Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

ALTER, ROBERT EDMOND (chron.) (continued)

• * The Man with the Cigarette, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1980
• * None for the Little Boy, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1966
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #3 1973
• * The Red Room, (ss)
  • Teen-age Detective Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1968

ALTHER, LISA (1944- ) (chron.)

• * Stormy Weather, (nv) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998

ALTMAN, LEON (chron.)

• * The Confession, (ss) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• * A Date with the Mob, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #32 2003
• * Trapped, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002

ALTMAN, STEVEN-ELLIOT (chron.)

• * A Case of Royal Blood [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003

ALVAR, JOHN (chron.)

• * Roselle Park, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2001

ALVAREZ, RAFAEL (chron.)

• * The Invisible Man, (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Highlandtown).

ALVARO, CORRADO (chron.)

• * The Ruby, (ss)
  • AHMM May 1995

AMARAL, ERNEST C. (chron.)

• * Dead Men Talk, (ss) New Detective Magazine Nov 1949
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

AMBARDAR, R. (chron.)

• * Easy Come, Easy Go, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003
• * A Likely Alibi, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #40 2003
• * Saving Grace, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #38 2003

AMBLER, ERIC (1909-1998) (chron.)

• * The Army of the Shadows, (ss) The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, London: Hodder & Stroughton 1939
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies, ed. Anon., Random House 1982
  • Cloak and Dagger, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, New York: Avenel 1988
  • The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, ed. Michael Cox, Oxford University Press 1996
• * Belgrade, 1926 [from A Mask for Dimitrios], (ex) London: Hodder & Stoughton 1939
  • World’s Greatest Spy Stories, ed. Kurt Singer, W.H. Allen 1954
  • The Secret Agent’s Badge of Courage, ed. Kurt Singer, Belmont 1961
• * The Blood Bargain, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 2, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1970
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
  • Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
• * The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar], (ss) The Sketch Jul 10 1940
  • EQMM Mar 1945
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
• * Case of the Gentleman Poet [Dr. Jan Czissar], (ss) The Sketch 1940
  • The Gourmet Crook Book, ed. Tony Wilmot, Everest Books 1976
• * Epitaph for a Spy [“The Unknown Traitor”], (vi) The Strand Dec 1948
  • Crime Movies, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1996
• * Exquisitely Gowned — Revising My First Novel Fifty Years On [introduction to first American edition of The Dark Frontier], (ar) New York: The Mysterious Press 1990
  • 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• * The One Who Did for Blagden Cole, (nv) The Man Who..., ed. H. R. F. Keating, Macmillan 1992
  • EQMM Nov 1993
• * The Unknown Traitor, (vi) The Strand Dec 1948; also as “Epitaph for a Spy”.
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998

AMBUEHL, JAMES (books) (chron.)

• * The Pisces Club, (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006
• * Sleeping with the Fishes, (pm) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006

AMDRUP, ERIK (chron.)

• * Chess on Board, (ss) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999

AMEDICK, PAUL (chron.)

• * Night Watch Hero, (ss) AHMM Mar 3 1982
  • Blood Threat & Fears, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1993

AMEN, CAROL (chron.)

• * Last Testament, (ss) St. Anthony Messenger Sep 1980
  • EQMM Apr 1987

AMES, J(ohn) EDWARD (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Last Tangle in Motown, (ss) AHMM Mar 1989
• * Sneaky Pete from Bourbon Street, (ss) EQMM Nov 2006

AMES, MEL D. (1921- ) (chron.)

• * The $1.49-Day Killer [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983
• * Blood in the Rigging [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1984
• * The Christmas Eve Ghost [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1983
• * The Crucifixion [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1983
• * The Disappearance of Sarah-Sue, (nv) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
• * The Enigma of Andrew Marler, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1980
• * A Girl for Georgie, (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1983
• * Hallowe’en Madness [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1982
• * The Happy New Year Murders [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1983
• * A Matter of Observation [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1980
• * The Murder That Couldn’t Happen [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• * The Ogopogo Affair, (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1984
• * One Bad Apple, (nv) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• * The Rape of the Mannequins [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983
• * The Santa Claus Killer [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1981
• * To Mom, Without Love [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1982
• * Valentine for a Dead Lady [Lt. Cathy Carruthers], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1982

AMIES, CHRISTOPHER (chron.)

• * Gone Bush, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003

AMIS, [Sir] KINGSLEY (William) (1922-1995) (chron.)

• * The Friends of Plonk, (ss) Town 1964
  • Murder by the Glass, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1994
• * from The Riverside Villas Murder, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

AMLAW, MARY (chron.)

• * The Cardinal’s Cross, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• * A Face to Remember, (ss) AHMM Nov 1987
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Signet 1992
• * Good Neighbors, (ss) EQMM Nov 1985
• * The Old Lady Keeps Cool, (ss) EQMM Jul 15 1981
• * Silver Bird, (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
• * Where Were You, Mamie?, (ss) EQMM Jul 1982
• * Windfall, (ss) EQMM Nov 1984

AMO, GARY (1939- ); see pseudonym Garrison Allen (chron.)

AMOV, DIANE E. (chron.)

• * The First to Know, (ss) Hardboiled #14 1992

ANAGNOS, GEORGE T. (chron.)

• * Devil Worms, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1981

ANDERLE, HELGA (chron.)

• * The Rival, (ss) 2003; first published in Ingeborgs Fälle, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004; tr. by Janet Hamilton
• * Saturday Night Fever, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996; tr. by Tobe Levin

ANDERS, CARL (chron.)

• * Here Is a Murderer!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957

ANDERS, K(atie) T. (chron.)

• * Don’t Shoot, I’m on Vacation, (ss) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987
  • The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990
• * A Simple Matter of Training, (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992

ANDERSON, ALAN RITNER (chron.)

• * Mrs. Belcourt Draws a Bier, (ss) Detective Tales Oct 1948
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Pinned Down, (nv) Captain Zero Jan 1950
  • High Adventure Mar 2006

ANDERSON, ALICE (chron.)

• * Bones, (vi) EQMM Jun 1992

ANDERSON, ANNIE A. (chron.)

• * Dog Collar (with Carole Nelson Douglas), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996

ANDERSON, DANA M. (1952- ) (chron.)

• * The Pulpbook Detective’s Wife, (ss) AHMM Apr 1988
• * The Return of the Late, Great J. Edgar Hoover, (ss) AHMM Mar 1988

ANDERSON, EDWARD (Ewell) (1906-1969) (chron.)

• * Thieves Like Us, (n.) New York: Stokes 1937
  • Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s, ed. Robert Polito, The Library of America 1997

ANDERSON, FREDERICK IRVING (1877-1947) (chron.)

• * Blind Man’s Buff [Oliver Armiston], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 24 1913
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000
• * The Half-Way House [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston], (ss) The American Magazine May 1922
  • AHMM Oct 2003
• * The Infallible Godahl [Oliver Armiston], (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 15 1913
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998
• * The Phantom Alibi [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston], (ss) McClure’s Nov 1920
  • AHMM Jun 2004
• * The Phantom Guest [Deputy Parr; Oliver Armiston], (nv) EQMM Win 1942
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991

ANDERSON, GAIL-NINA (chron.)

• * The Duke of Dark Corners, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * In This Sign, Conquer (with Simon Clark), (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996; by-lined “Nina-Gail Anderson & Simon Clark” on contents page.
• * A Man of Middle-Earth, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998

ANDERSON, JENNIFER (chron.)

• * Things That Make Your Heart Beat Faster, (nv) The Missouri Review 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001

ANDERSON, KAREN; [i.e., June Millichamp “Karen” Kruse Anderson] (1932- ) (chron.)

• * An Introduction to Filk Singing, (ar) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965

ANDERSON, KENT (1945- ) (chron.)

• * Burglary in Progress, (ss) Murder and Obsession, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1999
• * Elvis Hitler, (ss)
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005

ANDERSON, LARS (chron.)

• * Black Legion [The Domino Lady], (ss) Saucy Romantic Detective Adventures Oct 1936
  • Pulp Review Jan 1992
• * Emeralds Aboard, (ss) Saucy Romantic Adventures Aug 1936
  • Pulp Vault #7 1990

ANDERSON, LINDA; pseudonym of Linda Kirchman (chron.)

• * Blue Moon, (na) Wait Until Dark, ed. Karen Robards, Pocket 2001

ANDERSON, MONTE J. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Desperate Measures, (vi) AHMM Jan 1992

ANDERSON, POUL (William) (1926-2001) (books) (chron.)

• * The Immortal Game, (ss) F&SF Feb 1954
  • Sinister Gambits, ed. Richard Peyton, Souvenir Press 1991
• * In the Island of Uffa [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Introduction, (in)
  • West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965
• * The Martian Crown Jewels, (ss) EQMM Feb 1958
  • Sci-Fi Private Eye, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1997
• * Sam Hall, (nv) Astounding Aug 1953
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

ANDERSON, ROBERT G. (1932- ) (chron.)

• * The Red Ferrari, (ss) AHMM Sep 1966
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967

ANDERSON, ROBERT MAILER (chron.)

• * Briley Boy, (ss) San Francisco Noir, ed. Peter Maravelis, Akashic Books 2005; (The Richmond).

ANDERSON, RON (chron.)

• * Sunday Secrets, (ss) AHMM Jan 1988

ANDERSON, SCOTT L. (chron.)

• * A Dead Rose in a Pineapple Graveyard, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2001
• * Wonderland and Dead Porn Stars, (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2001

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (1876-1941) (chron.)

• * The Strength of God, (ss) Masses Aug 1916
  • Sins of the Fathers, ed. Mark Bryant, Gollancz 1997
  • Churchyard Shadows: Tales of Clerical Crime, Mystery and Suspense, ed. Kevin Carolan, Hodder & Stoughton 1999

ANDERSON, T. JACKSON (chron.)

• * Catharsis, (vi) Hardboiled #33 2005

ANDREE, JAMIE (chron.)

• * Wishing Ball, (ss) Fish Stories #2 1996

ANDREOTTI, FRANK (chron.)

• * The Haunting at Toledo City, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #39 2003

ANDREW, JASON (chron.)

• * One to Spare, (ss) Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

ANDREWS, DALE C. (chron.)

• * The Book Case (with Kurt Sercu), (ss) EQMM May 2007

ANDREWS, DONNA (books) (chron.)

• * The Birthday Dinner, (ss) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• * Cold Spell, (nv) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004
• * An Unkindness of Ravens, (ss) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
  • Mystery: The Best of 2002, ed. Jon L. Breen, ibooks 2003

ANDREWS, GLENN (chron.)

• * Thelma Smalley vs. Crime, (ss) AHMM Aug 1961
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

ANDREWS, JOHN MALCOLM (1936- ); see pseudonym John Malcolm (chron.)

ANDREWS, KATRINA (chron.)

• * The Great Detectives: Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence, (ar) The Strand Magazine #11 2003

ANDREWS, PHIL (chron.)

• * Cooler Than Hitch, (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999