Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

BANKIER, WILLIAM (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * How to Reduce an Overdraft, (ss) EQMM May 1983
• * If Cats Could Speak, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1984
• * Information Leading To, (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• * The Joke that Died, (nv) EQMM Jul 1985
• * The Judgment of Langsdorf Bews, (ss) EQMM Jun 1983
• * The Last Act Was Deadly, (ss) AHMM Jun 1978
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * The Last One to Know, (ss) AHMM Mar 26 1980
• * Legacy from a Bad Actor, (ss) EQMM Apr 1987
• * Let’s Hear It for Tomorrow, (ss) EQMM Aug 1999
• * The Locked Roomette, (ss) EQMM Nov 1990
• * Long Time No Murder, (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• * The Losers, (ss) EQMM May 1988
• * A Lot of Hurt Feelings, (ss) EQMM Jun 1991
• * The Lottery Ticket, (ss) EQMM Aug 1989
• * The Maggie File, (ss) EQMM Sep 1984
• * Making a Killing with Mama Cass, (ss) AHMM Jan 30 1980
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006
• * The Mandrake Forgeries, (ss) EQMM Feb 1990
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
• * Marti Roch, (ss) AHMM May 27 1981
• * Mean Characters, (ss) EQMM Nov 1985
• * Melrose Rendezvous, (ss) EQMM Mar 2002
• * The Missing Collectormaniac, (ss) AHMM Apr 1 1981
• * The Missing Missile, (ss) AHMM Feb 27 1980
• * Murder in the Cards, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• * My Brother’s Killer, (ss) EQMM Apr 1973
  • Kingpins, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Carroll & Graf 1992
• * My Life as a Dead Man, (ss) EQMM Sep 1992
• * Mysterious Ways, (ss) EQMM May 1994
• * The Mystery of the Missing Guy, (nv) EQMM Dec 1979
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * Never Leave Me, Dawn Patrol, (ss) EQMM Jul 1986
• * The Nice One, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984
• * Norris Farmer’s Secret, (ss) EQMM May 1989
• * Nothing to Lose, (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980
• * Oil and Water, (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• * On a Day When I’m Brave, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• * One Consideration with Another, (ss) EQMM May 1986
• * One Day at a Time, (ss) EQMM Oct 1988
• * A One-Man Dog, (ss) EQMM Dec 1990
  • Canine Crimes, ed. Cynthia Manson, Jove 1993
• * Only If You Get Caught, (ss) EQMM Oct 7 1981
• * Only the Beginning, (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
  • Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003
• * Other People’s Money [Baytown, Canada], (ss) EQMM Feb 2006
• * Out of the Ashes, (ss) EQMM Dec 1992
• * Paid in Advance, (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
• * The Parking-Lot Dream, (ss) EQMM Jan 1988
• * The Paternity Thing, (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• * The Perfect Victim, (ss) EQMM Mar 1992
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry, (ss) EQMM May 1991
• * Pool Players Are Nice People [Baytown, Canada], (ss) EQMM May 2007
• * Pop Goes the Weasel, (ss) EQMM Sep 1989
• * The Preacher and the Kid, (ss) EQMM May 1995
• * The Price of the Midnight Dancing, (ss) EQMM Jul 1996
• * The Prize in the Pack, (ss) EQMM Oct 1986
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
  • Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
• * The Reaction of the Working Class, (ss) EQMM Dec 1985
• * Real Bullets This Time?, (ss) EQMM Jul 1997
• * The Rescue of “Two-Kinds” Tuttle, (ss) EQMM Feb 1987
• * The Right Physical Type, (ss) EQMM Jul 1984
• * Rink Rat No More, (ss) EQMM Jan 1993
• * The Road to Ste. Agathe, (ss) EQMM Jun 1986
• * Safe as Houses, (ss) EQMM Jan 1986
• * Saved from Deep Water, (ss) EQMM Oct 1987
• * A Script for the President, (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• * Sealed Fates, (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• * Shorty, (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
• * Silently, in the Dead of Night, (ss) EQMM Jan 1984
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * So Wrong at the Fair, (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
• * The Solid-Gold Lie, (ss) AHMM Oct 1 1980
• * Stolen Careers, (ss) EQMM Feb 1988
• * Storm Window, (ss) EQMM Aug 1994
• * The Team, (ss) EQMM Aug 1995
• * Too Dead for Words, (ss) EQMM Nov 1997
• * Traffic Violation, (ss) EQMM Sep 1967
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * The Trouble at Baytown High [Baytown, Canada], (ss) EQMM Aug 1993
• * Two Bards with One Stone, (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1988
• * The Ultimate Bummer, (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• * Veronica’s Husband, (ss) EQMM Feb 1986
• * A Visit to Rip-Off City, (ss) EQMM Apr 1986
• * Wade in the Balance, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
• * We Only Live Once, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1987
• * Wednesday Night at the Forum, (nv) AHMM Aug 1977
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * We’ll Always Have Barstow, (ss) EQMM Feb 2001
• * What Happened in Act One, (ss) EQMM Jul 1962
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * What Really Happened?, (ss) EQMM Jul 1976
  • Fear Is a Killer, Mosaic Press 1995
• * Where the Bodies Are Buried, (ss) EQMM Sep 1987
• * Where Will It All End?, (ss) EQMM Sep 1982
• * Who’s Alfredo, the Big Bad Wolf? [Baytown], (ss) EQMM Aug 2006
• * Wimbledon Fortnight, (ss) EQMM Jul 1987
• * A Woman Waits for Me, (nv) EQMM Mar 25 1981
• * Words of Warning, (ss) EQMM May 1998
• * You Get What You Deserve, (ss) AHMM Jul 16 1980
• * You Never Know Your Luck, (nv) EQMM Sep 1986
• * Zut, Alors, Josie, (ss) EQMM Aug 1985

BANKS, CAROLYN (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Counterpoint, (ss) Penthouse Hot Talk Mar/Apr 1991
• * Owing Kiki, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1989

BANKS, IAIN (Menzies) (1954- ) (chron.)

• * A Gift from the Culture [Culture], (ss) Interzone #20 1987
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

BANKS, JACQUELINE TURNER (chron.)

• * The Cookout, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

BANKS, RAY (chron.)

• * The Beat Goes On, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• * Dirty Barry, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2005
• * God Put a Smile [Cal Innes], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2004
• * Love Will Tear Us Apart, (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2004
• * Real Gone, (ss)
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
• * Seductive Barry, (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2004
• * Take Down the Union Jack [Cal Innes], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2004
• * Walking After Midnight, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2003

BANKS, RAYMOND E(ugene) (1918-1996) (chron.)

• * The Ballad of Davey Robson, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• * Wrong ’em, Boyo, (ss)
  • Dublin Noir, ed. Ken Bruen, Akashic Books 2006

BANKS, RUSSELL (Earl) (1940- ) (chron.)

• * The Child Screams and Looks Back at You, (ss) Fiction Magazine 1981; also as “Doctor Wickshaw”.
• * Doctor Wickshaw [“The Child Screams and Looks Back at You”], (ss) Fiction Magazine 1981
  • EQMM Dec 1987; condensed
• * Lobster Night, (ss) Esquire Mar 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001
• * My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories, (ss) 1986
  • Lying Cheating & Stealing, ed. Sara Nicklès, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 1997

BANNISTER, JO (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Blood Feud, (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
• * Face Value, (ss) EQMM Sep 1993
• * The Fall Guy, (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
• * The Garden Party, (ss) EQMM Apr 1992
• * Howler, (ss) EQMM Oct 1992
  • The Haunted Hour, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley Prime Crime 1995
• * Last of Kin, (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
  • EQMM Jan 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Passion Flower, (ss) EQMM Jul 1994
• * A Poisoned Chalice, (ss) EQMM May 1992
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1993, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1993
• * The Watchers, (ss) EQMM Mar 1995
• * The Witness, (ss) EQMM Mar 1992

BANVILLE, JOHN (1945- ) (chron.)

• * from The Book of Evidence, (ex) 1989
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

BANVILLE, VINCENT (1940- ) (chron.)

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

BARANCIK, STEVE (chron.)

• * Deke’s Clown, (ss) AHMM May 1990
• * My First Murder, (ss) AHMM Jan 1989
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Story of Captain Nobody, (ss) AHMM Sep 1988
• * Twin Confusion, (ss) AHMM Oct 1988

BarbaraNEELY (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Spilled Salt, (ss) Breaking In: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, ed. Terry McMillan, Viking Penguin 1990
  • Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995

BARBARD, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Checking Out, (ss) EQMM Nov 2002
• * The Gentleman in the Lake, (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1995, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995

BARBER, (Cyril) ALEX(ander) (1906- ) (chron.)

• * Murderer’s Handicap, (ss) London Evening News Sep 3 1934
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

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

• * A Woman’s Vengeance, (nv) The Penguin Book of French Short Stories, ed. Edward Marielle, Penguin 1968
  • Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985; tr. by Edward Marielle

BARBIERI, TERRY (chron.)

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

BARCOMB, WAYNE (chron.)

• * Good Night, Mrs. Chisholm, (ss)
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999

BARDONI, AVRIL (chron.)

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• * Mafia Western, by Leonardo Sciascia [1973], (ss) The Wine Dark Sea, Carcenet 1985
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

BARDSLEY, MICHELE R. (chron.)

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

BARER, BURL (Roger) (1947- ) (chron.)

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

BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS (1788-1845) (chron.)

• * Grey Dolphin, (ss)
  • Sins of the Fathers, ed. Mark Bryant, Gollancz 1997
• * Jerry Jarvis’s Wig [as by Thomas Ingoldsby], (ss) Bentley’s Miscellany May 1843
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934
• * The Leech of Folkestone, (nv) Bentley’s Miscellany Jul 1837
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934
• * A Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D.D., (nv) Blackwood’s Apr 1831
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934
• * The Spectre of Tappington [as by Thomas Ingoldsby], (nv) Bentley’s Miscellany Feb 1837
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934
  • Mystery, ed. A. K. Barton, London: Dent 1937

BARING, MAURICE (1874-1945) (chron.)

• * From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Eye-Witness Nov 23 1911
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

BARKER, C(larence) HEDLEY (1894-?) (chron.)

• * The Ace of Trouble, (ss) Pearson’s Magazine 1925
  • Vintage Detective Stories, ed. Mike Higgs, London: Galley Press 1987

BARKER, CLIVE (1952- ) (chron.)

• * The Age of Desire, (nv) Clive Barker’s Books of Blood v4, Sphere 1985
  • Speaking of Lust, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Down, Satan!, (ss) Clive Barker’s Books of Blood v4, Sphere 1985
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * Lost Souls [*Harry D’Amour], (ss) Time Out Dec 19 1985-Jan 1 ’86
  • Dark Detectives, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer 1999

BARKER, EDMUND (chron.)

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

BARKER, ELSA (1869-1954) (chron.)

• * The Key in Michael [Dexter Drake], (nv) The Red Book Magazine Jan 1927
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1985

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

BARKER, NUGENT (1888-1955) (chron.)

• * The Invalid, (ss) The Fortnightly Review Dec 1928
  • Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935
• * The Six, (ss) The Cornhill Magazine Aug 1935
  • Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935
• * Whessoe, (ss) Life and Letters Dec 1928
  • Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935

BARKER, TREY R. (books) (chron.)

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

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

• * Balmorality, (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
  • Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • The Habit of Widowhood, Scribner 1996
  • Once Upon a Crime II, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1996
• * Blown Up, (ss) EQMM Jun 1986
  • Death of a Salesperson, Collins 1989
  • Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Boxing Unclever, (ss) A Classic Christmas Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1995