Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

ARMSTRONG, VIVIEN (stories)

• In at the Deep End (ss) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995

ARNDORFER, JIM (stories)

• The Oldest Rivalry (ss) Chicago Noir, ed. Neal Pollack, Akashic Books 2005; (I-94, Lake Forest Oasis).

ARNDT, ELIZABETH FRAZE (stories)

• Give Me a Clue (pm) EQMM Apr 1992

ARNDT, [Dr.] FRANCES (stories)

• A Suitable Job for a Woman (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1991

ARNDT, RICHARD J. (stories)

• Echo Frame (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

ARNESON, ERIK (stories)

• The Murder of Ernest Trapnell (ss) MHCMM Fll 1998

ARNOLD, CATHARINE (1959- ) (stories)

• The Good Neighbour (nv) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

ARNOLD, GEORGE (stories)

• The Scarabs (ss) Mystery Stories #18 1939
• “C.S.A.” (ss)

ARNOLD, H. F. (stories)

• The Night Wire (ss) Weird Tales Sep 1926

ARNOLD, JOEL (stories)

• Leave No Wake (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888) (stories)

• from “Sohrab and Rustum” (pm)
• from “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (ar)

ARNOTT, MARION (books) (stories)

• Prussian Snowdrops (nv) Crimewave #4 2000
• Marbles (nv) Crimewave #6 2002
• Madeleine (ss) Crimewave #7 2003
• Sleepwalkers (co) Elastic Press 2003
• Dollface (nv) Sleepwalkers, Elastic Press 2003
• Princess (ss) Roadworks #16 2003
• Angel (ss); first published online at www.laurahird.com.
• Fortune’s Favourite (ss)
• Sleepwalkers (ss); first published online at www.dusksite.ukgo.com.
• A Small Miracle (ss)
• Underground (ss)
• Yes (ss)

ARNZEN, MICHAEL A(ndrew) (1967- ) (stories)

• Receiver (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 1990
• Blasphemebus (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

ARONSON, MARK (stories)

• The Adventure of the Second Scarf (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]

ARPIN, GARY (stories)

• Bells (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1980

ARRELLE, DIANE; pseudonym of Dina Leacock (stories)

• Ali’s Cat (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

ARTEMIS, BLACK (stories)

• Slingin’ (ss) Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power, ed. Gary Phillips, Verso 2008

ARTHUR, JIM (stories)

• A Slug for My Lover (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• A Cutie for My Coffin! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• Don’t Tempt Murder! (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• Lovelies Are for Lynching (nv) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• Requiem for a Heel (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• Handmaiden of Agony! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1962
• Lust of the Undead (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• Soft Virgins of Horror Island (nv) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

ARTHUR, ROBERT (Jr.) (1909-1969); see pseudonym Andrew Fell (books) (stories)

• Eye Witness (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 28 1939
• The Big Money (ss) Popular Detective May 1949
• The Knife (ss) The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Nov 1951
• Eyewitness (ss) 1951
• An Attractive Family (ss) AHMM Nov 1957
• Larceny and Old Lace (ss) EQMM Jun 1960
• The Mirror of Cagliostro (nv) Fantastic Jun 1963
• The Man in the Morgue (ss)

ARUNDEL, JOHN (stories)

• Twelve Years After (ss) Mystery Stories #20 1939

ASARO, CATHERINE (Ann) (1955- ) (stories)

• The City of Cries (na) Down These Dark Spaceways, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC 2005

ASAY, KATHLEEN L. (books)

• Capital Crimes: 15 Tales by Sacramento Area Authors [ed. with Patricia E. Canterbury] (oa) Umbach Consulting 2008

ASCHKENAS, LEA (stories)

• La Coca-Cola del Olvido (ss) Havana Noir, ed. Achy Obejas, Akashic Books 2007

ASH, DAVID (stories)

• The Blue Highway (ss)

ASHBY, RICHARD (stories)

• Night of the Durga (nv) 1972

ASHCROFT, F. T. (stories)

• Budna Kills a Leopard and Captures a Dacoit Chief (nv) Mystery Stories #9 1937

ASHFORTH, ALBERT (1933- ) (stories)

• Second Acts (ss) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991
• A Business Like Any Other (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

ASHLEY, J. E. (stories)

• Play Nice (ss) The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003

ASHLEY, JENNIFER (stories)

• ...But I Know What I Like (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1999

ASHLEY, MIKE; [i.e., Michael Raymond Donald Ashley] (1948- ) (books) (stories)

• The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1993
• The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives [ed.] (an) Robinson 1995
• Classical Whodunnits: Murder and Mystery from Ancient Greece and Rome [ed.] (oa) Past Times 1996
• The Ancient Mysteries (in) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996
• The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures [ed.] (oa) Robinson 1997
• Shakespearean Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Robinson 1997
• (Untitled passage on mid-1890s) (ar) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Appendix I: A Complete Chronology of Sherlock Holmes’ cases (ar) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Appendix II: The Tales of Sherlock Holmes (bi) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Introduction: Shakespeare’s Mysteries (in) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Introduction: The Life and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (in) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Part I: The Early Years (ar) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Part II: The 1880s (ar) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Part III: The 1890s (ar) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• Shakespearean Detectives [ed.] (oa) Robinson 1998
• Royal Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Robinson 1999
• Strands of Mystery (ar) The Strand Magazine #3 1999
• The Great Detectives Vidocq (ar) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
• The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes [ed.] (an) Robinson 2000
• Afterword: Impossible Crimes (aw) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• Introduction: Hey, Presto! (in) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2001
• Introduction: Past Crimes (in) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
• The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2002
• The Ghosts of Christmas Past (ar) The Strand Magazine #9 2002
• The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2003
• The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits [ed.] (an) Robinson 2004
• The Crazy Age (fw) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunits [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 2005
• The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2006
• Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (in) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries [ed.] (an) Robinson 2006
• Perfectly Impossible (ed) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits [ed.] (oa) Robinson 2007
• Dickensian Crimes (in) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007
• Appendix: The Chroniclers of Crime (bi)
• Foreword (fw)
• Introduction: The Chronicles of Crime (in)
• The Second Book of Chronicles (in)

ASHTON, RICHARD (stories)

• Torpedoed (ss) Mystery Stories #22 1941

ASHTON, WINIFRED (1888-1965); see pseudonym Clemence Dane (stories)

ASHWIN, KERRY (stories)

• Something Out of the Ordinary (ss) The Outpost (online) Apr 2007

ASIMOV, ISAAC; [anglicized from Isaak Iudich Azimov] (1920-1992) (books) (stories)

• The Caves of Steel (n.) Galaxy Oct 1953 (+2) [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series]
• The Singing Bell (ss) F&SF Jan 1955 [Wendell Urth]
• The Naked Sun (n.) Astounding Oct 1956 (+2) [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series]
• The Acquisitive Chuckle (ss) EQMM Jan 1972 [Black Widowers]
• Mirror Image (ss) Analog May 1972 [Elijah (Lije) Baley]
• Ph as in Phony (ss) EQMM Jul 1972 [Black Widowers]
• The Phony Ph.D. (ss) EQMM Jul 1972; also as “Ph as in Phony”. [Black Widowers]
• The Man Who Never Told a Lie (ss) EQMM Oct 1972 [Black Widowers]
• The Biological Clock (ss) EQMM Mar 1973; also as “Early Sunday Morning”. [Black Widowers]
• Early Sunday Morning (ss) EQMM Mar 1973 [Black Widowers]
• The Obvious Factor (ss) EQMM May 1973 [Black Widowers]
• A Chip of the Black Stone (ss) EQMM Jul 1974; also as “The Iron Gem”. [Black Widowers]
• The Iron Gem (ss) EQMM Jul 1974 [Black Widowers]
• The Curious Omission (ss) Tales of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1974 [Black Widowers]
• The One and Only East (ss) EQMM Mar 1975 [Black Widowers]
• The Cross of Lorraine (ss) EQMM May 1976 [Black Widowers]
• The Tercentenary Incident (ss) EQMM Aug 1976
• A Case of Income-Tax Fraud (ss) EQMM Nov 1976 [Black Widowers]
• The Sports Page (ss) EQMM Apr 1977 [Black Widowers]
• The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (pm) Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks, The Mysterious Press 1978
• A Study in Scarlet (pm) Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks, The Mysterious Press 1978
• To the Barest (ss) EQMM Aug 1979 [Black Widowers]
• The Backward Look (ss) IASFM Sep 1979 [Black Widowers]
• 64 Million Trillion Combinations (ss) EQMM May 5 1980; also as “Sixty Million Trillion Combinations”. [Black Widowers]
• Sixty Million Trillion Combinations (ss) EQMM May 5 1980 [Black Widowers]
• The Man Who Pretended to Like Baseball (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980; also as “The Woman in the Bar”. [Black Widowers]
• The Woman in the Bar (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980 [Black Widowers]
• The Good Samaritan (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980 [Black Widowers]
• The Gilbert and Sullivan Mystery (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981 [Black Widowers]
• Can You Prove It? (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981 [Black Widowers]
• The Phoenician Bauble (ss) EQMM May 1982 [Black Widowers]
• A Monday in April (ss) EQMM May 1983 [Black Widowers]
• Nothing Might Happen! (ss) AHMM Dec 1983
• The Speck (ss) EQMM Dec 1983 [Union Club]
• The Robots of Dawn (n.) Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1983 [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series]
• Neither Brute Nor Human (ss) EQMM Apr 1984 [Black Widowers]
• Triply Unique (ss) EQMM Jul 1984
• The Redhead (ss) EQMM Oct 1984 [Black Widowers]
• The Queen & King (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• The Year of the Feast (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• The Wrong House (ss) Banquets of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1984 [Black Widowers]
• The Fourth Homonym (ss) EQMM Mar 1985 [Black Widowers]
• Upside Down (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• Triple Devil (ss) EQMM Aug 1985 [Black Widowers]
• The Taunter (ss) EQMM Oct 1985
• Straight Lines (ss) EQMM Dec 1985
• Unique Is Where You Find It (ss) The Edge of Tomorrow, Tor 1985 [Black Widowers]
• Child’s Play (ss) EQMM Jan 1986
• New England Equinox (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• Sunset on the Water (ss) EQMM Jun 1986 [Black Widowers]
• Isaac Asimov’s Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction # 5: Tin Stars [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh] (an) NAL/Signet 1986
• Ten (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• Where Is He? (ss) EQMM Oct 1986 [Black Widowers]
• The Common Name (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1986
• The Old Purse (ss) EQMM Mar 1987 [Black Widowers]
• The Snatched Purse (ss) EQMM Mar 1987; also as “The Old Purse”. [Black Widowers]
• The Teddy Bear (ss) EQMM May 1987
• The Stamp (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• The Quiet Place (ss) EQMM Mar 1988 [Black Widowers]
• The Legacy (ss) EQMM Apr 1988
• The Lost Dog (ss) EQMM Jun 1988
• Robots and Murder (om) Del Rey 1988 [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series]
• The Last Man (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• The Envelope (ss) EQMM Apr 1989 [Black Widowers]
• The Alibi (ss) EQMM Sep 1989 [Black Widowers]
• Northwestward (ss) The Further Adventures of Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1989 [Batman; Black Widowers]
• Puzzles of the Black Widowers (co) Doubleday 1990 [Black Widowers]
• The Four-Leaf Clover (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990 [Black Widowers]
• The Lucky Piece (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990 [Black Widowers]
• The Recipe (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990 [Black Widowers]
• Lost in a Space Warp (ss) EQMM Mar 1990 [Black Widowers]
• Yes, but Why? (ss) The Armchair Detective Spr 1990 [Black Widowers]
• Police at the Door (ss) EQMM Jun 1990 [Black Widowers]
• The Haunted Cabin (ss) EQMM Oct 1990 [Black Widowers]
• A Safe Place (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• The Guest’s Guest (ss) EQMM Aug 1991 [Black Widowers]
• Afterword: Birth of the Black Widowers (ar) I. Asimov, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday 1994
• The Return of the Black Widowers (co) Carroll & Graf 2003 [Black Widowers]
• Foreword: The Loveable Criminality of P.G. Wodehouse (fw)
• Introduction (in)

ASÍS, MOISÉS (stories)

• Murder at 503 La Rosa (ss) Havana Noir, ed. Achy Obejas, Akashic Books 2007

ASPLER, TONY (1939- ) (stories)

• Year of the Dragon (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
• The Perfect Crime (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990

ASPLUND, RUSSELL WILLIAM (stories)

• The Rabbi and the Sorcerer (ss) AHMM Oct 1998

ASQUITH, [Lady] CYNTHIA (Mary Evelyn, née Charteris) (1887-1960) (stories)

• The Corner Shop (ss) Hutchinson’s Magazine Sep 1926

ASTON, RICHARD (stories)

• Sabotage (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

ASTOR, WILLIAM WALDORF (1848-1919) (stories)

• Monsieur de Néron (ss) The Pall Mall Magazine Aug 1895

ATHANS, PHILIP (books)

• Forgotten Realms: Realms of Mystery [ed.] (oa) TSR 1998

ATHERTON, NANCY (T.) (1955- ) (stories)

• Honeymoon (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
• Naked Came the Farmer, Chapter 6: Friends in Low Places (rr) Accent Mar 6 1998

ATKEY, (William) PHILIP (1908-1985); see pseudonym Barry Perowne (stories)

ATKINS, ACE; [i.e., Billy Atkins] (1970- ) (stories)

• Angola South (ss) New Orleans Noir, ed. Julie Smith, Akashic Books 2007; (Loyola Avenue).

ATKINS, FRANCIS HENRY; see under Atkins, Frank (stories)

ATKINS, FRANK; [i.e., Francis Henry Atkins, Sr.] (1847-1927); see pseudonym Frank Aubrey (stories)