Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

LAW, JANICE (chron.) (continued)

• * The Snake Charmer, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * Star of the Silver Screen, (ss) EQMM Dec 1996
  • Cutting Edge, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Summer of the Strangler, (ss) AHMM Oct 2001
• * Tabloid Press, (ss) AHMM Feb 2000
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006

LAW, M. CLARK (chron.)

• * The Keyboard Strikes Back, (ss) AHMM Dec 1993

LAWHEAD, ALICE SLAIKEU (1953- ) (chron.)

• * Nothing Good Ever Comes, (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

LAWHEAD, STEPHEN R. (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Night of the Living Dead, (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

LAWRENCE, B. L.; pseudonym of Lawrence Block, (1938- ) (chron.)

• * Sweet Little Racket, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959

LAWRENCE, BRIAN (chron.)

• * Morning Call, (ss) 1996
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Nothing But the Best, (ss) Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000

LAWRENCE, CAROLINE (chron.)

• * Bread and Circuses, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003

LAWRENCE, CONRAD (chron.)

• * As the Saying Goes, (nv) EQMM Feb 2007
• * Thirty-Two Squares, (ss) EQMM Jan 2002

LAWRENCE, CYNTHIA P. (books) (chron.)

• * The Cat and Mouse Caper, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002
• * Chop Chop, (ss) AHMM Sep 1995
• * Death to Donuts!, (na) A Feast of Crime, ed. Anon., Worldwide 2005
• * Introduction, (in)
  • A Deadly Dozen, ed. Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz & Cynthia Lawrence, Uglytown 2000
• * The Sweet Singer of 33-A, (ss) EQMM Mar 1999

LAWRENCE, D(avid) H(erbert) (Richards) (1885-1930) (chron.)

• * from The Prussian Officer, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from Women in Love, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * The Woman Who Rode Away, (nv) The Dial Jul-Aug 1925
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994

LAWRENCE, J. FARQUHARSON (chron.)

• * Dawn’s Disciple, (ss) Mystery Stories #19 1939

LAWRENCE, JOHN (chron.)

• * A Burial Is Arranged, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1 1935
  • Hard-Boiled Detectives, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy Books 1992

LAWRENCE, MARGARET; pseudonym of M. K. Lorens, (1945- ) (chron.)

• * Cagebird, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006
• * The Cat-Whipper’s Apprentice, (nv) Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997
• * The Ghost Who Died Dancing, (nv) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998
• * The Golden Fool, (ss) EQMM Feb 2007
• * Holy Dying, (nv) Homicide Hosts Presents, ed. Helen Esper Olmsted, Write Way Publishing 1996
• * The Last Pure Hour, (ss) AHMM Oct 2005
• * Winston and the New Millennium, (ss) EQMM Jan 2006

LAWRENCE, MARGERY [i.e., Margery Harriet Lawrence Towle] (1889-1969) (chron.)

• * The Man Who Came Back, (ss) The Floating Cafe, Jarrolds 1936
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990

LAWRENCE, MARTHA (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “An Interview with Martha Lawrence” by Lisa Williamson, (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1998

LAWRENCE, MARTHA C. (1956- ) (chron.)

• * A Little Light on the Subject, (ss) MHCMM Spr 1997
• * The Sea Cave, (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001

LAWRENCE, MELANIE (chron.)

• * A Problem-Solving Breed, (ss) EQMM Aug 2001
• * Stranger Song, (ss) EQMM Jan 2000

LAWRENCE, STARLING (chron.)

• * Desire Lines, (ss) Story Spr 1996

LAWSON, ARTHUR (chron.)

• * Why I Didn’t Murder My Wife, (ss) Double Detective Nov 1937
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998

LAWSON, JAMES A.; pseudonym of James P. Olsen (chron.)

• * Werewolf’s Bride, (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories Jan 1937
  • Spicy Mystery Stories, ed. Tom Mason, Newbury Park, CA: Malibu Graphics, Inc. 1990

LAWTON, R. T. (chron.)

• * The Big Bailout [Twin Brothers Bail Bond], (ss) AHMM May 2003
• * The Bond Market [Twin Brothers Bail Bond], (ss) AHMM Dec 2002
• * The Bond Servant [Cletis Johnston], (ss) AHMM Sep 2003
• * The Bond That Keeps [Twin Brothers Bail Bond], (ss) AHMM May 2002
• * The Bond That Ties [Twin Brothers Bail Bond], (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2006
• * The Bondstone [Cletis Johnston], (ss) AHMM May 2007
• * Dark Eyes, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005
• * False Keys, (nv) AHMM Dec 2006
• * Flying Without a Parachute, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• * The French Currier, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2000
• * In Bound, (ss) AHMM Nov 2004
• * Once, Twice, Dead, (ss) AHMM Sep 2001
• * The Other Bondsman [Twin Brothers Bail Bond], (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• * Ransom [the Armenian], (ss) AHMM Nov 2006
• * Shepherd of the Valley, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• * Witness, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 2001

LAWTON, STEVE (chron.)

• * The Lovely Be Damned, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

LAYBOURN, MARGARET (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Dead Ringer, (vi) AHMM mid-Dec 1994

LAYEFSKY, VIRGINIA (chron.)

• * Cat Dance, (ss) AHMM Aug 13 1980
• * This Place Belongs to You, (ss) EQMM Jan 1991

LAYMON, RICHARD (Carl) (1947-2001) (chron.)

• * Blarney, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1981
• * Boo, (nv) October Dreams, ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, CD Publications 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Choppie, (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999
• * Desert Pickup, (ss) EQMM Nov 1970
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Eats, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985
• * Invitation to Murder, (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• * Kitty Litter, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * Paying Joe Back, (ss) EQMM Sep 1975
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * Phil the Vampire, (ss) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Spooked, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1981
• * Stiff Intruders, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1980

LAYMON, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Such a Good Writer, (in)
  • Such a Good Girl and Other Stories, Five Star 2001

LAYNG, CHARLES (chron.)

• * Cryptograms, (cl) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr 1930

L’DERA, CARLOS (chron.)

• * Quiet Night in Turkeyville, (ss) AHMM Aug 1987

LEACOCK, DINA; see pseudonym Diane Arrelle (chron.)

LEACOCK, STEPHEN (Butler) (1869-1944) (chron.)

• * An Irreducible Detective Story, (vi) Further Foolishness, New York: Lane 1916
  • EQMM Oct 1951
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Maddened by Mystery; or, The Defective Detective, (ss) Nonsense Novels, London: Lane 1911
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992
  • Detective Stories, ed. Philip Pullman, Kingfisher 1998
• * Pawn to King’s Four, (ss) Happy Stories Just to Laugh At, New York: Dodd, Mead 1943
  • Sinister Gambits, ed. Richard Peyton, Souvenir Press 1991

LEADER, MARY (Bartelt) (chron.)

• * Happy Forever, (ss) AHMM Mar 1984

LEAKE, BURT (chron.)

• * The Red Falcon Returns [Red Falcon], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1995

LEARMOND, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * Graphic Design, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004

LEAVITT, JACK (chron.)

• * But What’s Done Is Done, (pm) EQMM Nov 1990
• * Heart Attack, (ss) AHMM Dec 1996

LEBBON, TIM (chron.)

• * The Horror of the Many Faces [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003

LEBLANC, MAURICE (Marie Emile) (1864-1941); Leblanc, M. Maurice (chron.)

• * Arsène Lupin in Prison [Arsene Lupin], (nv) The Exploits of Arsène Lupin, New York: Harper 1907
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
• * At the Sign of Mercury [Arsene Lupin], (nv) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1922
  • AHMM Jun 1999
• * The Bridge That Broke [Arsene Lupin], (nv)
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000
• * The Mysterious Railway-Passenger [Arsene Lupin], (ss) The Seven of Hearts, Macmillan 1908
  • Mammoth Book of Golden Age Detective Stories, ed. Marie Smith, Carroll & Graf 1994
• * The Red Silk Scarf [1907; Arsene Lupin], (nv)
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• * Shadowed by Death [Arsene Lupin], (nv) 1913
  • World-Famous Great Mystery Stories, ed. Eleanor M. Edwards, Hart 1960

LeBOEUF, DANIEL (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Improbable Events, (vi) AHMM May 1999
  ___ Looking Through Anothers Eyes, (vi) AHMM Jan 1999

LEBOWITZ, FRAN (chron.)

• * In Hot Pursuit, (ss) 1974
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992

le CARRÉ, JOHN; pseudonym of David Cornwell, (1931- ) (chron.)

• * Dare I Weep? Dare I Mourn?, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 28 1967
  • EQMM Mar 1991
• * What Ritual Is Being Observed Tonight?, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 2 1968
  • EQMM Oct 1991

_____, [ref.]

• * “John Le Carré, Under the Spyglass” by Stephen Hunter, (iv) Espionage Magazine May 1987

LEDBETTER, SUZANN (1953- ) (chron.)

• * How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law, (nv) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * Mother Ledbetter’s Lunchbox Laws, (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006

LEDERER, ESTER PAULINE FRIEDMAN; see pseudonym Ann Landers (chron.)

LeDOUX, REMY (chron.)

• * Bank on It, (vi) About Mysteries; There are some advantages to being behind the teller line — and you can bank on it!.

LEE, BOBBY (chron.)

• * The Day That Crenshaw Burned, (ss) AHMM Jun 1995
• * The Domino Drug Bust: A Love Story, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994

LEE, DEBORAH (chron.)

• * Crash Diet, (pm) EQMM Mar 1997
• * Rind Justice, (pm) EQMM Mar 1994
• * Ticked Off, (pm) EQMM Jan 1996

LEE, DEBORAH M. (chron.)

• * Crime of Fashion, (pm) EQMM Apr 2002

LEE, EDWARD; pseudonym of Lee Edward Seymour, (1957- ) (chron.)

• * ICU, (ss) 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000

LEE, (Nelle) HARPER (1926- ) (chron.)

• * from To Kill a Mockingbird, (ex) 1960
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

LEE, JAMES A. (chron.)

• * Justice, (vi) Hardboiled #6 1986

LEE, JIM (chron.)

• * Droplets of My Sister’s Blood, (ss) Hardboiled #18 1994
• * Hate Crime, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000
• * Henriqua’s Homegirls, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

LEE, LAURIE (1914- ) (chron.)

• * from Cider with Rosie, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

LEE, LINDA (Hope) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Catching the Brass Ring, (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004

LEE, MANFRED B(ennington) (1905-1971); see pseudonym Ellery Queen (books) (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “The Authorship of Three Late Ellery Queen Novels” by Douglas Dannay & Richard Dannay, (ar) The Armchair Detective 1990
• * “Avoiding Mr. Queen” by Peter Lovesey, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * “Challenge to the Artist: The Comic Book Stories of Ellery Queen” by Mike W. Barr, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * “Challenge to the Listener: Ellery Queen on the Air” by David S. Siegel, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * “Ellery Queen—Man of God” by Steven Steinbock, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * “Ellery Queen—One of the Most Popular Mystery Writers in Japan” by Hidetoshi Mori, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * “Ellery Queen” by Jon L. Breen, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999