Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

CLARKE, ANNA (1919-2004) (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) (1917-2008) (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, GEORGE ELLIOTT (chron.)

• * Numbskulls, (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (East York).

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) (1921-2003) (chron.)

• * “Death”, (ss) London Mystery Magazine #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
• * Introduction, (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

CLELAND, JANE K. (chron.)

• * Killing Time [Josie Prescott], (ss) AHMM Nov 2008

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
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * Graveyard Shift (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Hot Blood XI, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Kensington 2003
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * “I Had Bigfoot’s Baby!” (with Max Allan Collins) [Hellboy], (ss)
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * Lie Beside Me (with Max Allan Collins) [John Sand], (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * Murderlized (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007
• * My Lolita Complex (with Max Allan Collins), (nv) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * A Pebble for Papa (with Max Allan Collins), (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * Sand on the Beach (with Max Allan Collins) [John Sand], (ss)
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * “Stakeout on Rush Street,” Chicago, Illinois, 1943 (with Max Allan Collins) [Buffy, the Vampire Slayer], (nv) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2, ed. Anon., Simon Pulse 2003
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• * A Woman’s Touch (with Max Allan Collins), (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006

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.)

• * A Black-Tie Affair, (ss) EQMM Aug 2008
• * Here Lies [Ellie Hardwick], (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• * Killing by the Clock, (ss) EQMM Feb 2008
• * 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

CLEWSEY (chron.)

• * Clewsey’s Cliché’s Frontispiece: ‘Have a care, Constable, it may be a clue’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Come, come, Major—did nothing peculiar strike you about the time?’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘How did you know the victim was a pawnbroker?’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Clewsey’s Clichés:
  ___ ‘Laverton-West gave him a fish-like stare’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  
  ___ ‘Quick, chaps! The swine have got Phyllis again’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  
  ___ ‘Wait! I think the dog knows something’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  
  ___ ‘While she waited for Nick to come round, Nora reviewed the facts of the case as she understood them’, (ct) Red Herrings
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993

CLINTON, DIRK; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (chron.)

• * The Kidnapped Beauty, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Real Tough Break, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960

CLINTON, EDWARD (chron.)

• * My Little Brother, (ss) EQMM Jun 2003
• * No Vivaldi, (ss) EQMM Sep 1993

CLOETE, (Edward Fairly) STUART (Graham) (1897-1976) (chron.)

• * Congo, (ss) Story Mar/Apr 1943
  • The Tough Ones, ed. Whit Burnett & Hallie Burnett, Popular Library Eagle 1954
• * Night Operation, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 24 1944
  • Danger Is the Password: Stories of Wartime Spies, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, Morrow 1965

CLOPTON, LINDA E. (chron.)

• * A Little Yarn, (ss) The Fourth WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA 1991

CLOUD, ROBERT J. (chron.)

• * Grampaw Lends a Hand, (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981

CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-1861) (chron.)

• * from “Adam and Eve”, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

CLOUGH, B(renda) W(ang) (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Grow Your Own, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2000

CLOUGH, HERBERT D., Jr. (chron.)

• * Editorial, (ed) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984

CLOUSTON, J(oseph) STORER (1870-1944) (chron.)

• * Coincidence [F.T. Carrington], (nv) Carrington’s Cases, Blackwood 1920
  • EQMM Oct 1948
  • Vintage Detective Stories, ed. Mike Higgs, London: Galley Press 1987
• * The Envelope, (ss) The Sphere Nov 24 1919
  • Mystery, ed. A. K. Barton, London: Dent 1937
  • Danger Is the Password: Stories of Wartime Spies, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, Morrow 1965

COAKE, CHRISTOPHER (chron.)

• * All Through the House, (ss)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2004, ed. Nelson DeMille, Houghton Mifflin 2004
• * His Mission, (na) Murder in the Rough, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * Pitch Black, (na) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007

COATS, YVONNE (chron.)

• * Where the Advantage Lies, (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

COBB, IRVIN S(hrewsbury) (1876-1944) (chron.)

• * Faith, Hope and Charity [*Judge William Pitman Priest “Old Judge Priest"], (nv) Cosmopolitan Apr 1930
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?
  • EQMM Apr 1952

COBB, JAMES H(arvey) (1953- ) (chron.)

• * Body and Fender [Kevin Pulaski], (ss) EQMM Aug 2008
• * Framed [Kevin Pulaski], (ss) EQMM Jun 2006
• * Monica Van Telflin and the Proper Application of Pressure, (nv) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Over the Edge [Kevin Pulaski], (ss) EQMM Jul 2007
• * Road Bomb [Kevin Pulaski], (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004
• * The Sound of Justice [Kevin Pulaski], (nv) EQMM Jul 2005

COBB, M. E. (chron.)

• * Strings Attached, (pm) EQMM Mar 1992

COBEN, HARLAN (1962- ) (chron.)

• * Entrapped, (ss) MHCMM Spr 1997
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters, ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus 2006
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007
• * A Simple Philosophy, (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998

_____, [ref.]

• * “There oughta be a Law: An Interview with Harlan Coben” by Lisa D. Williamson, (iv) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998

COBEN, HARLEN (books) (chron.)

• * Entrapped, (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• * Introduction, (in) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006

COBLEY, PAUL (chron.)

• * The Well Dressed Runner, (ar) The Strand Magazine #8 2002

COBLITZ, KRISTINE (chron.)

• * Cold Feet, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #38 2003

COBURN, ANDREW (1932- ) (chron.)

• * My Father’s Daughter, (na) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
• * A Woolf in Vita’s Clothing, (ss) EQMM Dec 1995

COCHRAN, STACEY (chron.)

• * All That Changes When You Kill, (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• * The Fast-Action Killers, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2004
• * The PWG Interviews: George Pelecanos, (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004