Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

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)

• Floating (ss) North Florida Noir, ed. Michael Lister, Pottersville Press 2006
• 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
• A Friendly Little Game (nv) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007

LESLIE S. KLINGER (stories)

• “The Adventure of the Red Circle” by Arthur Conan Doyle (ss) The Strand Mar-Apr 1911 [Sherlock Holmes]

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
• The Ghetto Never Sleeps, Mister Policeman (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (Atlantic Yards).

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]
• One of Our Barbarians (ss) EQMM Jan 2008 [Yaotl]
• Four Hundred Rabbits (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008 [Yaotl]
• The Girl from the Pleasure House (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2008 [Cemiquiztli Yaotl]

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 Debt Collector (ss) Tales of Mystery and Horror, McBride 1920
• The Test (ss) Crises, London: A.M. Philpot 1920

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, DOUG (stories)

• Wilson’s Man (ss) EQMM Jan 2008

LEVIN, IRA (1929-2007) (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, LAURA (stories)

• The Dangers of Candy Canes (na) Candy Cane Murder, ed. Anon., Kensington 2007

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 (Leighton) (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
• A Prisoner of Memory (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2007
• And the Winner Is— (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007
• An Appointment Up the Mountain (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008 [Clegg]
• The Quick Brown Fox (ss) AHMM Oct 2008

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 (L.) (1947- ) (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]
• Blue Line (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007

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
• Danny Pulls His Weight (ss) 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992 [Dan Quayle]
• 1st Culprit [ed. with Liza Cody] (oa) St. Martin’s 1993
• Rainey Shines (ss) EQMM Jul 1993
• The Stranger (ss) EQMM Sep 1993
• Boss (vi) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• Cryptic Crime Acrostic [with Sarah Caudwell] (pz) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• Gains and Losses (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 3, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1993 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• In Mitigation (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
• Suicide Note (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1994
• Travel Plans (ss) AHMM Apr 1994 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• 2nd Culprit [ed. with Liza Cody] (oa) St. Martin’s 1994
• Blood Blue (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• Cormorants (ss) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• The Hit (ss) EQMM Oct 1994
• What a Woman Wants (ss) Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
• 3rd Culprit [ed. with Peter Lovesey & Liza Cody] (an) Chatto & Windus 1994
• 3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories [ed. with Peter Lovesey & Liza Cody] (oa) Chatto & Windus 1994
• Dr Bud, CA (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
• The Hand That Feeds Me (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994 [Rover (a dog)]
• Cross, Rems of (ss) EQMM Apr 1995
• Albert’s List (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
• Backing (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• Oil and Water (ss) EQMM May 1999
• Backwater (nv) Diagnosis Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket 1999
• Gunpoint (ss) EQMM Dec 2000 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• Pay Phone (ss) AHMM Mar 2001 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• Night Shift (ss) EQMM Jul 2001; first published in Japan in Hayakawa Mystery Magazine, 1999. [Lt. Leroy Powder]
• If the Glove Fits (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
• The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories (co) Crippen & Landru 2001
• Mr. Hard Man (ss) The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2001
• Whodunnit? (pm) EQMM Jul 2003
• Cigarettes (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• 911 (ss) EQMM Feb 2005 [Leroy Powder]
• The Jane Case (ss) AHMM May 2005
• And Maybe More (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005 [Lunghi Detective Agency]
• Block (ss) AHMM Sep 2005
• Friends of the Garrick (ss) The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• Wheeze (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007
• D’ya Hear Me? (ss) EQMM May 2007 [Garth & Annette]
• They Never Listen (ss) EQMM May 2007 [Garth & Annette]
• Death Row (ss) AHMM Mar 2008
• In the beginning was a story... (in)
• MZL in the Mystery Field: A Checklist (bi)
• Story Notes (ms)

LEWIS, ANTHONY R(ichard) “TONY”; (1941- ) (stories)

• Loss of Phase (ss) Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
• The Adventure of the Illegal Alien (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]

LEWIS, BRENDA RALPH (stories)

• The Inti Mystery (ss) Purnell’s Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Anon., Bristol: Purnell 1982

LEWIS, C(ecil) DAY (1904-1972) (stories)

• Sex-Crime (pm)

LEWIS, DAVE (stories)

• Dicks and Janes: A Hardboiled Quiz [with Bob Napier] (qz) The Not So Private Eye #11 1983

LEWIS, JOE (stories)

• Historically Spying... (ar) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• Spying Through Time (ar) Espionage Magazine Feb, May, Aug, Nov 1985, Feb, Apr, Jun, Oct 1986

LEWIS, KEN (stories)

• Parlor, Bedroom, and Death (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1944
• If the Shoe Fits (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1945

LEWIS, MARGARET (stories)

• Natural Powers (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
• Death In Hard Covers (ss) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992
• A Bend in Time (ss) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995

LEWIS, MARVIN (stories)

• Get Up the Money (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959

LEWIS, MARY CHRISTIANNA MILNE (1907-1988); see pseudonym Christianna Brand (books) (stories)

LEWIS, MICHAEL (Arthur) (1890-1970) (stories)

• Liar’s Poker (ex) W.W. Norton 1989