Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

BRINKMAN, GROVER (chron.)

• * A Matter of Proof, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Jun 1948
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * The Murderous Moll!, (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• * Portrait in Passion, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• * Save Her for a Passion!, (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• * Shack-up in the Swamp, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Dec 1958
• * Womanhunt!, (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961
• * You Can’t Kill Lust!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1962
• * You Don’t Have to Kill, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Sep 1961

BRISBANE, COUTTS; pseudonym of R. C. Armour, (1874-?) (chron.)

• * Happy Landing, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

BRISCOE, JOANNA (chron.)

• * Revenge, (ss)
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991

BRISTOW, BOB (chron.)

• * Under the Circumstances, (ss) AHMM Apr 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967

BRISTOW, ROBERT O(’Neil) (1926- ) (chron.)

• * Deadly Lover, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957

BRITE, POPPY Z. (1967- ) (chron.)

• * The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone (with David Ferguson) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003
• * Saved (with Christa Faust), (ss) Young Blood, ed. Mike Baker, Zebra 1994
  • Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996

BRITTAIN, BILL; [i.e., William E. Brittain] (1930- ); see under Brittain, William E. (books) (chron.)

BRITTAIN, WILLIAM (E.) (1930- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Historical Errors, (ss) AHMM Feb 1976
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006
• * The Impossible Footprint, (ss) AHMM Nov 1974
  • The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• * The Man Who Read Dashiell Hammett, (ss) EQMM May 1974
  • Murder by the Book, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1995
• * The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr, (ss) EQMM Dec 1965
  • Murderous Schemes, ed. Donald E. Westlake, New York: Oxford University Press 1996
• * The Men Who Read Isaac Asimov [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 1978
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * Mr. Strang Accepts a Challenge [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Nov 1976
  • The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• * Mr. Strang and the Lost Ship [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Jun 1982
• * Mr. Strang and the Purloined Memo [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Feb 1983
• * Mr. Strang Grasps at Straws [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Nov 4 1981
• * Mr. Strang Interprets a Picture [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Aug 12 1981
• * Mr. Strang Studies Exhibit A [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Oct 1982
  • Senior Sleuths, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley 1996
• * Mr. Strang Takes a Partner [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• * Mr. Strang Takes a Tour [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1983
• * Mr. Strang Unlocks a Door [Leonard Strang], (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981

BRITTON, LORENA (chron.)

• * Harry’s Night to Die, (ss) AHMM Mar 31 1982

BROADHURST, LIDA (chron.)

• * Uncle Penk, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 1997

BROCKINGTON, JEAN S. (chron.)

• * The Long Way Around, (ss) AHMM Jun 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964

BROD, D(eborah) C(obban) (chron.)

• * Leaving Cornucopia, (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * Mission to St. Bride’s, (ss) Lethal Ladies, Nancy Collins & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1996
• * The Night the Lights Went Out at the Tattersall Tavern, (ss) AHMM Jul 1989

BROMFIELD, LOUIS (Brucker) (1896-1956) (chron.)

• * The Man Who Was in Love with Death, (nv) The World We Live In, Harper & Row 1944
  • Danger Is the Password: Stories of Wartime Spies, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, Morrow 1965

BROMLEY, AL (chron.)

• * The Thousand-Dollar Bill, (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929

BRONTË, EMILY (Jane) (1818-1848) (chron.)

• * Wuthering Heights, (ex) Newby 1847
  • Mystery Stories, ed. Helen Cresswell, Kingfisher 1996

BROOK, MARTIN (chron.)

• * Terror at Redford, (ss) Mystery Stories #15 1939

BROOKE, KEITH N. (1966- ) (chron.)

• * Count Carraldo and the Penitent Dominic, (nv) Villains!, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992
• * Professionals, (ss) Interzone Aug 1994
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003

BROOKINS, CARL(eton) (1932- ) (chron.)

• * Author! Author! or Lights! Camera! Action!, (ar) Murderous Intent Spr, Sum/Fll 1998

BROOKMYRE, CHRISTOPHER (1968- ) (chron.)

• * Bampot Central, (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
  • Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002

BROOKS, CYRUS (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from The Judge and His Hangman, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, (ex) 1952
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

BROOKS, HELEN FISLAR (chron.)

• * A Woman’s Work Is Never Done, (ss) AHMM Aug 1961
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

BROOKS, JANICE YOUNG (1943- ); see pseudonym Jill Churchill (chron.)

BROOKS, KATHERINE H. (chron.)

• * A-Wol, (pm) EQMM May 2001
• * Beach-Head, (pm) EQMM Jan 2001
• * Blank Check (with Terry Lerdall Fitterer), (pm) EQMM Aug 2002
• * Bly-Bligh, (pm) EQMM Mar 1993
• * Book Worm, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• * Caveman, Returning Home from Work, Asks Wife How Her Day Went, (pm) EQMM Mar 2000
• * Cheep Trick, (pm) EQMM Feb 1994
• * Double or Nothing, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• * Enough, (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1994
• * Fore!, (pm) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004
• * Frank a la Mowed, (pm) EQMM Jun 1994
• * Frozen Assets, (pm) EQMM Jan 2004
• * Last Ferry, (pm) EQMM Feb 1995
• * Lighthouse, (pm) EQMM Jul 2001
• * Loud Mouf Mary, (pm) EQMM Jan 1994
• * Mean Clara, (pm) EQMM Nov 2000
• * Net Results, (pm) EQMM Jun 2000
• * Nobody Knows, Natalie, (pm) EQMM Apr 1993
• * Photo Finish (with Terry Lerdall-Fitterer), (pm) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• * Poor Frank, (pm) EQMM Jul 1997
• * Poor Natalie, (pm) EQMM Nov 1995
• * Sink or Swim, (pm) EQMM Jun 1997
• * Sitting Ducks, (pm) EQMM Dec 1995
• * Snow Man, (pm) EQMM May 1999
• * Summer Parole, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2000
• * Vigil, (pm) EQMM Oct 1995
• * Well Wisher, (pm) EQMM Feb 2000
• * The Witching Hour, (pm) EQMM Jul 2005
• * Yule Tied, (pm) EQMM Jan 1996
• * Zoo Caper, (pm) EQMM Dec 1998

BROOKS, RICK (1941- ) (chron.)

• * The Alien Who Became the Shadow, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1995
• * Change Magic [Wereanimals], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 1996
• * Down and Out on Old Earth, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 1997
• * The Goblin Glass, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1997
• * The Hand, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1997
• * The Haunted Subway, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1996
• * Interlude Between Owls [Wereanimals], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1996
• * The Man Who Didn’t Break for Unicorns, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1996
• * New Harbour Necromancer, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1997
• * The Raccoon Robberies, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1996
• * Red Magic, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1996
• * Saurian Slaughter, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1997
• * The Ultimate Pulpzine, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1997
• * Who Wants an Owl [Wereanimals], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1996

BROSNAN, EILEEN (chron.)

• * Back Stairs, (vi) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

BROUCEK, MARK (chron.)

• * Hank Bledsoe Private Eye, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #37 2003

BROUSSARD, JOHN A. (books) (chron.)

• * Blackberry Spring, (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2003
• * Blackmail, (nv)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * The Blessing, (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug 2003
• * Boundary Dispute, (ss)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * Checkmate, (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug-Nov 2005
• * Cop Out, (ss)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * Death of an Au Pair, (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2003
• * Déjà Vu All Over Again, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2003
• * False Confession, (ss)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * Landlady, (ss) Murderous Intent Win 1999
  • Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002
• * Legally Dead, (nv)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * Overwhelming Evidence, (nv)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003
• * The Pacemaker, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2004
• * A Simple Case of Burglary, (nv)
  • C.A. Tourney, Attorney-at-Law, PublishAmerica 2003

BROWN, ALICE A. (chron.)

• * Divorce Work (with Ernest B. Brown), (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• * More Than One Kind of Mean (with Ernest B. Brown) [Valerie Dymond], (ss) AHMM Dec 2006

BROWN, CHARLOTTE (chron.)

• * Seamstress, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1985

BROWN, ED (chron.)

• * Expert Advice, (pm) EQMM Jan 1992
• * Remains, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

BROWN, ELIZABETH (Louise) (1924-1999) (chron.)

• * Excerpt from Oh, for the Life of an Author’s Wife!, (ex) Happy Ending, Dennis McMillan 1990

BROWN, ERIC (1960- ) (chron.)

• * The Vanishing of the Atkinsons [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997

BROWN, ERNEST B. (chron.)

• * Divorce Work (with Alice A. Brown), (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• * Last Call, (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• * More Than One Kind of Mean (with Alice A. Brown) [*Valerie Dymond], (ss) AHMM Dec 2006
• * The Naked Truth, (nv) AHMM Apr 2000
• * Thus Spoke Who?, (ss) AHMM Jan 2000
• * Wings of Wax, (ss) AHMM Dec 1998

BROWN, FREDRIC (William) (1906-1972) (books) (chron.)

• * After Armageddon, (pm) Happy Ending, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Battle of the Lamp Posts, (pm) Shadow Suite, Fifteen Poems, privately printed: Milwaukee, WI 1932
  • Happy Ending, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * Before She Kills [Ed and Am Hunter], (nv) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1961
  • Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1960
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
• * Bucket of Gems Case [Henry Smith], (ss) Detective Story Magazine Aug 1944; also as “Mr. Smith Kicks the Bucket”.
• * Bullet for Bullet, (ss) Western Short Stories Oct 1941
  • The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * The Case of the Apocryphal Ark [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Feb 19 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Bewildering Barn [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Feb 5 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Conjurer’s Cat [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Mar 26 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Flying Cow, or How Did the Critter Get Into the Silo? [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Mar 20 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Haunted Haystack [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs May 15 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Languid Lamb [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Rambling Rocks [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Rebellious Rooster [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Apr 2 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Refrigerating Windmill [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs May 8 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Shrinking Stallion [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Jan 1 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Stuttering Shoat [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Apr 24 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Uncountable Sheep [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Jun 5 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Case of the Wandering Scarecrow [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Jan 16 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * The Cat from Siam, (nv) Popular Detective Sep 1949
  • Sinister Gambits, ed. Richard Peyton, Souvenir Press 1991
• * Concerning Pygmalion 2113, (lt) Happy Ending, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * Cry Silence, (ss) Black Mask Nov 1948
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000
• * Don’t Look Behind You, (ss) EQMM May 1947
  • Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 1, ed. Ellery Queen, London: May Fair 1959
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2001
  • A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, New American Library 2002
• * Ernie Catches up with Wily Willie or The Case of the Vanishing Duck [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Oct 9 1937
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990
• * Ernie Stops Shivering, or the Case of the Trackless Tractor [Ernie], (ss) Feedstuffs Sep 24 1938
  • The Water Walker, Dennis McMillan 1990