Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

LOVESEY, PETER (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Avoiding Mr. Queen, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * Away with the Fairies, (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * The Bathroom, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973; also as “A Bride in the Bath”.
  • Opening Shots, ed. Lawrence Block, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
• * Because It Was There, (ss) Whydunit, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
  • EQMM May 1998
  • Crème de La Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2000
• * Behind the Locked Door [“The Locked Room”], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 10, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1978
  • EQMM Mar 1979
  • Murder British Style, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Being of Sound Mind, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991
  • EQMM Jul 1991
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * Bertie and the Boat Race [Albert Edward (Prince of Wales)], (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Bertie and the Fire Brigade [Albert Edward (Prince of Wales)], (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * A Bride in the Bath [“The Bathroom”], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973
  • EQMM Aug 12 1981
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * Bullets, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
  • EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
• * Butchers, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 14, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1982
  • EQMM mid-Jul 1982
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * A Case of Butterflies, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 21, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1989
  • EQMM Dec 1989
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * The Case of the Dead Wait [Rosemary and Thyme], (nv) EQMM Jan 2007
• * The Case of the Easter Bonnet [Peter Diamond], (vi) Bath Chronicle Apr 17 1995
  • EQMM Apr 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Corbett Correspondence (with Edward Marston), (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
• * The Corder Figure, (nv) Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985
  • EQMM Jan 1986
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, (ss) EQMM May 1991
  • Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1992, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1992
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • Murder at Teatime, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996
  • Master’s Choice, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 1999
  • Ellery Queen the World’s Leading Mystery Magazine Presents Readers’ Choice, ed. Janet Hutchings, Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines 199?
  • A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
• * The Curious Computer [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1987
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Curl Up and Dye, (ss) EQMM Jul 1986
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * Did You Tell Daddy?, (ss) EQMM Feb 1984
• * Disposing of Mrs. Cronk, (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996
  • EQMM Dec 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
  • Cutting Edge, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Dr. Death, (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Fallout, (ss) Company May 1983
  • EQMM Jun 1984
• * The Field, (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
  • EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * The Four Wise Men [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) More Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1999
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Friendly Yachtsman, 39, (ss) Woman’s Own Jul 18 1987
  • EQMM May 1988
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * Ginger’s Waterloo, (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
  • A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Haunted Crescent, (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1990, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1990
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * How Mr. Smith Traced His Ancestors, (ss) The Mystery Guild Anthology, ed. John Waite, Constable 1980; also as “A Man with a Fortune”.
• * Interior, with Corpse, (ss) Scenes of Crime, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable and Robinson, Ltd. 2000
  • EQMM Aug 2001
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Keeping Fit, (ss) EQMM Mar 1983
• * The Kiss of Death [Peter Diamond], (ss) Crippen & Landru 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * The Lady in the Trunk, (ss) A Classic English Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1990
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * The Locked Room, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 10, ed. Hilary Watson, London: Macmillan 1978; also as “Behind the Locked Door”.
• * The Man Who Ate People, (ss) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992
  • EQMM Oct 1992
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * The Man Who Jumped for England, (ss) Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
  • EQMM Jun 2005
• * A Man with a Fortune [“How Mr. Smith Traced His Ancestors”], (ss) The Mystery Guild Anthology, ed. John Waite, Constable 1980
  • EQMM Nov 3 1980
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
• * The Mighty Hunter, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
  • EQMM Jan 1996
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Model Con, (nv) Woman’s Realm Summer Special 1994
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * A Monologue for Mystery Lovers, (pm) EQMM Feb 1999
• * Murder by Christmas Tree, (ss) Crippen & Landru 1998
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998; included with the limited edition.
• * Murder in Store, (ss) Woman’s Own Dec 21 1985
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Murdering Max, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Needle Match, (ss) Murder Is My Racquet, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
  • Murder Is My Racquet, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
• * Never a Cross Word, (ss) You: The Mail on Sunday Jun 11 1995
  • EQMM Feb 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Odstock Curse, (ss) Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * One Bad Apple, (ss) EQMM Nov 2001
• * Oracle of the Dead, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * A Parrot Is Forever, (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Pass the Parcel, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 3, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1993
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1994
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • Christmas Crimes, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002
• * Passion Killers, (ss) EQMM Jan 1994
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Perfectionist, (ss) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
  • The Best British Mysteries, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2003
• * The Pomeranian Poisoning, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 19, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1987; also as “The Zenobia Hatt Prize”.
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002; revised, 2001
• * Popping Round to the Post, (ss) The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Private Gorman’s Luck, (ss) Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985
  • EQMM Jul 1985
• * The Problem of Stateroom 10, (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
  • EQMM Dec 2001
• * The Proof of the Pudding, (ss) A Classic Christmas Crime, ed. Tim Heald, Pavilion 1995
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Pushover, (ss) EQMM Jun 1995
  • Murder Most British, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1996
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Quiet Please—We’re Rolling, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
  • EQMM Dec 1996
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Say That Again, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007
• * Second Strings, (ss) The Strand Magazine #13 2004
• * The Secret Lover, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 17, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1985
  • EQMM Mar 1988
  • Murderous Schemes, ed. Donald E. Westlake, New York: Oxford University Press 1996
• * The Sedgemoor Strangler, (nv) Criminal Records, ed. Otto Penzler, Orion 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Shock Visit, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 22, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1990
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * Showmen, (ss) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998
  • EQMM Mar 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * The Stalker, (ss) The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Star Struck, (ss) Death by Horoscope, ed. Anne Perry & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2001
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
• * The Staring Man, (ss) Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985
  • EQMM Oct 1985
• * Supper with Miss Shivers, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1991
  • Murder Under the Mistletoe and Other Stories, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1992
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002
• * Taking Possession, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
• * The Usual Table, (ss) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * The Valuation, (ss) EQMM Feb 1990
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
• * Vandals, (ss) Woman’s Own Dec 29 1984
  • EQMM Dec 1985
• * The Virgoan and the Taurean, (ss) John Creasey’s Crime Collection, ed. Herbert Harris 1983
  • EQMM Jul 1983
• * The Wasp [“Where Is Thy Sting?”], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 20, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1988
  • EQMM Nov 1988
  • Under the Gun, ed. Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi & Martin H. Greenberg, NAL 1990
  • More Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1994
• * Wayzgoose [Peter Diamond], (nv) A Dead Giveaway, Warner Futura 1995
  • EQMM May 1997
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Where Is Thy Sting?, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 20, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1988; also as “The Wasp”.
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998
• * Window of Opportunity, (ss) EQMM Nov 2004
• * The Word of a Lady, (ss) EQMM Jul 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * You May See a Strangler, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 2, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1992
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1993, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1993
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1993
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
• * Youdunnit, (ss) New Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1989
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1989
  • The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, London: Warner Futura 1995
  • EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
• * The Zenobia Hatt Prize [“The Pomeranian Poisoning”], (ss) Winter’s Crimes 19, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1987
  • EQMM Aug 1988

_____, [ref.]

• * Mystery Novels and Stories by Peter Lovesey: A Checklist, (bi)
• * A Peter Lovesey Checklist, (bi)
• * “Peter Lovesey: Making Peace with the Past” by Tom Nolan, (bg) MHCMM Sum 1999

LOVESEY, PHIL(ip Lear) (1963- ) (chron.)

• * Blitzed, (ss) EQMM Jun 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * The Contract, (ss) EQMM May 1994
• * Court Out, (ss) EQMM Jun 1998
• * Double Event, (ss) EQMM Sep 1995
• * One Bad Apple, (ss) Scenes of Crime, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable and Robinson, Ltd. 2000
• * Playing Away, (vi) EQMM Apr 1998
• * A Publisher’s Dream, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998
• * The Schemer’s Holiday, (ss) EQMM Nov 1996
• * The Stooge, (nv) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• * Stranglehold, (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
• * Trust Me, (ss) Missing Persons, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable 1999
• * Under the Knife, (ss) EQMM Jan 1999
  • Crème de La Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2000

LOVETT, SARAH (1953- ) (chron.)

• * Buried Treasure, (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999

LOVISI, GARY (Anthony) (1952- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Missing Detective [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Bedtime for Pookie, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #36 2003
• * Blood in Brooklyn, (ex) No Exit Press 1999
  • Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• * The Conquerors, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1998
• * A Conversation with Thomas Boyle, (iv) Hardboiled #18 1994
• * Demonology [Joe Dillon], (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994
• * Dogs Know [Vic Powers], (ss) 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Dry Run, (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
• * The Editor’s Case File, (ed) Detective Story Magazine Dec 1988, Apr, Nov 1989
  • Hardboiled Detective #10 1990
  • Detective Story Magazine Feb, Sep 1990
  • Hardboiled Detective #11, #12 1991
  • Hardboiled #13, #14 1992, #16 1993, #22 1996, #23 1997, #24 1998