Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

CRIDER, BILL (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * The Adventure of the Young British Soldier, (ss) Murder, My Dear Watson, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2002
• * Alligator Tears, (ss) White House Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002
• * At the Hop (with Judy Crider), (nv) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
  • Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, (ss) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Blest Be the Ties, (ss) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * Buster, (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
  • A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Cap’n Bob and Gus, (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * The Case of the Headless Man, (ss) EQMM Mar 1998
• * The Case of the Vampire’s Mark [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Murder in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * Cat Burglar, (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
• * Chocolate Moose (with Judy Crider), (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001
• * Code Red: Terror on the Mall!, (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• * Cranked, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• * Death’s Brother, (ss) New Mystery v1 #2 1992
  • Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
• * The Easter Cat, (ss) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * El Lobo Rides Alone, (nv) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• * The Empty Manger [Sheriff Dan Rhodes], (na) Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2001
• * An Evening Out with Karl, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * Gored, (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
  • Murder Most Delectable, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * The Hanging of Chick Dupree, (ss) The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * Introduction to Anatomy of a Killer (with Ed Gorman), (in)
  • Dark Crimes, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * It Happened at Grandmother’s House, (nv) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * It’s in the Bag, (ss) Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002
• * King of the Night, (ss) Celebrity Vampires, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * The Man on the Cross, (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * A Matter of the Heart, (ss) Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• * Mr. Pickwick vs. the Body Snatchers, (ss) Death by Dickens, ed. Anne Perry, Prime Crime 2004
• * My Heart Cries for You, (nv) 14 Vicious Valentines, ed. Rosalind M. Greenberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Avon 1988
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Speaking of Greed, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * The New Black Cat, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * The Night Before Christmas, (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• * The Nighttime Is the Right Time, (ss) Werewolves, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * One of Our Leprechauns Is Missing, (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• * Out Like a Lion, (ss) Death by Horoscope, ed. Anne Perry & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
• * Poo-Poo, (ss) Louisiana Literature v15 #1 1998
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * The Rose of Tralee, (ss) Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• * The Santa Claus Caper, (nv) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * See What the Boys in the Locked Room Will Have, (nv) Partners in Crime, ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet 1994
  • The Nighttime Is the Right Time: A Collection of Stories, Five Star 2001
• * There Was an Old Woman, (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998
• * Tinseltown Follies of 1948, (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Top of the World, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003
• * Who Killed Cock Rogers?, (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994

CRIDER, JUDY (chron.)

• * At the Hop (with Bill Crider), (nv) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
  • Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * Chocolate Moose (with Bill Crider), (ss) Death Dines at 8:30, ed. Claudia Bishop & Nick DiChario, Berkley 2001

CRISP, QUENTIN; [birth name: Dennis Pratt] (1908-1999) (chron.)

• * from The Naked Civil Servant, (ex)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

CRISPIN, EDMUND; pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, (1921-1978) (chron.)

• * All in the Way You Look at It [Gervase Fen], (ss) EQMM Apr 1953
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993
  • Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• * Baker Dies (with Geoffrey Bush) [“Who Killed Baker?”; *Gervase Fen], (ss) EQMM May 1952
  • The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Craig, Oxford University Press 1990
• * Beware of the Trains [Gervase Fen], (ss) The (London) Evening Standard 1949
  • AHMM Apr 1994
• * Merry-Go-Round [Gervase Fen; Insp. Humbleby], (ss) EQMM Nov 1953
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983
• * The Pencil, (ss) 1953
  • EQMM Sep 1973
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * Who Killed Baker? (with Geoffrey Bush) [*Gervase Fen], (ss) EQMM May 1952; also as “Baker Dies”.

CRITCHLEY, T. A. (chron.)

• * The Maul and the Pear Tree (with P. D. James), (ex) 1971
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

CRITTENDEN, LEE (chron.)

• * Anthem, (ss) Sexcrime, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press 2000

CROCKETT, ART (chron.)

• * Brains Can Kill You, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• * A Bullet for Baby! [Juan Kelly], (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961
• * Death Couldn’t Reach Me!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• * Dumb Rookie, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Her Heel from Hell!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• * Her Taunts Meant Terror!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• * I’ll Sin Once More!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• * Kill Me with Kisses!, (nv) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• * Lovely Lady of Death!, (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1962
• * Murder’s Bad Luck, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• * Murder’s Lovely Standin!, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• * T.N.T. Temptress, (nv) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• * Tease Me and Die!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• * Temptress From the Black Pit, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962

CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS (1879-1957) (chron.)

• * The Affair at Little Wokeham, (ex) London: Hodder & Stoughton 1943
  • Crime Time #23 2001
• * Crime on the Footplate [Insp. Joseph French], (ss) The (London) Evening Standard 1950
  • The Saint Detective Magazine Aug 1956
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * East Wind [Insp. Joseph French], (ss) 1938
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993
  • Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• * The Greuze Girl, (nv) 1921
  • AHMM Sep 1987
• * Mr. Pemberton’s Commission [Insp. Joseph French], (ss)
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
• * The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express, (nv) The Premier Magazine Jan 28 1921
  • Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century, ed. Anon., The Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library 1990
  • The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Craig, Oxford University Press 1990
• * The Suitcase [Insp. Joseph French], (ss) The (London) Evening Standard
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * The Groote Park Murder [Chapter 1], (ex) London: Collins 1923
  • Crime: Free Classic Crime Sampler, ed. Anon., House of Stratus 2001
• * The Vertical Line, (ss) The Illustrated London News Nov 20 1935
  • Horror and Homicide, ed. Anon., Checkerbooks 1949

CROSBY, HAL (chron.)

• * The Face of Death!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958

CROSBY, HARRY C. (1922- ); see pseudonym Christopher Anvil (chron.)

CROSS, ALFRED W. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Larger Than Life, (vi) AHMM Jan 1998

CROSS, AMANDA; pseudonym of Carolyn G. Heilbrun, (1926-2003) (books) (chron.)

• * Arrie and Jasper [Kate Fansler], (ss) EQMM Dec 1987
  • Murder Most Cozy, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Signet 1993
  • Women of Mystery II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000
• * The Baroness, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * The Capricorn Moment, (ss) EQMM Aug 2000
• * The Disappearance of Great Aunt Flavia [Kate Fansler], (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, ed. Alison Hennegan, St. Martin’s 1989
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * The Double-Barreled Gun, (nv) Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1999
• * The George Eliot Play [Kate Fansler], (ss)
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Murder Without a Text [Kate Fansler], (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * My Dinner with Aunt Kate, (ss) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• * My Year with Dixie Carter, (ar) The Armchair Detective Sum 1991
• * Once Upon a Time [Kate Fansler], (ss) EQMM Aug 1987
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
  • Women of Mystery III, ed. Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Peanut and Shadow, (ss) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• * The Perfect Revenge, (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• * The Proposition [Kate Fansler], (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Tania’s No Where [Kate Fansler], (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
  • Women of Mystery, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1992
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997
• * Who Shot Mrs. Byron Boyd? [Kate Fansler], (ss) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
  • The Collected Stories, Ballantine 1997

CROSS, BREANDA (chron.)

• * Untold Story, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006

CROSS, BRENDA (chron.)

• * Grave Consequences, (ss)
  • Menace in the Mulga, ed. Peter Corris, Holland Park, Queensland: Crime Writers Queensland 2000
• * If at First, (ss)
  • Bad to the Bones, ed. Kerry Greenwood, Holland Park, Queensland: CrimeWriters Queensland 2002
• * A Long Time Waiting, (ss)
  • Menace in the Mulga, ed. Peter Corris, Holland Park, Queensland: Crime Writers Queensland 2000

CROSS, KATHRYN; pseudonym (chron.)

• * The Cat Came Back, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003

CROSS, MONTE (chron.)

• * Hoods (with Jack Dolphin), (ss) New Mystery v1 #2 1992

CROSSEN, KENDELL FOSTER (1910-1981); see pseudonym Richard Foster (chron.)

• * The Green Lama [as by Richard Foster; The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Apr 1940
  • High Adventure #70 2003; given as by Kendell Foster Cross in toc.
• * Too Late for Murder, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 14 1941
  • Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1957

CROSSETT, LAWRENCE (chron.)

• * Ten Thousand Eyes, (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004

CROSSLEY, BARBARA (1952- ) (chron.)

• * GSOH, (ss) EQMM Nov 1995
• * Pass the Poison, (ss) EQMM May 1995
• * Right Between the Eyes, (ss) EQMM Apr 1995
  • Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995

CROUDACE, GLYNN (1917- ) (chron.)

• * Grand Prix in Diamonds, (ss) AHMM Sep 1966
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967

CROUSE, RUSSEL M. (chron.)

• * Murder of Helen Jewett, (nf) Murder Won’t Out, Russel Crouse 1932
  • The Crime Club Golden Book of Best Detective Stories, ed. Anon., Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. 1933

CROW, JEFF (chron.)

• * Public Nudity, (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1998

CROWE, CATHERINE (Ann Stevens) (1790-1876) (chron.)

• * The Italian’s Story, (ss) Ghosts and Family Legends, T.C. Newby 1858
  • The Cat of Bast & Other Stories of Mystery, ed. William E. Thorner, Regency 1958
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
  • AHMM May 1991

CROWE, LARRY (chron.)

• * Eva Begged for It!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959

CROWLEIGH, ANN; pseudonym of Barbara Cummings & Jo-Ann Power (chron.)

• * The Ghost of Christmas Past, (na) Murder Under the Tree, ed. Anon., Zebra 1993