Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

SLESAR, HENRY (chron.) (continued)

• * 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

SLOANE, KIT (chron.)

• * The Sting, (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

SLOCOMBE, ROMAIN (chron.)

• * Guy Georges’ Final Crime, (ss) Paris Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 2008

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

SMEDEGAARD, PAUL B. (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Unpublished Solar Pons, Toronto, Canada: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library 1994

SMILEY, PATRICIA (chron.)

• * Party’s Over, (ss) EQMM Dec 2007

SMILEY, ROBIN (chron.)

• * A Leigh Brackett Bibliography, (bi) Firsts 1997
  • No Good from a Corpse, Leigh Brackett, Dennis McMillan 1999

SMITH (chron.)

• * Karate Babes from the Year 3000 (with Victor Gischler), (ss) Plots with Guns Oct-Dec 2000

SMITH, A. E. D. (1881-?) (chron.)

• * The Coat, (ss) Powers of Darkness, ed. Anon., P. Allan 1934
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994

SMITH, AL (chron.)

• * The Fools, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• * The Medics, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2001
• * The Monster from Chartier’s Creek, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2001
• * The Murders That Weren’t, (sl) Detective Mystery Stories Jan, Mar 2001
• * Witches from the Past, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

SMITH, ALEXANDER McCALL (1948- ) (chron.)

• * He Loved to Go for Drives with His Father, (ss) A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
• * In the Eyes of Children, (ss) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007
• * Smiles, (ss) The Strand Magazine #14 2004

SMITH, ALI (1962- ) (chron.)

• * Kasia’s Mother’s Mother’s Story, (ss) Other Stories and other stories, Granta 1999
  • Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

SMITH, ANDREA (chron.)

• * Elected to Die [Ariel Lawrence], (ss) MHCMM Fll 1998
• * Fatal Flaw, (ss) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• * A Lesson in Murder, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• * Race to the Rescue, (ss) Racing Can Be Murder, ed. Brenda R. Stewart & Tony Perona, Blue River Press 2007

SMITH, ANTHONY NEIL (books) (chron.)

• * The Black Hole of Luck [David Junior], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Jun 2000
• * Find Me, (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005
• * Lovers Throughout All Eternity and Forevermore, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007
• * Paying the Bill, (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

SMITH, ARTHUR D. HAUDEN; see under Smith, Arthur D. Howden (chron.)

SMITH, ARTHUR D(ouglas) HOWDEN (1887-1945) (chron.)

• * Swain Kingsbane, (nv) Adventure Sep 30 1924
  • Pulp Vault #8 1991

SMITH, BARBARA A. (chron.)

• * The Sylvan, (nv) AHMM Jul 1994
• * The Watchdog, (ss) AHMM Apr 1995
  • Canine Crimes II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1997

SMITH, BARBARA BURNETT (1947-2005) (chron.)

• * Death of a Damn Moose, (ss) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * Mistletoe from Purple Sage [Jolie Wyatt], (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1997
  • ’Tis the Season for Murder: Christmas Crimes, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 1998
• * Writer’s Revenge, (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998

SMITH, BRAD (chron.)

• * The Package, (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

SMITH, BROOKE (chron.)

• * Reunion, (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2003

SMITH, CECIL LEWIS TROUGHTON (1899-1966); see pseudonym C. S. Forester (chron.)

SMITH, CLARK ASHTON (1893-1961) (chron.)

• * Murder in the Fourth Dimension, (ss) Amazing Detective Tales Oct 1930
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998

SMITH, D. W. “PROF”; see under Smith, Dean Wesley (chron.)

SMITH, DEAN WESLEY (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Black Betsy, (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• * Sprinkle on a Memory, (ss) EQMM Jan 2005
• * Two Roads, No Choices [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

SMITH, DENIS O. (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Crimson Arrow [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• * The Adventure of the Silver Buckle [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * A Hair’s Breadth [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• * An Incident in Society [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Strand Magazine #3 1999

SMITH, DIANE L. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Swan Song, (vi) AHMM Sep 1996

SMITH, DIXIE L. (chron.)

• * A Soiree of Suspects, (ss) EQMM Sep 1985

SMITH, DOUGLAS (chron.)

• * What’s in a Name?, (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000