richard Aleas (books) (stories)

• The Long Day (ss) EQMM Mar 1988
• The Theft of Incrementation (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• Takeout Order (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
• From Zaire to Eternity (ss) AHMM Jul 1989
• The Balancing Man (ss) AHMM May 1990
• A Bar Called Charley’s (ss) AHMM Nov 1990
• The Investigation of Things (nv) AHMM Feb 1991
• Great Tales of Crime & Detection [ed.] (an) Galahad 1991
• Futurecrime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come [ed. with Cynthia Manson] (an) Donald I. Fine 1992
• Carmine and the Christmas Presence (ss) AHMM Jan 1992
• New England Crime Chowder [ed. with Cynthia Manson] (an) International Polygonics 1992
• Payback (nv) AHMM Apr 1992
• The Case (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• High Adventure [ed. with Cynthia Manson] (an) Barnes & Noble 1992
• Kingpins: Tales from Inside the Mob [ed. with Cynthia Manson] (an) Carroll & Graf 1992
• The Rememberer (nv) AHMM Feb 1993
• Masks (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• Nobody Wins (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• Guest Editorial (ed) AHMM Apr 1995
• Hello, You’re Dead (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• Kyushu’s Disguise (ss) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997
• Secret Service (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• The Last Story (ss) EQMM Dec 2002 [Black Widowers]
• Rainey Day (ar) EQMM Jun 2004
• The Good Samaritan (ss) Manhattan Noir, ed. Lawrence Block, Akashic Books 2006; (Midtown).
• The Home Front (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with Cynthia Manson] (in)

ARDEN, WILLIAM; pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, (1924-2005) (stories)

• The Bizarre Case Expert (ss) EQMM Jun 1970
• Clay Pigeon (ss) Argosy Mar 1971

ARLEN, MICHAEL; pseudonym of Dikran Kuyumjian, (1895-1956) (stories)

• Red Antony (nv) The Sketch Dec 25 1922; also as “The Smell in the Library”. [Lord George Tarlyon]
• The Smell in the Library (nv) The Sketch Dec 25 1922 [Lord George Tarlyon]
• The Ancient Sin (ss) Pan May 1923 [Lord George Tarlyon]
• The Ghoul of Golders Green (nv) The Sketch Christmas 1923 [Capel (Beau) Maturin]
• The Gentleman from America (ss) The Tatler Christmas 1924
• Midnight Adventure (ss) The Strand Nov 1938 [Prince Rudolf]
• Gay Falcon (nv) The Strand Jan 1940; also as “A Man Called Falcon”. [Falcon]
• A Man Called Falcon (nv) The Strand Jan 1940 [Falcon]

ARMIN, JANINE (books) (stories)

• Toronto Noir [ed. with Nathaniel G. Moore] (oa) Akashic Books 2008
• Introduction [with Nathaniel G. Moore] (in) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008

ARMITAGE, ROLAND (stories)

• Hate Inanimate (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940

ARMITAGE, SIMON (stories)

• “Hitcher” (ex) London: Faber and Faber 1993
• Gooseberry Season (pm)

ARMOUR, R(obert) C(outts) (1874-1956?); see pseudonym Coutts Brisbane (stories)

ARMSTRONG, AARON (stories)

• A Noir Gallery (il) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2001

ARMSTRONG, ANTHONY; pseudonym of George A. A. Willis, (1897-1976) (stories)

• The Case of Mr. Pelham (ss) Esquire 1940
• One-Way Street (ss) 1946 [Detective Inspector Painton]

ARMSTRONG, CHARLOTTE; pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong Lewi, (1905-1969) (stories)

• All the Way Home (ss) EQMM Mar 1951
• The Enemy (nv) EQMM May 1951 [Mike Russell]
• The Hedge Between (nv) Conflict Fll 1953
• Meredith’s Murder (nv) Conflict Fll 1953; also as “The Hedge Between”.
• Ten Clues for Mr. Polkinghorn (ss) 1956
• And Already Lost... (ss) EQMM Jun 1957
• St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning (nv) EQMM Apr 1960
• Run—If You Can (ss) EQMM Feb 1964
• The Splintered Monday (ss) EQMM Mar 1966
• From Out of the Garden (ss) 1966
• The Second Commandment (na) EQMM Jul 1967
• The Light Next Door (ss) EQMM Jan 1969

ARMSTRONG, DAVID (stories)

• When the Underworld Talks (ar) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929

ARMSTRONG, DOUG (stories)

• Dead Air (ss) EQMM Apr 1994

ARMSTRONG, DOUGLAS D. (stories)

• The Slip (nv) AHMM Jun 1992
• The Word of a Dying Man (ss) AHMM Jul 1992
• The Vagrant (ss) AHMM Mar 1995

ARMSTRONG, LORI G. (stories)

• Praying to the Porcelain God (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004

ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL (Allan) (1956- ) (stories)

• A Little Walk Home (nv) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
• Following the Quarters (nv) Wild Crimes, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2004
• The Boy Who Chased Seagulls (ss) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004

ARMSTRONG, T(erence) I(an) FYTTON (1912-1970); see pseudonym John Gawsworth (books) (stories)