Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

JAKUBOWSKI, MAXIM (books) (stories) (continued)

• New Crimes 3 [ed.] (oa) Carroll & Graf 1991
• Constable New Crimes 1 [ed.] (oa) Constable 1992
• Murders for the Fireside: The Best of Winter’s Crimes [ed.] (an) Pan 1992
• Constable New Crimes 2 [ed.] (oa) Constable 1993
• London Noir [ed.] (oa) Serpent’s Tail 1994
• 71-73 Charing Cross Road (ss) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• Introduction (in) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• Royal Crimes [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Signet 1994
• Crime Yellow: Gollancz New Crimes 1 [ed.] (oa) Gollancz 1994
• More Murders for the Fireside [ed.] (an) Pan 1994
• Six in the Morning (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• No Alibi [ed.] (oa) Ringpull Press 1995
• The Case of the Locked-Room Nude (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
• The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1996
• Fresh Blood [ed. with Mike Ripley] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1996
• Blood and Guts, Goodge Street (ss) Fresh Blood, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1996
• Fresh Blood 2 [ed. with Mike Ripley] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1997
• Femme Fatale Blues (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
• Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime [ed.] (oa) Headline 1998
• Introduction: In Memory of Ellis Peters (in) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998
• “King Max!” by Barry Forshaw (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• Phantom Lover (nv) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• Chronicles of Crime: the Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime [ed.] (oa) Headline 1999
• Fresh Blood 3 [ed. with Mike Ripley] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1999
• The Day I Killed Tony Blair (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999
• The View from Murder One (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• A Letter to Big Man (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000
• Murder Through the Ages: A Bumper Anthology of Historical Mysteries [ed.] (oa) Headline 2000
• The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 2001
• To the Max (cl) Crime Time #23 2001
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime [ed.] (an) Robinson 2002
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops [ed. with M. Christian] (oa) Robinson 2003
• World Mystery Report: Great Britain (ar) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003
• The Best British Mysteries [ed.] (an) Allison & Busby 2003
• The Best British Mysteries 2005 [ed.] (an) Allison & Busby 2005
• The Best British Mysteries IV [ed.] (an) Allison & Busby 2006
• Crime Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with M. Christian] (in)
• The Mystery in Great Britain (ar)

JAMES, AL; pseudonym of Albert James Hjertstedt (stories)

• “Die,” Said the Blonde (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
• The Long Drop (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Nov 1957
• Never Sleep With A Stranger (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1958
• Steel Clad Alibi! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• Cold-Blooded Dame (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958
• The Deadly Pro (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• Satan Thumbs a Ride! (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• Kiss the Blood Off! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• Mistress of Mayhem! (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• The Soft Arms of Murder (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• Pose for Passion! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961
• Vengeance Doll! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1962

JAMES, BILL; pseudonym of James Tucker, (1929- ) (stories)

• Body Language (ss) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991
• For Information Only (ss) Winter’s Crimes 24, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1992
• Fancy (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• War Crime (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1994
• Big City (ss) EQMM Apr 2002
• Elsewhere (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• Like an Arrangement (ss) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003; a version of this appears in the novel The Girl with the Long Back, Constable 2003.
• Makeover (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007

JAMES, BRÈNI; [i.e., Brèni James Pevehouse] (stories)

• Socrates Solves a Murder (ss) EQMM Oct 1954 [Socrates]
• The Gateway to Death (ss) EQMM Feb 1955 [Socrates]
• Socrates Solves Another Murder (ss) EQMM Feb 1955; also as “The Gateway to Death”. [Socrates]

JAMES, DARRELL (books) (stories)

• The Bridge (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Win 2004
• Body Count: A Killer Collection (co) iUniverse, Inc. 2006
• All the News That’s Worthy (ss)
• The Free Agent (ss)
• Fremont & Lougie (ss)
• Introduction (in)
• Kat & Mouse (ss)
• Lydia (ss)
• A Miracle for Father Vega (ss)
• Motherhouse (ss)
• One Day at a Time (ss)
• Only in the Movies (ss)
• A Respectable Period of Mourning (ss)
• Running in Place (ss)
• Something Heavy When You Need It (ss)
• Sweaty Money (ss)
• Who Wants to Kill Billy Tingle? (ss)

JAMES, DAVID EDGERLEY (stories)

• Smoke Follows a Liar (ss) AHMM Apr 2003

JAMES, DEAN (1959- ) (books) (stories)

• The Village Vampire and the Oboe of Death (nv) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• Best Served Cold (nv) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• The Village Vampire and the Yuletide Yorkie (nv) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999
• The Perfect Man (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
• Kate Charles talks to Dean James (iv) Crime Time #23 2001
• Death Dines In [ed. with Claudia Bishop] (oa) Berkley 2004
• All in the Family (ss) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• ...Sit Right Down (fw)

JAMES, DON(ald H.) (1905-1993) (stories)

• Ferry Slip (vi) Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1942
• I Hope They’re Worried (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Nov 1946
• Serenade to a Wealthy Widow (ss) Detective Tales Dec 1946
• Sing a Song of Slaughter (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1950
• Behind Murder’s Eight-Ball (ss) Detective Tales Mar 1950

JAMES, G(eorge) P(ayne) R(ainsford) (1799-1860) (stories)

• A Night in an Old Castle (ss) Eva St Clair & Other Collected Tales, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 1843

JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916) (stories)

• The Third Person (nv)

JAMES, L. F.; pseudonym (stories)

• Leo Browne’s Arrest (ss) AHMM Jan 2 1980
• Jeffrey (ss) EQMM Jun 1992

JAMES, M(ontague) R(hodes) (1862-1936) (stories)

• Count Magnus (ss) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold 1904
• The Mezzotint (ss) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold 1904
• Number 13 (ss) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold 1904
• The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (ss) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold 1904
• Martin’s Close (ss) More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold 1911
• The Haunted Dolls’ House (ss) The Empire Review Feb 1923; written to fill a miniature book in the library of Queen Mary’s doll house.
• There Was a Man Dwelt By a Churchyard (ss) Snapdragon Sep 6 1924
• Rats (ss) Shudders, Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson 1929

JAMES, P. D.; [i.e., Phyllis Dorothy James White] (1920- ) (stories)

• Moment of Power (ss) 1967; also as “A Very Commonplace Murder”.
• A Very Commonplace Murder (ss) 1967
• The Boxdale Inheritance (nv) 1969 [Adam Dalgliesh]
• Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers (nv) 1969; also as “The Boxdale Inheritance”. [Adam Dalgliesh]
• The Maul and the Pear Tree [with T. A. Critchley] (ex) 1971
• The Victim (nv) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973
• A Very Desirable Residence (ss) Winter’s Crimes 8, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1976
• from Innocent Blood (ex) 1980
• The Girl Who Loved Graveyards (ss) Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1983
• Devices and Desires (ex) New York: Knopf 1990
• The Address given at the Centenary Luncheon at the Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly on 24th November, 1990 (sp) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991
• The Man Who Was Eighty (ss) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992
• Is There Arsenic Still for Tea? (ar) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995; revised from an article in The Countryman.
• The Mistletoe Murder (ss) A Classic Christmas Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1995
• Hearing Ghote (ss) The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• from A Taste for Death (ex)
• from Death of an Expert Witness (ex)
• “from Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists” by Diana Cooper-Clarke (ex)

JAMES, PAUL M. (stories)

• “The Saint” Speaks (ar) The Armchair Detective Sum 1990

JAMES, PETER (1948- ) (stories)

• Virtually Alive (ss) The Daily Telegraph Dec 30 1995

JAMES, RUSSELL (1942- ) (stories)

• A Piece of Cake (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• No Debts Unpaid (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
• Brace Yourself (nv) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
• Fascists and Recalcitrant Publishers (ar) Crime Time #23 2001

JAMESON, MALCOLM (1891-1945) (stories)

• Train for Flushing (ss) Weird Tales Mar 1940

JANCE, J(udith) A(nn) (1944- ) (stories)

• The Duel (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• Oil and Water (ss) Partners in Crime, ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet 1994
• Death of a Snowbird (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
• Second Fiddle (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995 [J. P. Beaumont]
• One Good Turn (nv) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
• Mandy: “Free to Good Home” (ss) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• A Flash of Chrysanthemum (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• The Prodigal (ss) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
• Witness (ss) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
• Highest, Best Use (nv) Creature Cozies, ed. Jill Morgan, Berkley Prime Crime 2005
• Doggedly on the Case (na) Bark M for Murder, ed. Anon., Avon 2006

JANICKE, GREGORY (stories)

• The Gift (ss) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999

JANIFER, LARRY M.; see under Janifer, Laurence M. (stories)

JANIFER, LAURENCE M(ark) (1933-2002); formerly Larry M. Harris (stories)

• The Most Beautiful Woman on Staten Island (ss) EQMM Mar 1999

JANKOWSKI, RICK (stories)

• The Virus (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003

JANOWITZ, TAMA (stories)

• Case History #15: Melinda (vi) Slaves of New York, New York: Crown 1986

JANSEN, REBECCA ANNE (stories)

• Dream of Flight (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1997

JANSON, HANK; house pseudonym (books) (stories)

• Kitty Takes the Rap (nv) Scarred Faces, Ward & Hitchon 1946
• Scarred Faces (nv) Scarred Faces, Ward & Hitchon 1946
• When Dames Get Tough (na) London: Ward & Hitchon 1946
• Double Double-Cross (na) Underworld (UK) Spr 1951
• The Dead Guy (na) Underworld (UK) Spr 1952
• When Dames Get Tough with Scarred Faces and Other Rarities (co) Telos Publishing 2004

JANZ, MILLI (stories)

• Take a Stick of Cinnamon (ss) EQMM Nov 1990

JARRETT, FLIP (stories)

• The Game (ss) EQMM Nov 1990
• Almost Heaven (ss) EQMM Dec 1990
• The Bet (ss) EQMM Mar 1991

JASPER, KENJI (stories)

• Thursday (ss) Brooklyn Noir, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2004
• First (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Benning Heights, S.E).

JAY, CHARLES (stories)

• Beverly Hills Blues (ss) AHMM Jul 1984

JAY, REYNARD (stories)

• Hot-Rodding to Hell (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959

JAYNE, MITCHELL F. (stories)

• The Fugitive(s) (ss) AHMM Feb 1962

JEAN, LORRAINE A. (stories)

• Death Duties (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1996

JECKS, MICHAEL (1960- ) (stories)

• The Coroner’s Tale (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999 [Sir Baldwin de Furnshill]
• For the Love of Old Bones (nv) Murder Most Medieval, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, Cumberland House 2000
• The Amorous Armourer (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001 [Sir Baldwin Furnshill]
• A Clerical Error (ss) Murder Most Catholic, ed. Ralph McInerny, Cumberland House 2002
• The Hostage to Fortune (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
• No One Can Hear You Scream (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Foreword (fw) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005

JEFFERIES, WILLIAM; pseudonym of Jeffery Wilds Deaver, (1950- ) (stories)

• Switchback (nv) EQMM Aug 1996

JEFFERS, H(arry) PAUL (1934- ) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman (ss) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse (nv) Ghosts in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2006 [Holmes Sherlock]

JEFFREY, WILLIAM; pseudonym of Bill Pronzini & Jeffrey M. Wallmann (stories)

• Day of the Moon (ss) AHMM Jun 1970

JELLEMA, LEN (stories)

• Index Finger, Left Hand (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Aug 1999
• Taxing Rebellion (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 2000
• Crime Wave (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 2001
• Payback (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2001
• Double Exposure (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Aug 2001
• Joyful and Triumphant (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 2001
• The Luck of the Draw (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2001
• The Second Horseman, & the Fourth (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2001
• Fathers and Sons (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2002
• And a Tooth for a Tooth (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 2002
• The Half-Filled Canteen (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2002
• Absolution (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #30 2002
• 66 Miles to Nowhere (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #34 2003
• No New Thing Under the Sun (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #47 2004

JENKINS, ALAN (Charles) (1914-1993) (stories)

• from “Greenheart” (pm)

JENKINS, HERBERT (George) (1876-1923) (stories)

• The Gylston Slander (ss) Hutchinson’s Story Magazine Jul 1920 [Malcolm Sage]

JENKINS, WILL(iam) F(itzgerald) (1896-1975); see pseudonym Murray Leinster (stories)

• The Trouble on the Dude Ranch (nv) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933
• Possessed (ss) Manhunt Feb 1957

JENNINGS, ANN (stories)

• Accident (vi) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

JENNINGS, MAUREEN (1943- ) (stories)

• Ash Wednesday (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth (ss) Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996
• The Language of Flowers (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997