Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

BANKS, RAY (stories)

• Walking After Midnight (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2003
• Love Will Tear Us Apart (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2004
• The Beat Goes On (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• God Put a Smile (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2004 [Cal Innes]
• Take Down the Union Jack (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2004 [Cal Innes]
• Seductive Barry (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2004
• Dirty Barry (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2005
• Real Gone (ss)

BANKS, RAYMOND E(ugene) (1918-1996) (stories)

• The Ballad of Davey Robson (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• Money Shot (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Wrong ’em, Boyo (ss)

BANKS, RUSSELL (Earl) (1940- ) (stories)

• The Child Screams and Looks Back at You (ss) Fiction Magazine 1981; also as “Doctor Wickshaw”.
• Doctor Wickshaw (ss) Fiction Magazine 1981
• My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories (ss) 1986
• Lobster Night (ss) Esquire Mar 2000

BANNISTER, JO (1951- ) (stories)

• The Witness (ss) EQMM Mar 1992
• The Garden Party (ss) EQMM Apr 1992
• A Poisoned Chalice (ss) EQMM May 1992
• Howler (ss) EQMM Oct 1992
• Face Value (ss) EQMM Sep 1993
• Blood Feud (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• Passion Flower (ss) EQMM Jul 1994
• Last of Kin (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
• The Watchers (ss) EQMM Mar 1995
• The Fall Guy (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999

BANVILLE, JOHN (1945- ) (stories)

• from The Book of Evidence (ex) 1989

BANVILLE, VINCENT (1940- ) (stories)

• Body Count (ss) The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000

BARANCIK, STEVE (stories)

• The Story of Captain Nobody (ss) AHMM Sep 1988
• Twin Confusion (ss) AHMM Oct 1988
• My First Murder (ss) AHMM Jan 1989
• Deke’s Clown (ss) AHMM May 1990

BarbaraNEELY (1941- ) (stories)

• Spilled Salt (ss) Breaking In: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, ed. Terry McMillan, Viking Penguin 1990

BARBARD, ROBERT (stories)

• The Gentleman in the Lake (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• Checking Out (ss) EQMM Nov 2002

BARBER, (Cyril) ALEX(ander) (1906-1998) (stories)

• Murderer’s Handicap (ss) London Evening News Sep 3 1934

BARBEY d’AUREVILLY, JULES-AMÉDÉE (1808-1889) (stories)

• A Woman’s Vengeance (nv) The Penguin Book of French Short Stories, ed. Edward Marielle, Penguin 1968

BARBIERI, TERRY (stories)

• The Final Cut (ss) EQMM Jul 2006
• Body Shop (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006 [Nick Gallagher]
• Out of Bounds (ss) EQMM Jan 2007

BARCLAY, LINWOOD (stories)

• Foreword (fw) Dead in the Water, ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood, RendezVous Press 2006

BARCOMB, WAYNE (A.) (1933- ) (stories)

• Good Night, Mrs. Chisholm (ss)

BARDEEN, BETTE (stories)

• The Precious Wentletrap (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

BARDONI, AVRIL (stories)

• Mafia Western, by Leonardo Sciascia (ss) The Wine Dark Sea, Carcenet 1985

BARDSLEY, MICHELE R. (stories)

• A Perfect Murder (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004

BARER, BURL (Roger) (1947- ) (stories)

• The Strange Case of the Criminal T-Shirt (ar) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• Headlock (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 1998; Deadly Alibi, 2000. [Jeff Reynolds]

BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS (1788-1845) (stories)

• A Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D.D. (nv) Blackwood’s Apr 1831
• The Spectre of Tappington (nv) Bentley’s Miscellany Feb 1837
• The Leech of Folkestone (nv) Bentley’s Miscellany Jul 1837
• Jerry Jarvis’s Wig (ss) Bentley’s Miscellany May 1843
• Grey Dolphin (ss)

BARING, MAURICE (1874-1945) (stories)

• From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes (ss) The Eye-Witness Nov 23 1911 [Sherlock Holmes]

BARKER, C(larence) HEDLEY (1894-?) (stories)

• The Ace of Trouble (ss) Pearson’s Magazine 1925

BARKER, CLIVE (1952- ) (stories)

• Lost Souls (ss) Time Out Dec 19 1985-Jan 1 ’86 [Harry D’Amour]
• The Age of Desire (nv) Clive Barker’s Books of Blood v4, Sphere 1985
• Down, Satan! (ss) Clive Barker’s Books of Blood v4, Sphere 1985

BARKER, EDMUND (stories)

• Baggage for Hire (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

BARKER, ELSA (1869-1954) (stories)

• The Key in Michael (nv) The Red Book Magazine Jan 1927 [Dexter Drake]

BARKER, HEDLEY; see under Barker, C. Hedley (stories)

BARKER, NUGENT (1888-1955) (stories)

• The Invalid (ss) The Fortnightly Review Dec 1928
• Whessoe (ss) Life and Letters Dec 1928
• The Six (ss) The Cornhill Magazine Aug 1935

BARKER, TREY R. (books) (stories)

• Rat (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Crime Spree [ed. with Sandra DeLuca] (oa) December Girl Press 2001
• How Still Her Eyes (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001

BARNARD, JAYNE (stories)

• Bow Tide (ss) Dead in the Water, ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood, RendezVous Press 2006

BARNARD, ROBERT (1936- ); see pseudonym Bernard Bastable (books) (stories)

• Just Another Kidnap (ss) AHMM Jun 1983
• What’s In a Name? (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• Blown Up (ss) EQMM Jun 1986
• Hardacre Hall (ss) EQMM Sep 1986
• My Last Girl Friend (vi) EQMM Nov 1986
• The Injured Party (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1986
• Happy Christmas (ss) Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 4, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Davis 1986
• Little Terror (ss) Winter’s Crimes 18, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1986
• Breakfast Television (ss) EQMM Jan 1987
• The Oxford Way of Death (ss) EQMM Apr 1987
• Perfect Honeymoon (ss) EQMM Aug 1987
• The Woman in the Wardrobe (ss) EQMM Dec 1987
• Sisters (ss) Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 5, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Davis 1987
• A Good Deed (ss) EQMM Aug 1988
• More Final Than Divorce (ss) EQMM Oct 1988
• The Face of Violence (ss) EQMM Feb 1989
• Not Much of a Life (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• Divine Anger (ss) EQMM Jul 1989
• A Good Turn (ss) EQMM Dec 1989
• Happy Release (ss) Death of a Salesperson, Collins 1989
• Holy Living and Holy Dying (ss) Death of a Salesperson, Collins 1989
• Post Mortem (ss) Winter’s Crimes 21, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1989
• Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits (co) Scribner’s 1990
• The Nick of Time (ss) EQMM Jan 1990
• An Exceptional Night (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
• Cupid’s Dart (ss) EQMM May 1990
• The Stuff of Nightmares (ss) EQMM Dec 1990
• The Dangling Man (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
• Good Time Had By All (ss) A Classic English Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1990
• Living with Jimmy (ss) Winter’s Crimes 22, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1990
• A Political Necessity (nv) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
• The Habit of Widowhood (ss) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991
• The Man in Her Life (ss) EQMM Feb 1992
• A Sure-Fire Speculation (ss) EQMM Jun 1992
• My Son, My Son (ss) EQMM Oct 1992
• A Hotel in Bucharest (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1992
• Soldier, from the Wars Returning (ss) 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992
• Balmorality (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
• A Statesman’s Touch (ss) EQMM Mar 1993
• Dog Television (ss) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• Keep Taking the Tabloids (ss) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• If Looks Could Kill (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
• The Eye of the Beholder (ss) EQMM Oct 1994
• Recipe for Pork Fillet Chasseur (ms) Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• The Gentleman in the Lake (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1994
• The Women at the Funeral (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
• The Slave Trade (ss) EQMM Apr 1995
• Reader, I Strangled Him (ss) EQMM May 1995
• Boxing Unclever (ss) A Classic Christmas Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1995
• The Habit of Widowhood (co) Scribner’s 1996
• Called to Judgement (ss) The Habit of Widowhood, Scribner 1996
• The Tosca Dagger (ss) EQMM Mar 1998
• An Evening with Fred and Rosemary (ss) EQMM May 1998
• Sense and Sensuality (ss) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998
• Coming to an End (ss) EQMM Feb 2000
• A Slow Way to Di (ss) EQMM Mar 2000
• The Lost Boy (na) Criminal Records, ed. Otto Penzler, Orion 2000
• Nothing to Lose (ss) Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess, Avon 2000
• Old Dog, New Tricks (ss) EQMM Mar 2001
• A Confusion of Detectives (ss) EQMM Jul 2001
• The Path to the Shroud (nv) EQMM Apr 2002
• Going Through a Phase (ss) EQMM May 2002
• Dognapped (ss) EQMM Jun 2002
• The Fall of the House of Oldenborg (ss) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• Rogues’ Gallery (ss) EQMM Mar 2003
• Gaudi Night (ss) EQMM Jul 2003
• The Cairo Road (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Everybody’s Girl (ss) Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
• I Saw Mummy Killing Santa Claus (ss) EQMM Jan 2004
• The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (ss) EQMM Aug 2004
• Where Mongrels Fear to Tread (ss) EQMM Feb 2005
• Waiting for Nemesis (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
• The Old Couple (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• The Life-lie (ss) The Detection Collection, ed. Simon Brett, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2006
• Provenance (ss) EQMM Jul 2006
• Sins of Scarlet (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006
• Sisters Under the Skin (ss) The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• The End of Little Nell (ss) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007
• Mother Dear (ss) EQMM May 2008
• An Object of Scandal and Concern (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2008
• A Year to Remember (ss) EQMM Nov 2008
• A Business Partnership (ss)
• Daylight Robbery (ss)
• Death of a Salesperson (nv)
• Introduction (in)
• A Process of Rehabilitation (ss)

BARNES, ERIC (stories)

• The Huts (ss) Greensboro Review Sum 1997

BARNES, LINDA J(oyce Appelblatt) (1949- ) (stories)

• Lucky Penny (ss) The New Black Mask No.3, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1985
• Miss Gibson (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• “Linda Barnes: Listening to Her Muse” by Rosemary Herbert (bg) MHCMM Sum 1999

BARNES, MIKE (stories)

• Don and Ron (nv) The New Quarterly v20 #4 2001
• The Stand-In (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

BARNETT, CAREY (stories)

• In the Bag (vi) Argosy 1937

BARNETT, JAMES (1920- ) (stories)

• No Wreath for Maxie (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• You Can’t Bury Evil (nv) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• The Dolls of Death (nv) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

BARNETT, PAUL (Le Page) (1949- ); see pseudonym John Grant (stories)

• Imogen (nv) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• The Price of Virginity (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• Two Dead Men (nv) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999

BARNFIELD, GRAHAM (stories)

• Blood, Guts and Joe Carnahan (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

BARNSLEY, PAM (stories)

• Next Time Will Be Different (ss) EQMM Nov 2002
• Don’t Tell Mom (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004

BARR, CHARLES (stories)

• Ghostly Quest (cs) Private Detective Stories Jan 1950 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Death from the Jungle (cs) Private Detective Stories May 1950 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Sally the Sleuth: (cs) Private Detective Sep 1949 [Sally the Sleuth]

BARR, MIKE W. (stories)

• Challenge to the Artist: The Comic Book Stories of Ellery Queen (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999

BARR, NEVADA (1952- ) (books) (stories)

• Track of the Cat (ex) 1993 [Anna Pigeon]
• Beneath the Lilacs (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• The Crimson Moccasins (ss) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• Ione (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998
• “Murder in the Wild” by Cheryl Solimini (bg) MHCMM Fll 1998
• Venus Rising (ss) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• Malice Domestic 10 (oa) Avon 2001
• Introduction: An Immeasurable Feast (in) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
• GDMFSOB (ss) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• [untitled] (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006

BARR, RANDOLPH; house pseudonym (stories)

• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1941

BARR, ROBERT (1850-1912); see pseudonym Luke Sharp (stories)

• The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs (ss) The Idler May 1892
• A Slippery Customer (ss) The Face and the Mask, Hutchinson 1894
• Jennie Learns About the Diamonds of the Princess (ex) New York: Stokes 1899 [Jennie Baxter]
• Jennie Meets a Great Detective (ex) New York: Stokes 1899 [Jennie Baxter]
• Jennie Solves the Diamond Mystery (ex) New York: Stokes 1899 [Jennie Baxter]
• A Game of Chess (ss) Pearson’s Magazine (US) Mar 1900
• The Clue of the Silver Spoons (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1904 [Eugène Valmont]
• Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1905 [Eugène Valmont]
• The Absent-Minded Coterie (nv) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905 [Eugène Valmont]
• In the Grip of the Green Demon (ss)

BARREAUX, (Adolphe) (1901- ) (stories)

• Love Nest Loot (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Sep 1935 [Sally the Sleuth]
• The Avenging Corpse (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Sep 1936 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Fallen Star (cs) Spicy Detective Stories May 1937 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Rogues in Rags (gs) Spicy Detective Stories Sep 1938 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Sally the Sleuth (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Jul 1942 [Sally the Sleuth]
• Murder in Miniature [with Robert Leslie Bellem] (cs) Hollywood Detective Nov 1943 [Dan Turner]
• Death for a Matador [with Robert Leslie Bellem] (cs) Hollywood Detective Mar 1945
• Sally the Sleuth: (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1941 [Sally the Sleuth]

BARRETT, ANN (stories)

• Prints (ss) Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002

BARRETT, DEAN (1942- ) (stories)

• Death of a Legend (ss) Blue Murder Jul 1999

BARRETT, KATHLEEN ANNE (1953- ) (stories)

• Milwaukee Winters Can Be Murder (n.) New York: Bouregy 1996