Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006
Stories, Listed by Author
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- WOOLF, VIRGINIA (Stephen) (1882-1941) (chron.)
- * from “Professions for Women”, (ar)
- * The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story, (ss)
- WOOLFOLK, JOSIAH PITTS (1894-1971); see pseudonym Jack Woodford (chron.)
- WOOLGAR, JACK (chron.)
- * Desert Detective, (ss)
- * The Foreign Spy, (ss)
- WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER (Humphreys) (1887-1943) (chron.)
- * Rein Ne Va Plus, (vi) New Yorker 1932
- WOOLLINGS, DENIS (chron.)
- * The Story That Won:
___ Recipe for Disaster, (vi) AHMM Apr 2001
- WOOLRICH, CORNELL; [i.e., Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich] (1903-1968); see pseudonym William Irish (books) (chron.)
- * All At Once, No Alice, (nv) Argosy Mar 2 1940
- * Black Bargain, (nv) Justice Jan 1956; also as “The Night of February 17, 1924”.
- * Blue Is for Bravery, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 27 1937
- * The Body of a Well-Dressed Woman [“What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear”], (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1944
- * C-Jag, (nv) Black Mask Oct 1940; also as “Just Enough to Cover a Thumbnail”.
- * The Case of the Killer-Diller, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine May 1939
- * Change of Murder, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 25 1936
- * Cigarette, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 11 1936
- * The Dancing Detective [“Dime a Dance”], (nv) Black Mask Feb 1938
- * Dead on Her Feet, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Dec 1935
- * Death Between Dances, (ss) Shadow Mystery Dec 1947 (+1)
- * Death in the Air, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 10 1936
- * Death in the Yoshiwara, (nv) Argosy Jan 29 1938
- * The Death Rose, (nv) Baffling Detective Mysteries Mar 1943
- * Detective William Brown, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 10 1938
- * Dime a Dance, (nv) Black Mask Feb 1938; also as “The Dancing Detective”.
- * Double Feature, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 16 1936
- * Dusk to Dawn, (nv) Black Mask Dec 1937
- * Endicott’s Girl, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 19 1938
- * Even God Felt the Depression, (ss)
- * The Fatal Footlights, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 14 1941
- * For the Rest of Her Life, (nv) EQMM May 1968
- * The Heavy Sugar, (ss) Pocket Detective Magazine Jan 1937
- * I Married a Dead Man [as by William Irish], (n.) J.B. Lippincott 1948; expanded and rewritten from “They Call Me Patrice”, Today’s Woman Apr ’46.
- * If I Should Die Before I Wake, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 3 1937
- * I’ll Never Play Detective Again, (ss) Black Mask May 1937
- * Intent to Kill, (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Sep 1967
- * It Had to Be Murder [as by William Irish], (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1942
- * Just Enough to Cover a Thumbnail [“C-Jag”], (nv) Black Mask Oct 1940
- * Mannequin, (nv) The Saint Detective Magazine Oct 1966
- * Meet Me by the Mannequin, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jun 1940
- * Momentum [“Murder Always Gathers Momentum”], (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1940
- * Money Talks, (ss) EQMM Jan 1962
- * The Morning After Murder [as by William Irish], (ss) 5 Detective Novels Magazine Spr 1952; revised from “Murder on My Mind”, Detective Fiction Weekly, Aug 15, 1936, as by Cornell Woolrich.
- * Murder Always Gathers Momentum, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 14 1940; also as “Momentum”.
- * Murder at the Automat, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Aug 1937
- * Murder, Obliquely, (nv) Violence, Dodd, Mead 1958; revised from “Death Escapes the Eye”, Shadow Apr-May 1947.; revised from “Death Escapes the Eye”, Shadow Apr-May ’47.
- * New York Blues, (nv) EQMM Dec 1970
- * The Night of February 17, 1924 [“Black Bargain”], (nv) Justice Jan 1956
- * The Number’s Up, (ss) Beyond the Night, Avon 1959
- * One Drop of Blood, (nv) EQMM Apr 1962
- * The Penny-a-Worder, (nv) EQMM Sep 1958
- * The Phantom of the Subway [“You Pays Your Nickel”], (nv) Argosy Aug 22 1936
- * The Poor Girl, (na)
- * Post-Mortem, (nv) Black Mask Apr 1940
- * Rear Window [“It Had to Be Murder”, as by William Irish], (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Feb 1942
- * Rear Window and Four Short Novels, (co) New York: Ballantine 1984; also as “Rear Window and Other Stories”.
- * Rear Window and Other Stories [“Rear Window and Four Short Novels”], (co) New York: Ballantine 1984
- * Three Kills for One, (na) Black Mask Jul 1942
- * Three O’Clock, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 1 1938
- * Through a Dead Man’s Eye, (nv) Black Mask Dec 1939
- * Tonight, Somewhere in New York, (uw)
- * Too Nice a Day to Die, (ss) The Dark Side of Love, Walker 1965
- * Waltz Into Darkness [as by William Irish], (n.) J.B. Lippincott 1947
- * What the Well Dressed Corpse Will Wear, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Mar 1944; also as “The Body of a Well-Dressed Woman”.
- * You Bet Your Life, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 25 1937
- * You Pays Your Nickel, (nv) Argosy Aug 22 1936; also as “The Phantom of the Subway”.
- _____, [ref.]
- WOOTON, CARL (chron.)
- WOOTTON, ADRIAN (chron.)
- WORCESTER, WAYNE (1947- ) (chron.)
- WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850) (chron.)
- WORTS, GEORGE F(rank) (1892-1967); see pseudonym Loring Brent (chron.)
- WOTTON, MABEL E. (chron.)
- * My First Patient, (ss) A Pretty Radical and other stories 1890
- WOZNICK, LEIGH (chron.)
- WREN, LASSITER (chron.)
- * The Elevated Transit Mystery (with Randle McKay), (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
- * The Evidence on the Japanned Box (with Randle McKay), (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
- * Unsolved:
___ The Gangster’s Valet (with Randle McKay), (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
___ The Inspector Marquard’s Quandary (with Randle McKay), (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
___ The Invitation to Crime (with Randle McKay), (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
___ (untitled) (with Randle McKay), (pz) The Third Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1930
- * Who Murdered Ellington Breese? (with Randle McKay), (ss) The First Baffle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1928
- WREN, M. K.; pseudonym of Martha Kay Renfroe, (1938- ) (chron.)
- _____, [ref.]
- * “An Interview with M. K. Wren” by J. Alec West, (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
- WREN, P(ercival) C(hristopher) (1885-1941) (chron.)
- * The Dead Hand, (ss) Stepsons of France, Murray 1917
- * Presentiments, (ss) Good Gestes, Murray 1929
- WRIGHT, BETTY REN (1927- ) (chron.)
- WRIGHT, DAPHNE (1951- ); see pseudonym Natasha Cooper (chron.)
- WRIGHT, E. E. (chron.)
- WRIGHT, ERIC (1929- ) (books) (chron.)
- * Bedbugs, (ss) Das Magazin Apr 26 1996
- * The Boatman [“Start with a Tree”], (ss) Paper Guitar, ed. Karen Muhallen 1995
- * The Casebook of Dr. Billingsgate, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
- * Caves of Ice, (ss) EQMM Mar 2002
- * The Cure, (ss) Fingerprints, ed. Beverley Beetham-Endersby, Toronto: Irwin 1984
- * The Duke, (ss) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
- * Duty Free, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
- * Hephaestus, (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
- * Introduction, (in)
- * Introduction (with Howard Engel), (in)
- * An Irish Jig, (ss) The Globe and Mail Dec 22 2001
- * Jackpot [“Looking for an Honest Man”], (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987
- * Kaput, (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
- * The Lady from Prague, (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
- * The Lady of Shalott [Insp. Charlie Salter], (na) A Killing Climate, Crippen & Landru 2003
- * Licensed Guide, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
- * Lodgings for the Night, (ss) A Killing Climate, Crippen & Landru 2003
- * Looking for an Honest Man, (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1987; also as “Jackpot”.
- * One of a Kind, (ss) Secret Tales of the Arctic Trails, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1997
- * Reunion, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005
- * Start with a Tree, (ss) Paper Guitar, ed. Karen Muhallen 1995; also as “The Boatman”.
- * Twins, (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
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