Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

McCLINTICK, MALCOLM (chron.) (continued)

• * Kelso’s Cave, (ss) AHMM Dec 1984
• * Kelso’s Christmas, (nv) AHMM Jan 1985
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1990
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
• * Kelso’s Ghost [Sgt. George Kelso], (nv) AHMM Sep 2002
• * Kelso’s Nightmare, (ss) AHMM Mar 1987
• * Kelso’s Private Place, (ss) AHMM Nov 1983
• * The Most Beautiful Girl, (ss) AHMM Aug 1984
• * A Net of Circumstances, (ss) AHMM mid-Sep 1983
• * Pack Rats, (ss) AHMM Mar 1998
• * Who Can You Trust?, (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
• * Your Word Against Mine, (ss) EQMM Jun 1992

McCLINTON, CELIA S. (chron.)

• * Dueling, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2004

McCLOY, HELEN (Worrell Clarkson) (1904-1992) (books) (chron.)

• * A Case of Innocent Eavesdropping [Basil Willing], (ss) EQMM Mar 1978
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * The Case of the Duplicate Door [Basil Willing], (ss) Mystery Puzzle of the Month 1949
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Chinoiserie, (nv) EQMM Jul 1946
  • Once Upon a Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Murder Ad Lib [Basil Willing], (ss) EQMM Nov 1964
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Murder Is Everybody’s Business, (ss) 1951
  • EQMM Feb 1953
  • Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 1, ed. Ellery Queen, London: May Fair 1959
• * The Murder Stops the Music [Basil Willing], (ss) This Week 1957
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Murphy’s Law [Basil Willing], (ss) EQMM May 1979
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * The Nameless Clue, (na) Five-Novels Monthly Nov 1941
  • The Third Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959
  • EQMM Apr 1961
• * The Pleasant Assassin [Basil Willing], (ss) EQMM Dec 1970
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * The Singing Diamonds [Basil Willing], (nv) EQMM Oct 1949
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * That Bug That’s Going Around [Basil Willing], (ss) EQMM Aug 1979
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Through a Glass, Darkly [Basil Willing], (nv) EQMM Sep 1948
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Thy Brother Death [Basil Willing], (ss) This Week 1955
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Crippen & Landru 2003

McCLURE, JAMES (Howe) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Scandal at Sandkop, (nv) Winter’s Crimes 7, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1975
  • The Best Crime Stories, ed. Anon., Hamlyn 1984
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
• * The Steam Pig, (ex) London: Gollancz 1971
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

McCONCHIE, LYN (1946?- ) (chron.)

• * Chasing China Cats, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Oct 2001
• * Considered Opinion, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #30 2002
• * The Detective & The Curse, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Sep 2002
• * The Detective and the Blunt Instrument, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001
  • Detective Mystery Stories Apr 2002
• * A Little Learning, (ss) Masque Noir Jan 2000
  • Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002
• * The Mocker, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002
• * Tale of Two Kitties, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #34 2003
• * Turistus, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2001
• * When in Rome, (ss) Masque Noir Sep 1999
  • Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2002
• * A Wolf in the Fold, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• * You Know Best, Darling, (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2004

McCONNELL, CHARLES (chron.)

• * Deadly Copy, (nv) EQMM Mar 2003

McCONNELL, CHARLES R. (chron.)

• * Deadly Carnival, (ss) EQMM Jun 1995
• * Eddie’s Luck, (ss) EQMM Jul 1983
• * Killing Caleb, (ss) AHMM Jun 16 1980
• * The Last Binge, (ss) AHMM Jan 1984
• * Like Father Like Son, (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980
• * Waiting for Wayne, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982

McCONNELL, FRANK D.; [i.e., Francis DeMay McConnell] (1942-1999) (chron.)

• * They Won’t Get Hodge, (ss) EQMM Jan 1993

McCONNELL, JEAN (1927- ) (chron.)

• * A Hank of Hair, (nv) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995
• * Sub-Plot, (ss) John Creasey’s Crime Collection, ed. Herbert Harris 1982
  • EQMM Jul 1988
• * A Sweet Little Old Lady, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
• * Working with Suzie, (ss) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993

McCONNOR, VINCENT (c1907-1999) (chron.)

• * The Honeymoon Murders [George Drayton], (nv) EQMM Jan 1965
  • Senior Sleuths, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley 1996
• * Just Like Inspector Maigret [George Drayton], (ss) EQMM Oct 1964
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992

McCONVILLE, WALT (chron.)

• * But Does She Do Windows?, (pm) EQMM Dec 1990

McCOSKEY, SYZANNE K. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Secret Agent Man, (vi) AHMM May 2005

McCOWN, EDNA (chron.)

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• * The Panama Hen, by Gesine Schulz, (ss) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003; first published in Die Stunde des Vaters und andere Kriminalgeschichten (Death on the Waters and Other Criminal Stories), Verlag Ulmers Manuskripte, 2002.

McCOY, CAROL (chron.)

• * In the Beginning, (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1998

McCOY, HORACE (1897-1955) (chron.)

• * They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, (n.) New York: Simon & Schuster 1935
  • Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s, ed. Robert Polito, The Library of America 1997

McCRACKEN, BEATRICE S. (chron.)

• * Love Is Not All, (pm) EQMM May 1992

MacCREAGH, GORDON (1886-1953) (chron.)

• * Matto Grosso Fury, (ss) Jungle Stories Sum 1950
  • High Adventure #71 2003

McCRUMB, LAURA (chron.)

• * Typewriter Man (with Sharyn McCrumb & Spencer McCrumb), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Sharyn McCrumb, Ballantine 1997

McCRUMB, SHARYN (Elaine Atwood) (1948- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Among My Souvenirs, (ss) Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
• * Author’s Note, (pr)
  • Bimbos & Zombies, SFBC 1998
• * An Autumn Migration, (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Bimbos of the Death Sun [Jay Omega], (n.) TSR 1988
  • Bimbos & Zombies, SFBC 1998
• * Foggy Mountain Breakdown, (ss) 1997
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000
• * The Gallows Necklace, (ss) The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * Gentle Reader, (ss) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Gerda’s Sense of Snow, (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Happiness Is a Dead Poet, (nv) Malice Domestic 1, Elizabeth Peters, Pocket 1992
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Introduction: The Cosy Nostra, (in) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• * John Knox in Paradise, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Lark in the Morning, (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000
• * Love on First Bounce [Elizabeth MacPherson], (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * The Luncheon, (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
• * The Matchmaker, (ss) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
• * The Monster of Glamis, (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Nine Lives to Live, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • 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
• * Not All Brides Are Beautiful, (ss) EQMM Nov 1986
  • Women of Mystery II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Old Rattler [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood], (ss) Partners in Crime, ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet 1994
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • Sleuths of the Century, ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 2000
• * Precious Jewel, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * A Predatory Woman, (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
  • A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins 2004
• * Remains to Be Seen, (ss) Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ballantine 1990
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * The Resurrection Man, (na) Transgressions, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2005
• * A Shade of Difference, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * A Snare as Old as Solomon, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Southern Comfort, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Telling the Bees, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Typewriter Man (with Laura McCrumb & Spencer McCrumb), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * The Vale of the White Horse, (ss) Murder, My Dear Watson, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2002
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003
• * A Wee Doch and Doris, (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • Death in Dixie, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1997
• * The Witness, (ss)
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Zombies of the Gene Pool [Jay Omega], (n.) New York: Simon & Schuster 1992
  • Bimbos & Zombies, SFBC 1998

McCRUMB, SPENCER (chron.)

• * Typewriter Man (with Laura McCrumb & Sharyn McCrumb), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, Sharyn McCrumb, Ballantine 1997

McCUE, LILLIAN (Bueno) (1902-1993); see pseudonym Lillian de la Torre (chron.)

McCULLEY, JOHNSTON (1883-1958) (chron.)

• * The Crimson Clown Returns [Delton Prouse (The Crimson Clown)], (ss) Popular Detective Oct 1944
  • Pulp Review Sep 1992
• * The Green Ghost [Green Ghost], (nv) Thrilling Detective Mar 1934
  • Pulp Review Jan 1993
• * Killer’s Canon, (na) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Apr 1934
  • Action Adventure Stories #120 2002
• * The Stolen Story [as by Ernest M. Poate], (ss) Detective Story Magazine Dec 16 1919
  • AHMM Apr 2005
• * Thubway Tham’s Bomb Scare [Thubway Tham], (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Jan 1960
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * Thubway Tham’s Raffle Ticket [Thubway Tham], (ss) Black Book Detective May 1949
• * Trap of the Mongoose [Mongoose], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 27 1933
  • Action Adventure Stories May 2004

McCULLOUGH, DAVID WILLIS (chron.)

• * A Nice Old-fashioned Funeral, (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995

McCUNE, PATRICIA (chron.)

• * The Blue Cap, (nv)
  • Everygirl’s Detective Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1961

McCURNIN, JOHN (chron.)

• * A Tulip in the Snow, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 5 1941
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

McDADE, DENNIS (chron.)

• * The Piano Man, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

McDADE, T. M. (chron.)

• * Jimson’s Folly, (ss) EQMM Oct 1982

McDARIS, STEVEN (chron.)

• * Bowling Ball Blues, (ss) Hardboiled #19 1994

McDERMID, VAL (1955- ) (chron.)

• * The Consolation Blonde, (ss) Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * The Distant Echo, (ex) HarperCollins UK 2003
  • Crimewave #7 2003
• * Driving a Hard Bargain, (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996