Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

SKINNER, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2002
• * Spanish Luck, (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005
• * Tellin’ Stories, (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2002

_____, [ref.]

• * “Kent Westmoreland Interviews Robert Skinner” by Kent Westmoreland, (iv) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001

SKINNER, ROBERT E(arle) (1948- ) (chron.)

• * A Morning for Remembering, (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
• * Payback, (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994

SKOWRON, KAREN; also as Karen Parker (chron.)

• * City Tracks, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2001
• * For Shame’s Sake, (nv) AHMM Jun 1998
• * The Neighbors, (ss) AHMM Oct 1992
• * Urban Pageant, (ss) AHMM Oct 1994

SKOYLES, KATHRYN (chron.)

• * A Friend in Need, (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002

SKVORECKÝ, JOSEF (Vaclav) (1924- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Ab-solutions, (ms) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * Aristotelian Logic [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * An Atlantic Romance [Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * The Case of the Horizontal Trajectory [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * The Classic Semerák Case, (ss) EQMM Oct 1967
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000; tr. by Káca Polácková
• * Crime in a Girls’ High School [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * Death on Needlepoint [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * The End of an Old Tom-Cat [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * Falling Light [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * His Easiest Case [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * Humbug [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The End of Lieutenant Boruvka, Toronto: Lester 1989
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * An Intimate Business [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * Just Between Us Girls [Eve Adam], (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * The Man Eve Didn’t Know from Adam [Eve Adam], (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * The Mathematicians of Grizzly Drive [Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * Miscarriage of Justice [Eve Adam], (ss) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * Mistake in Hitzungsee [Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
  • Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995
• * A Question of Alibis [Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * The Sax Solo [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * The Scientific Method [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * The Supernatural Powers of Lieutenant Boruvka [Lieutenant Boruvka], (ss) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * The Third Tip of the Triangle [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988
• * A Tried and Proven Method [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * Whose Deduction? [Lieutenant Boruvka], (nv) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, London: Gollancz 1973
• * Why So Many Shamuses? [Lieutenant Boruvka; Eve Adam], (nv) Sins for Father Knox, Toronto: Lester 1988

SLADEK, JOHN (Thomas) (1937-2000) (chron.)

• * The Purloined Butter, (vi) New Worlds Quarterly 3, ed. Michael Moorcock, London: Sphere 1972
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992

SLATER, DAVID (chron.)

• * Stiffed, (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Thomas Circle, N.W.).

SLATER, HAROLD (chron.)

• * Dark Nebula, (nv) Suspense Stories #1 1954

SLATER, SUSAN (Samson) (1942- ) (chron.)

• * A Way to the Manger, (na) Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2003

SLATTERY, JESSE (chron.)

• * Painkiller, (ss) AHMM Oct 1992

SLAUGHTER, CHELSEA (chron.)

• * Phaedra, (ss) MHCMM #1 1996

SLAUGHTER, KARIN (chron.)

• * Necessary Women, (ss) Tart Noir, ed. Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Prime Crime 2002

SLAVSKA, CORETTA (chron.)

• * Checkmated!, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1950
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

SLEDZIK, PAUL (chron.)

• * The Haunting of Carrick Hollow (with Jan Burke), (nv) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000

SLEEMAN, W. H. (chron.)

• * from Ramseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

SLESAR, HENRY (1927-2002); see pseudonyms Jeff Heller, O. H. Leslie & Jay Street (chron.)

• * The Acrostic Mystery, (pz) New Mystery Spr 1995
• * An Affair of the Heart, (ss) EQMM Oct 1989
• * Alibi on the Steve Allen Show [as by O. H. Leslie], (ss) EQMM May 1956
  • EQMM May 1988
• * And Beauty the Prize, (ss) 1963; broadcast as “The Throwback” on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Feb ’61.
  • AHMM Oct 1994
• * Blood Bargain, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Sep 1961
• * The Bluff, (nv) AHMM Apr 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967
• * Boredom, (ss) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• * The Bottle, (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• * Bottom Line, (ss) EQMM Jan 27 1982
• * The Bracelet, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1983
  • New Mystery v2 #1 1994
• * Breaking and Entering, (ss) New Mystery v3 #1 1994
• * The Case of the Notorious Canary Trainer (ascribed to W. Somerset Maugham) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996
• * Changing Partners, (ss) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * The Contessa Collection, (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• * The Cop Who Loved Flowers, (ss) EQMM Nov 1966
  • Garden of Deadly Delights, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996
• * The Darlington Substitution Scandal [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998
• * The Day of the 31st, (nv) Blood on Their Hands, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2003
• * The Day of the Execution, (ss) AHMM Jun 1957
  • Five Classic Stories, ed. Anon., Davis 1986
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006
• * The Deadly Telephone, (ss) AHMM Jan 1960
  • AHMM Dec 1985
• * The Deal, (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
• * Dear Mrs. Fenwick, (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * Dick Tracy and the Syndicate of Death [Dick Tracy], (nv) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990
• * The Discount Club, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• * Examination Day, (ss) Playboy Feb 1958
  • Tin Stars, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986
• * The Fifty-Third Card [Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990
• * The Final Paragraph:
  ___ 800-Pound Gorilla, (pz) EQMM Jul 1995
  ___ Amos’s Last Words, (pz) EQMM Jun 1994
  ___ The Best Disguise, (pz) EQMM Feb 1996
  ___ The Cabin Killer, (pz) EQMM Jul 2000
  ___ Door to Door, (pz) EQMM Nov 1995
  ___ Good for the Soul, (pz) EQMM Jun 1996
  ___ Killing with Calories, (pz) EQMM Sep 1995
  ___ The Last Battlefield, (pz) EQMM mid-Dec 1994
  ___ Murder on the Internet, (pz) EQMM Oct 1994
  ___ Murder Set to Music, (pz) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
  ___ One More Question, (pz) EQMM Sep 1994
  ___ Out of the Woods, (pz) EQMM Oct 1995
  ___ The Principal, (pz) EQMM Aug 1998
• * 40 Detectives Later, (ss) Manhunt May 1957
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Fraternity Hell Week, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1957
• * The Game As It Is Played, (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980
• * Hanged for a Sheep, (ss) EQMM Jun 1990
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Murder on Trial, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Happen to Anyone, (ss) EQMM Nov 1993
• * Harley’s Destiny, (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
• * The High Price of Amazonas, (ss) New Mystery v1 #3 1993
• * Home Again, (ss) EQMM Nov 1991
• * Homicide Only Knocks Once, (ss) AHMM May 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * The Houdini Homicide, (vi) About Mysteries; Only the master illusionist Houdini could solve this homicide...
• * The Housebreakers, (ss) EQMM May 2001
• * Hunt the Tiger, (ss) AHMM Nov 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960
• * The Inside Track, (ss) EQMM Dec 1993
• * The Kidnaping, (ss) EQMM Jan 1975
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
• * Killing Teddy Ballgame, (nv) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• * The Kindest Man in the World, (ss) EQMM Jul 1979
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * Letter from a Very Worried Man [as by Jay Street], (ss) AHMM Jul 1959
  • Murder Most Postal, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• * A Letter Too Late, (ss) EQMM Jul 1992
  • Tales of Obsession, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Light Switch, Mirror, Stairs, (ss) EQMM Jun 2001
• * Lucrezia and the Thief, (vi) EQMM Apr 2001
• * Mad Dog! (with Jay Charby), (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• * A Mother’s Kiss, (vi) AHMM Jun 2002
• * Not So Sudden Death, (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * The Operation, (ss) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994
• * The Other Woman, (ss) EQMM May 1994
• * Outsourcing, (ss) EQMM Dec 2000
• * A Pair of Eyes, (ss) EQMM Jul 1987
• * The Poisoned Pawn, (ss) AHMM Jun 1974
  • Win, Lose or Die, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Carroll & Graf 1996
• * Possession, (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1990, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1990
• * The Right Kind of House, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1957
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Slave, (ss) 1970
  • Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001
  • Futures Apr/May 2001
• * Something Short of Murder [as by O. H. Leslie], (ss) AHMM Nov 1957
  • Murder At the Races, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• * The Theft, (ss) New Mystery v4 #4 1996
• * Thicker Than Water, (ss) AHMM Nov 1961
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * The Tin Man, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984
• * The Trouble with Ruth, (ss) AHMM Jan 1957
  • AHMM Jan 2003
• * A Victim Must Be Found, (ss) EQMM Jun 1956
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Voodoo Doll—$1.98, (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960
• * What Do I Do About Dora?, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1991
• * The Witness, (ss) The Diners Club Magazine 1963
  • AHMM Aug 13 1980

SLIGO, JOHN (1944- ) (chron.)

• * A Family Affair, (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993
• * Killing Time, (nv) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990

SLOAN, BOB (1956- ) (chron.)

• * The Good Rabbi, (ss) Reform Judaism Magazine 1999
  • Mystery Midrash, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 1999

SLOMAN, H. N. P. (1885-?) (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from “A Vendetta”, by Guy de Maupassant, (ex)
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

SLOVO, GILLIAN (1952- ) (chron.)

• * Looking for Thelma, (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991

SLUNG, MICHELE B(eth) (1947- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Editor’s Foreword, (fw)
  • Murder & Other Acts of Literature, ed. Michele Slung, St. Martin’s 1997
• * Preface (with Roland Hartman), (pr)
  • Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994

_____, reviews:

• * Murder by the Book, (br) MHCMM Spr, Sum/Fll 1997, Sum, Fll 1998, Sum 1999, Sum 2000

SLUPETZKY, STEFAN (chron.)

• * The Copyist (with Anke Gebert, Paul Lascaux, Richard Lifka, Thomas Przybilka & Christoph Spielberg), (ss) EQMM Dec 2006; tr. by Mary Tannert
• * A Viennese Romance, (vi) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007; first published in German as “Eine Weiner Romanze” in Absurdes Glück, 2004.; tr. by Mary Tannert

SMALL, AUSTIN J(ames) [originally Austin Small Major] (1894-1929); see pseudonym Seamark (chron.)

SMALL, J. M. (chron.)

• * A Free Man, (ss) EQMM Sep 1982
• * Nothing Ventured, (ss) EQMM Jan 1986

SMALL, SIDNEY HERSCHEL (1893-?) (chron.)

• * King Cobra, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 13 1931
  • It’s Raining Corpses in Chinatown, ed. Don Hutchison, Nercer Island, WA: Starmont 1991

SMART, HAWLEY (1833-1893) (chron.)

• * Great Tontine, (n.) London: Chapman & Hall 1881
  • Victorian Villainies, ed. Graham Greene & Hugh Greene, Viking 1984

SMASUNDRUM, MITHRAN (chron.)

• * On Soi Arab, (ss) AHMM May 2005