Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

WATT, LESLIE B. (chron.)

• * A Packet of Stones, (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

WATT-EVANS, LAWRENCE (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Dropping Hints, (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004
• * One-Shot, (vi) IASFM Jan 1991
  • Futurecrime, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Fine 1992

WATTS, CAROLYN JENSEN (chron.)

• * A Case for Clara Cates, (nv) AHMM Mar 1985
  • Women of Mystery, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1992
• * Clara Cates and the Hatchett Murder, (nv) AHMM Jul 1987
• * The Neighborly Clara Cates, (ss) AHMM Nov 1988

WATTS, TOMOTHY (chron.)

• * The Haircut, (ss) EQMM Apr 1991

WAUGH, CHARLES G. (1943- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction (with Martin H. Greenberg), (in)
  • Sci-Fi Private Eye, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1997

WAUGH, EVELYN (Arthur St. John) (1903-1966) (chron.)

• * from Decline and Fall, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * Mr. Crutwell’s Outing, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar May 1935; also as “Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing”.
• * Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing [“Mr. Crutwell’s Outing”], (ss) Harper’s Bazaar May 1935
  • Murder & Other Acts of Literature, ed. Michele Slung, St. Martin’s 1997

WAUGH, HILLARY (Baldwin) (1920- ) (chron.)

• * Fred Dannay and Manny Lee, (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• * Some Explaining to Do, (ss) EQMM Apr 1983

WEADOCK, LOUIS (chron.)

• * Rocks are Hot, (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

WEAGLY, JOHN (chron.)

• * Job Hunt, (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• * The Overall Gang, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2001

WEATHERLY, LINDA (chron.)

• * Editor’s Notes, (ed) AHMM Feb, Mar 2003
• * Editor’s Notes: Season’s Greetings from the Staff of AHMM, (il) AHMM Jan 2003

WEAVER, ROBERT (chron.)

• * D-Day: Tricks and Deception, (ar) Espionage Magazine Sep 1987

WEAVER, ROBERT WAYNE (chron.)

• * Hide and Seek, (pm) EQMM Apr 7 1980

WEAVER, WILLIAM (1923- ) (chron.)

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• * Cities & the Dead, by Italo Calvino [1972], (vi) Invisible Cities, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

WEBB, BETTY (chron.)

• * Desert Deceit, (na) Desperate Journeys, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2004

WEBB, GEOFFREY (1920- ) (chron.)

• * The Garage Racketeers (with Edward J. Mason) [*Dick Barton], (ss)
  • Great Tales of Crime and Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1993
  • The Television Detectives’ Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Artus 1994

WEBB, JACK; [i.e., John Alfred Webb] (1916- ); see pseudonym Douglas Farr (chron.)

• * And Start with a Blonde [Father Joseph Shanley; Sammy Golden], (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
• * Day of the Tiger, (ss) AHMM Dec 1966
  • Mysterious Menagerie, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1996
• * The Stranger in Church, (ss)
  • More Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1994
  • The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995

WEBB, JAMES F. (chron.)

• * Haste Makes Waste, (pm) EQMM Aug 1991

WEBB, JEAN FRANCIS (1910-1991); see pseudonym Roswell Brown (chron.)

• * Jungle Justice, (ss) The Skipper Feb 1937
  • Action Adventure Stories #92 2001

WEBB, RICHARD WILSON (1902-1965); see pseudonyms Q. Patrick & Patrick Quentin (chron.)

WEBBER, EVERETT M. (1909- ) (chron.)

• * Crowbait, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Jan 1947
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The White Square, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Sep 1946
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

WEBER, KEN(neth J.) (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Unsolved:
  ___ The Antique Store Shooting, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM Nov 1990
  
  ___ The Boshkung Mystery Rectangle, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM May 1991
  
  ___ The Case of the Scalpel Murder, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM Sep 1990
  
  ___ Cutting Up the Pierce Arrow, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM Oct 1990
  
  ___ A Double Assassination at “The Falls”, (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
  • AHMM Jul 1992
  
  ___ From “Sine Timore”, (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
  • AHMM Sep 1992
  
  ___ An Interrupted Patrol, (pz) More Five-Minute Mysteries, Philadelphia: Running Press 1991
  • AHMM Aug 1992
  
  ___ The Results of the Eighth Race, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM Aug 1990
  
  ___ To Be or Not to Be—Authentic, (pz) 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective, Running Press 1988
  • AHMM Apr 1991
  
  ___ (untitled), (pz) AHMM mid-Dec 1990

WEBER, THOMASINA (chron.)

• * Apostrophe, (ss) AHMM Oct 1983
• * The Christmas Spirit, (ss) AHMM Jan 1985
  • Murder Under the Mistletoe and Other Stories, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1992
• * Everything’s Going Up, (ss) AHMM Dec 1984
• * The Four Nets of Angelo, (ss) AHMM Feb 1984
• * A Little Bit of the Boy, (ss) AHMM Oct 1985
• * Money in the Bank, (ss) AHMM Aug 1996
• * Nature’s Own, (ss) AHMM Jul 1987
• * Next in Line, (ss) AHMM Nov 1986
• * Nobody Listens to Cartwright, (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1968, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1968
• * Packer’s Fortune, (ss) AHMM Oct 1987
• * The Simplest Thing in the World, (ss) AHMM Sep 1985
• * Spring Bloom, (ss) AHMM Oct 1991
• * The Terrible Three, (ss) AHMM Dec 1983
• * Touch Me Not, (ss) AHMM Nov 1984

WEBSTER, DANIEL (1782-1852) (chron.)

• * The Fatal Secret, (vi) 1850
  • EQMM Oct 1957
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991

WEBSTER, [Captain] F(rederick) A(nnesley) M(itchell) (1886-c1951); see pseudonym Michael Annesley (chron.)

• * Old Anthony’s Ghost, (ss) Mystery Stories #9 1937
• * The Secret of the Singular Cipher [Ebbie Entwhistle], (ss) The Blue Magazine 1925
  • Vintage Detective Stories, ed. Mike Higgs, London: Galley Press 1987

WEBSTER, JOHN (1580?-1625?) (chron.)

• * from The Duchess of Malfi, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

WEBSTER, JONATHAN (chron.)

• * God’s Hacker, (ss) EQMM Aug 1989

WECHSLER, ROBERT (chron.)

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• * Footprints, by Karel Capek, (ss) AHMM Aug 1990; “Slépeje,” from Povídky z jedné kapsy, 1929.; tr. by Peter Kussi

WECK, PHILIP (chron.)

• * One Day of Fear, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961

WEDEMAR, LOU (chron.)

• * The $1,000,000.00 Card, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934
  • High Adventure Nov 2005

WEED, PEGGY (chron.)

• * The Perfect Knight, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003

WEEKS, DENISE (chron.)

• * Cartoon Logic, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #33 2003

WEHEN, JOY DeWEESE (1936- ) (chron.)

• * The Trap, (ss) Detective Book Magazine Win 1951
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

WEHR, JEFFREY (chron.)

• * The Swimmers, (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

WEIDMAN, JEROME (1913-1998) (chron.)

• * Good Man, Bad Man, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1967
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000

WEIGH, IRIS (1906-1984) (chron.)

• * The Finishing Touch, (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

WEIGHELL, MARSHALL (chron.)

• * The Best Laid Plans, (ss) Mystery Stories #15 1939

WEIGHELL, RON (1950- ) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Fiery Messengers [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990

WEIKART, JIM; [i.e., James Weikart] (1940- ); see pseudonym James W. Riley (chron.)

• * Harry’s Tax Charity Case, (ss) EQMM Jun 1996

WEIL, THOMAS E., Jr. (chron.)

• * Let the Seller Beware, (pm) EQMM Jan 1990

WEIMAN, BARBARA OWENS; see under Owens, Barbara (chron.)

WEINBERG, ROBERT E(dward) (1946- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman (with Lois H. Gresh) [*Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * Catacombs [Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993
• * Death Rides the Elevator (with Lois H. Gresh), (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• * Introduction: Paul Pry, (in)
  • The Adventures of Paul Pry, Erle Stanley Gardner, The Mysterious Press 1990
• * The Midnight El [Sidney Taine], (ss) Return to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1994
  • Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1996
• * Murder in Monkeyland (with Lois H. Gresh), (ss) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• * Ro Erg, (ss) Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc 1995
  • Speaking of Lust, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Three Meetings and a Funeral (with Lois H. Gresh), (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * What Makes a Good Mystery Story? (with J. M. Morgan), (in) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996

WEINBERGER, DAVID (chron.)

• * Flame’s Redheaded Impostor, (ss) AHMM May 1982

WEINER, ANDREW (Simon) (1949- ) (chron.)

• * The Map, (ss) Northern Frights, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1992
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996
  • Crossing the Line: Canadian Mysteries with a Fantastic Twist, ed. Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin, Pottersfield Press 1998

WEINER, ERIC (chron.)

• * The Interrogation, (ss) Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995

WEINMAN, SARAH (chron.)

• * The Best in Online Mystery Fiction in 2004, (ar)
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Boy Inside the Man, (ss) EQMM May 2007
• * Don’t Walk in Front of Me, (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Pikesville).
• * Edgar Round-up 2003, (ar) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• * Guest Editor Sarah Weinman’s Introduction, (in) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• * Hen Night, (ss)
  • Dublin Noir, ed. Ken Bruen, Akashic Books 2006
• * An Interview with John Williams, (iv) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• * The Newest Four-Letter Word in Mystery, (ar)
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Online Mystery Fiction in 2005 and 2006, (ar)
  • The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2007
• * Politics and Poker, (ss) AHMM Jun 2006
• * A Sack of Potatoes, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2005
• * Seguidilla, (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• * Twilight on Second Avenue, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006

WEINSTEIN, LOUIS (chron.)

• * Clean Sweep for Lou, (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
• * The Descendants of Frost, (ss) AHMM Dec 1982
• * How I Became a Jeweler, (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• * A Lesson from the Master, (nv) AHMM Jul 1983
• * The Lipkin-Wexler Affair, (ss) EQMM Feb 1983
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004
• * The Long Memory, (ss) AHMM Aug 1982
• * Mystery Stew, (pm) EQMM Nov 1987
• * Pioneer Woman, (nv) AHMM May 1988
• * Rags and Stones, (nv) AHMM Jun 1984
• * Think Like a Schemer, (nv) EQMM Apr 1985
• * Tony’s Son, (nv) AHMM Aug 1985

WEIR, ALISON (chron.)

• * To Gain a Throne [from The Princes in the Tower], (ex) 1992
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

WEIR, CHARLENE (M.) (1937- ) (chron.)

• * The Gold Key, (ss) AHMM Apr 29 1981
• * Murder Take Two, (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1998
  • Murder at the Movies, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 1999

WEIR, HUGH C(osgro) (1884-1934) (chron.)

• * The Man with Nine Lives [Madelyn Mack], (nv) Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, Page 1914
  • Twelve Women Detective Stories, ed. Laura Marcus, Oxford University Press 1997

WEIS, MARGARET (Edith Baldwin) (1948- ) (chron.)

• * Murder They Wrote (with Ann Mayer), (pm) EQMM Aug 1991

WEISMAN, JOHN (1942- ) (chron.)

• * There Are Monsterim, (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, ed. Robert B. Parker, Mariner Books 1997

WEISS, BERNICE F. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ No Sign of Life, (vi) AHMM Jul 1996
• * Where Does a Golem Go?, (ss) AHMM Nov 1995; revised from “The Golem of Laffinstock”, Inside Fall 1993.
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004