Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

DODDS, BILL (1952- ) (chron.)

• * Crime of Passion, (ss) Aphelion Sum 1986
  • Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

DODGE, ALICE M. (chron.)

• * The Nymph and the Doctor, (na) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1962

DODSON, SUSAN (chron.)

• * The Fine Art of Revenge, (ss) EQMM Aug 1985

DOHERTY, P(aul) C(harles) (1946- ); see pseudonym Paul Harding (chron.)

• * A Counter-Blast to Tobacco, (nv) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998
• * Foreword, (fw) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• * The Knight’s Confession, (ss) Murder Most Catholic, ed. Ralph McInerny, Cumberland House 2002
• * “The Monk’s Tale”, (nv) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
  • More Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1994
  • Murder Most Divine, ed. Ralph McInerny & Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
• * The Murder of Innocence, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995
• * The Musket Ball [Sir Peter Philsby], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * “Or You Can Drink the Wine...?” [Amerotke], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002
• * The Serpent’s Tooth, (nv) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002

DOHERTY, PAUL (chron.)

• * Id Quod Clarum..., (nv) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000

DOLAN, CHRIS (chron.)

• * Conviction, (ss) Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

DOLAN, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * Run For Your Life, (ss) AHMM Nov 1986

DOLE, GERALD (chron.)

• * The Witch of Greenwich [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Billy, the page boy).

DOLPHIN, JACK; pseudonym of Robert D. Smith (chron.)

• * Cool Breeze [Tommy Gordon], (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998
• * Hoods (with Monte Cross), (ss) New Mystery v1 #2 1992
• * Judge Not, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000, #31 2004
• * Thaxton’s Call, (ss) 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * The Vig, (nv) Gryphon Double Novel #1, ed. Anon., Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books 1991

DOMINICK, JANET BLAIR (chron.)

• * Copy Cat, (pm) EQMM Sep 1992

DONALD, R. E. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Bench Press, (vi) AHMM Nov 1994

DONALDSON, STEPHEN R(eeder) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Animal Lover, (na) Stellar #4, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine 1978
  • Tin Stars, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986

DONATI, STEFANO (chron.)

• * A Good Deed, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2000
• * Sights Through Empty Eyes, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2000
• * Snatch, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2001
• * Yesterday’s Hangman, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2000

DONIHE, KEVIN L. (chron.)

• * When Randolph Woke Up, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001

DONN-BYRNE, BRYAN OSWALD (1889-1928); see pseudonym Donn Byrne (chron.)

DONNEL, C(ornelius?) P(hilip), Jr. (1906?-1977?) (chron.)

• * Recipe for Murder, (ss) The American Legion Magazine 1946
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998

DONNELLY, BARRY (chron.)

• * A Catcher in the Rye: Robert B. Parker’s P.I. Spencer, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1990
• * Cold Storage, (ss) Hardboiled #7 1987

DONNELLY, LIZA (chron.)

• * The Soft-Boiled Detective and “The Case of the Flapjacks That Flopped” (with Michael Maslin), (cs) MHCMM Spr 1997
• * The Soft-Boiled Detective and “The Case of the Missing Ham” (with Michael Maslin), (cs) MHCMM #1 1996

DONNELLY, MARCOS (chron.)

• * Café Con Leche, (nv) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004

DONOGHUE, STEVE (1884-1945) (chron.)

• * Calling the Tune, (ss) The Passing Show 1932
  • Murder At the Races, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995

DONOVAN, DICK; pseudonym of J. E. Muddock, (1843-1934) (chron.)

• * The Jewelled Skull [Dick Donovan], (ss) The Strand Jul 1892
  • Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’, ed. Geraldine Beare, Folio Society 1991
• * The Problem of Dead Wood Hall [Dick Donovan], (nv) Riddles Read, Chatto 1896
  • Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories, ed. David Stuart Davies, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 2006
• * Red Lily, (nv) Tales of Terror, Chatto & Windus 1899
  • Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991
• * The Spell of the Black Siren [Vincent Trill], (ss) The Records of Vincent Trill of the Detective Service, Chatto & Windus 1899
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

DONOVAN, LAURENCE (?-1950?) (chron.)

• * Coiffeured to Kill [Joe Bunt], (nv) Popular Detective Apr 1944
  • Action Adventure Stories #19 1998
• * Death Stops the Coal [Dan Fowler], (nv) G-Men Detective Win 1944
  • Action Adventure Stories #95 2001
• * The Man Who Came to Die, (ss) Private Detective Stories Sep 1943
  • High Adventure #37 1997
• * The Murder Scent, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Dec 1933
  • High Adventure #62 2002
• * Regan Follows Up, (ss) Black Bat Detective Mysteries Feb 1934
  • High Adventure Nov 2005

DONSON, CYRIL (1919-1986) (chron.)

• * Take the Fence, (ss) Argosy (UK) Nov 1973
  • John Creasey’s Mystery Bedside Book, 1975, ed. Herbert Harris, Hodder Stoughton 1974

DOOGAN, MIKE (chron.)

• * The Death of Clickclickwhistle, (ss) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004
• * Gambling on Death, (nv) Wild Crimes, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2004
• * War Can Be Murder, (nv) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
  • Mystery: The Best of 2002, ed. Jon L. Breen, ibooks 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed. Michael Connelly, Houghton Mifflin 2003

DOOLITTLE, SEAN (chron.)

• * The Anatomy of Love, (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• * The Grift of the Magi, (nv) Crimewave #4 2000
• * A Kick in the Lunchbucket, (nv) Crimewave #5 2001
• * The Necklace, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• * The Professional, (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• * Summa Mathematica, (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, ed. James Ellroy, Houghton Mifflin 2002
• * Worth, (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2003
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005

_____, [ref.]

• * “The PWG Interviews with: Sean Doolittle” by Trevor Maviano, (iv) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003

DOORLEY, LAWRENCE (chron.)

• * Conscience-Stricken, (nv) AHMM Apr 1997
• * Dead Men Tell No Tales, (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 1998
• * Deuteronomy 32:35, (ss) AHMM Jan 1988
• * Foiling a Femme Fatale, (nv) AHMM Dec 1986
• * Kind, Decent, Pleasantly Plump, (nv) AHMM Jan 1986
• * Lady Luck and the Golden Girls, (ss) AHMM Feb 1984
• * The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, (nv) AHMM May 1987
• * Mrs. Ralston’s Old Flame, a Yale Man, (nv) AHMM Jun 1988
• * A Narrow Squeak, (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 1999
• * Not a Pretty Story, (nv) AHMM Jun 1989
• * Off and Running, or, Bob Swillet’s Luck (Bad), (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• * Stranger Than Fiction, (nv) AHMM Feb 2001
• * What the Cleaning Woman Knew, (nv) AHMM Oct 1989

DORR, JAMES S. (chron.)

• * By Force and Against the King’s Peace, (nv) AHMM Dec 1999
• * The Dancing Master, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• * The Great Man, (ss) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• * Milk Carton Monsters, (ss) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991
• * Paper Boxes, (ss) New Mystery v5 #1 1997
• * The Sending, (ss) AHMM Dec 1997
• * Vanitas, (ss) AHMM Jan 1996
• * The Wellmaster’s Daughter, (ss) AHMM Nov 1991
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

DORRA, MAX (chron.)

• * Thou Shalt Kill, (ss) La Nouvelle Revue Française 1999
  • EQMM Sep/Oct 2001; tr. by François Gallix
• * Two Little Indians, (vi) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001; tr. by François Gallix

DORRELL, PAUL (chron.)

• * Jason, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• * Queen Alienor’s Favor, (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994

DOSTOEVSKII, FYODOR (Mikhailovich) (1821-1881) (chron.)

• * from Crime and Punishment, (ex) 1866
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

DOUGHERTY, KATHLEEN (chron.)

• * Bright Hope, Dark Soul, (ss) EQMM Aug 1996
• * When Your Breath Freezes, (ss) EQMM Sep 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
  • Simply the Best Mysteries, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Blowout in Little Man Flats, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1998
  • Murder Most Divine, ed. Ralph McInerny & Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000

DOUGLAS, CAROLE NELSON (1944- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Afterword, (aw)
  • Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• * Alice Holds the Cards (with Jennifer Waddell), (nv) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• * A Baker Street Irregular, (ss) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• * Cold Turkey, (ss) Wild Women, ed. Melissa Mia Hall, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Coyote Peyote, (nv) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995
• * Damn the Potatoes, Full Speed Ahead!: My Deadliest Desperate Housewife Moment, (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * Dirty Dancing, (nv) Malice Domestic 4, Carolyn G. Hart, Pocket 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
  • Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * Dog Collar (with Annie A. Anderson), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• * Editor’s Note, (pr)
  • Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• * Iä Iä Iä-Iä! Cthulouie! [Midnight Louie], (ss) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
  • White House Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002
• * Junior Partner in Crime, (nv) Creature Cozies, ed. Jill Morgan, Berkley Prime Crime 2005
• * Lawn and Order, (nv) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * License to Koi [Midnight Louie], (nv) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• * The Maltese Double Cross, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * Mesmerising Bertie [Irene Alder], (ss) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998
• * The Mummy Case, (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * Parris Green [Irene Alder], (nv) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1994
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
• * Sax and the Single Cat, (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
  • A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000
  • White House Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002
• * Scrogged: A Cyber Christmas Carol, (nv) Death by Dickens, ed. Anne Perry, Prime Crime 2004
  • The Widow of Slane: Six More of the Best Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year!, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2006
• * Special Surprise Appearance By..., (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004
• * Strangers in a Strange Land, (nv) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Sunset: A Monologue in One Act, (pl) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• * The Thief of Twelfth Night [Sherlock Holmes; Irene Alder], (ss) Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1996
• * Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes, (nv) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003

DOUGLAS, CLINT; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * Boomerang Bluff, (ss) Capt. Hazzard Magazine May 1938
  • High Adventure #72 2003

DOUGLAS, HOWARD (chron.)

• * Fitting Up Stanley, (ss) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994

DOUGLAS, JOHN SCOTT (1905- ) (chron.)

• * Old Straight Shooter, (ss) Gun Molls Magazine Aug 1931
  • High Adventure #64 2002

DOUGLAS, LYNDA (chron.)

• * Wrong Address, (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1999

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * Worse than Death!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957

DOUGLASS, DON (chron.)

• * The Case of the Sunburned Peer [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

DOWDELL, JENNIFER (1962- ); see pseudonym Nikki Baker (chron.)