Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

de MATTOS, ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA (chron.)

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• * The Red Silk Scarf, by Maurice Leblanc [1907; Arsene Lupin], (nv)
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?

de MAUPASSANT, GUY; see under Maupassant, Guy de (chron.)

DEMIJOHN, KAY; pseudonym of John Gregory Betancourt, (1963- ) (chron.)

• * The Cat’s-Eye Crown [Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993
  • Legends of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1997

DeMILLE, LAUREN (chron.)

• * Revenge and Rebellion (with Nelson DeMille), (ss) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997

DeMILLE, NELSON (Richard) (1943- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Life or Breath, (ss) AHMM Jun 1976
  • Murder Most Medical, ed. Cathleen Jordan & Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1995
• * Rendezvous, (nv) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
• * Revenge and Rebellion (with Lauren DeMille), (ss) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997

DEMING, BARBARA (chron.)

• * Gumbo Undercover, (nv) Southern Nights, ed. Anon., Southern Star Publishing 2001

DEMING, RICHARD (1915-1983) (chron.)

• * A Bride for the Killer, (na) Suspect Detective Stories Oct 1956
• * Easy Racket, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
• * The Evils of Drink, (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980
• * Friendly Witnesses, (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984
• * A Girl Must Be Practical, (ss) AHMM Nov 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * Honeymoon Cruise, (nv) AHMM Oct 1966
  • Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998
  • Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999
• * Mother Love, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1981
• * A Shot in the Arm, (na) Black Mask Jul 1948
  • P.I. Files, ed. Loren D. Estleman & Martin H. Greenberg, Ivy 1990
• * A Soda for Susan, (ss) Mantrap Oct 1956
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997

de MONAGHAN, HÉLÈNE (chron.)

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• * “Hélène de Monaghan” by Dorothée Chifflot, (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

de MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM (chron.)

• * from “Of Cannibals”, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995; tr. by John Floriot

de MONTSERRAT, MARIA (chron.)

• * The Sunday Bird, (vi) EQMM Aug 1988; tr. by Donald A. Yates

DEMPSEY, TIMOTHY F. (chron.)

• * Visit to a Chat Room, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005

DENBOW, KEN (chron.)

• * Deceptions, (nv) AHMM Jul 1987

DENBY, JOOLZ (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Bradford).

DENEVI, MARCO (1922-1998) (chron.)

• * The Emperor of China [1960], (vi) EQMM Aug 1992; tr. by Donald A. Yates
• * Victor Scarpazo, or The End of the Pursuit, (ss) EQMM May 2005; first published in Amarinta, o el poder, 1982.; tr. by Donald A. Yates

DENHART, JEFFREY (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Tangled Web, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jun 1990

DENHOLM, WILLIAM E. (chron.)

• * Reunited, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1997

DENNETT, N. S. (chron.)

• * The Rod, (ss) Mystery Stories #23 1941

DENNIS, DOUGLAS (chron.)

• * Just Stunning (with Abigail Padgett), (nv) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999

DENNIS, PAT (1948- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Cabin Fever, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * Death by Idaho, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * The Elder Hostile, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * Hotdish Mystery: The Unofficial Guide, (in) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * Hotdish to Die For, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * The Lutheran Who Lusted, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * The Maltese Tater Tot, (ss) Hotdish to Die For, Penury Press 2000
• * One for the Road, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004

DENNIS, ROBERT C. (1915-1983) (chron.)

• * Beyond Reasonable Doubt, (ss) Detective Tales Apr 1947
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

DE NOUX, O’NEIL (Paul, Jr.) (1950- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Airline Highway [Dino Francis LaStanza], (ss) Hardboiled #16 1993
• * The Body in Crooked Bayou, (ss) AHMM Oct 2003
• * Death on Denial, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed. Michael Connelly, Houghton Mifflin 2003
• * Don’t Make Me Take Off My Sunglasses, (ss) AHMM Apr 2004
• * Friscoville, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2001
• * A Gathering at Lake St. Catherine [John Raven Beau], (nv) EQMM Mar 2003
• * General Order No. 28, (nv) EQMM May 2004
• * A Good Shooting, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005
• * The Gorilla Murders, (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• * The Heart Has Reasons, (nv) AHMM Sep 2006
• * Her Windblown Skirt, (ss) New Mystery Sum 1999
  • New Mystery v7 #1 1999
• * Hollow Point [Dino Francis LaStanza], (nv) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994
• * The Iberville Mistress, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• * The Killer, (ss) Hardboiled #18 1994
• * A Killer’s Killer, (nv) AHMM Oct 2005
• * Love and Murder [Dino Francis LaStanza; John Raven Beau], (ss) EQMM Jul 2001
• * Lower Than Black [Dino Francis LaStanza], (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
  • Hardboiled #22 1996
• * Market Street, (ss) Crimewave #1 1999
• * Murder Most Sweet [John Raven Beau], (nv) EQMM Jun 1999
• * The Mystery of Rochelle Marais, (ss) EQMM Apr 1997
• * The Mystery of the Twins, (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
• * The Naked Lady of Whispering Gulch, (ss) EQMM Feb 2001
• * The Nimble Burglar [Dino Francis LaStanza], (ss)
  • Hardboiled #29/30 2003
• * Old Foister, A Folk Tale The Man with Moon Hands, (ss) New Mystery v1 #3 1993
• * Pinning the Rap, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005
• * So Napoleon Almost Slept Here, Right?, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003
• * 21 Steps, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006
• * Waiting for Alaina [Dino Francis LaStanza], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * When the Levees Break, (nv) EQMM Nov 2006
• * Why [Dino Francis LaStanza], (ss) EQMM Apr 1993

DENT, JOHN CHARLES (1841-1888) (chron.)

• * The Gerrard Street Mystery, (nv) The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales, Toronto: Rose 1886
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000

DENT, LESTER (1905-1959) (chron.)

• * Arctic Loot, (nv) Pulp Vault #3 1988
• * The Devil’s Derelict, (ss) Action Stories Dec 1930
  • Pulp Review Mar 1992
• * The Devil’s Ear, (ss) Western Trails Nov 1932
  • High Adventure #29 1996
• * The Diving Dead, (nv) Ten Detective Aces Sep 1933
  • Pulp Review Jul 1993
• * Hell in Boxes, (ss) All Detective Magazine Feb 1934
  • Pulp Vault #11 1993
• * Outline to “Python Isle”, (uw) Pulp Vault #10 1992
• * The Red Sail, (ss) 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * Sail, (nv) Black Mask Oct 1936
  • Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames, ed. Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • Death in Dixie, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1997
  • Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998
• * The Sign of the Adder, (nv) All Detective Magazine Nov 1933
  • Pulp Vault #12/13 1992
• * Vulture Coast, (ss) Air Stories Sep 1930
  • Pulp Review #22 1995
• * White-Hot Corpses, (nv) All Detective Magazine Mar 1934
  • Pulp Review Mar 1994

DENTINGER, JANE (1951- ) (chron.)

• * The Last of Laura Dane, (ss) Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997

DENTINGER, STEPHEN; pseudonym of Edward D. Hoch, (1930- ) (chron.)

• * Cemetery of the Innocents, (ss) Murder Most Catholic, ed. Ralph McInerny, Cumberland House 2002
• * Damsel with a Derringer, (ss) Black Cat Mystery Magazine Oct 1981
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Seventieth Number [as by Edward D. Hoch], (ss) EQMM Mar 1970
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Smothered Mate [as by Edward D. Hoch], (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1985
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * To Slay an Eagle, (ss) The Award Espionage Reader, ed. Hans Stefan Santesson, Award 1965
  • Cloak and Dagger, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, New York: Avenel 1988

DENTON, FRANK (chron.)

• * Games on the North Fork (with Gary Alexander), (ss) AHMM Mar 1983
• * So Dead Yesterday, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1997

DeNYMME, SUE (chron.)

• * Bank Shots, (ss) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006

de POLO, HAROLD (c1885-1958) (chron.)

• * Out to Pasture, (ss) Double Detective Jul 1940
  • High Adventure Sep 2005

DEPUYDT, PAUL (chron.)

• * The Missing Afternoon, (ss) AHMM Jun 1982
• * Rites of Autumn, (ss) AHMM Jun 1983

DEQUASIE, ANDREW (chron.)

• * A Long Winter’s Nap, (ss) AHMM Feb 1999
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Missing Angels, (vi) AHMM Jun 1992

de QUEIROZ, RACHEL (1911?-2003) (chron.)

de QUEÍROZ, RACHEL (chron.)

• * from “Metonymy, or The Husband’s Revenge”, (ex) 1967
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996; tr. by William L. Grossman

de QUINCEY, THOMAS (1785-1859) (chron.)

• * from “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”, (ar) Blackwood’s Feb 1827
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from “The Caesars”, (ar) Blackwood’s Oct 1832
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from Autobiography from 1785 to 1803, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, (ar) Blackwood’s Feb 1827
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993
• * On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

DERBENTI, KEN (chron.)

• * Skin, (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2003

DERLETH, AUGUST (William) (1909-1971) (books) (chron.)

• * ? [title contest story; Judge Ephraim Peck], (ss) EQMM Dec 1949; also as “Fool Proof”.
• * The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus (with Mack Reynolds) [Solar Pons], (ss) F&SF Jun 1955
  • Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1996
• * The Adventure of the Black Narcissus [Solar Pons], (ss) The Dragnet Magazine Feb 1929
  • The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959
• * The Adventure of the Circular Room [Solar Pons], (ss) The Baker Street Journal Jul 1946
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * The Adventure of the Green Stars [Solar Pons], (uw) The Unpublished Solar Pons, Toronto, Canada: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library 1994
• * The Adventure of the Haunted Library [Solar Pons], (nv) AHMM Nov 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * The Adventure of the Muttering Man [Solar Pons], (ss) The Unpublished Solar Pons, Toronto, Canada: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library 1994
• * The Adventure of the Penny Magenta [Solar Pons], (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Nov 1954
  • Murder Most Postal, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• * The Adventure of the Proper Comma [Solar Pons], (ss)
  • AHMM Feb 2003
• * The Adventure of the Sinister House [Solar Pons], (uw) The Unpublished Solar Pons, Toronto, Canada: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library 1994
• * The Adventure of the Viennese Musician [Solar Pons], (nv) The Unpublished Solar Pons, Toronto, Canada: Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library 1994
• * Bishop’s Gambit [as by Stephen Grendon], (ss) Avon Fantasy Reader 3, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Book Co. 1947
  • Sinister Gambits, ed. Richard Peyton, Souvenir Press 1991
• * A Dinner at Imola, (ss) Weird Tales Apr 1929
  • Murder on the Menu, ed. Peter Haining, New York: Carroll & Graf 1992
• * The Element of Chance [Judge Ephraim Peck], (ss) 1952
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Fool Proof [“?”, title contest story; Judge Ephraim Peck], (ss) EQMM Dec 1949
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Halloween for Mr. Faulkner, (ss) Fantastic Universe Nov 1959
  • Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
• * Miss Esperson [as by Stephen Grendon], (ss) Dark Mind, Dark Heart, ed. August Derleth, Arkham 1962
  • Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985
• * Motive, Blood, (ss) Top-Notch Detective Mar 1939
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * The Philosophers’ Stone, (vi) Weird Tales Jun 1928
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994

DeROSSO, H(enry) A(ndrew) (chron.)

• * An Agent Named Riddle, (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960
• * The Old Pro, (ss) Manhunt Dec 1960
  • Hard-Boiled, ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1995
• * Track of Fear, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine May 1961