Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

NOLAN, WILLIAM F. (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Die, Clown, Die!, (ss) 14 Vicious Valentines, ed. Rosalind M. Greenberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Avon 1988
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Down the Long Night [“Laugh Till You Die”, as by Frank Anmar], (ss) Terror Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * The Fasterfaster Affair [as by Frank Anmar], (ss) The Pseudo People, ed. William F. Nolan, Sherbourne 1965
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Fyodor’s Law, (ss) Cemetery Dance Spr 1994
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * A Good Day, (ss) Cemetery Dance Spr 1997
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Hi, Mom!, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Him, Her, Them, (ss) Psycho-Paths, ed. Robert Bloch, Tor 1991
• * I’ll Get Away with It, (vi) Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Into the Lion’s Den [“The Strange Case of Mr. Pruyn”], (ss) AHMM Dec 1956
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, Knopf 1999
• * Lonely Train a’ Comin’ [“The Train”], (ss) Gallery Oct 1981
  • Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1996
• * The Most Exciting Night of His Life, (ss) Rage Jan 1998
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Naked City [“Laugh Till You Die”, as by Frank Anmar], (ss) Terror Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
  • Crime Movies 2, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1997
• * Nobody, That’s Who, (ss) Impact-20, Paperback Library 1963
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * Once Upon a Time..., (ss) Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * The Party, (ss) Playboy Apr 1967
  • Dark Crimes 2, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1993
• * Pirate’s Moon, (nv) Murder in Los Angeles, Adams Round Table, Morrow 1987
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Preface, (pr)
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Pulp Pioneer of the Private Eye (Carroll John Daly), (ar) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1980
• * A Real Nice Guy, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1980
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Carroll & Graf 1996
• * Shadow Quest, (ss) 1990
  • The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Silk and Fire, (ss) Cemetery Dance #31 1999
  • Down the Long Night, Five Star 2000
• * Stoner, (ss) Twilight Zone Apr 1989
  • Dark Crimes, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * The Strange Case of Mr. Pruyn, (ss) AHMM Dec 1956; also as “Into the Lion’s Den”.
• * Strippers Have to Die [as by F. E. Edwards], (ss) Chase May 1964
  • Hardboiled Detective #12 1991
• * Sungrab [Sam Space], (nv) After the Fall, ed. Robert Sheckley, Ace 1980
  • Detective Story Magazine Dec 1988
• * The Train, (ss) Gallery Oct 1981; also as “Lonely Train a’ Comin’”.
• * Vampire Dollars, (nv) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Violation, (ss) Future City, ed. Roger Elwood, Trident 1973
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003
• * What a Cat Has to Do, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * The Zurich Solution, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1982

NOLL, INGRID (1935- ) (chron.)

• * Fisherman’s Friend, (ss) EQMM Dec 2003; first published in German in Ingrid Noll, Stich für Stich, Diogenes Verlag AG, Zürich, 1997.; tr. by Mary Tannert

NOONAN, MAUREEN (chron.)

• * Just One of Those Days, (ss) EQMM May 5 1980

NOONAN, RICHARD ROWELL (chron.)

• * Uncles of Greed, (ss) AHMM Dec 1996

NORMAN, CHARLES (chron.)

• * The Tinkling Footfall, (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980

NORMAN, GEOFFREY (1943- ) (chron.)

• * Armed and Dangerous, (nv) Esquire Mar 13 1979
  • The New Edgar Winners, Mystery Writers of America, New York: Wynwood Press 1990

NORMAN, REX (chron.)

• * The Stone of Ageless Evil, (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories Jan 1937
  • Spicy Mystery Stories, ed. Tom Mason, Newbury Park, CA: Malibu Graphics, Inc. 1990

NORMAN, S. T. (chron.)

• * Shotgun Divorce, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957

NORMAN, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * Old Men Die Too Late, (ss)
  • Corpses Can Walk and Other Stories, ed. Anon., London: Pictorial Art Ltd. 1946

NORRIS, JACK (chron.)

• * To Serve and Protect, (ss) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996

NORRIS, MARGARET (chron.)

• * A Very Special Day, (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1968, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1968

NORTH, JOHN; pseudonym of Ian Wilkes, (1932- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Double Bogey, (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
  • Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
• * Life on the Edge, (vi) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• * Out of Bounds, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998

NORTHROP, BARBARA N. R. (chron.)

• * Hauntable, (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940

NORTON, ALDEN H(olmes) (1903-1987) (chron.)

• * The Seventh Sleeping Brother, (ss) Dr. Yen Sin Sep 1936
  • High Adventure #39 1998

NORTON, (Frank Rowland) BROWNING (1909-1989) (chron.)

• * Nothing to Joke About, (ss) EQMM Jul 1983

NORTON, HENRY A. (1906- ) (chron.)

• * Bait, (vi) Dime Detective Magazine May 1943
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

NORTON, MICHAEL C(raig) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Blues for Julie and Diz, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998
• * Charlie One-Eye, (nv) EQMM Jan 1995

NOTIER, PETER (1948?- ) (chron.)

• * All Summer Long, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1982

NOVAKOVICH, JOSIP (1956- ) (chron.)

• * Crimson, (ss) Manoa Win 1997

NOVICK, JERRY A. (chron.)

• * Those Were the Days [Batman], (na) The Further Adventures of Batman 2, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1992
  • Legends of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1997

NOWAK, KEVIN (chron.)

• * A Little Time Off, (vi) Hardboiled Detective #10 1990

NOWINSON, DAVID (1910-1999) (chron.)

• * A Dead Clue, (ss) Ten Detective Aces Sep 1933
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

NOYES, ALFRED (1880-1958) (chron.)

• * Checkmate, (ss) The Hidden Player, London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924
  • Sinister Gambits, ed. Richard Peyton, Souvenir Press 1991
• * Goblin Peaches, (ss) 1918
  • AHMM Dec 1989
• * Midnight Express, (ss) This Week Nov 3 1935
  • An Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Sampler, ed. Anon., Reader’s Digest 1974
• * Uncle Hyacinth, (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 2 1918
  • AHMM Mar 1986

NUDDS, TERRY (chron.)

• * The Beating, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1997
• * Midnight Moon [Moon Man], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1996
• * Within the Tower, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1997

NUDEL, ADELE (chron.)

• * The Yo-Yo Man, (ss) EQMM Jul 1985

NUGENT, SYLVIA D. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ When Pigs Fly, (vi) AHMM Sep 2003

NULAND, SHERWIN B. (chron.)

• * from How We Die, (ex) 1993
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

NUNEZ, SIGRED (chron.)

• * Henry Renson’s Fortune, (ss) EQMM Jan 1988

NUNNALLY, TIINA (1952- ) (chron.)

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• * Moonglow, by Kjersti Scheen [Margaret Moss], (nv) EQMM Feb 2006; first published in Norwegian in De Nye Krimheltene, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, 2002.

NUSSBAUM, AL(bert Francis) (1934-1996); see pseudonyms Carl Martin & Carl Panzran (chron.)

• * A Left-Handed Profession, (ss) AHMM Nov 1975
  • Grifters and Swindlers, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1993
• * The Legend, (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1985
• * Paranoia, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983
• * Role Model, (ss) EQMM Dec 1982

NYE, JODY LYNN (1957- ) (chron.)

• * Land Rush, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Night Hawks, (ss) Murder Most Romantic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Denise Little, Cumberland House 2001
• * Power Corrupts, (ss) Mob Magic, ed. Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1998
• * Way Out (with Bill Fawcett), (ss) More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993

OAKES, JERRI M. (chron.)

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

OATES, JOYCE CAROL (1938- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Angel of Wrath, (ss) EQMM Jun 2002
• * At the Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada, (ss) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
• * Babysitter, (ss) EQMM Jun 2006
• * The Banshee, (ss) EQMM Jun 2004
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * The Brothers, (ss) EQMM Nov 1994
• * Color Blind, (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998
• * The Corn Maiden: A Love Story, (na) Transgressions, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2005
• * Craps, (ss) Boulevard 1991
  • Blowout in Little Man Flats, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1998
• * The Dark Prince [from Blonde, HarperCollins, Jan 2000], (vi) EQMM Nov 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * Death Cup, (nv) EQMM Aug 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
  • Murder Most Delectable, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
• * The Death of Mrs. Sheer, (nv) Upon the Sweeping Flood 1964
  • The Killing Spirit, ed. Jay Hopler, The Overlook Press 1996
• * The Deaths, (nv) EQMM Dec 2002
• * Do with Me What You Will, (ss) Playboy Jun 1973
  • The Edgar Award Book, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000
  • Speaking of Lust, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Doll: a Romance of the Mississippi, (ss)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2004, ed. Nelson DeMille, Houghton Mifflin 2004
• * Extenuating Circumstances, (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
• * Faithless, (nv) The Kenyon Review Win 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998
• * Fin de Siècle, (ss) Interview Nov 1987
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * from American Appetites, (ex)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998
• * The Fruit Cellar, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004
• * The Girl with the Blackened Eye, (ss) Witness 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001
• * Give Me Your Heart, (ss) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
• * Happiness, (ss) EQMM Aug 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * The High School Sweetheart, (ss) Playboy Jan 2001
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, ed. James Ellroy, Houghton Mifflin 2002
• * Honor Code, (nv) EQMM Dec 2005
• * How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again, (ss) TriQuarterly Spr 1969
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
• * Hunger, (nv) AHMM Nov 2001
• * The Hunter, (ss) EQMM Nov 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * In Copland, (ss) Boulevard Fll 1999
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Houghton Mifflin 2005
• * Lover, (ss) Night-Side 1977
  • Granta Sum 1997
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000
• * The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza, (ss) Murder on the Ropes, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• * Manslaughter, (ss)
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Meadowlands, (nv) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * The Model, (nv) EQMM Oct 1992
  • The Deadliest Games, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1993
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1993, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1993
• * Murder, (ss) The Ontario Review 1992
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Murder-Two, (nv) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
  • Master’s Choice, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 1999
  • A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins 2004
• * Norman and the Killer, (nv) 1965
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Posthumous, (vi) EQMM Jun 1994
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Premonition, (ss) Playboy Dec 1992
  • Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995
• * Schroeder’s Stepfather, (nv) EQMM Apr 1992