Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

BARRETT, NEAL (Patrick), Jr. (1929- ) (chron.)

• * Hit, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
• * Tony Red Dog, (nv) Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Hardboiled, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992

BARRETT, TONDA (chron.)

• * St. Anne Mystery, (nv) AHMM Jul 1984
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

BARRETT, WILLIAM E(dmund) (1900-1986) (chron.)

• * The Ghost Buster, (nv) All Detective Magazine Sep 1934
  • High Adventure #43 1998
• * A Man’s Last Hours, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Oct 1936
  • Hard-Boiled Detectives, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy Books 1992

BARRIE, [Sir] JAMES M(atthew), Bart. (1860-1937) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Two Collaborators [in Chapter XI; Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Memories and Adventures, Arthur Conan Doyle, London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924
  • 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

BARRON, STEPHANIE; pseudonym of Francine Mathews, (c1963- ) (chron.)

• * Jane and the Spoils of Stoneleigh, (nv) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998

BARRY, DAVE (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Booger, (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic Nov 1995
  • Naked Came the Manatee, ed. Tom Schroder, Putnam’s 1997

BARRY, DESMOND (chron.)

• * Backgammon, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Soho).

BARRY, LYTTLETON (chron.)

• * The Red Death, (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb, Mar, Apr 1999

BARSSE, EDILLSON; pseudonym of K. A. Gannon (chron.)

• * The Killing Sun, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 1999
• * Welcome, Beloved, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1998

BARSTEAD, MARK (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Nerves, (vi) AHMM Jan 2000

BART, D(avid) J. (chron.)

• * The City Different, (ss) AHMM Jan 1994
• * Fever, (ss) AHMM Sep 1996
• * Just Kidding, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• * Montezuma’s Castle, (ss) AHMM Oct 1997
• * Prom Night, (ss) A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2003
• * Red Rock Crossing, (nv) AHMM Oct 1994
• * Starved Rock, (ss) AHMM Mar 1993
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Perfect Pickup, (vi) AHMM Dec 1991
  ___ Smart Bomb?, (vi) AHMM Feb 1992
• * Under the Playground, (ss) AHMM May 1993
• * Who Is Jim Vogelbaugh?, (ss) AHMM Jun 1992

BARTELS, SCOTT (chron.)

• * Swear Not by the Moon, (nv) Tamaqua Fll 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998

BARTH, JOHN (Simmons) (1930- ) (chron.)

• * from The Floating Opera, (ex) 1956
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

BARTHELME, DONALD (1931-1989) (chron.)

• * Captain Blood, (ss) Overnight to Many Distant Cities, Putnam 1987
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

BARTHOLOMEW, NANCY; [i.e., Nancy Bartholomew Long] (chron.)

• * Dead in the Water, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994
• * Sierra Reveals All, (ss)
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999

BARTON, ANNE; pseudonym of Florence Barton, (1931- ) (chron.)

• * Trip to Toronto, (ss) Bloody Words: the anthology, ed. Caro Soles & Cheryl Freedman, Baskerville Books 2003

BARTON, ANTIGONE (chron.)

• * More People Like Me, (ss) AHMM Jan 1998

BARTON, BARRY (chron.)

• * Low Ceiling for Nazi Hell-Hawks [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Aug 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #64 1999
• * Red Wings for the Blood Battalion [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Aug 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #116 2002
• * The Sky Beast of Berlin [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Apr 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #57 1999

BARTON, BILLY (1927- ) (chron.)

• * The Final Verdict, (pm) EQMM Mar 10 1980

BARTON, CLINT (chron.)

• * Fables by Firelight, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1995

BARTON, EUSTACE ROBERT (1868-1943); see pseudonym Robert Eustace (chron.)

BARTON, DR. FLORENCE (1931- ); see pseudonym Anne Barton (chron.)

BARTON, GEORGE (1866-1940) (chron.)

• * Adventure of the Baritone Singer [Bromley Barnes], (ss)
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

BARTON, WILLIAM (Renald, III) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Russian Grave (with Michael Capobianco) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

BARWOOD, LEE; pseudonym of Marlene Y. Satter (chron.)

• * By the Book, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984

BARZUN, JACQUES (1907- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Editors’ Introduction (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), (in)
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983
• * Five Clerihews, (pm) EQMM Jan 14 1980
• * How Holmes Came to Play the Violin, (ar) The Baker Street Journal Jul 1951
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

_____, reviews:

• * Catalogue of Crime, (br) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr 1990

BASHOVER, ALBERT (chron.)

• * The Cache, (ss) AHMM Jul 1990
• * The Case of the Copped Cockatoo, (ss) AHMM Jun 1995
• * The Case of the Juggled Jewels, (ss) AHMM Feb 1996
• * The Case of the Perfidious Pupil, (ss) AHMM Nov 1994
• * Criminal Justice, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• * Key for Two, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• * A Souvenir of Rumania, (ss) AHMM Mar 1991
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Modus Operandi, (vi) AHMM Nov 1990

BASKET, HELENA (chron.)

• * Catacombs, (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996

BASSMAN, HIRSCH (chron.)

• * What Does Your Face Tell?, (cl) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr 1930

BASTABLE, BERNARD; pseudonym of Robert Barnard, (1936- ) (chron.)

• * Reader, I Strangled Him, (ss) EQMM May 1995

BATAILLE, GEORGES (chron.)

• * from Story of the Eye, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

BATEMAN, COLIN (1962- ) (chron.)

• * The Case of Mrs. Geary’s Leather Trousers, (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• * NIPD Blue, (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998

_____, [ref.]

• * “The PWG Interviews with: Colin Bateman” by Jennifer Jordan, (iv) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003

BATES, REBECCA S. W.; see under Bates, Rebecca Williamson (chron.)

BATES, REBECCA WILLIAMSON (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Burning Down on a Thousand, (ss) Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

BATORY, DANA MARTIN (chron.)

• * Armed, and Saintly, (ar) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

BATTEN, JACK (Hubert, Jr.) (1932- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Annexationist Conspiracy (with Michael Bliss) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977; also as “Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure”.
• * Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure (with Michael Bliss) [“The Adventure of the Annexationist Conspiracy”; Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996; annotated by Trevor S. Raymond.
• * Snapshot, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992

BATTIATA, MARY (chron.)

• * Blood Feud, (tc)
  • The Best American Crime Writing 2006, ed. Mark Bowden, Harper Perennial 2006

BATTIN, B(rinton) W(arner) (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Ailurophobia, (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

BATTISON, BRIAN (1939-1998) (chron.)

• * Before the Cock Crows [Insp. Jim Ashworth], (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
• * The Perfect Way to Murder Your Spouse, (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1994

BATTLE, FRANCIS C. (chron.)

• * With Intent to Kill!, (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957

BAUM, L(yman) FRANK (1856-1919) (chron.)

• * The Suicide of Kiaros, (ss) The White Elephant Sep 1897
  • EQMM Nov 1954
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

BAUMGART, MARK (chron.)

• * The Personal Touch, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002

BAUSCH, RICHARD (Carl) (1945- ) (chron.)

• * The Man Who Knew Belle Starr, (nv) Atlantic Monthly Apr 1987
  • EQMM Sep 1990
• * Something Is Out There, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007

BAXT, GEORGE (1923-2003) (chron.)

• * Adamant Eve, (ss) EQMM Jul 1987
• * All Keyed Up, (ss) EQMM Nov 1995
• * Any Resemblance Living or Dead, (ss) EQMM Oct 1991
• * The Burying of Treasure, (ss) EQMM Jun 1989
• * Call Him Ishmael, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984
• * Clap Hands, There Goes Charlie, (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Cut from the Same Cloth, (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980
  • Murder to Music, ed. Cynthia Manson & Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Drink to Me Only, (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
• * Exotic Cuisine, (ss) EQMM Dec 1992
  • Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * A Fool and His Money, (ss) EQMM May 1988
• * Full Moon [Pharoah Love], (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1994
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * Gertrude and Alice and Spite and Malice, (ss) EQMM Aug 1984
• * Go to the Devil, (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• * Going to Pieces, (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• * Guess Who, (ss) EQMM May 1990
• * Handig, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• * Hearing Voices, (ss) EQMM Aug 1991
• * The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case, (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1995
  • Murder at the Movies, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 1999
• * I Hate Lucy, (ss) EQMM Dec 1991
• * I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus, (ss) EQMM Sep 1990
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1990
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002
• * I Wish He Hadn’t Said That, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
• * In the Time of Nick, (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• * The Man Who Slew Too Much, (ss) EQMM Jan 1989
• * Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, (ss) EQMM Mar 1983
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Neatness Counts, (ss) EQMM Sep 1987
• * Play It by Fear, (ss) EQMM Nov 1990
• * Play Lover for Me, (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
• * Premonitions, (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
• * Question Mark, (ss) EQMM Dec 1986
• * Recipe for Veal Meat Again, (ms) Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Secrets Can Be Dangerous to Your Health, (ss) EQMM Jan 1993
• * Show Business, (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1982
• * Show Me a Hero, (ss) EQMM Jul 15 1981
• * Splitting Heirs, (ss) EQMM Mar 1993
• * Stroke of Genius, (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• * Uneasy Lies the Dead, (ss) EQMM Jun 1993
• * Unreasonable Facsimile, (ss) EQMM Feb 1991
  • Silver Screams, ed. Cynthia Manson & Adam Stern, Longmeadow 1994
• * The Vulture Within, (ss) EQMM Jun 1983
• * What You Been Up to Lately?, (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
• * What’sisname, (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• * Widow’s Pique, (ss) EQMM Jan 1990
• * The William Shakespeare Murder Case, (ss) EQMM Oct 1987
  • Once Upon a Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1994
• * The Woman I Envied, (ss) EQMM Jun 1982
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * The Woman Who Cried Wolf, (ss) EQMM Sep 1985
• * Writer’s Block, (ss) EQMM May 1982

BAXT, JOHN (chron.)

• * Cauldron Boil, Cauldron Bubble, (ss) EQMM Nov 1983
• * Dream Lover, (ss) EQMM Feb 1986

BAXTER, ALIDA (chron.)

• * Afterwards, (ss) Woman’s Day
  • 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992

BAXTER, FRANK C. (chron.)

• * The Hound of the Baskervilles [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965

BAXTER, JEAN RAE (chron.)

• * Loss, (ss) Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003

BAXTER, JOHN (Martin) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Back, (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993

BAXTER, STEPHEN M(ichael) (1957- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * All is True, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * Columbiad, (ss) Science Fiction Age May 1996
  • The Strand Magazine #10 2003
• * Glass Earth, Inc., (ss) Future Histories, ed. Stephen McClelland, Horizon House (UK) 1997
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003