Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

BAXTER, STEPHEN M. (chron.) (continued)

• * A Midsummer Eclipse, (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * The Modern Cyrano, (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• * The Strongest Armour, (ss) Villains!, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992

BAY, AUSTIN (1951- ) (chron.)

• * The Last Time I Saw Buddy Swing, (ss) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991

BAYER, ANN (chron.)

• * Account Settled, (pm) EQMM Aug 1992
• * Blood Relations, (ss) EQMM Feb 1987
• * Gertrude, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1997
• * A Pleasure to Deal With, (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
  • Readers’ Choice, ed. Anon., Davis 1990
• * Two Heads Are Better Than One, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1987

BAYER, WILLIAM (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Mirror Girl, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

BAYLESS, MARTHA (chron.)

• * A.k.a. Pookums, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BEAGLE, PETER S(oyer) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Mr. Sigerson [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

BEALS, STEPHEN (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 1, ed. Stephen Beals, Six Lakes Arts 1989
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 2, ed. Stephen Beals, Chapel Street 1992

BEAMS, DAVID (chron.)

• * Tales of Chinatown, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1990

BEAN, SPAULDING (chron.)

• * What Have You Done Now?, (ss) EQMM Oct 1986

BEANE, JIM (chron.)

• * Jeanette, (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Deanwood, N.E).

BEAR, ELIZABETH; [i.e., Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky] (1971- ) (chron.)

• * Tiger! Tiger! [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003

BEAR, GREG(ory Dale) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Blood Music, (nv) Analog Jun 1983
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

BEARD, HENRY (chron.)

• * The Last Recall, (nv) The National Lampoon Feb 1972
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992

BEARE, GERALDINE (books) (chron.)

• * Editor’s Preface, (pr)
  • Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’, ed. Geraldine Beare, Folio Society 1991

BEATON, M. C.; pseudonym of Marion Chesney, (1936- ) (chron.)

• * Handle with Care, (ss) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
• * A Highland Christmas [Hamish Macbeth], (n.) New York: The Mysterious Press 1999
  • Very Merry Mysteries, ed. Anon., Mystery Guild 2003

BEATTY, TERRY (chron.)

• * Auld Acquaintance (with Wendi Lee) [Dick Tracy], (ss) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990
• * Full-Body Santa (with Wendi Lee), (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• * Photo Swipe (with Wendi Lee), (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995

_____, [ref.]

• * “Terry Beatty” by C. J. Henderson, (ar) Hardboiled #5 1986

BEATTY, WENDI LEE; see under Lee, Wendi (books) (chron.)

BEATY, (Arthur) DAVID (1919-1999) (chron.)

• * Ghosts, (nv) Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000
• * The Last of Lord Jitters, (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

BEAUMONT, ROGER A(lban) (1935- ) (chron.)

• * The Flawed Soothsayer: General MacArthur’s G-2, (ar) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985

BEAVER, JIM (chron.)

• * The Afternoon Blood Show, (nv) AHMM Apr 29 1981

BECK, ALLEN; pseudonym of Hugh B. Cave, (1910-2004) (chron.)

• * Always Together [as by Hugh B. Cave], (ss) Death, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy 1982
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

BECK, K. K.; pseudonym of Kathrine Kristine Beck Marris, (1950- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Ground Glass, (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• * Hollywood Homicide [Iris Cooper], (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Peril Under the Palms [Iris Cooper], (n.) Walker 1989
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * A Romance in the Rockies [Iris Cooper], (nv) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Rule of Law, (ss) Malice Domestic 4, Carolyn G. Hart, Pocket 1995
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Seascape [Iris Cooper; Jack Clancy], (nv) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
• * The Tell-Tale Tattoo [Iris Cooper], (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002

BECKER, LARRY (chron.)

• * Love, Honor and Kill (with Cordner Nelson), (ss) Scientific Detective May 1947

BECKETT, M. E. (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Dating Sally, (ss) EQMM Mar 1994

BECKMAN, CHARLES, Jr.; pseudonym of Charles Boeckman, Jr. (chron.)

• * Murder on My Mind, (ss) New Detective Magazine Nov 1949
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * One-Way Fare, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
• * The Terrible Laugh, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958

BECKMAN, JANE (chron.)

• * A Proposition He Could Not Refuse, (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985

BEDFORD, JEAN (Gladys Agnes) (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Cousin to Death, (ss) A Corpse at the Opera House, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992
• * Finding Fire, (ss) Crosstown Traffic, ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Five Islands Press 1993
• * Take My Aching Heart, (ss) Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994

BEDFORD, JOAN (chron.)

• * Sleeping Dog, (ss) Case Reopened, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Allen & Unwin Australia 1993; based on “The Beaumont Children Mystery” case.

BEDFORD, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * The Matchmaker (with Bruce Dettman), (ss) AHMM Nov 1983

BEDFORD-JONES, H(enry James O’Brien) (1887-1949) (chron.)

• * The Last Man, (nv) Adventure Jan 1938
  • Action Adventure Stories #78 2000

BEDNARZ, WILMA (chron.)

• * Project-GLD (with J. Primeau), (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967
• * Under the Pipal Tree, (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967

BEE, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Betting Slips, (ss) Plots with Guns Jun/Jul 2000

BEEBE, LUCY C. (chron.)

• * Shape Up or Ship Out, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984

BEECHCROFT, WILLIAM; pseudonym of William F. Hallstead, (1924- ) (chron.)

• * Blowback, (ss) AHMM May 1997
• * Czech for a Short Bier, (ss) EQMM Apr 1993
• * Death Magic, (ss) AHMM Sep 1997
• * Dotty Blue, (ss) AHMM Oct 1996
• * Floater, (ss) EQMM Mar 1995
• * Fugu, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• * Hamadryad, (ss) EQMM Mar 1994
  • Mysterious Menagerie, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1996
• * Last the Best, (ss) EQMM Feb 1996
• * Playing It by Ear, (ss) AHMM Sep 1995
• * Tee for Two, (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
• * Torrent, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1991
• * Turkey Durkin and the Catfish, (ss) EQMM Oct 1992

BEELER, CHARLES RICHARD (1888-1961); see pseudonym Caddo Cameron (chron.)

BEERS, JINX (chron.)

• * Everything Is a Matter of Timing, (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

BEESTON, L(eonard) J(ohn) (1874-1963) (chron.)

• * His Final Choice, (ss) Top-Notch Feb 1 1914
  • Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2001

BEFELER, MIKE (chron.)

• * Never Trust a Poison Dart Frog, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Missing Missile, (vi) AHMM Jun 2006

BEGG, JOYCE (chron.)

• * The Reunion, (ss) Murder and Company, ed. Harriet Ayres, Pandora 1988
  • EQMM Apr 1993

BEGG, PAUL (chron.)

• * On the Trail of Jack the Ripper, (ar) The Strand Magazine #6 2001

BEHAN, BRENDAN (1923-1964) (chron.)

• * The Execution, (ss) 1978
  • Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery, ed. Peter Haining, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * The Informers [from The Scarperer, as by Emmet Street], (ex) Irish Times 1953
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993

BEHNEY, L. E. (chron.)

• * Dry Spell, (ss) EQMM Apr 1975
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
• * The Man Who Kept His Promise, (ss) EQMM Aug 1966
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * Why Don’t You Like Me?, (ss) EQMM Aug 1966
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992

BEINHART, LARRY (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Death in a Small Town, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
  • New Mystery Spr 1995
• * Funny Story, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
  • EQMM Dec 1996
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

BELBIN, DAVID (books) (chron.)

• * Bad Presents, (ss) The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Dennis Hamley, Oxford University Press 2003
• * Introduction, (in)
  • City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997
• * Paying for It, (nv) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

BELEJACK, BARBARA (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * The Deepest South, by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

BELKNAP, LISA (books) (chron.)

_____, ed.

• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 6 # 8, August 1961], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962
• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 # 2, February 1962], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

BELL, D. O. (chron.)

• * Safe and Free, (ss) EQMM Feb 11 1980
• * She Will Live Forever, (ss) EQMM Apr 7 1980

BELL, DONNA (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Out of the Woods, (ss) EQMM Apr 1984

BELL, IAN A. (chron.)

• * Mystery Trains: Crime Writers & the Railway, (ar) The Strand Magazine #5 2000

BELL, [Dr.] JOSEPH (1837-1911) (chron.)

• * Mr. Sherlock Holmes, (in) A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ward, Lock 1892
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

BELL, JOSEPHINE; pseudonym of Doris Bell Ball, (1897-1987) (chron.)

• * The Alibi, (ss) The (London) Evening Standard
  • John Creasey’s Mystery Bedside Book, 1975, ed. Herbert Harris, Hodder Stoughton 1974
• * The Carol Singers, (nv) The Illustrated London News
  • AHMM Jan 1992
  • Murder Under the Mistletoe and Other Stories, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1992
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
• * Gale Warning, (ss) The (London) Evening Standard
  • The Gourmet Crook Book, ed. Tony Wilmot, Everest Books 1976
• * Miss Chandler’s Mistake, (na) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
• * The Silver Snuffbox, (na) Everywoman’s Magazine
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• * The Thimble River Murder, (ss) The (London) Evening Standard
  • AHMM Aug 1996

BELL, MADISON SMARTT (1957- ) (chron.)

• * Cash Machine, (ss) Story Spr 1991
• * Witness, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1990
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001

BELL, NAOMI (chron.)

• * Bolter, (nv) AHMM Oct 2005
• * Night Highway, (nv) AHMM Sep 2004

BELL, TED (chron.)

• * The Powder Monkey [Alex Hawke], (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

BELL, WADE (chron.)

• * Tracie’s Revenge, (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

BELLAIRS, GEORGE; pseudonym of Harold Blundell, (1902-1982) (chron.)

• * Death in the Mountains, (ss) Mystery Stories #20 1939
• * The Rocking-Chair, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

BELLEFLEUR, PHILLIP (chron.)

• * The San Diego to Seattle Air Race, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1998

BELLEFONTAINE, GEORGE F. (chron.)

• * The Persuaders, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Jan 1968
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #3 1973

BELLEM, ROBERT LESLIE (1902-1968); see pseudonym Jerome Severs Perry (books) (chron.)

• * Bellyboard Bump-Off! [Dan Turner], (cs) Hollywood Detective Apr 1950
  • High Adventure #46 1999
• * Beyond Justice [Dan Turner], (nv) Spicy Detective Stories Nov 1935
  • Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, Pulpville Press 2005
• * Blackmail from Beyond [Dan Turner], (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Nov 1938
  • Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, Pulpville Press 2005