Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

SIMENON, GEORGES (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * The Little House at Croix-Rousse [Joseph Leborgne], (ss) EQMM Nov 1947
  • The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959; tr. by Anthony Boucher
  • Suspense (UK) Apr 1959
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998; tr. by Anthony Boucher
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001; tr. by Anthony Boucher
• * Madame Maigret’s Admirer [“The Stronger Vessel”; Insp. Jules Maigret], (nv) 1944
  • Sleuths of the Century, ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 2000
• * Madame Smitt [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective Mar 27 & Apr 10 1930; “Mme. Smitt”.
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Maigret [“Inspector Maigret Hesitates”, 1944; Insp. Jules Maigret], (ss) EQMM May 1969
  • Crime Movies 2, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1997
• * Maigret’s Christmas [1951; Insp. Jules Maigret], (nv) EQMM Jan 1954
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1991; tr. by Lawrence G. Blochman
  • Christmas Crimes, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996; tr. by Lawrence G. Blochman
• * Maigret’s Memoirs [from Les Mémoires de Maigret, Fayard; Paris, 1950; Insp. Jules Maigret], (ex) 1963
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993; tr. by J. Stewart
• * The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By [from L’Homme qui regardait passer les trains, Fayard; Paris, 1938], (ex) 1942
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993; tr. by S. Gilbert
• * A Matter of Life and Death [Insp. Jules Maigret], (na) EQMM Jan 1952
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1990; tr. by Geoffrey Sainsbury
  • Murder at Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1991; tr. by Geoffrey Sainsbury
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994; tr. by Geoffrey Sainsbury
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002; tr. by Geoffrey Sainsbury
• * Mme. Maigret’s Admirer [“The Stronger Vessel”; Insp. Jules Maigret], (nv) 1944
  • EQMM Jan 1951
  • Six of the Best Short Novels by Masters of Mystery, ed. Ellery Queen, London: Robert Hale 1987
• * Monsieur Rodrigues [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective Mar 20 & Apr 3 1930; “M. Rodrigues”.
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Nicolas [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective May 8 & 22 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Nouchi [as by Georges Sim; Monsieur Froget], (ss) Détective Apr 10 & 24 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Otto Müller [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective May 29 & Jun 12 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * The Pacha [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective May 22 & Jun 5 1930; “Le Pacha”.
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Philippe [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective May 1 & 15 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Stan the Killer [Insp. Jules Maigret], (nv) 1944
  • EQMM Sep 1949
  • AHMM Jul 1990
  • Great Tales of Crime and Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1993
  • The Television Detectives’ Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Artus 1994
• * The Stronger Vessel [Insp. Jules Maigret], (nv) 1944; also as “Madame Maigret’s Admirer”; also as “Mme. Maigret’s Admirer”.
• * The Timmermans [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective May 15 & 29 1930; “Les Timmermans”.
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Two Bodies on a Barge [Insp. Jules Maigret], (ss)
  • Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998
• * Under the Hammer, (ss)
  • Murder on the Menu, ed. Peter Haining, New York: Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Murder by the Glass, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1994
• * Waldemar Strvzeski [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective Apr 24 & May 8 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman
• * Ziliouk [as by Georges Sim], (ss) Détective Mar 13 & 27 1930
  • 13 Culprits, Crippen & Landru 2002; tr. by Peter Schulman

SIMMONS, DAN (1948- ) (chron.)

• * Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard (with Edward Bryant) [*Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990

SIMMONS, SYLVIE (chron.)

• * I Hate His Fingers, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Kentish Town).

SIMMS, CHRIS (chron.)

• * Baba’s Bites, (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
  • EQMM May 2006
• * Mother’s Milk, (ss) EQMM May 2007

SIMNER, JANNI LEE (chron.)

• * Illusions [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Learning Magic, (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994

SIMON, DAVID (chron.)

• * Stainless Steel, (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Sandtown-Winchester).

SIMON, KELLY (chron.)

• * Objects in Mirror, (ss) EQMM Jun 1993

SIMON, NJAMI (1962- ) (chron.)

• * From Coffin & Co. [Cerueil & Cie, France 1985], (ex) Black Lizard 1987
  • Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995

SIMON, ROGER L(ichtenberg) (1943- ) (chron.)

• * Director’s Cut [Moses Wine], (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2003
• * In the Jungle of Cities [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999
• * Just Say No, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
• * Summer in Idle Valley [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

SIMPSON, ALLEN (chron.)

• * Special Effects, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1988

SIMPSON, DOROTHY (Preece) (1933- ) (chron.)

• * Boxes Within Boxes, (ss) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• * A Man in a Million, (ss) EQMM Dec 1995
• * The Person Inside, (ss) EQMM Apr 1987

SIMPSON, DOUGLAS G. (chron.)

• * Skull-Duggery: Aaron Elkins, (iv) The Armchair Detective Spr 1991

SIMPSON, HELEN (de Guerry) (1897-1940) (chron.)

• * A Posteriori, (ss) Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Jul 1934
  • EQMM Sep 1954
  • Murder Most British, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1996

SIMPSON, JAMES ALLEN (1934- ); see pseudonym M. D. Lake (chron.)

SIMPSON, MARTIN (chron.)

• * Break and Enter, (ss) Crimewave #3 2000
• * No Drowning Mark, (ss) Crimewave #1 1999

SIMPSON, PROFESSOR KEITH (chron.)

• * from Forty Years of Murder, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

SIMPSON, RICHARD (chron.)

• * They Will Do It (with Jeffry Scott), (ss) EQMM Jun 1987

SIMS, GEORGE (Carroll) (1902-1966); see pseudonym Paul Cain (chron.)

SIMS, GEORGE (Frederick Robert) (1923-1999) (chron.)

• * The Man Whose Holiday Was a Fiasco, (nv) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992

SIMS, GEORGE R(obert) (1847-1922) (chron.)

• * The Haverstock Hill Murder [two chapters from Dorcas Dene, Detective: Her Adventures; Dorcas Dene], (ex) 1897
  • Detection by Gaslight, ed. Douglas G. Greene, Dover 1997

SIMS, LaVONNE (chron.)

• * The House of Fragrant Delights, (ss) EQMM Jul 1983

SINBAD; pseudonym of A. E. Dingle, (1874-1947) (chron.)

• * Crucifixial Evidence, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

SINCLAIR, BENNIE LEE (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Groundhog, (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
  • Mysterious Menagerie, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1996

SINCLAIR, CATHERINE (1800-1864) (chron.)

• * The Murder Hole [as by Anon.], (ss) Blackwood’s Feb 1829
  • Murder Most Scottish, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Bob Adey, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1999

SINCLAIR, IAIN (MacGregor) (1943- ) (chron.)

• * No More Yoga of the Night Club, (ss) New Worlds No. 221, ed. Michael Moorcock, Jayde Design 1996
  • Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997

SINCLAIR, MAY; [i.e., Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair] (1863-1946) (chron.)

• * The Mahatma’s Story, (ss) English Life Oct 1924
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994
• * The Nature of the Evidence, (ss) Fortune May 1923
  • Mystery and Detection Apr 1935
• * The Token, (ss) Hutchinson’s Magazine Mar 1922
  • Mystery and Detection #1 1934

SINE, JACK (chron.)

• * Opening Day, (ss) AHMM Nov 1995

SINE, KAREN M. (chron.)

• * Arms and the Woman, (ss) EQMM Sep 1991

SINGER, GLEN (chron.)

• * Friends, (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS (1904-1991) (chron.)

• * The Litigants, (ss) 1965
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992
• * Under the Knife, (ss) 1962
  • Nobel Crimes, ed. Marie Smith, Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

SINGER, KURT (Deutsch) (1911- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Francis G. Powers: Modern Space Spy, (ar)
  • The Secret Agent’s Badge of Courage, ed. Kurt Singer, Belmont 1961

SINGER, ROCHELLE LEE (1939- ); see pseudonym Shelley Singer (chron.)

SINGER, SHELLEY; pseudonym of Rochelle Lee Singer, (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Body by Fisher, (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• * Gin Rummy, (ss) EQMM Nov 1994
• * Heart Attack, (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
• * Lost Polars [Barrett Lake], (ss)
  • Mystery Midrash, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 1999
• * A Man’s Home, (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Me, Louis, and the Skinhead, (ss) Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
• * Reconciling Howard [Jake Samson; Rosie Vicente], (ss) Criminal Kabbalah, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 2001

SINGER, TED (chron.)

• * Once More the Butler, (ss) EQMM Jul 1982

SINGLETON, BRAD (chron.)

• * Maidens for the Monster’s Revenge, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

SINOR, BRADLEY H. (chron.)

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

SIPPACH, ERIC (chron.)

• * Dead on Delivery, (ss) Hardboiled #11 1990
• * Silent Way Out, (ss) Hardboiled Detective #11 1991

SISK, FRANK (chron.)

• * The Ethical Assassination, (ss) AHMM Jun 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
  • AHMM Jun 1992
• * The Magnetic Trap, (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1968, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1968

SITTER, MELISSA (chron.)

• * The Night Shift, (ss) Mystery May 1981

SIZEMORE, JASON B. (chron.)

• * An Ingenious Adventure, (ss) Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

SIZEMORE, SUSAN (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Dizzy and the Biker, (nv) Murder Most Romantic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Denise Little, Cumberland House 2001

SJÖWALL, MAJ (1935- ) (chron.)

• * Cop Killer (with Per Wahlöö), (ex) London: Gollancz 1975
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993; tr. by Thomas Teal

SKARKY, JERRY FRANK (chron.)

• * Making a Killing, (ss) AHMM Sep 1998
• * The Symbolic Method, (nv) AHMM Apr 1991
• * Willie’s Story, (ss) AHMM Jun 1990
  • Death on the Veranda, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994

SKELTON, CHARLOTTE (chron.)

• * The Body on the Beach, (vi) AHMM Mar 2001
• * The Samhain Skeleton, (nv) AHMM Nov 1999
• * Saving Grace, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2001
• * The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2000

SKELTON, J. R. (chron.)

• * “Far Away”, (vi) About Mysteries; When your husband is working late... again... sometimes a homemade treat can solve the problem of him being so... far away.
• * One Step Ahead, (vi) About Mysteries; To be successful in business, and in life, one must always be a step ahead of the competition —.
• * Perfect Timing, (vi) About Mysteries; Sometimes your life depends on Perfect Timing —.
• * Shopping List, (vi) About Mysteries; When you’ve got a rat in the house, you may find you need to add a new item to your shopping list. .
• * Temporary Assignment, (vi) About Mysteries; The first day on the job can be murder...

SKENE-MELVIN, DAVID (1936- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Bibliography, (bi)
  • Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995
• * Canadian Winners of International Crime Fiction Awards, (ms)
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996
  • Secret Tales of the Arctic Trails, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1997
  • Crime Where the Nights Are Long, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1999
• * Introduction (with Robert J. Sawyer), (in)
  • Crossing the Line: Canadian Mysteries with a Fantastic Twist, ed. Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin, Pottersfield Press 1998
• * Investigating Investigating Women, a Historical Survey, (ar) Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995
• * Preface, (pr)
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
  • Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996

SKINNER, ALAN (chron.)

• * I Can’t See the Trees, (vi) EQMM Sep 1990

SKINNER, QUINTON (chron.)

• * Loophole, (ss) Twin Cities Noir, ed. Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Akashic Books 2006; Downtown (Minneapolis).