Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

LONG, LAIRD D. (chron.) (continued)

• * Ice Sailor, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• * Shoot First—Any Questions?, (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2002
• * Street Justice, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1999
  • Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• * Three Blind Rats, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006

LONG, MARION (chron.)

• * Answering to the Ultimate Authority, (bg) MHCMM Fll 1998; Faye Kellerman on Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus.
• * Jonathan Kellerman: Trying a More Therapeutic Approach, (bg) MHCMM Sum 1999; on Alex Delaware.
• * Looking on the Dark Side, (bg) MHCMM Fll 1998; Donald E. Westlake on John A. Dortmunder.
• * Minette Walters: Fishing for a Hero, (bg) MHCMM Sum 1999; on Nick Ingram.
• * Noir for the 90’s, (bg) MHCMM Sum 1998; Michael Connelly on Harry Bosch.
• * Stephen King Scares Up His Past, (bg) MHCMM Sum 2000; on Pete Riley.

LONG, MARTIN (Merrick) (1920-2002) (chron.)

• * The Merchant of Parramatta, (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991
• * The Night of the Eclipse, (ss) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• * The Tarpeian Way, (ss) A Corpse at the Opera House, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992

LONG, VIRGINIA (chron.)

• * A Man Around the House, (ss) AHMM Jun 1989
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Providers, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1984

LONGHI, JON (chron.)

• * Fixed, (ss) San Francisco Noir, ed. Peter Maravelis, Akashic Books 2005; (The Haight-Ashbury).

LONGLEY, MICHAEL (chron.)

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

LONGRIGG, ROGER (Erskine) (1929-2000) (chron.)

• * The Lavender Garter, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991

LONGWORTH, GAY (1970- ) (chron.)

• * Dead Alone, (ex) HarperCollins UK 2003
  • Crimewave #7 2003

LONGWORTH, JOHN (chron.)

• * The Bridge of Silence, (ss) Mystery Stories #2 1936

LONGYEAR, BARRY B(rookes) (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Slaughterhouse, (ss) AHMM Jul 1979
  • The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006

LOOMIS, CHARLES (chron.)

• * A La Sherlock Holmes, (vi) The Four-Masted Catboat and Other Truthful Tales, New York: Century 1899
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

LOPATIN, JUDY (chron.)

• * The Here and Now, (ss) Between C & D 1988
  • EQMM Feb 1989

LOPRESTI, ROBERT (chron.)

• * A Bad Day for Pink and Yellow Shirts, (ss) AHMM May 2004
• * Burton’s Beat, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981
• * Company Man, (ss) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987
• * Crow’s Feat [Marty Crow], (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
• * The Dear Departed, (ss) AHMM Jun 24 1981
• * The Federal Case [Marty Crow], (ss) AHMM May 1991
• * Four of a Kind [Marty Crow], (ss) AHMM May 1994
• * FYI, (cl) Murderous Intent Win 1999
• * FYI 13: Two Not of a Kind, (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• * FYI 14: Ain’t That a Shamus, (cl) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• * FYI 15: You Have to Start Somewhere, (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• * FYI 16: Dr Watson, in the Library, with a Machine Gun, (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• * FYI 17, (cl) Murderous Intent Fll 1999
• * FYI: Don’t Ask, (CL) Murderous Intent Sum 1996
• * FYI: One MacGuffin to Go, (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• * FYI: The Voice of Goodwin, (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
• * FYI:
  ___ Sherlock Holmes VS the Fairies, (cl) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• * The Hard Case, (ss) AHMM Apr 2008
• * Hit and Run, (ss) AHMM Feb 1990
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Thurber on Crime, James Thurber, The Mysterious Press 1991
• * Killing Is Easy, (ss) AHMM Nov 11 1981
• * Nailbiter, (vi) AHMM Sep 2003
• * Shanks at Lunch [Leopold Longshanks], (ss) AHMM Feb 2003
• * Shanks Gets Mugged [Leopold Longshanks], (ss) AHMM Dec 2005
• * Shanks Goes Hollywood [Leopold Longshanks], (ss) AHMM Apr 2005
• * Shanks on the Prowl [Leopold Longshanks], (ss) AHMM May 2006
• * Snake in the Sweetgrass, (ss) AHMM Dec 2003
• * Stumped, (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1981
• * Uncle Victor on a Roll [Uncle Victor], (ss) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• * Uncle Victor on Watch [Uncle Victor], (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• * Uncle Victor’s First Case [Uncle Victor], (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• * Until I Do, (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991

LORD, EARLE N. (chron.)

• * The Maxnome Riddle, (ss) AHMM May 1971
  • AHMM Jun 2006

LORDON, RANDYE; pseudonym of Randye Lowenthal, (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Do Unto Others, (ss) New Mystery v2 #1 1994
• * The House on Marigold Hill, (ss) EQMM Mar 1984
• * The Settlement, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985

LORE, ELANA (chron.)

• * Birthright, (nv) AHMM Sep 1987
• * Comedy and Errors, (ss) AHMM Jan 1987
• * Double Crosses, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• * Editor’s Notes, (ed) Crime Digest Oct/Nov 1981, Jan/Feb, Sep/Oct 1982
• * Moral Dilemma, (ss) AHMM Oct 1987
• * Repo Joe, (nv) AHMM Mar 1990
• * Ruthless Ralph, (ss) AHMM Jul 1989

LORENS, M(argaret) K(eilstrup) (1945- ); see pseudonym Margaret Lawrence (chron.)

LORENZ, JudyANN (chron.)

• * Full of Ugly Lies, (ss) EQMM Oct 1989

LOTT, (R.) BRET(ley) (1958- ) (chron.)

• * Rose, (nv) Shenandoah Sum 2000
  • A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001

LOUGH, GLENN DALE (1906-1991); see pseudonym Glenn Low (chron.)

LOUGHRAN, ROB(ert J.) (chron.)

• * Kristine, (vi) Hardboiled #27/28 2001, #29/30 2003
• * A Week Excuse for Murder, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998

LOUIS, ERROL (chron.)

• * Fun-Time Monsters, (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (East Flatbush).

LOUREY, JESS (chron.)

• * The Locked Fish-Cleaning House Mystery, (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

LOVECRAFT, H(oward) P(hillips) (1890-1937) (chron.)

• * The Horror at Red Hook, (nv) Weird Tales Jan 1927
  • Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2005
• * The Unnamable, (ss) Weird Tales Jul 1925
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994

LOVEGROVE, JAMES (1965- ) (chron.)

• * Killer-Killer, (ss) Crimewave #3 2000

LOVELL, GLENVILLE (chron.)

• * Hit and Run, (ss) Hardboiled Brooklyn, ed. Reed Farrel Coleman, Bleak House Books 2006
• * Out of Body, (ss) Queens Noir, ed. Robert Knightly, Akashic Books 2008; (South Jamaica).
• * When Blood Runs to Water, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

LOVELL, KATHIE (chron.)

• * The Case of the Missing Waitress, (pm) EQMM Jan 1997

LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868) (chron.)

• * The Curse of Kishogue, (ss)
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993

LOVESEY, PETER (Harmer) (1936- ); see pseudonym Agent No. 6 (books) (chron.)

• * The Amorous Corpse, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Ape, (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Arabella’s Answer, (ss) EQMM Apr 1984
• * 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 Christmas Tree [Albert Edward (Prince of Wales)], (ss) The Strand Magazine Oct-Dec 2007
  • Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * 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
• * The Best Suit, (ss) Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
  • EQMM Jun 2008
• * A Blow on the Head, (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006; collected in Lovesey’s Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru, 2008.
  • Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
  • EQMM Jul 2008
• * 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
  • Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * 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
• * The Butler Didn’t Do It [“Peer’s Grisly Find: Butler Dead in Bath”], (ss) The Observer Dec 7 1986
  • The Butler Didn’t Do It, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * 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) Daily Mail Dec 24, 27, 28 2004
  • EQMM Jan 2007
  • Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * 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 Christmas Present, (ss) Woman’s Own Dec 24 1990; also as “Supper with Miss Shivers”.
• * 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
  • Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru 1998
  • The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001
• * Foreword, (fw) Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * 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
• * The Homicidal Hat, (ss) Crippen & Landru 2008
• * 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