Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

MARKS, JEFFREY (books) (stories) (continued)

• Introduction (in)

MARKS, JEFFREY A. (books) (stories)

• Introduction (in)

MARKS, NEAL (stories)

• Down and Out in Brentwood (ss) Crime Scene Scotland Jan/Feb 2005

MARKS, PAUL D. (stories)

• Angels Flight (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997
• L.A. Late @ Night (ss) Murder on Sunset Boulevard, ed. Rochelle Krich, Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman, Top Publications 2002

MARLETT, MELBA (Balmat) (1909-1994) (stories)

• The Second Mrs. Porter (nv) AHMM Nov 1986

MARLIN, JOHN (stories)

• Bloody Executioner! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957

MARLINSPIKE; pseudonym (stories)

• The Coffin of Li Chu-Fung (ss) Mystery Stories #11 1937

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593) (stories)

• from Edward II] (ex)

MARLOWE, DAN J(ames) (1914-1986); see pseudonym Jaime Sandaval (stories)

• The Name of the Game Is Tape (vi) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1966
• A Casual Crime (ss) Signature, the Diner’s Club Magazine 1966
• Stakeout (ss) Adventure Dec 1970
• The Girl Who Sold Money (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
• Patterns (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1980
• Operation Good Samaritan (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1981
• The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1981
• Pressure (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1982
• Two Birds with One Stone (ss) EQMM Jul 1982
• Unfair Warning (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1983
• The Time of Her Life (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1983
• Something a Little Like Love (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984
• Pension Plan (ss) Espionage Magazine Feb 1985
• My Lawyers Are Smith and Wesson (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1985
• The Seven-Year Bitch [with Josh Pachter] (ss) Hardboiled #11 1990
• Dead Giveaway (ss)

MARLOWE, STEPHEN (1928- ) (books) (stories)

• The Shill (ss) Star Publications 1955
• Terrorists (ss) Accused Detective Story Magazine Jan 1956
• Drum Beat (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960 [Chester Drum]
• Hang by the Neck (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• Wanted - Dead and Alive (ss) Manhunt Oct 1963 [Chester Drum]
• Baby Sister (ss) Come Seven/Come Death, ed. Henry Morrison, Pocket 1965 [Chester Drum]
• Dreambeat—Dominique (n.) Gold Medal Books 1965 [Chester Drum]
• A Place to Visit (ss) AHMM Mar 1968 [Chester Drum]
• Chester Drum Takes Over (ss) Ellery Queen’s Anthology #25 1973 [Chester Drum]
• Drum Beat: The Chester Drum Casebook (co) Five Star 2003

MARMOR, ARNOLD (1927-1988) (stories)

• A Bottle of Wine (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1957
• Jack, Jack, Where You At? (vi) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Dec 1967
• Through the Mirror Blue (ss) Detective Story Magazine Apr 1989

MARON, MARGARET (B.) (books) (stories)

• The Death of Me (ss) AHMM Jan 1968
• The Roots of Death (ss) AHMM Aug 1969
• A Very Special Talent (ss) AHMM Jun 1970
• The Early Retirement of Mario Colletti (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1970
• The Beast Within (ss) AHMM Jul 1972
• To Hide a Tree (ss) AHMM May 1973
• When Daddy’s Gone (ss) The Executioner Mystery Magazine Aug 1975
• Deadhead Coming Down (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1978
• Guys and Dolls (ss) AHMM Jun 1979
• Let No Man Put Asunder (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1980
• A City Full of Thieves (ss) Skullduggery Jun 1980
• Mrs. Howell and Criminal Justice 2.1 (ss) AHMM Apr 1984
• On Windy Ridge (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1984
• Lost and Found (ss) Woman’s World Feb 16 1988
• Lieutenant Harald and the Treasure Island Treasure (ss) AHMM Sep 1989 [Lt. Sigrid Harald]
• Corpus Christmas (n.) Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1989 [Lt. Sigrid Harald]
• Out of Whole Cloth (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• My Mother, My Daughter, Me (ss) AHMM Mar 1990
• Small Club Lead, Dummy Plays Low (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990
• Deborah’s Judgment (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991 [Deborah Knott]
• Lieutenant Harald and the Treasure Island Treasure/My Mother, My Daughter, Me (co) Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
• Fruitcake, Mercy, and Black-Eyed Peas (nv) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991 [Deborah Knott]
• Lieutenant Harald and the Impossible Gun (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991 [Lt. Sigrid Harald]
• Hangnail (ss) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992
• “...That Married Dear Old Dad” (ss) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• That Bells May Ring and Whistles Safely Blow (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• What’s a Friend For? [with Susan Dunlap] (ss) Partners in Crime, ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet 1994 [Kiernan O’Shaughnessy; Deborah Knott]
• With This Ring (nv) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995 [Deborah Knott]
• No, I’m Not Jane Marple, But Since You Ask... (ss) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
• Shaggy Dog (ss) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
• Shoveling Smoke (co) Crippen & Landru 1997
• Craquelure (ss) The Store of Joys, ed. Huston Paschal 1997
• Prayer for Judgment (ss) Shoveling Smoke, Crippen & Landru 1997 [Deborah Knott]
• The Stupid Pet Trick (ss) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998
• Malice Domestic 8 (oa) Avon 1999
• Introduction: Down These Clean Streets... —A Look at Domestic Malice (in) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• Growth Marks (ss) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• Roman’s Holiday (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999 [Roman Tramegra]
• Half of Something (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• Virgo in Sapphires (ss) Astrokrimis: Virgo, Eichborn Verlag 2000
• The Third Element (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
• Till 3:45 (ss) Love and Death, ed. Carolyn Hart, Berkley Prime Crime 2001
• The Choice (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
• Mixed Blessings (nv) Women Before the Bench, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Prime Crime 2001
• What’s in a Name? (ss) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
• The Dog That Didn’t Bark (ss) EQMM Dec 2002
• Suitable for Hanging (co) Crippen & Landru 2004
• Croquet’s Summer (ss) Suitable for Hanging, Crippen & Landru 2004
• Devil’s Island (vi) Suitable for Hanging, Crippen & Landru 2004
• Mystery Novels and Short Stories by Margaret Maron: A Checklist (bg) Suitable for Hanging, Crippen & Landru 2004
• Bewreathed (ss) Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie Bruce, Penguin US 2005
• El Tramegra (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006 [Roman Tramegra]
• Introduction (in)

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA; see under García Márquez, Gabriel (stories)

MARQUIS, DON(ald Robert Perry) (1878-1937) (stories)

• An Old Charge (ss) Colliers Aug 4 1928

MARRIC, J. J.; pseudonym of John Creasey, (1908-1973) (stories)

• Gideon’s Fire (n.) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960 [Commander George Gideon]
• Gideon and the Chestnut Vendor (ss) 1971 [Commander George Gideon]

MARRIS, KATHRINE KRISTINE BECK (1950- ); see pseudonym K. K. Beck (books) (stories)

MARRS, JIM (stories)

• from Crossfire (ar)

MARRYAT, [Captain] FREDERICK (1792-1848) (stories)

• The Story of the Greek Slave (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1831
• Krantz’s Narrative (ex) The New Monthly Magazine Jul 1839; also as “The Werewolf”.
• The Werewolf (ex) The New Monthly Magazine Jul 1839

MARSDEN, FRANCIS (1885-?) (stories)

• The Captain (ss) Strange Assembly, ed. John Gawsworth, London: Unicorn Press 1932
• The Mask (nv) Strange Assembly, ed. John Gawsworth, London: Unicorn Press 1932

MARSDEN, ROD (stories)

• Knights and Wizards (ss) Masque Noir Jan 2000
• And One by Sea (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2000
• Shoe-Shoe, Belle and Alanna (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 2001
• Two-Up Triumphant (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 2001
• A Knight No More (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002
• Pail and Waters (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 2002
• Bigger Game (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #32 2003
• Hunt for the Golden Silence Fiend (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003

MARSH, ANTHONY (stories)

• One Deadly Sin (ss) AHMM Jan 1968

MARSH, HOWARD R(oland) (1893-?) (stories)

• Murder in the Ybarra (ss) G-Men Oct 1935

MARSH, LANE (stories)

• First Security (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984
• A Delicate Situation (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1985

MARSH, (Edith) NGAIO (1895-1982) (books) (stories)

• The Figure Quoted (ss) The Christchurch Sun Christmas 1927
• Death on the Air (nv) 1939 [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn]
• I Can Find My Way Out (ss) EQMM Aug 1946 [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn]
• The Hand in the Sand (ss) John Creasey Mystery Magazine Feb 1958
• The Cupid Mirror (ss) 1972
• Chapter and Verse (nv) EQMM Mar 1973 [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn]
• The Little Copplestone Mystery (nv) 1973 [Insp. (Supt.) Roderick Alleyn]
• A Fool About Money (ss) EQMM Dec 1974
• Evil Liver (pl) 1975
• Morepork (nv) Verdict of 13, ed. Julian Symons, London: Faber & Faber 1979
• The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh (co) International Polygonics 1989, revised 1991
• Our Particular Job (ar) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995
• Shakespeare’s Lost Whodunit (ar) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995
• Portrait of Troy (ar)
• Roderick Alleyn (ar)

MARSH, RICHARD; pseudonym of Richard B. Heldmann, (1867-1915) (stories)

• A Set of Chessmen (ss) The Cornhill Magazine Apr 1890
• An Illustration of Modern Science (ss) The Pall Mall Magazine Nov 1896
• The Beetle (n.) London: Skeffington 1897
• The Man Who Cut Off My Hair (ss) The Strand Aug 1911 [Judith Lee]

MARSHALL, DON (stories)

• A Friend in Deed (ss) AHMM Mar 1992
• As Ye Sow So Shall Ye... (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• Never Bite the Hand that... (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• A Crime Most Fowl (ss) AHMM Jul 1995
• The Devil to Pay (ss) AHMM Oct 1996

MARSHALL, JAY (stories)

• Confession of the Damned! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958

MARSHALL, PAUL (stories)

• The Terrorist’s Truth (ss) Crimewave #3 2000

MARSHALL, WILLIAM (Leonard) (1944- ) (stories)

• Inheritance (ss) The Armchair Detective Sum 1990
• THEM! (nv) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001

MARSTEN, RICHARD; pseudonym of Evan Hunter, (1926-2005) (stories)

• Every Morning (ss) Manhunt Sep 1954
• Kill Me, My Sweet (ss)

MARSTON, DEL; pseudonym of Richard A. Lupoff, (1935- ) (stories)

• Death in the Ditch (nv) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991

MARSTON, EDWARD; pseudonym of Keith Miles, (1940- ) (books) (stories)

• Sea Voices (ss) The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape 1975
• A Black Death (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• The Corbett Correspondence [with Peter Lovesey] (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
• Murder Mid-Atlantic (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
• Murder at Anchor (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
• Domesday Deferred (ss) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998
• War Hath Made All Friends (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• Psalm for a Dead Disciple (nv) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998
• Murder and Miracles (ss) Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal III, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1998
• Perfect Shadows (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• Artistic License (ss) The Strand Magazine #3 1999
• Second Fiddle (ss) The Strand Magazine #5 2000
• A Gift from God (ss) Murder Most Medieval, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, Cumberland House 2000
• Blind Eyes (nv) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• The Shoulder-Blade of a Ram (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• Sea Horse (ss) Death by Horoscope, ed. Anne Perry & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2001
• George’s Last Christmas (ss) The Strand Magazine Christmas 2001
• Nothing Like a Dame (ss) The Strand Magazine #9 2002
• Squinting at Death (ss) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• Slaughter in the Strand (ss) The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002
• The Hunchback and the Stammerer (ss) EQMM Feb 2003
• The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (ss) EQMM Apr 2003
• Yes or No (ss) The Strand Magazine #10 2003
• Force of Habit (ss) The Strand Magazine #11 2003
• Mute Witness (ss) The Strand Magazine #13 2004
• Skip (ss) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• Murder Ancient and Modern (co) Crippen & Landru 2005
• The Comical Revenge (ss) Murder Ancient and Modern, Crippen & Landru 2005
• The Radical Dandy (ss) Murder Ancient and Modern, Crippen & Landru 2005
• Botanist at Bay (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
• Corpus Christi (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• Introduction (in)

MARTIN, ALLANA (stories)

• The Christmas Bonus (na) How Still We See Thee Lie, ed. Anon., Worldwide 2002

MARTIN, BRUCE (1922- ) (stories)

• Revenge (pm) EQMM Nov 1992
• Y2K Exit (ss) Murderous Intent Win 1999

MARTIN, CARL; pseudonym of Albert F. Nussbaum, (1935-1996) (stories)

• In Review: Videos (cl) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987
• Don’t Play with Strangers (ss) EQMM Feb 1988
• Fatherly Love (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• A Slightly Less Dangerous Insanity (ss) EQMM Sep 1988
• Found Money (ss) EQMM Dec 1988
• Something Ventured (ss) EQMM Sep 1992

MARTIN, CAROL MYERS (stories)

• Death by Default (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980
• A Stranger Calls (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• Diamonds in the Rough (ss) AHMM Dec 9 1981
• Not a Whipperwill Called (ss) AHMM Jan 6 1982

MARTIN, CHARLES M.; see pseudonym Carlos Martinez (stories)

MARTIN, CHELLE (stories)

• Big, Beautiful Woman in Love (vi) About Mysteries; This big, beautiful woman in love can really knock ’em dead....

MARTIN, DONALD; pseudonym of Donald Honig, (1931- ) (stories)

• Meditations Upon a Murder (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
• Blood Red Wine (ss) AHMM May 1959
• Footprints in a Ghost Town (ss) AHMM Nov 1959

MARTIN, F. H. (stories)

• Billion Dollar Murders (nv) Federal Agent Sep 1937

MARTIN, FRANKLIN H. (stories)

• Double Exposure (nv) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933
• Twelfth Apostle (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Dec 1933
• The Cauliflower Kill (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934