Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

McLOUGHLIN, TIM (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction: Love & Crime, (in) Brooklyn Noir, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2004
• * When All This Was Bay Ridge, (ss) Brooklyn Noir, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2004
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Houghton Mifflin 2005

McMAHAN, RICK (1967- ) (chron.)

• * The Cold, (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• * Crossfire, (ss) Hardboiled #16 1993
• * In a Bad Way, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

_____, reviews:

• * The All-American Cop Review, (br) Hardboiled #16 1993
• * Book Reviews, (br) Hardboiled #15 1993

McMARTIN, SEAN (chron.)

• * The Beer Bust, (ss) EQMM Dec 1982
• * Bitter Cold for May, (ss) AHMM Oct 1986
• * Conduct Unbecoming, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1980
• * The Last Oasis, (ss) AHMM Nov 1995
• * Mr. Psychologist, (ss) Extension 1962
  • EQMM Nov 1986

McMEEL, CORTRIGHT (chron.)

• * Fighter, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2004
• * Istanbul, (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2004
• * Nasty Jay, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007

McMILLAN, DENNIS (chron.)

• * The “Feedum & Weap” Stories, (ar) The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990

McMILLAN, WAYNE (chron.)

• * Kansas City Connection, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

McMINN, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Grace, (ss) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

McMORROW, VIRGINIA G. (chron.)

• * Losing Odds, (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug 2004
• * Making the Point, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2003
• * A Pain in the Neck, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2005

McNAB, CLAIRE; pseudonym of Claire Carmichael, (1940- ) (chron.)

• * High-Rating Death, (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991

MACNAB, JOHN; pseudonym of David Edgerley Gates, (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Dead Giveaway, (ss) AHMM Feb 27 1980

McNALLY, JOE (chron.)

• * South, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Elephant & Castle).

McNARY, HERBERT L(ouis) (chron.)

• * Murder in Bronze, (ss) Ten Detective Aces Jul 1933
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

MacNEAL, JAMES (chron.)

• * Perfection, (ss)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 1, ed. Stephen Beals, Six Lakes Arts 1989

McNEAR, ROBERT (1930-1985) (chron.)

• * The Green Gorevan, (ss) EQMM Dec 1969
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983

McNEELY, THOMAS H. (chron.)

• * Sheep, (nv) Atlantic Monthly Jun 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000

McNEIL, GEORGE (chron.)

• * Death, the Champ, (ss) The Phantom Detective Feb 1935
  • High Adventure #68 2003

McNEILE, H(erman) C(yril) (1888-1937); see pseudonym Sapper (chron.)

• * Thirteen Lead Soldiers [*Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond], (nv) The Strand Dec 1937
  • EQMM Mar 1943
  • More Murder on Cue, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1990

MACOMBER, PATRICIA LEE (chron.)

• * Death Did Not Become Him (with David Niall Wilson) [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003

McPHEE, JENNY (chron.)

• * Mrs. Lange’s Party, (ss) Zoetrope All-Story Win 1999

McPHERSON, JAMES ALAN (1943- ) (chron.)

• * An Act of Prostitution, (ss)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

McPHERSON, MICHAEL C. (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Chute Out, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994
• * The Pigeon, (ss) Hardboiled #6 1986
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Foiled Again, (vi) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
  ___ The Last Laugh, (vi) AHMM Mar 1991
• * A Swapping of Wings, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994

MacPHERSON, TOM (chron.)

• * A Spin of the Bottle, (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960

McQUILLAN, KARIN (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Bikini Girls, (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991

MacRAE, MOLLY (chron.)

• * Ah, Paradise, (ss) AHMM Nov 2000
• * Fandango by Flashlight, (ss) AHMM Dec 2005
• * It Takes Two, (ss) AHMM Feb 2002
• * Missing Something, (ss) AHMM May 2000
• * My Trouble, (ss) AHMM Jan 1990
• * No Can Do, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2001
• * Speaking Terms, (ss) AHMM Apr 1991

McROBERTS, KERRY (chron.)

• * Gold of the Gestapo [The Eagle], (nv) Popular Detective Dec 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #28 1998

MacROBERTS, NANCY (chron.)

• * The Broadhurst Formula, (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967

MacSHANE, FRANK (1927-1999) (chron.)

• * He Made Words Dance: The Centenary of Raymond Chandler, (bg) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

M’sing, MIKE (chron.)

• * Geronimo’s Colt, (ss) AHMM May 1982

McVAUGH, JENIFER (chron.)

• * Overdue, (ss) AHMM Jun 1990

McWHORTER, AUDREY (chron.)

• * Talk Me to Death, (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

McWHORTER, CHARLES C. (chron.)

• * Letter to the Editor, (pm) EQMM Jul 23 1980

McWILLIAM, CANDIA (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Being a People Person, (ss)
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991
• * How You Look at It, (ss) Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

MACY, HOWARD W. (1843-?); possible pseudonym of Philip S. Warne (chron.)

• * The Mystery of the Sea-Eagle Tavern, (na) New York Weekly Dec 2 1872-Jan 6, 1873
  • Who Was Guilty?, ed. Marlena E. Bremseth, Crippen & Landru 2005

MADDREN, GERRY; [i.e., Geraldine S. Maddren] (chron.)

• * The Four Knights, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1982
• * The Machine of Justice, (ss) EQMM Jul 1996
• * The Shuffle, (ss) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980
• * Such a Good Neighborhood, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1983
• * Traveling Light, (ss) The Saint Magazine Aug 1984

MADIA, BOB (chron.)

• * Karma, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000
• * Light Sleeper, (vi) Hardboiled Detective #10 1990

MADRIGAL, PAOLO (chron.)

• * My War, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007; tr. by Caleb Jacobsen-Sive

MAFFINI, MARY JANE (1947- ) (chron.)

• * After Due Reflection, (ss) EQMM Jul 2000
  • Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001
• * Blind Alley, (ss) EQMM Nov 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
• * But the Corpse Can’t Laugh, (ss) EQMM Apr 1999
  • Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
• * Cocktails with the Corpse, (ss) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• * Cotton Armour, (ss) The Ladies Killing Circle, ed. Vicki Cameron & Audrey Jessup 1995
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Full Moom, Blue Lake, (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997
• * Naked Truths, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998

MAGARSHACK, DAVID (1899-1977) (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from “The Execution of Tropmann”, by Ivan Turgenev, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

MAGDZIAK, EDWARD J., Jr. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Solitary Rider, (vi) AHMM Nov 1991

MAGE, JACQLYN (chron.)

• * The Flame of New Orleans (with Ann Phillips), (nv) Southern Nights, ed. Anon., Southern Star Publishing 2001

MAGEE, EDITH (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ See Mary, (vi) AHMM Apr 1990

MAGEE, JARLON (chron.)

• * Lunatic At Large, (ss) Hardboiled #31 2004

MAGILL, MARCUS; pseudonym of Brian Merrikin Hill, (1896-?) (chron.)

• * Flat To Let, (ss) Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935

MAGINN, WILLIAM (1793-1842) (chron.)

• * The Man in the Bell [as by W. E. Aytoun], (ss) Blackwood’s Nov 1821

MAGNUS, PETER (chron.)

• * Faithful Unto Death, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1981

MaGOWAN, JOHN H. (chron.)

• * Darker than Just Before the Dawn, (ss) AHMM Mar 1993
  • Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995

MAGSON, ADRIAN (chron.)

• * Procedure, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• * Stuff Happens, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006

MAGUIRE, SUSIE (books) (chron.)

• * Statutes and Judgements, (ss) Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

MAHFOUZ, NAGUIB (1911-2006) (chron.)

• * By a Person Unknown, (ss) The Time and the Place and Other Stories, American University in Cairo Press 1991
  • Murder & Other Acts of Literature, ed. Michele Slung, St. Martin’s 1997

MAILER, NORMAN (Kingsley) (1923- ) (chron.)

• * from An American Dream, (ex) New York: The Dial Press 1965
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996
• * from The Executioner’s Song, (ex) Boston: Little Brown 1979
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996
• * The Greatest Thing in the World, (ss) The Harvard Advocate Apr 1941
  • The Tough Ones, ed. Whit Burnett & Hallie Burnett, Popular Library Eagle 1954
• * The Locust Cry, (ss) 1963
  • EQMM Mar 10 1980

MAINS, KAREN BURTON (1943- ) (chron.)

• * In the Women’s Room, (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

MAINWARING, DANIEL (Geoffrey Homes) (1902-1977) (chron.)

• * Fruit Tramp, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1934
  • Hard-Boiled, ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1995

MAITLAND, JOHN (chron.)

• * Inchy’s Forty-Grand Alibi, (ss) Detective Tales Jul 1948
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

MAJOR, J. MICHAEL (chron.)

• * Checking Things Out, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1998
• * In the Snow, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1998
• * Into Their Own Hands, (ss) Hardboiled #21 1996

MALAN, V. A. (chron.)

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

MALAN, VIOLETTE (chron.)

• * Attitude Adjustment, (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001

MALCOLM, DAN; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (chron.)

• * Death Behind the Door, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Deathtrap of Desire, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1958
• * Girl in The Thunderbird, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• * Play It Cool, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960
• * Too Easy Pickup, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959
• * Wizard With a Switchblade, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1959

MALCOLM, JOHN; pseudonym of John Malcolm Andrews, (1936- ) (chron.)

• * The Cisterna, (nv) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
• * The Crime Writers’ Association, (aw) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * The Crumple Zone, (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Dinah, Reading, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 22, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1990
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
• * Fidelity, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 24, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1992
  • Winter’s Crimes 24, Volume 2, ed. Maria Rejt, Chivers Press 1993
• * Juke Box Music, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991
• * The Only True Unraveller, (ss) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
• * The Soul of Discretion, (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996
• * The Wrong Reasons [Tim Simpson], (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994

MALEENY, TIM (chron.)

• * Till Death Do Us Part, (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006

MALENKY, BARBARA W. (chron.)

• * A Bout of Insomnia, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 1999
• * Repo Job, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1999
• * Sacred Ground, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1997