Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

KONRATH, J. A. (books) (stories) (continued)

• With a Twist (ss) EQMM Dec 2005 [Jacqueline (Jack) Daniels]
• Epitaph (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Phineas Troutt]
• Suffer (ss) EQMM Jun 2006 [Phineas Troutt]
• These Guns for Hire: 31 Short Stories about Hitmen [ed.] (oa) Bleak House Books 2006
• Bereaved (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• Overproof (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007
• The Importance of Being Perkins (in)
• Introduction (in)

KOOGLER, S. R. (stories)

• Dinner Table Detective (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1999

KOONS, JON (stories)

• The Adventure of the Missing Countess (ss) The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994 [Sherlock Holmes]

KOONTZ, DEAN R(ay) (1945- ) (stories)

• The Undercity (ss) Future City, ed. Roger Elwood, Trident 1973
• Twilight of the Dawn (nv) Night Visions 4, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1987
• Afterword (aw)

KOREN, BRITTIANY A. (books) (stories)

• Places to Be, People to Kill [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (oa) DAW 2007
• Assassins: An Introduction (in) Places to Be, People to Kill, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW 2007

KORETSKY, JUDITH LEA; see pseudonym Lea Cash-Domingo (stories)

• A Delicate Balance (ss) EQMM Jul 1994

KORMAN, CANDIDA B. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Fraud (vi) AHMM May 1997

KORMAN, JESS (stories)

• The Creamflake Kid (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (Crown Heights).

KORN, MICHAEL F. (stories)

• I’m Your Biggest Fan, Mr Brahms (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 1998
• And Now, the Wizard of Gore (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1998

KORNBLUTH, C. M.; [i.e., Cyril Kornbluth] (1923-1958) (stories)

• A Ghoul and His Money (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1946
• Time Bum (ss) Fantastic Jan/Feb 1953

KORR, ELLEN S. (stories)

• The Tree (ss) Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995

KORTY, KATHY (stories)

• Detective Story (pm) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 1999

KORZENIOWSKI, TEODOR JOSEF KONRAD (1857-1924); see pseudonym Joseph Conrad (stories)

KOSAK, CARL (1934- ); see pseudonym K. C. Constantine (stories)

KOSHINSKIE, ROBERT (stories)

• The Deadly Umbrella (ss) AHMM Jul 1995

KOST, DAVID (stories)

• Shelter (pl) 1993

KOSTER, ELAINE (books) (stories)

• The Best of the Best [ed. with Joseph Pittman] (oa) Penguin/Signet 1998
• Crimes and Misdemeanors [ed. with Joseph Pittman] (oa) Signet 1998
• Introduction [with Joseph Pittman] (in)

KOSTMAN, JOEL (stories)

• Chickens, Lobsters, Buicks (ss) Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith, DK Ink 1997
• The Naked City (ss) Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith, DK Ink 1997

KOSTRACH, PAUL (stories)

• The Story That Won: End of the Line (vi) AHMM Jul 1994

KOTARO, ISAKA (stories)

• The Precision of the Agent of Death (nv) EQMM Jul 2006; first published in Japanese in All Yomimono, 2003.; tr. by Beth Cary

KOTKER, JOAN G. (stories)

• Crime Goes North (ar) The Armchair Detective Fll 1990

KOUBA, DANA (stories)

• Closing Time (ss) Murder on Sunset Boulevard, ed. Rochelle Krich, Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman, Top Publications 2002

KOVALESKI, JOHN (stories)

• Shortcut to Murder: Edward D. Hoch (iv) The Armchair Detective Spr 1990

KOWESKI, KARL (stories)

• Send in the Clowns (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2003
• Downward Trend (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2004
• The Last to Know (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2006

KOZAK, HARLEY JANE (stories)

• Introduction (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

KOZLOWSKI, LORI (stories)

• Three Times a Night, Every Other Night (ss) Las Vegas Noir, ed. Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce, Akashic Books 2008; (North Las Vegas).

KRAFT, GABRIELLE (1945- ) (stories)

• Wow Finish (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• Blast from the Past (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
• One Hit Wonder (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992

KRAMER, JAMES (stories)

• Confession (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1984
• Mike Shayne Mystery Makers - James Kramer (bg) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1984

KRAMLOVSKY, BEATRIX M. (stories)

• The Forest Forge (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003; first published in German in 2000.; tr. by Mary Tannert
• Silk Road (ss) EQMM Jul 2005; “Die Seidenstraße”, first published in German in Liebestöter, Scherz Verlog 2003.; tr. by Mary Tannert

KRATZ, HENRY (books) (stories)

• Early German and Austrian Detective Fiction [ed. with Mary W. Tannert] (an) McFarland 1999
• Introduction [with Mary W. Tannert] (in)

KRAUTH, NIGEL (Lawrence) (1949- ) (stories)

• The Manly Shooting (ss) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• Worry No More (nv) Case Reopened, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Allen & Unwin Australia 1993; based on “The Pajama Girl Murder” case.

KREIER-LUBINSKI, BETTY (stories)

• The Scam Artist (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

KREITZBERG, TOM (stories)

• A Mystery Logic Puzzle (pz) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• Rather a Lot of Murders at the Vicarage (pz) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• The Birth of Father Brown (ar) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• Forget Her Ofttimes (pm) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• What a Question (pm) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• The Charity of a Saint (ss) Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000

KRESS, NANCY (Anne, née Konigisor) (1948- ) (stories)

• Fault Lines (na) Asimov’s Aug 1995
• A Scientific Education (nv) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998
• Plant Engineering (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001

KRESSMAN, PAM (stories)

• The Story That Won: Payte’s Wait (vi) AHMM Feb 2002

KREUITER, V. C. (stories)

• Mr. Bartholomew (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1980

KRICH, ROCHELLE MAJER (1947- ) (books) (stories)

• A Golden Opportunity (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
• Cat in the Act (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Regrets Only (ss) Malice Domestic 4, Carolyn G. Hart, Pocket 1995
• Widow’s Peak (ss) Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000
• “You Win Some...” (nv) Women Before the Bench, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Prime Crime 2001
• Bitter Waters (ss) Criminal Kabbalah, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 2001
• Murder on Sunset Boulevard [ed. with Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman] (oa) Top Publications 2002
• Guardian Angel (ss) Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime, ed. Sara Paretsky, Signet 2007

KRINARD, SUSAN (stories)

• Murder Entailed (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004

KRISKE, ANKE M. (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Put-Down (vi) AHMM Feb 1991
• Inspection (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

KRIST, GARY (Michael) (1957- ) (stories)

• An Innocent Bystander (ss) Playboy Apr 1998

KRITZBERG, TOM (stories)

• A New Beginning (vi) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

KROHN, WILLIAM (stories)

• The Impossible Murder of Dr. Satanus (ss) EQMM Apr 1965

KROLL, KEITH (stories)

• The Man from Motor City: Loren D. Estleman (iv) The Armchair Detective Win 1991

KRUEGER, MARGERY (1940-2006); see pseudonym Jayge Carr (stories)

KRUEGER, WILLIAM KENT (1950- ) (stories)

• Bums (ss) Twin Cities Noir, ed. Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Akashic Books 2006; West Side (St. Paul).
• Heat Lightning (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• Absolution (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• Hills Like White Rabbits (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

KRULIKOWSKI, CLAIRE (stories)

• Young Love (pm) EQMM Jul 1992

KRUPOWICZ, THOMAS E(dward) (1938- ) (books)

• Dead Men Don’t Drink Vodka and Other Stories (co) Terk Books & Publishers 2001

KRUSE, TATJANA (stories)

• The Good Old German Way (ss) 2001; from Briefe Aus Mosbach—Das Verbrechen Lauert Überall, Verlag der Criminale.

KRUTCH, JOSEPH WOOD (1893-1970) (stories)

• from “Only a Detective Story” (ex) The Nation Nov 25 1944

KUCZMARSKI, JEFFREY (stories)

• Max Find (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

KUHFELD, AL(bert W.) (stories)

• An Ill Wind [with Mary Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Apr 1984
• Allergic to Death [with Mary Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Sep 1984
• The Scales of Justice [with Mary Kuhfeld] (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1985
• The Old Shell Game (ss) AHMM Jan 1986
• Timely Psychiatric Intervention [with Mary Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Sep 1986
• Night Light [with Mary Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Mar 1987
• A Specialist in Dragons [with Mary Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM May 1987
• Thorolf and the Peacock (ss) AHMM Jun 1987

KUHFELD, MARY (Monica Pulver) (1943- ); also as Mary Monica Pulver (stories)

• An Ill Wind [with Al Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Apr 1984
• Allergic to Death [with Al Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Sep 1984
• The Scales of Justice [with Al Kuhfeld] (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1985
• Timely Psychiatric Intervention [with Al Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Sep 1986
• Night Light [with Al Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM Mar 1987
• A Specialist in Dragons [with Al Kuhfeld] (ss) AHMM May 1987

KUHLKEN, KEN(neth Wayne) (1945- ) (stories)

• The Enemy (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
• Too Sweet (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007

KUMMER, FREDERIC ARNOLD, JR. (1912- ) (stories)

• Cut Glass (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 17 1937
• Death Racket (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1939

KUNIS, RENA GARTER (stories)

• The Most Suspected Person (pm) EQMM Mar 1990

KUPPERBERG, PAUL (stories)

• Creatures of Habit (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993 [Batman]

KURITZKY, SIMCHA LAIB (stories)

• Protocols of the Elders of Al-Quds (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

KURLAND, MICHAEL J(oseph) (1938- ) (books) (stories)

• Quicker Than the Eye [with Bill Pronzini] (nv) AHMM Sep 1975
• Vanishing Act [with Bill Pronzini] (ss) AHMM Jan 1976 [Christopher Steele]
• The Stolen Saint Simon (nv) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• Blind Justice (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001 [Quintilianus]
• My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective [ed.] (oa) St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Years Ago and in a Different Place (nv) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Professor James Moriarty). [Sherlock Holmes; Professor James Moriarty]
• Great Caesar’s Ghost (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003 [Quintilian]
• He Couldn’t Fly (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004 [Alexander Brass]
• Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years [ed.] (oa) St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Reichenbach (na) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Introduction (in) Left Coast Crimes, ed. Valerie Feldman, Left Coast Crime 2004

KURSH, HARRY (stories)

• The 7,500 Typewriter I Built for Alger Hiss [with Martin Tytell, narr.] (ar) True 1952

KUSSI, PETER (stories)

• Footprints, by Karel Capek (ss) AHMM Aug 1990; “Slépeje,” from Povídky z jedné kapsy, 1929.; tr. by Robert Wechsler

KUTAK, ELIZABETH L. (stories)

• The Derby Week Punch (ss) Low Down and Derby, ed. Abigail Jones, Overmountain Press 2006

KUTTNER, HENRY (1915-1958) (stories)

• The Shadow on the Screen (ss) Weird Tales Mar 1938
• The Wolf of Aragon (ss) Thrilling Adventures Jul 1941
• Lands of the Earthquake (na) Startling Stories May 1947

KUYUMJIAN, DIKRAN (1895-1956); see pseudonym Michael Arlen (stories)

KYD, THOMAS (1558-1594) (stories)

• The Spanish Tragedy or Hieronimo Is Mad Again (pl) 1592

KYLE-KEITH, ROGER (stories)

• Iron City (ss) Hardboiled #18 1994

LABDRIGAN, LINDA (stories)

• Editor’s Notes (ed) AHMM Nov, Dec 2006, Mar 2007

LACEY, MARGARET (stories)

• The Glitter of Game Day (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980
• Face at the Window (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1982

LACHMAN, MARVIN (stories)

• The President and the Mystery Story (ar) Mystery May 1981
• Ted Wood, Hardboiled Canadian (ar) Hardboiled #6 1986
• That’s the Story (cl) Detective Story Magazine May, Sep, Dec 1988, Apr, Aug 1989, Feb, Jun 1990
• Hurlyburly (vi) Detective Story Magazine Dec 1988
• The Traditional Detective (ss) Hardboiled #10 1989
• That’s the Story # 6 (cl) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1989
• Original Sins (br) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1990, Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1991
• That’s the Story Sep (cl) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1990
• That’s the Story #12 (cl) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991
• That’s the Story #13 (cl) Hardboiled #13 1992
• That’s the Story #14 (cl) Hardboiled #14 1992
• Flowers For Pretty Boy (ss) Hardboiled #22 1996
• Ellery Queen and His Fans (ar) EQMM Dec 2005
• A Dr. Sam Hawthorne Chronology (bg)
• The Long Way Home: The Travels of Ben Snow (ar)

LACHNIT, CARROLL (M.) (1954- ) (stories)

• Blind (nv) Women Before the Bench, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Prime Crime 2001

LACKEY, JANE CARTER (stories)

• You Can’t Be Too Careful (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981

LACKEY, MERCEDES (Ritche) (1950- ) (stories)

• Grey Eminence (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004