Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

HERR, MARK (stories)

• Jimmy’s Car (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1998

HERREN, GREG (stories)

• Acts of Contrition (ss) EQMM Nov 2006
• Annunciation Shotgun (ss) New Orleans Noir, ed. Julie Smith, Akashic Books 2007; (Lower Garden District).

HERRING, ALBERT; pseudonym, collaboration of a musician and a mystery writer (stories)

• Suicidio! (ss) Mystery Sep 1981

HERRING, STEPHEN W. (stories)

• Florida Juice (ss) AHMM Aug 1996
• Broken Shells (ss) AHMM Mar 1998

HERRMANN, JOHN (stories)

• Mother’s Helper (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1998

HERRON, DON (Hughes) (1952- ) (stories)

• Booked & Printed (br) AHMM Feb, Mar, Sep 2003, Apr, Jun 2004
• A Black Wind Off River Street (in)

HERRON, MICK (stories)

• Lost Luggage (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006
• Remote Control (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2007
• The Other Half (ss) EQMM May 2008 [Joe Silvermann; Zoe Boehm]
• Proof of Love (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2008 [Zoe Boehm]

HERSHMAN, MORRIS (1926- ); see pseudonym Arnold English (stories)

• Live Bait (ss) Popular Detective Mar 1950
• Letter to the Editor (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1953
• The Girl Friend (ss) Manhunt Sep 1957
• Omit Flowers (ss) 1957
• Killer Cop (ss) 1958
• The Satisfied Victim (ss) London Mystery #62 1964
• Bail Hearing (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine 1981
• The One and Only (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983
• Proof Negative (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985
• Swan’s Way (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1990
• Cloud of Smoke (ss) EQMM Mar 1992
• Moving Target (ss) EQMM Aug 1992
• The Last Happy Time (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• Father Figure (ss) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• Timely End (ss) Hardboiled #21 1996
• An Actor Prepares (ss) EQMM Mar 1996
• A Gift for Friendship (ss) Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• The Dark Hour (ss) 1996
• A Private Vengeance (ss) The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• Attitude (ss) 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• Charlotte’s Ruse (vi) 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• Paper Tiger (vi) 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• Party Animal (ss) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
• A Snare and a Delusion (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998
• Slightly Guilty (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• Payback Time (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

HERTEL, TED, JR. (stories)

• Queen’s Gambit: The Life and Times of Ellery Queen (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• My Bonnie Lies... (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001

HERVEY, MICHAEL (1920-1979) (stories)

• Accident (ss) Tales of Terror and the Unknown, ed. Anon., London: Everybody’s Books 1944
• It All Adds Up (ss)
• Punishment to Fit the Crime (ss)

HERZOG, EMILE (Salomon Wilhelm) (1885-1967); see pseudonym André Maurois (stories)

HESS, JOAN (1949- ) (books) (stories)

• The Night-Blooming Cereus (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1986 [Theo Bloomer]
• Death of a Romance Writer (ss) AHMM Mar 1988
• The Deadly Ackee (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1988
• Too Much to Bare (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• Another Room (ss) EQMM Oct 1990
• A Little More Research (ss) AHMM Nov 1990
• The Maggody Files: Spiced Rhubarb (ss) AHMM Jun 1991
• A Weekend at Lookout Lodge (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• Big Foot Stole My Wife! (nv) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
• Dead on Arrival (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• The Maggody Files: D.W.I. (ss) AHMM Mar 1992
• The Last to Know (ss) Malice Domestic 1, Elizabeth Peters, Pocket 1992
• The Maggody Files: Hillbilly Cat (nv) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Make Yourselves at Home (ss) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
• Paper Trail (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994
• Recipe for Blue-Ribbon Spices Rhubarb Compote (ms) Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• All That Glitters (nv) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995
• The Maggody Files: Time Will Tell (ss) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997; also as “Time Will Tell”.
• “An Interview with Joan Hess” by J. Alec West (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
• Funny Bones [ed.] (oa) Signet 1997
• The Cremains of the Day (ss) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
• Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition [ed. with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Carroll & Graf 1997
• Time Will Tell (ss) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
• Six Shades of Black (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998
• Caveat Emptor (ss) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
• Heptagon (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Crime After Crime [ed. with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) St. Martin’s 1999
• The Maggody Files: Death in Bloom (ss) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999; also as “Death in Bloom”.
• All’s Well That Ends (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• Death in Bloom (ss) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• Malice Domestic 9 [ed.] (oa) Avon 2000
• Introduction: The Four H’s: Hearth, Health, Home, and Homicide (in) Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess, Avon 2000
• Miss Tidwell Takes No Prisoners (ss) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
• Death of a Romance Writer and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2002
• Big Foot Stole My Wife! and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2003
• The Deadly Ackee and Other Stories of Crime and Catastrophe (co) Five Star 2003
• Introduction (in)

HESTON, VIC (stories)

• Love Me and Die! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• As Hot as Hell (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961

HEUSLER, MARIANNA (stories)

• A Chilling Communication (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #43 2003
• I Love Alana (ss) Murder New York Style, ed. Randy Kandel, L & L Dreamspell 2007

HEYER, GEORGETTE (1902-1974) (books) (stories)

• Death in the Stocks (ex) London: Longman’s 1935
• Night at the Inn (ss) Suspense (UK) Aug 1958
• Night at the Inn (ss) Crippen & Landru 2007

HEYMAN, KATHRYN (stories)

• Lowlands (ss) Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

HEYST, A. (stories)

• The State of the Art (ss) EQMM Oct 1983
• There Are No Waters in Trona (ss) Espionage Magazine Oct 1986

HIAASEN, CARL (1953- ) (books) (stories)

• The Law of the Jungle (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995
• The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 [ed.] (an) Houghton Mifflin 2007
• Introduction (in)

HIAASEN, ROB (stories)

• Over My Dead Body (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Fell’s Point).

HICKEY, FRANK (stories)

• What Will People Say? (ss) New Mystery Spr 1995

HICKEY, H. B.; pseudonym of Herb Livingston, (1916- ) (stories)

• The Simplest Thing in the World (ss) Mammoth Detective May 1947

HICKEY, JOSEPH V. (stories)

• Three for the Kill (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1952

HICKIE, TONY (stories)

• Decimation (ss) AHMM Mar 2000

HICKLING, LEE (stories)

• Death in a State of Grace (nv) AHMM Oct 1999

HICKS, EDWIN P. (stories)

• Dr. Zinnkopf’s Devilish Device (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
• Spinning the Bottle (ss) AHMM May 27 1981

HIDEO, YOKOYAMA (stories)

• Motive (nv) EQMM May 2008; Japanese version copyright 2000.; tr. by Beth Cary

HIDWELL, JEFFERSON (stories)

• It Dezervd It! (pm) EQMM Sep 1992

HIET, RACINE (stories)

• The Haunted Critic (ss) AHMM Sep 1991
• The Perfect Husband (ss) AHMM Feb 1992

HIGGINS, GEORGE V(incent) (1939-1999) (stories)

• A Case of Chivas Regal (ss) The New Black Mask Quarterly No.1, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1985
• Trust (ex) 1989
• Jack Duggan’s Law (nv) The Easiest Thing in the World 2004

HIGGINS, GRAHAM (1953- ) (stories)

• Jabberwockish (nv) Villains!, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992

HIGGINSON, NAN (stories)

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

HIGGS, MIKE (books)

• Vintage Detective Stories [ed.] (an) Galley Press 1987

HIGHAM, JOHN (stories)

• Management Decision (ss) EQMM Sep 1986

HIGHLAND, FREDERICK (1945- ) (books) (stories)

• The Mystery Box (oc) Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Black Jack (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Bon Appetit (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Buzz and Ginger in Space Against Time, Episode 7 (vi) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Callers (vi) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Case of the Missing Mogul (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Catch of the Day (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Chain Letter (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• A Classical Mystery: The Healer’s Daughter (ar) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Czech Folk Targets: Hidden Aims (ar) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Devil at the Door (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• A Devil’s Glossary of Stamp Terms (ms) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Emperor’s Tomb (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Fallen Vicar (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Fox (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The God Who Would Not Die (ar) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Grapes of Wrath (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Murder in the Maldives (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Mystery Box Legend (pr) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Never (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Our Man in Bomba (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Philatelic Hall of Shame (ar) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Rock (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Scorpion’s Sting (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Smoked Fish (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Sorrows of Weimar (ar) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• Venus of the Mysteries (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998
• The Visitation (ss) The Mystery Box, Ana-Libri Press 1998

HIGHSMITH, (Mary) PATRICIA (Plaugman) (1921-1995) (books) (stories)

• The Heroine (ss) Harper’s Bazaar 1945
• Strangers on a Train (ex) 1950
• from The Talented Mr. Ripley (ex) New York: Coward-McCann 1955
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (n.) New York: Coward-McCann 1955
• The Perfect Alibi (ss) EQMM Mar 1957
• Man’s Best Friend (ss) Argosy (UK) Sep 1959
• The Terrapin (ss) EQMM Oct 1962
• The Snail-Watcher (ss) Gamma #3 1964
• The Empty Birdhouse (ss) EQMM Jan 1969
• The Birds Poised to Fly (ss) EQMM Aug 1969
• Poised to Fly (ss) EQMM Aug 1969; also as “The Birds Poised to Fly”.
• Woodrow Wilson’s Necktie (ss) EQMM Mar 1972; also as “Woodrow Wilson’s Tie”.
• Woodrow Wilson’s Tie (ss) EQMM Mar 1972
• Sauce for the Goose (ss) EQMM Sep 1972
• Variations on a Game (ss) AHMM Feb 1973
• The Baby Spoon (ss) EQMM Mar 1973
• Ming’s Biggest Prey (ss) The Animal Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder, Heinemann 1975
• The Pond (ss) EQMM Mar 1976
• Something You Have to Live With (ss) EQMM Jul 1976
• Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (ss) EQMM Nov 1976
• Those Awful Dawns (ss) Winter’s Crimes 9, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1977
• When in Rome (nv) EQMM Oct 1978
• Things Had Gone Badly (ss) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• Under a Dark Angel’s Eye (ss) The Black House, London: Heinemann 1981
• Suspect (ss) EQMM Nov 1988
• A Safety in Numbers (ss) EQMM Jan 1990
• “From Villain to Vigilante” by Noel Dorman Mawr (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1991
• To Congratulate Julian Symmons (ar) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992
• from Ripley’s Game (ex) 1993
• Summer Doldrums (ss) EQMM Apr 1994
• The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World (ss) New Yorker May 27 2002
• Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (co) W.W. Norton & Company 2003
• A Bird in Hand (ss)
• Born Failure (ss)
• The Car (ss)
• A Curious Suicide (ss)
• A Dangerous Hobby (ss)
• Doorbell for Louisa (nv)
• “from Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists” by Diana Cooper-Clarke (ex)
• A Girl Like Phyl (nv)
• The Great Cardhouse (ss)
• The Hollow Oracle (ss)
• In the Plaza (nv)
• It’s a Deal (ss)
• Magic Casements (ss)
• The Mightiest Mornings (nv)
• A Mighty Nice Man (ss)
• Miss Juste and the Green Rompers (ss)
• Music to Die By (ss)
• Nothing That Meets the Eye (ss)
• The Pianos of the Steinachs (nv)
• Quiet Night (ss)
• The Returnees (ss)
• The Second Cigarette (nv)
• The Still Point of the Turning World (ss)
• Two Disagreeable Pigeons (ss)
• Uncertain Treasure (ss)
• Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out (ss)

HIGSON, CHARLES (1958- ) (stories)

• The Tell-Tale Car Alarm (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997

HILDEBRAND, ANTONIA (stories)

• Second Nature (ss)
• The Weeping Madonna (ss)

HILDEBRAND, BONNIE (stories)

• The Joke (ss) EQMM Jun 1990

HILL, A. CRANDALL (stories)

• In Front of the City Hall (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929

HILL, ALEXANDRA (stories)

• The Hitchhiker (ss) AHMM Nov 1963

HILL, BENTON; pseudonym of Dale DeV. Kier (stories)

• Hell’s Special Agent (ss) Operator #5 Jan/Feb 1938
• The Corpse Cargo (ss) Operator #5 May/Jun 1938

HILL, BONNIE HEARN (stories)

• Part Light (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006

HILL, BRIAN MERRIKIN (1896-1979); see pseudonym Marcus Magill (stories)

HILL, DALE V. (stories)

• The Palladian Bridge (ss) AHMM Nov 2001

HILL, DONNA (Marie) (1921- ) (stories)

• Trouble Next Door (nv) AHMM Jun 1996