Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

LE GUIN, URSULA K(roeber) (1929- ) (stories)

• Texts (ss) American Short Fiction 1990

LEHANE, DENNIS (1965- ) (books) (stories)

• The Names of the Missing (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• Running Out of Dog (nv) Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1999
• Gone Down to Corpus (ss) The Mighty Johns, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• Until Gwen (nv) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
• Coronado: Stories (co) William Morrow 2006
• Coronado: a play in two acts (pl)
• ICU (ss)
• Mushrooms (ss)

LEHMANN, R(udolf) C(hambers) (1856-1929) (stories)

• The Umbrosa Burglary (ss) Punch Nov 4 1893 [Picklock Holes]

LEIBER, FRITZ (Reuter, Jr.) (1910-1992) (stories)

• Power of the Puppets (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jan 1942
• The Dreams of Albert Moreland (nv) The Acolyte Spr 1945
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (ss) The Girl With the Hungry Eyes, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon 1949
• The Moriarty Gambit (ss) Chess Review Feb 1962 [Sherlock Holmes]

LEIGH, L. (stories)

• Swamped (nv) EQMM Aug 2006

LEIGH, VICKI (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Tenderloined, Pure-Broiled Boat (vi) AHMM Jul 1995

LEINSTER, MURRAY; pseudonym of Will F. Jenkins, (1896-1975) (stories)

• The Seventh Bullet (ss) The Danger Trail Mar 1926
• The Body in the Taxi (na) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Oct 1933 [The Black Bat]
• The Coney Island Murder (nv) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933 [The Black Bat]
• The Hollywood Murders (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Dec 1933
• The Maniac Murders (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934 [The Black Bat]
• Bargain for an Enemy (ss) Popular Detective Dec 1944
• Murderer’s Encore (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1953

LEISI, ERNST (stories)

• Lord Peter Wimsey, born 1890 (ar) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991; a slightly different German version appeared in Neue Zürcher Zeitung 10th Nov 1990.

LEITER, JEANNE (stories)

• Bell, Book, and Suburbia [with M. H. Clark] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

LEITZ, DAVID E. (stories)

• Eye Witness (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999

LELLENBERG, JON L. (1946- ) (books) (stories)

• The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh] (oa) Carroll & Graf 1987 [Sherlock Holmes]
• And Now, a Word from Arthur Conan Doyle (ar) Baker Street Miscellanea Sum 1990 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Holmes for the Holidays [ed. with Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Berkley 1996 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The More Holmes for the Holidays [ed. with Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Berkley 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Murder in Baker Street [ed. with Daniel Stashower & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2001 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Murder, My Dear Watson [ed. with Daniel Stashower & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2002
• A Sherlockian Library [with Daniel Stashower] (ar) Murder, My Dear Watson, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2002
• Ghosts in Baker Street [ed. with Daniel Stashower & Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) Carroll & Graf 2006 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Foreword (fw)
• Introduction (in)

LE MARE, ANGELA (stories)

• Asking For It (ss)
• Herbie Naughton’s Nugget (ss)

LEMING, B. W. (stories)

• For Your Eyes Only (pm) EQMM May 1995

L’ENGLE, MADELEINE; [i.e., Madelaine L’Engle Camp Franklin] (1918- ) (stories)

• The Pool (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

LEON, HENRY CECIL (1902-1976); see pseudonym Henry Cecil (stories)

LEONARD, ELMORE (John, Jr.) (1925- ) (books) (stories)

• Law of the Hunted Ones (nv) Western Story Magazine Dec 1952
• Three-Ten to Yuma (ss) Dime Western Magazine Mar 1953
• The Boy Who Smiled (ss) Gunsmoke Jun 1953
• The Tonto Woman (ss) Roundup, Western Writers of America, Doubleday 1982
• Freaky Deaky (ex) New York: Arbor House 1988
• “Hurrah for Capt. Early” (ss) New Trails, ed. John Jakes and Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday 1994
• The Odyssey (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995
• Karen Makes Out (nv) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996 [Karen Sisco]
• “Regular Guys—and Gals—With a Twist” by Tom Nolan (bg) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• Sparks (ss) Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1999
• Hanging Out at the Buena Vista (ss) USA Weekend Jun 13 1999
• “Frederick Zackel interviews Elmore Leonard” by Frederick Zackel (iv) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2001
• Chichasaw Charlie Hoke (ss) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• Fire in the Hole (na) Contentville Press 2001 [Raylan Givens]
• When the Women Come Out to Dance (co) Morrow 2002
• Tenkiller (na) When the Women Come Out to Dance, Morrow 2002
• When the Women Come Out to Dance (ss) When the Women Come Out to Dance, Morrow 2002
• How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman (ss) McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books 2003
• Louly and Pretty Boy (ss) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005

LEONARD, JOSEPH (stories)

• The Swap (vi) EQMM mid-Dec 1989

LEONE, DAN (stories)

• Family (ss) Literal Latté 2000

LEONG, ERNEST (stories)

• The Emperor’s Treasure (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 1990
• Incense Sticks (ss) 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

LEPOVETSKY, LISA (stories)

• Joe Frog’s Place (ss) EQMM Apr 1994
• Finding the Wind (ss) EQMM Sep 1994
• Storyteller (ss) EQMM Jul 1995
• Here Be Monsters (ss) EQMM Oct 1995
• Final Reunion (ss) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• Scanning for Dollars (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

LE QUEUX, WILLIAM (Tufnell) (1864-1927) (stories)

• The Secret of the Fox Hunter (nv) Secrets of the Foreign Office 1903
• The Red Ring (ss) Adventure Nov 1910
• The Brass Butterfly (ss) Revelations of the Secret Service 1911
• The Purple Death (ss)

LERDALL-FITTERER, TERRY (stories)

• Photo Finish [with Katherine H. Brooks] (pm) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• Ice Cube Trey (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006

LEROUX, GASTON (1868-1927) (stories)

• A Terrible Tale (ss) The Windsor Magazine 1925

LeROY, BENJAMIN M. (stories)

• Letters from Home (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006

LERSCH, JEAN (stories)

• Sacrifice (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

LESCROART, JOHN T. (1948- ) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra by John H. Watson, M.D. (ss) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• “John Lescroart” by Barry Forshaw (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• Sacrifice Hit (nv) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• The Cover Story Is Always a Lie (nv) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• The Portal [with M. J. Rose] (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

LESLIE, A.; pseudonym of A. Leslie Scott (stories)

• Fanged Death (ss) G-Men Oct 1935

LESLIE, ARTHUR (stories)

• Not Quite Dead (nv) AHMM Apr 1988

LESLIE, H. O. (stories)

• Personal Challenge (ss) AHMM Jan 1959

LESLIE, JEAN; [i.e., Jean Leslie Cornett] (1908?-1994?) (stories)

• First Week in September (ss) AHMM Sep 1967

LESLIE, O. H.; pseudonym of Henry Slesar, (1927-2002) (stories)

• It Started Most Innocently (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
• Coroner’s Jury (ss) AHMM May 1959

LESLIE, PETER (Meyrick Johnston) (1922- ) (stories)

• What’s a Ghoul Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (ss) 1969

LESSER, TOM (stories)

• Sins of the Preacher (ss) Hardboiled #23 1997
• The Victim’s Revenge (vi) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

LESSIG, HUGH (stories)

• The Gift of Wallace Random (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Jan 1999 [Picasso Smith, Jr.]
• Ready for Retirement (ss) Plots with Guns Fll 1999
• The Listener (ss) Plots with Guns Feb/Mar 2000
• Special Delivery (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Apr/May 2000 [Alamo Barnes]
• Oasis (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001
• Millstone (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2001 [Picasso Smith, Jr.]
• My Destiny (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2002
• Four-Day Rental (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2002
• Whacking Scrooge (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2003 [Picasso Smith, Jr.]
• Dementia 101 (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004

LESTER, KENNETH (stories)

• A Boy Names Tzu (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994

LETHEM, JONATHAN (Allen) (1964- ) (stories)

• The One About the Green Detective (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996
• Tugboat Syndrome (ss) The Paris Review Sum 1999

LEUCI, BOB; [i.e., Robert Leuci] (1940- ) (stories)

• All-American Boy (ss) EQMM Jun 1995
• Gray Eyes (ss) New Mystery v4 #2 1996
• A Killer Overhead (nv) Murder Is My Racquet, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002

LEUCI, ROBERT; see under Leuci, Bob (stories)

LEVACK, SIMON (stories)

• The Double Life of a Human Sacrifice (vi) The Sunday Times (London) Dec 24 2000; winner of the 2000 Crime Writers’ Association ‘Debut Dagger’ competition.
• The Coming of the Gods (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006 [Aztec]
• Jade Skirt (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006 [Aztec]

LeVALLEY, JACK (stories)

• Will of the Wind (ss)

LeVALLEY, NORMAN (stories)

• Hitchcock the Anthologer (ar) Mystery May 1981

LEVAVI, LEA (stories)

• Post Mortem (pm) EQMM Dec 1991

LEVEL, MAURICE (1875-1926) (stories)

• The Confession (ss) Black Mask Jun 1920
• The Test (ss) Crises, London: A.M. Philpot 1920
• The Debt Collector (ss)

LEVI, PAOLO (1919-199?) (stories)

• The Ravine (ss) The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000; from Buon Sangue Italiano, 1977.; tr. by Denis Godliman

LEVI, PRIMO (1919-1987) (stories)

• For Adolf Eichmann (pm) Jul 20 1960

LEVI, STEVEN C. (stories)

• The Materializing Corpse (ss) AHMM Nov 1997

LEVIE, ELIZABETH (stories)

• Sunshine and Shadow [with Rex Levie] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1980

LEVIE, REX (Dean) (1937?- ) (stories)

• Sunshine and Shadow [with Elizabeth Levie] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1980

LEVIN, IRA (1929- ) (stories)

• A Kiss Before Dying (ex) New York: Simon & Schuster 1953

LEVIN, TOBE (stories)

• Saturday Night Fever, by Helga Anderle (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996

LEVINE, DANIEL GOULD (stories)

• Joy (ss) EQMM May 2004

LEVINE, PAUL (J.) (1948- ) (stories)

• Biscayne Blues (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995
• Solomon & Lord Drop Anchor (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

LEVINE, PETER (1967- ) (stories)

• The Pious Poisoner (ss) Scientific Detective Jun 1947

LEVINE, V. A. (stories)

• Extreme Shock (nv) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Aug 1967 [Casimiro Lowry]

LEVINSON, [Dr.] PAUL (1947- ) (stories)

• The Chronology Protection Case (nv) Analog Sep 1995 [Phil D’Amato]

LEVINSON, RICHARD (1934-1987) (stories)

• Child’s Play [with William Link] (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
• The End of an Era [with William Link] (ss) AHMM Jan 1962; also as “New Columbo”.
• New Columbo [with William Link] (ss) AHMM Jan 1962
• The Man in the Lobby [with William Link] (ss) AHMM Jun 1966

LEVINSON, ROBERT S. (1941- ) (stories)

• Good Career Moves (nv) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• Ziggy Comes Through (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2003
• Take My Word for It and You Don’t Have to Answer (ss) EQMM Dec 2003
• Absolutely Live in Person (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2004
• The Hit (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• The Man in the Van (ss) EQMM Jul 2004
• The Eleven O’Clock Number (ss) AHMM Dec 2004
• Death Conquers All (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
• Remember Me? (ss) AHMM Oct 2005
• Uncle Blinky’s Corner of the World (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• Chapter 82: Myrna Lloyd Is Missing (ss) AHMM Apr 2006 [Augie Fowler]
• All I Ever Wanted to Be (ss) AHMM May 2006
• My Kind of Beautiful (ss) EQMM Jun 2006

LEVITIN, ALEXIR (stories)

• Pig Latin, by Clarice Lispector (vi) Soulstorm, New Directions 1974

LEVITIN, ALEXIS (stories)

• L., by Georgi Gospodinov (vi) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005; first published in Bulgarian in I drugi istorii, Zhanet-45 2001.; tr. by Magdelena Levy

LEVITSKY, RONALD (c1949- ) (stories)

• The Sabbath Flame (ss) EQMM Feb 1989
• Even Steven (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• Jacob’s Voice (nv) 1998 [Nate Rosen]
• Thy Brother’s Bloods (nv) Criminal Kabbalah, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 2001 [Nate Rosen]

LEVY, BOB (1953- ) (stories)

• Metro (ss) Other Voices Spr/Sum 2000

LEVY, MAGDELENA (stories)

• L., by Georgi Gospodinov (vi) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005; first published in Bulgarian in I drugi istorii, Zhanet-45 2001.; tr. by Alexis Levitin

LEWI, CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG (1905-1969); see pseudonym Charlotte Armstrong (stories)

LEWIN, MICHAEL Z(inn) (1942- ) (books) (stories)

• Wrong Number (ss) Crime Wave, ed. Swedish Academy of Detection, Collins 1981
• Silent Testimony (ss) AHMM Mar 3 1982
• The Reluctant Detective (ss) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984
• Family Business (ss) Winter’s Crimes 20, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1988 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• Students of Disaster (ss) Match Me Sydney!, ed. Anon., No Exit Press 1989
• Wedding Bells (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• Danny Gets It Right (ss) Crime Waves, ed. H. R. F. Keating, Gollancz 1991 [Dan Quayle]
• The Truth (ss) EQMM Mar 1992
• You Pay for Everything (ss) EQMM Dec 1992