Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

MOSIMAN, BILLIE SUE (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Whistling Dixie, (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000

_____, [ref.]

• * “Billie Sue Mosiman” by J. Alec West, (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1996

MOSLEY, WALTER (Ellis) (1952- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Amber Gate [Easy Rawlins], (na) Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line, (na) Transgressions, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2005
  • Transgressions, Vol. 3, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2006
• * Black Dog [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998
• * Blue Lightning [Socrates Fortlow], (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• * Bombardier, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004
• * Crimson Shadow [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Whitney Museum
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Crimson Stain [Easy Rawlins], (na) Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * Double Standard [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) GQ Aug 1995
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Equal Opportunity [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Buzz
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Fearless, (nv) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• * Fire Bug [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) MHCMM #1 1996
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Gator Green [Easy Rawlins], (na) Black Betty, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * Gone Fishin’ [Easy Rawlins], (ex) 1997
  • Lone Star Sleuths, ed. Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis & Rollo K. Newsom, University of Texas Press 2007
• * Gray-Eyed Monster [Easy Rawlins], (na) ALittle Yellow Dog, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * History [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, Mark Twain, Oxford University Press 1996
• * Karma, (na) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2006, ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin 2006
• * Last Rites [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Lavender [Easy Rawlins], (na) White Orchids, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed. Michael Connelly, Houghton Mifflin 2003
• * Lessons [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Letter to Theresa [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Los Angeles Times
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Man Gone [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Emerge
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Marvane Street [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Story Spr 1996
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Midnight Meeting [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Black Renaissance Noir
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * Mister In-Between, (nv) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007
• * Open House [Easy Rawlins], (ss) 1991
  • Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
• * Pet Fly, (nv) New Yorker Dec 13 1999
  • Left Coast Crimes, ed. Valerie Feldman, Left Coast Crime 2004
• * A Red Death [Easy Rawlins], (ex) Serpent’s Tail 1991
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993
• * Silver Lining [Easy Rawlins], (na) Red Death, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * Smoke [Easy Rawlins], (na) Gone Fishing, Walter Mosley, Washington Square Press 2002
  • Six Easy Pieces, Atria Books 2003
• * Thick-Headed, (nv) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997
• * The Thief [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Esquire Jul 1995
  • Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * The Wanderer [Socrates Fortlow], (ss) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, New York: Norton 1997
• * The Watts Lions [Easy Rawlins], (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
  • Sleuths of the Century, ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 2000

MOTION, ANDREW (chron.)

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

MOTTER, DEAN (chron.)

• * Map, (ms) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

MOTZ, JUTTA (chron.)

• * With a Little Help from Your Friends, (ss) EQMM May 2004; first published in German in Wein-Leichen, Scherz, 2003.; tr. by Barbara Stiner
  • Passports to Crime: Finest Mystery Stories from International Crime Writers, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2006; tr. by Barbara Stiner

MOUCHET, PAULETTE (chron.)

• * House of Dreams, (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

MOULESSEHOUL, MOHAMMED; see pseudonym Yasmina Khadra (chron.)

MOULTON, M. K. (chron.)

• * Knowing Who You Might Have Been, (ss) AHMM Mar 2002

MOYES, PATRICIA; [i.e., Patricia Moyes Haszard] (1923-2000) (books) (chron.)

• * Beyond the Reef, (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Crossed Keys, (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
• * Deadlock, (ss) 1961
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Extra Mile, (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * Faces of Betrayal, (ss) EQMM Jun 1983
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
• * The Faithful Cat, (nv) EQMM Jul 1983
  • EQMM Dec 1989
  • Mystery Cats, ed. Anon., Signet 1991
  • Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Unseasonable Demises, Crippen & Landru 1996
  • Feline Felonies, ed. Abigail Browning, Galahad Books 2001
• * 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(enry) S(eymour); 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

MULCAHY, PATRICIA (chron.)

• * The Body in the Doorway, (ss) Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth, ed. Tim McLoughlin & Thomas Adcock, Akashic Books 2008; (Fort Greene).

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

MULFORD, CAROLYN (chron.)

• * Crossing the Bridge, (ss) Chesapeake Crimes III, ed. Donna Andrews & Marcia Talley, Wildside Press 2008

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.)

• * The Grand Inquisitor, (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007
• * 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