Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

CROWLEY, ALEISTER; [i.e., Edward Alexander Crowley] (1875-1947) (chron.)

• * At the Fork of the Roads, (ss) The Equinox
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994

CROWLEY, DUANE (E.) (1922- ) (chron.)

• * War Games: Revisited, (ar) Espionage Magazine Oct 1986
• * The Weather Weapon, (ar) Espionage Magazine May 1987

CROWN, LARRY (chron.)

• * Murder Has Soft Arms, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959

CROWTHER, PETER (1949- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Touch of God [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * The All-American (with Stewart von Allmen), (nv) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
• * The Allotment, (ss) Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards, Countyvise 1998
  • EQMM Jun 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Cat on an Old School Roof, (nv) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Cold Comforts, (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• * Constant Companion, (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
• * The Cost of Freedom, (ss) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• * Dark Times, (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * Dumb Animals, (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• * The 45 Steps [Luddersedge], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• * The Good Book [Koko Tate], (nv) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • Crimewave #2 1999
• * Home Comforts, (ss) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Keepsakes, (ss) Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
• * The Main Event, (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Murder Most Delectable, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
• * The Musician of Breman, GA, (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• * Reunification, (ss) A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Second Lady, (nv) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• * Setting Free the Daughters of Earth, (nv) Future Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW 1999
• * Shatsi, (ss) The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions, CD Publications 1999
  • Crimewave #3 2000
• * Sitting Pretty (with Simon Conway), (nv) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998

CRUMLEY, JAMES (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Coming Around the Mountain, (ss) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
• * Hostages, (ss) Measures of Poison, ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan 2002
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed. Michael Connelly, Houghton Mifflin 2003
  • A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
• * Hot Springs, (nv) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, ed. Robert B. Parker, Mariner Books 1997
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000
  • Speaking of Lust, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * The Mexican Pig Bandit, (nv) Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1999
• * Semi-Pro, (ss) The Mighty Johns, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002

CRUWYS, ELIZABETH (1958- ); see pseudonym Susanna Gregory (chron.)

CUBEIRO, EMILIO (chron.)

• * The Stench of Stella Ricci, (ss) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997

CUFF, ARTHUR (chron.)

• * Invitation to a Funeral, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985

CULLEN, JAN (chron.)

• * Bloodlines, (ss) EQMM Mar 1996

CULLEN, ROBERT (B.) (1949- ) (chron.)

• * from Killer Department, (ex) 1993
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

CUMMINGS, BARBARA (1940- ); see pseudonym Ann Crowleigh (chron.)

CUMMINGS, DOUG (chron.)

• * Cold, (ss) Hardboiled #14 1992

cummings, e(dward) e(stlin) (1894-1962) (chron.)

• * May I Feel Said He?, (pm) 1935
  • Lying Cheating & Stealing, ed. Sara Nicklès, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 1997

CUMMINGS, PETER (chron.)

• * The Dark Pipe, (ss)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 2, ed. Stephen Beals, Chapel Street 1992

CUMMINGS, RAY(mond King) (1887-1957) (books) (chron.)

• * Ashes of Murder [as by Ray King], (ss) Thrilling Mystery Mar 1940
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * The Case of the Frozen Corpses [Roberts & Co.], (nv) Dime Mystery Magazine Jan 1939
  • Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames, ed. Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Case of the Mummified Corpses, (nv) Thrilling Mystery Nov 1939
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * Castle of Horror, (ss) Thrilling Mystery Nov 1940
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * The Dead Who Walk, (na) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Sep 1931
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * The Death Song [as by Ray King], (ss) Thrilling Mystery Nov 1939
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * Fear Rides the Stars, (nv) Thrilling Mystery Mar 1941
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jul 1940
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * Morning Cheer, (ss) Black Book Detective May 1949
• * Souvenir of Doom, (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jul 1941
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005
• * The Thing in the Bottle, (ss) Thrilling Mystery Jan 1941
  • Thrilling Mystery Stories, Pulpville Press 2005

CUNLIFFE, ALISON (chron.)

• * The Gray Brigade, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• * Plumbing the Depths, (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992

CUNNINGHAM, ELAINE (chron.)

• * Speaking with the Dead, (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

CUNNINGHAM, EUGENE (1896-1957) (chron.)

• * Death Threat, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Nov 1933
  • High Adventure #67 2002
• * Enter the Snake, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Dec 1933
  • High Adventure #62 2002
• * Twenty Grand Is Jack, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934
  • High Adventure Nov 2005

CUPP, SCOTT A. (chron.)

• * Night of the Blade, (vi) Hardboiled #7 1987

CURRAN, TIM (chron.)

• * Eldritch-Fellas, (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006
• * Full Confession, (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003
• * No Kind of Lady, (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001
• * Sins of the Father, (ss) Plots with Guns Aug/Sep 2000

CURRANS-SHEEHAN, TRICIA (chron.)

• * The Last Trapshoot, (ss) The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum 2000

CURREY, RICHARD (chron.)

• * The Names of the Lost, (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Shepherd Park, N.W.).

CURRY, LANCE (chron.)

• * A Dark and Stormy Night [Callahan & Monahan], (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1997
• * Deadline to Holocaust, (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1997
• * Visions Unwanted, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 1999

CURRY, MIKE (chron.)

• * Cereal Killer, (pm) EQMM Mar 1993

CURRY, THOMAS ALBERT; see under Curry, Tom (chron.)

CURRY, TOM; [i.e., Thomas Albert Curry, Jr.] (1900-1976) (chron.)

• * Frontier Guns [Bob Pryor], (na) The Rio Kid Western Dec 1939
  • Action Adventure Stories #22 1998
• * Hard Guys, (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1929
• * The Sign, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Nov 16 1940
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * T N T, (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

CURTIN, JACK (chron.)

• * Truth Is the Perfect Disguise, (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) May/Jun 1999

CURTIS, ASHLEY (chron.)

• * Anomalies of the Heart, (nv) AHMM Jul 1992
  • Murder Most Medical, ed. Cathleen Jordan & Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1995
• * Dead Flowers, (nv) AHMM Aug 1994
• * Death by Water, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• * The Ice Cave, (ss) AHMM Apr 1994
• * A Missing Person, (nv) AHMM Aug 1993
• * The Photographic Miracle, (nv) AHMM Jun 1993

CURTISS, URSULA (Reilly) (1923-1984) (chron.)

• * A Beneficial Walk, (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• * Change of Climate, (ss) EQMM Dec 1967
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * The House on Plymouth Street, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jun 1981
  • EQMM May 1986
• * La Dress, (nv) EQMM Feb 1986
• * The Marked Man, (ss) EQMM Oct 1972
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
• * The Old Barn on the Pond, (ss) EQMM Dec 1965
  • Never Shake a Family Tree, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1998
• * The Pool Sharks, (ss) EQMM Oct 1976
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * The Right Perspective, (ss) EQMM Mar 1975
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
• * Something Green and Growing, (ss) EQMM Nov 1984

CURZON, CLARE; pseudonym of Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan, (1922- ) (chron.)

• * Body Language, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 2, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1992

CUSHING, HILDA (chron.)

• * She Is Not My Mother, (ss) AHMM Aug 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964

CUSHING, PETER (Wilton) (1913-1994) (chron.)

• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991

CUSHMAN, DAN (1909-2001) (chron.)

• * Swamp Fetish, (na) Jungle Stories Win 1949
  • High Adventure #76 2004

CUSTER, BARBARA A. (chron.)

• * Bad Seed, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1999
• * Grandma’s Birthday, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 2002
• * Meeting at Diane’s Office, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002
• * Old Man Winter, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 2001
• * Only the Beginning, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2000
• * Paula Manning, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003
• * Peace Offering, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• * The Road Home, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1999
• * Rose Garden, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2000
• * Saving Kathy, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003
• * Second Chances, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #39 2003
• * Uncle George’s Cement Mixer, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2001

CUTLER, JUDITH (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Burying the Past, (ss) EQMM Aug 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
• * Doctor’s Orders, (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003
  • The Best British Mysteries, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * Flying Pigs, (ss) Missing Persons, ed. Martin Edwards, Constable 1999
• * Heaven’s Gate, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• * Judith, (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * The Living and the Dead, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Living with the Gilt, (ss) EQMM Feb 2004
• * M. le Médecin’s Wives, (ss) EQMM Jun 2003
• * Maiden Over, (ss) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• * Revenge on the High C, (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• * Shaping the Ends, (ss) EQMM May 2006
• * Stranger in Paradise, (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003

CUTLER, MARTIN (chron.)

• * For Service Rendered, (ss) Mystery Stories #10 1937
• * Peter’s Web, (ss) Mystery Stories #13 1938

CUTTER, CHARLES (chron.)

• * Smoky Didn’t Send Me, (ss) AHMM Dec 2001
• * Sticks on the Prowl, (ss) AHMM Nov 2002

CYR, HEIDI (chron.)

• * Parlor Tricks You Can Play on Yourself, (ss) EQMM Sep 1995

CYRIAX, OLIVER (chron.)

• * from Crime: An Encyclopedia, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

CZAJKOWSKI, JIM; see pseudonym James Rollins (chron.)

CZERNEDA, JULIE E. (chron.)

• * The Passenger, (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

DADMUN, BENTLEY (chron.)

• * Angie, (nv) AHMM Feb 1999
• * Annie’s Dream, (nv) AHMM Dec 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000
• * Down on the Farm, (nv) AHMM Oct 1996
• * Emma, (nv) AHMM Nov 1998
• * Harry’s Game, (nv) AHMM May 1998
• * Harry’s Lament, (nv) AHMM Jun 2001
• * Short Round, (nv) AHMM Nov 2000
• * Sisters, (ss) AHMM Apr 2002

DAENINCKX, DIDIER (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Goldfish, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993; tr. by Cécile Bloc-Rodot