Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

MOYES, PATRICIA (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Family Christmas, (ss) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Flowers of the Dead, (ss) EQMM Apr 1984
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Hit and Run, (ss) EQMM Jul 1982
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Holly Wreath, (na) Women’s Mirror 1965
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Honest Blackmailer, (ss) EQMM Sep 1982
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Innocents Abroad, (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * A Lonely Profession, (ss) EQMM Mar 1983
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Love at Second Sight, (ss) London Evening News 1961
  • AHMM Mar 1987
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Man Who Had Everything, (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * A Man Without Papers, (ss) 1961
  • EQMM May 5 1980
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * A Matter of Succession, (ss) EQMM May 1982
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Most Hated Man in London, (ss) 1961
  • EQMM Mar 10 1980
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
  • London After Midnight, ed. Peter Haining, Little Brown UK 1996
• * The Small Train Robbery, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * A Suitable Revenge, (ss) 1961
  • EQMM Jan 14 1980
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * A Whispering in the Reeds, (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Who Killed Father Christmas?, (ss) Who Done It?, ed. Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, Houghton Mifflin 1980
  • EQMM Jan 1 1982
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1990
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002
• * A Young Man Called Smith, (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1986
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Home Sweet Homicide, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Walker 1991
  • Murder Most Cozy, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Signet 1993
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996

MOYNAHAN, JAMES H. S.; see pseudonym Henri St. Maur (chron.)

• * Siren of Soho, (ss) Private Detective Stories Mar 1939

MUDDOCK, J(ames) E(dward) (1843-1934); see pseudonym Dick Donovan (chron.)

MUDROOROO (chron.)

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

MUHEIM, HARRY (1920- ) (chron.)

• * The Four Principles of Erwin Stickles, (ss) Sleuth Mystery Magazine Dec 1958
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959

MUIR, (Charles) AUGUSTUS (Carlow) (1892-1989) (chron.)

• * The Intruder, (ss) The Strand Sep 1938
  • Detective Stories from The Strand, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1991

MUIR, BRIAN (chron.)

• * A Darkening of Flies, (ss) EQMM Jul 2007
• * Plain Sight, (ss) EQMM Jan 2006
• * Slowsand, (ss) EQMM Jun 2004
• * With Mine Own Hands This Grave I Dig, (ss) AHMM Dec 2006

MUIR, EDWIN (1887-1959) (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from “A Fratricide”, by Franz Kafka, (ex)
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996; tr. by Willa Muir

MUIR, WARD (1878-1927) (chron.)

• * The Man with the Ebony Crutches, (nv) The Storyteller Feb 1908
  • 12 Mystery Stories, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1998
  • AHMM May 2005

MUIR, WILLA (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from “A Fratricide”, by Franz Kafka, (ex)
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996; tr. by Edwin Muir

MUK, DEREK (chron.)

• * Blood and Hate, (ss) Hardboiled #23 1997
• * Hot August Nights, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #38 2003
• * The Hunter, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #48 2004
• * The Last Time I Saw Anook, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #39 2003
• * No. 5, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #43 2003
• * The Powwow, (ss)
  • Detective Mystery Stories #46 2004
• * The Tunnel, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003

MUKHERJEE, BHARATI (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Loose Ends, (ss) The Middleman and Other Stories 1980
  • The Killing Spirit, ed. Jay Hopler, The Overlook Press 1996

MULCREEVY, JOHN (chron.)

• * Cassiopeia’s Nipple, (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

MULDOON, PAUL (1951- ) (chron.)

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

MULHERN, D. GRANT (chron.)

• * Switch Blades and Shootin’ Irons, (ss) Plots with Guns Apr/May 2000

MULKEY, ROBIN (chron.)

• * Death in Cadmium Red, (ss) AHMM Jul 1989

MULL, B. J.; pseudonym of Barbara Collins (chron.)

• * Too Many Tomcats, (ss) A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998

MULLAN, PAT (chron.)

• * Tribunal, (ss)
  • Dublin Noir, ed. Ken Bruen, Akashic Books 2006

MULLEN, D. L. (chron.)

• * A Christmas Carol (Sort Of), (pm) EQMM Feb 1998

MULLEN, MARY (chron.)

• * At Eighteen Dollars a Copy, (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1994

MULLEN, PATRICIA (1941?-2003) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Woman in the Cellar [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998

MULLER, ADRIAN (chron.)

• * Bullets, (cl) Crime Time v2 #5 1999, #23 2001
• * Val McDermid, (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

MULLER, EDDIE (chron.)

• * Kid’s Last Fight, (ss) San Francisco Noir, ed. Peter Maravelis, Akashic Books 2005; (South of Market).
• * Wanda Wilcox Is “Trapped!”, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2003
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005

_____, [ref.]

• * “The PWG Interviews: Eddie Muller” by Trevor Maviano, (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004

MULLER, EMMY (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * The Best, by Chris Rippen, (ss) 2003; first published in Nachtboot, House De Geus, Breda.
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * Ferry Noir, by Chris Rippen, (ss) Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998

MULLER, MARCIA (1944- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Afterword, (aw)
  • Cages, Deadline Press 1995
• * All the Lonely People [Sharon McCone], (ss) Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1989
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
• * Benny’s Space [Sharon McCone], (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford 1996
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
• * The Broken Men [Sharon McCone], (na) Women Sleuths, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Academy Chicago 1985
  • Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
• * Cache and Carry (with Bill Pronzini) [Sharon McCone; Nameless private eye], (ss) Small Felonies, St. Martin’s 1988
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
• * Cattails, (ss) The Web She Weaves, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Morrow 1983
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
• * The Cracks in the Sidewalk, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Crime After Crime, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, St. Martin’s 1999
• * Deadly Fantasies [Sharon McCone], (ss) AHMM Apr 1989
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Home Sweet Homicide, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Walker 1991
  • Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
  • Women of Mystery II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
  • Speaking of Greed, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Deceptions [Sharon McCone], (nv) A Matter of Crime v1, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1987
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
  • Dark Crimes 2, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1993
  • Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
  • San Francisco Thrillers, ed. John Miller & Tim Smith, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 1995
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, New American Library 2002
• * Dust to Dust, (ss) Specter!, ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House 1982
  • Dark Crimes, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1991
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Dying Time (with Bill Pronzini), (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
• * E.J.’s Chicken Casserole, (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * The File Closed [Sharon McCone], (ss) The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • EQMM Feb 1997
• * Final Resting Place [Sharon McCone], (ss) Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1990
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • The Eyes Still Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1996
• * Forbidden Things, (nv) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1995, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1995
• * He Said... She Said, (nv) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * The Holes in the System [Sharon McCone; Rae Kelleher], (nv) EQMM Jun 1996
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
• * If You Can’t Take the Heat [Sharon McCone], (ss) MHCMM #1 1996
  • Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
• * The Impostor, (nv) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
  • Found Dead in Texas and Other Stories, Jan Grape, Five Star 2002
• * Introduction (with Bill Pronzini), (in)
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
• * Irrefutable Evidence [Sharon McCone], (ss) EQMM Nov 2005
• * Knives at Midnight [Sharon McCone], (nv) Guilty as Charged, ed. Scott Turlow, Pocket 1996
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
• * The Last Open File [Sharon McCone], (ss) The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • EQMM Feb 1997
  • Women of Mystery III, ed. Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Lost Coast [Sharon McCone], (nv) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2001
• * Merrill-Go-Round [Sharon McCone], (ss) The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House 1981
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • First Cases, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Dutton 1996
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * My Two Best Friends, (in)
  • Spadework, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * One Final Arrangement [Sharon McCone; Mick Savage], (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
• * The Place That Time Forgot [Sharon McCone], (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
• * Preface, (pr)
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
• * Recycle [Sharon McCone; Hy Ripinsky], (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * The Sanchez Sacraments [Elena Oliverez], (nv) The Ethnic Detectives, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Dodd, Mead 1985
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
• * Season of Sharing (with Bill Pronzini) [Sharon McCone; Nameless private eye], (ss) Crippen & Landru 2001
  • Scenarios: A “Nameless Detective” Casebook, Five Star 2003
• * Silent Night [Sharon McCone], (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1990, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1990
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
• * Solo [Sharon McCone], (ss) For Crime Out Loud, Vol. 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd. 1996
  • EQMM Apr 1997
  • Cutting Edge, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000
• * Somewhere in the City [Sharon McCone], (ss) The Armchair Detective Spr 1990
  • The McCone Files, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • Lethal Ladies, Nancy Collins & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1996
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
  • Sleuths of the Century, ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 2000
• * The Time of the Wolves, (ss) Westeryear, ed. Ed Gorman, M. Evans 1988
  • Deceptions, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Up at the Riverside [Sharon McCone; Ted Smalley], (nv) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
  • McCone and Friends, Crippen & Landru 2000