Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

KAUFMAN, DAVID (chron.) (continued)

• * John Lehmann Alone, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• * Mr. Hancock’s Last Game, (ss) Fantasy Book Feb 1982
  • AHMM Jun 1987
  • Win, Lose or Die, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Carroll & Graf 1996

KAUKA, KANANI (chron.)

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

KAVA, ALEX; pseudonym of Sharon Kava, (1960- ) (chron.)

• * Goodnight, Sweet Mother [*Maggie O’Dell], (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

KAVA, SHARON (1960- ); see pseudonym Alex Kava (chron.)

KAVANAGH, JACK (chron.)

• * Green Bait for the Snark!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959

KAVENEY, ROZ; [legalized from Andrew J. Kaveney] (1949- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Bellringers’ Overtime, (na) Villains!, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992

KAY, ELIZABETH (chron.)

• * What Might Have Been, (nv) Mysterious Erotic Tales, ed. Anon., O’Mara 1996

KAY, JACKIE (chron.)

• * Pork Pies, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

KAY, TERRY; [i.e., Terrence Kay] (1918- ) (chron.)

• * The Obit Writer, (ss) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001

KAYE, L. D. (chron.)

• * Lightning and Fireflies, (pm) EQMM Jul 2002

KAYE, MARVIN (Nathan) (1938- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996
• * The Histrionic Holmes, (ar) 1971
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994; first complete version
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Introduction: The Startling Discovery of Dr. Watson’s Confidential Papers, (in) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998
• * Preface, (pr)
  • Sweet Revenge, ed. Marvin Kaye, Fireside Theater 1992
• * Too Many Stains (The Adventure of the Second Stain) (ascribed to Rex Stout) [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996

_____, adapt.

• * Bubnoff and the Devil (with Ivan Turgenev), (ss) Fiends and Creatures, ed. Marvin Kaye, Popular Library 1975
  • AHMM Nov 1993

_____, rev.

• * Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (with George Dibdin Pitt), (pl) 1992
  • Sweet Revenge, ed. Marvin Kaye, Fireside Theater 1992

KAYE, STEVE (chron.)

• * Day Work, (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004
• * Lucky Stiff [Leonard Dolman], (ss)
  • Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2001
• * The Vengeance Trail, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2002
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2002

KAYSER, RONAL (1905-1988); see pseudonym Dale Clark (chron.)

KAYTON, WALLACE (chron.)

• * Blonde Bait, (ss) Private Detective Stories Mar 1939

KEACH, STACY (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview: Stacy Keach” by Andrew F. Gulli, (iv) The Strand Magazine #14 2004

KEARNEY, SUSAN (Hope) (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Tomorrow’s Promise, (na) The Hope Chest, ed. Anon., Harlequin 2005

KEATING, H(enry) R(eymond) F(itzwalter) (1926- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Blackwood’s May 1979
  • Murder British Style, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * The All-Bad Hat [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
  • Great Tales of Crime and Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1993
  • The Television Detectives’ Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Artus 1994
• * An (Almost) Perfect Alibi, (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996
• * Arkady Nikolaivich [“The Crime of Arkady Nikolaivich”; Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) EQMM Jun 1992
  • The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Blood and Bone, (ss) AHMM Sep 1995
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Brave New Murder, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• * Caesar, I am Here, (ss) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
• * A Carpet of Snow, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 3, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1993
• * The Case of Seven Santas [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1990
• * Charades, Anybody?, (ss) A Classic Christmas Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1995
• * A Cold Coming [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997
  • EQMM Jan 1998
• * A Common Error [Harriet Unwin], (ss) EQMM Feb 1987
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Commorientes, (ss) The Strand Magazine #10 2003
• * A Crime Child, (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1983
• * The Crime of Arkady Nikolaivich [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) EQMM Jun 1992; also as “Arkady Nikolaivich”.
• * A Dangerous Thing [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) The Mystery Guild Anthology, ed. John Waite, Constable 1980
  • The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Craig, Oxford University Press 1990
• * Dead Men Do Tell Tales, (ss) The Strand Magazine #3 1999
• * Dead-Letter Drop, (ss) 1982
  • EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• * Do Ducks Know It’s Saturday, (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• * Do You Believe in Ghosts?, (ss) The Strand Magazine Christmas 2001
• * A Double-Strung Crossbow, (ar) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992
• * The Evidence I Shall Give [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 21, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1989
  • EQMM Jul 1989
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Face, (ss) EQMM Aug 2006
• * The Fatal Step [Harriet Unwin], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * A Fateful Encounter, (ss) The Strand Magazine #14 2004
• * Film Review: Murder Rooms: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, (ar) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
• * The Five Senses of Mrs. Craggs [Mrs. Craggs], (nv) EQMM Nov 1973
  • Senior Sleuths, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley 1996
• * Fog of Doubt, (ss) EQMM Jun 1993
• * The Great, the Good, and the Not-So-Good, (ss) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * A Hell of a Story, (ss) EQMM Jun 1982
• * Hello, Hello, Inspector Ghote [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (vi) EQMM Nov 1985
• * The Honeyed Axe [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (nv) Orion 1999
  • Criminal Records, ed. Otto Penzler, Orion 2000
• * The Hound of the Hanging Gardens, (ss) Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
• * Howard, (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000
• * Incident at Millionaires’ Row, (ss) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) Catholic Herald
  • EQMM Jan 1972
  • Great Law and Order Stories, ed. John Mortimer, Bellew Publishing 1990
  • Great Law and Order Stories, ed. John Mortimer, Norton 1992
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Seven Suspects, G. K. Chesterton, Carroll & Graf 1990
  • Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’, ed. Geraldine Beare, Folio Society 1991
  • The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992
• * Jack Fell Down, (ss) A Classic English Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1990
  • EQMM Aug 1991
• * Just Only One Little Mystery-Pistery, (ss) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• * Just Only One Small Crime, (vi) EQMM Sep 1992
• * The Legs That Walked, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• * A Letter from an Archangel, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * A Life-Long Affair, But..., (ar) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991
• * Light Coming [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (vi) EQMM Mar 1989
• * The Locked Bathroom [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * A Lurking Fear, (ss) Past Crimes: Perfectly Criminal III, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1998
  • EQMM Jun 1999
• * Majumdar Uncle [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) Crippen & Landru 2003
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * The Man Who Killed for Pleasure, (ss) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992
• * The Man Who Killed Two Birds, (ss) EQMM Jul 2003
• * The Man Who Spoke, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
  • EQMM Jul 1997
• * Memorial to Speke, (ss) EQMM Nov 1972; also as “Speke”.
• * Miss Unwin Goes a-Hunting [Harriet Unwin], (ss) The Illustrated London News Christmas 1981
  • EQMM Mar 24 1982
• * Miss Unwin Plays by the Rules [Harriet Unwin], (nv) Murder in the Rough, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * Miss Unwin’s Mistake [Harriet Unwin], (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• * The Monkey and the Typewriter, (ss) The Strand Magazine #5 2000
• * Mr. Idd, (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Mrs. Craggs and a Certain Lady’s Town House [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) Mystery Jul 1981
• * Mrs. Craggs and the Late Prince Albert [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) Mrs. Craggs: Crimes Cleans Up, Buchan & Enright 1985
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Mrs. Craggs Hears the Nightingale [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) EQMM Feb 1985
  • 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992
• * Mrs. Craggs’s Sixth Sense [Mrs. Craggs], (ss) EQMM Sep 1978
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Murder Must Not At All Advertise, Isn’t It? [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (nv) EQMM Mar 1984
• * My First Murder, (ss) EQMM Mar 1995
  • Murder Most British, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1996
• * Nil by Mouth, Inspector Ghote [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 19, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1987
  • EQMM May 1987
• * Not At All a Maha Murder [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• * Old Pete, (ss) In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * The Old Shell Collector, (nv) EQMM Jul 1970
  • Detection, ed. James Gibson & Alan Ridout, John Murray 1978
• * Physical Energy, (ss) In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * The Purloined Parvati and Other Artefacts [Insp. Ganesh Ghote], (ss) EQMM Sep 1988
• * Runners, (ss) AHMM Apr 1996
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * A Sad Case of Simony, (ss) EQMM Nov 1984
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Scrabble Babble Dabble, (ss) EQMM Feb 1992
  • Win, Lose or Die, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Carroll & Graf 1996
• * Shaky, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991
• * A Snaking Suspicion, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1989
• * Softly, Softly Catchee Monkey, (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990
  • More Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1994
• * A Sort of Miss Marple?, (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002
• * Speke [“Memorial to Speke”], (ss) EQMM Nov 1972
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * A Story for Christmas [Harriet Unwin], (ss) The Strand Magazine #9 2002
• * That’s Frank, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• * There’s an Explanation for Everything, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991
• * Towards What Fate?, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
  • In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * An Upright Woman, (nv) Winter’s Crimes 2, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1970
  • Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991
• * Victorian Values, (ss) In Kensington Gardens Once, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Who Killed Cock Robin?, (ss)
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Wistaria Lodge, (ss) The Strand Magazine #6 2001

KEATING, JOHN (chron.)

• * Assassin’s Assassin, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1983

KEATING, T. P. (chron.)

• * Beware, Vicious Little Minx with a Gun, (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• * Blood Red Blues, (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2001
• * The Case of the Dead Hippy, (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2003
• * Dead Is a Four-Letter Word, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2002
• * Killer Heels Kill Twice as Dead, (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005
• * Noir and Day, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2002
• * Nothing Promised, No Regrets, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2001

KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821) (chron.)

• * from “Isabella, or The Pot of Basil”, (pm) 1820
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

KEEFAUVER, JOHN (D.) (chron.)

• * Dead Voices Live, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
• * Harvey’s Smile, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981

KEEGAN, ALEX (1947- ) (chron.)

• * A Red Cabriolet, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995

_____, [ref.]

• * “Alex Keegan” by Peter Dillon-Parkin, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998

KEELER, HARRY STEPHEN (1889-1967) (chron.)

• * The Services of an Expert, (ss)
  • AHMM Dec 1999
• * Victim No. 5, (ss) Young’s Magazine 1914
  • The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959

KEEN, HERBERT (chron.)

• * The Tin Box, (ss) The Idler Apr 1896
  • Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection, ed. Michael Cox, New York: Oxford University Press 1992

KEENAN, GERRY (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * The Will, by Thomas Narcejac, (ss) Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute, ed. Patricia Craig, Eurographica 1992

KEENE, BRIAN (chron.)

• * Crazy for You (with Mike Oliveri) [Tony & Vince], (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001