Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

CITTADINO, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Family Business, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1984
• * Sense of Justice, (ss) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986

CLAIRE, EDIE; pseudonym of Edie Swihart, (1965- ) (chron.)

• * Never Neck at Niagara [Leigh Koslow], (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001

CLAIRE, JEANNE S.; pseudonym of Jeannie Stewart (chron.)

• * Cake and Chips, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 1999
• * Lost Jewel, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1998

CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864) (chron.)

• * from “St. Martin’s Eve”, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

CLARK, ALFRED ALEXANDER (Gordon) (1900-1958); see pseudonym Cyril Hare (chron.)

CLARK, CAROL HIGGINS (1956- ) (chron.)

• * For Whom the Beep Tolls, (ss) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
• * Too Many Cooks, (ss) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997

_____, [ref.]

• * “The Female PI Next Door” by Yona Zeldis McDonough, (bg) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997

CLARK, DALE; pseudonym of Ronal Kayser, (1905-1988) (chron.)

• * Better Hands, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 15 1941
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Mercy Killing, (vi) Dime Detective Magazine Apr 1939
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Smoke Sign, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 10 1941
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Sting of the Hornet, (nv) Double Detective Jul 1940
  • High Adventure Sep 2005

CLARK, ELISABETH (chron.)

• * Caught, (ss) Plots with Guns Fll 1999

CLARK, GEOFFRY HERBERT (chron.)

• * The Horror of Manley’s Island, (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936
• * The Island of Ho Pin, (ss) Mystery Stories #5 1936

CLARK, M. H. (chron.)

• * Bell, Book, and Suburbia (with Jeanne Leiter), (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

CLARK, MARY HIGGINS (1929- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Anastasia Syndrome, (n.) 1989
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories, Pocket 1991
• * As It Was in the Beginning, (in) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• * Author’s Note, (aw)
  • The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * The Body in the Closet [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 7 1990
  • A Body Is Found, Wynwood Press 1990
  • The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * By the End of August [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (vi) 1993
  • MHCMM Sum 2000
• * Bye, Baby Bunting [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (nv) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * A Clean Sweep [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (nv) Justice in Manhattan, Adams Round Table, Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 1994
  • The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * A Crime of Passion [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland], (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996
• * Deadline from Paradise, (ss) Extension Aug 1958; also as “Milk Run”.
• * Death on the Cape [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (nv) Woman’s Day Jul 18 1989
  • The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * Definitely, a Crime of Passion, (nv) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
  • MHCMM #1 1996
• * Double Vision, (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 23 1988
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories, Pocket 1991
• * The Funniest Thing Has Been Happening Lately, (nv) Murder in the Family, The Adams Round Table, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• * Hail, Columbia! [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland], (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996
• * Haven’t We Met Before?, (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
  • Murder Among Friends, The Adams Round Table, Berkley 2000
• * In Defense of Suspense, (pr) MHCMM #1 1996, Spr, Sum/Fll 1997, Sum, Fll 1998, Sum 1999, Sum 2000
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995
  • The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 2000
  • Murder in the Family, The Adams Round Table, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• * Lady Sleuth, Lady Sleuth, Run Away Home, (nv) MHCMM Spr 1997
  • Murder on the Run, The Adams Round Table, Berkley 1998
• * Last Flight to Denubia, (ss) Extension 1958; also as “Stowaway”.
• * The Lost Angel, (nv) Woman’s Day Dec 2 1986
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories, Pocket 1991
• * The Lottery Winner [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (na) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * Lucky Day, (nv) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1986
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories, Pocket 1991
• * The Man Next Door, (nv) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998
  • MHCMM Fll 1998
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000
• * Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland], (nv) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996
• * Milk Run [“Deadline from Paradise”], (ss) Extension Aug 1958
  • EQMM Oct 1989
• * Murder at the Roundtable (with Lawrence Block, Stanley Cohen, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Mickey Friedman, Susan Isaacs, Judith Kelman, Warren B. Murphy, Justin Scott & Peter Straub), (ms) MHCMM Sum 2000
• * Plumbing for Willy [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan], (nv) Family Circle Aug 1992
  • Missing in Manhattan, Adams Round Table, Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 1992
  • The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * Power Play, (nv) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
  • MHCMM Sum 1998
• * Stowaway [“Last Flight to Denubia”], (ss) Extension 1958
  • EQMM Jan 1985
  • Women of Mystery, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1992
• * Terror Stalks the Class Reunion, (na) Woman’s Day Aug 4 1987 (+1)
  • The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories, Pocket 1991
• * That’s the Ticket, (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
  • MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• * They All Ran After the President’s Wife [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland], (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996
• * Voices in the Coalbin, (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview: Mary Higgins Clark” by H. Edward Hunsburger, (iv) Crime Digest Sep/Oct 1982

CLARK, MITCH (chron.)

• * Murder Is an Accident!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• * She Had Murder in Her Heart!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957

CLARK, MONICA (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ A Prickly Figure, (vi) AHMM Mar 2007
  ___ Three Amigos?, (vi) AHMM May 2007

CLARK, SARAH (chron.)

• * Paternity, (nv) AHMM Jan 1993
• * Serenade, (nv) AHMM Apr 1991

CLARK, SIMON (1958- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Fallen Star [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * Fenian Ram, (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• * In This Sign, Conquer (with Gail-Nina Anderson), (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996; by-lined “Nina-Gail Anderson & Simon Clark” on contents page.
• * Nightmare in Wax [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003
• * Now Fetch Me an Axe, (nv) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998

CLARK, TRACY P. (chron.)

• * For Services Rendered, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

CLARKE, ANNA (1919- ) (chron.)

• * Caesar’s Wife, (ss) EQMM May 1983
• * The Laburnum Tree, (nv) EQMM Aug 1983
• * Mr. Mundon’s Memoirs, (ss) EQMM May 1985
• * The Mystery of Percy’s Heart, (ss) EQMM Aug 1989
• * Outside the Law, (ss) EQMM May 1984
• * The Secret Path, (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
• * The Silver Teapot, (ss) EQMM Sep 1985
• * Triangle at Sea, (ss) EQMM Dec 1984

CLARKE, ARTHUR C(harles) (1917- ) (chron.)

• * Crime on Mars, (ss) EQMM Jul 1960
  • The Gourmet Crook Book, ed. Tony Wilmot, Everest Books 1976
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

CLARKE, BRENDA MARGARET LILIAN HONEYMAN; see pseudonym Kate Sedley (chron.)

CLARKE, PERCY C. (chron.)

• * Extremes Meet, (ss) Mystery Stories #18 1939

CLAY, MALISSA A. (chron.)

• * Joe, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994
• * ’Til Death Do We Part, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994

CLAYTON, D. L. (chron.)

• * The Sidewinder, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1985

CLAYTON, DEBORAH HILLYARD (chron.)

• * The Move, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988

CLAYTON, DONET MEYNELL (chron.)

• * Crime Without Equity, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• * The Weaver, (pm) EQMM Apr 1998

CLAYTON, RICHARD HENRY MICHAEL (1907-1993); see pseudonym William Haggard (chron.)

CLEARY, C. P. (chron.)

• * The Case of the Searching Widow, (ss) Scientific Detective Annual 1944

CLEARY, MELISSA; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * Good Dog Wenceslas, (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999
• * You’ll Never Bark in This Town Again, (nv) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998

CLEAVER, HYLTON (Reginald) (1891-1961) (chron.)

• * By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man, (ss) The Strand Mar 1934
  • Detective Stories from The Strand, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1991

CLEEVE, BRIAN (Brendon Talbot) (1921- ) (chron.)

• * “Death”, (ss) London Mystery #17 1953
  • Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery, ed. Peter Haining, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Foxer, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 18 1965
  • The Best Crime Stories, ed. Anon., Hamlyn 1984
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993
• * High Terror, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 15 1958
  • AHMM Mar 2000
• * The Revenge of Big Michael, (ss)
  • The Pan Book of Revenge Stories, ed. W. H. Cozens, London: Pan Books 1971

CLEEVES, ANN (Richardson) (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Games for Winter, (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
  • EQMM Feb 2005
• * Going Back, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007
• * The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp, (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
  • Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995
• * Owl Wars, (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• * The Plater, (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
  • EQMM Jun 2003
• * A Rough Guide to Tanga, (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• * Sad Girls, (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• * A Winter’s Tale, (ss) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1994
  • Christmas Crimes, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002

CLEGG, DOUGLAS (Alan) (1958- ) (chron.)

• * Becoming Men, (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999

CLEMEAU, CAROL; pseudonym of Carol Clemeau Esler, (1935- ) (chron.)

• * Curses, (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
  • More Ms. Murder, ed. Marie Smith, London: Xanadu 1991
• * Dead Wood, (ss) EQMM Apr 1985

CLEMENS, ANTHONY (chron.)

• * Ink’s Jinx, (ss) Secret Agent X Sep 1934
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

CLEMENS, BRIAN (Horace) (1931- ) (chron.)

• * The Embassy Incident, (ss) 1982; also as “The Professionals”.
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998
• * The Professionals [“The Embassy Incident”], (ss) 1982
  • Crime Movies 2, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1997

CLEMENS, MATTHEW (chron.)

• * Family Values, (ss) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998

CLEMENS, MATTHEW V. (1956- ) (books) (chron.)

• * East Side, West Side (with Max Allan Collins), (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Lie Beside Me (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• * My Lolita Complex (with Max Allan Collins), (nv) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• * A Pebble for Papa (with Max Allan Collins), (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• * A Woman’s Touch (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (1835-1910); see pseudonym Mark Twain (books) (chron.)

CLENDENING, LOGAN, M.D. (1884-1945) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Missing Patriarchs, (vi) 1934
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998

CLEPHANE, IRENE (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from Les mots, Gallimard, by Jean-Paul Sartre [in English as Words], (ex) London: Hamish Hamilton 1964
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

CLERC, SJAAN (chron.)

• * Perfectly Murderous, (pm) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• * Scuttlebutt?, (pm) EQMM May 5 1980

CLEVERLY, BARBARA (chron.)

• * Here Lies [Ellie Hardwick], (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• * Love-Lies-Bleeding [Ellie Hardwick], (ss) EQMM Aug 2004
• * A Threatened Species, (ss) EQMM Nov 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006