Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

DCOTT, JEFFRY (chron.)

• * In the Absence of the Ladies, (ss) EQMM Aug 1994

DEAL, BABS H(odges) (1929-2004) (chron.)

• * Make My Death Bed, (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960

DEAL, BORDEN; [born Loysé Youth Deal] (1922-1985) (chron.)

• * Hunters, (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959

DEAN, AMY E. (chron.)

• * How Crime Pays, (ar) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984

DEAN, DAVID (chron.)

• * Angela’s Baby, (ss) EQMM Sep 1992
• * Copy Cat, (ss) EQMM Jul 1999
• * Don’t Fear the Reaper, (nv) EQMM Jan 1994
  • Law and Order, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1997
• * Falling Boy, (nv) EQMM Apr 1995
  • Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc 1996
• * Ibrahim’s Eyes, (ss) EQMM Jun 2007
• * Jungle Land, (ss) EQMM Feb 1991
• * Lady Anne’s Friend, (ss) EQMM Nov 1995
• * Little Things, (ss) EQMM Aug 2004
• * The Mole, (ss) EQMM Nov 1997
• * Natural Causes, (ss) EQMM Nov 2003
• * Road Hazard, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005
• * A Salesman’s Tale, (ss) EQMM Oct 1992
  • The Deadliest Games, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1993
  • The Haunted Hour, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley Prime Crime 1995
• * The See-Through Man, (ss) EQMM Oct 1990
• * Spooky, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• * Stolen, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
• * Trial by Fire, (nv) EQMM Feb 1995
• * Whistle, (ss) EQMM Jul 2001
  • Mystery: The Best of 2001, ed. Jon L. Breen, ibooks 2002
• * The Wisdom of Serpents, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008

DEAN, JOHN (1938- ) (chron.)

• * Taking the Lie Detector [from Blind Ambition], (ex) 1977
  • Lying Cheating & Stealing, ed. Sara Nicklès, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 1997

DEAN, RICHARD (chron.)

• * But Words Will Never Hurt Me, (ss) AHMM Oct 1982

DeANDREA, WILLIAM L(ouis) (1952-1996) (books) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Christmas Tree [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1996
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * The Adventure of the Cripple Parade (The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch) (ascribed to Mickey Spillane) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * A Friend of Mine, (nv) Frankenstein: The Monster Wakes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Hero’s Welcome, (ss) San Jose Mercury News Nov 1985
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * J’Accuse!, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1990, Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1991
• * Killed in Good Company [Matt Cobb], (nv) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Killed in Midstream [Matt Cobb], (nv) 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
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Killed Top to Bottom [Matt Cobb], (ss) Syracuse University Magazine Fll 1989
  • The Armchair Detective Win 1991
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Murder at the End of the World, (ss) Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Prince Charming, (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Sabotage, (nv) Solved, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1991
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003
• * Snowy Reception [Matt Cobb], (ss) AHMM Jun 1979
  • Murder—All Kinds, Crippen & Landru 2003

DEAN-RICHARDS, WAYNE (chron.)

• * The End of Something, (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

DEARMORE, ELLEN; pseudonym of Erlene Hubly, (1936-1996) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Gioconda Smile, (nv) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990
• * The Adventure of the Perpetual Husbands, (nv) The Womansleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA 1988
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997

DEAVER, JEFFERY (Wilds) (1950- ); see pseudonym William Jefferies (books) (chron.)

• * Afraid, (ss) More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Afterword to “Afraid”, (aw) More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * All the World’s a Stage, (nv) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Beautiful, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * The Blank Card, (ss) EQMM Dec 1998
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Born Bad, (nv) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2006, ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin 2006
  • The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2007
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Bump, (na) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007
• * Chapter and Verse, (ss) Greatest Hits, Robert J. Randisi, Carroll & Graf 2005; first appeared on Deaver’s Web site.
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * The Christmas Present [Lincoln Rhyme], (nv) Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * The Commuter, (ss) AHMM Apr 1998
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Copycat, (nv) EQMM Jun 2003
  • A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * A Dish Served Cold, (nv) Amazon Shorts (online) May 2006
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Double Jeopardy, (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 1997
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Eye to Eye, (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * The Fall Guy, (ss) EQMM Jun 1998
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * For Services Rendered, (nv) EQMM Nov 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Forever, (na) Transgressions, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2005
  • Transgressions, Vol. 1, ed. Ed McBain, Forge Books 2006
• * Gone Fishing, (ss) EQMM Oct 1995
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Interrogation, (ss) AHMM Apr 1996
  • Law and Order, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1997
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Introduction, (in)
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
  • A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2003
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Introduction, (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008
• * The Kneeling Soldier, (ss) EQMM Mar 1997
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Lesser-Included Offense, (nv) EQMM May 2001
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Locard’s Principle, (na) More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Making Amends, (ss) EQMM Aug 2007
  • A Prisoner of Memory: And 24 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Pegasus 2008
• * A Nice Place to Visit, (nv) Manhattan Noir, ed. Lawrence Block, Akashic Books 2006; (Hell’s Kitchen).
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Ninety-eight Point Six, (nv) A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2003
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Nocturne, (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
  • EQMM Feb 1999
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Nothing But Net, (nv) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * The Poker Lesson, (nv) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Preface, (pr) More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Surveillance, (nv) EQMM Aug 2002
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * Together, (nv) EQMM Feb 1995
  • Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 1995
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Triangle, (ss) EQMM Mar 1999
  • Crème de La Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Tunnel Girl, (ss) EQMM Dec 2005
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * The Voyeur, (ss) EQMM Jan 2005
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * The Weekender, (nv) AHMM Dec 1996
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, ed. Robert B. Parker, Mariner Books 1997
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * The Westphalian Ring, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
  • The Adventure of the Missing Detective, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2005
  • More Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2007
• * The Widow of Pine Creek, (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Without Jonathan, (ss) EQMM Nov 2002
  • Twisted, Simon & Schuster 2003
• * Wrong Time, Wrong Place, (nv) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, ed. Ed McBain, Houghton Mifflin 1999

de BALZAC, HONORÉ; see under Balzac, Honoré de (chron.)

DeBONA, JOSEPH (chron.)

• * I Killed Charles Robin, (ss) Scientific Detective Mar 1945

DE BONNEVAL, TONI (chron.)

• * Sibyl and the Panda, (ss) William and Mary Review v36 1998

DEBRECZENY, PAUL (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from “The Queen of Spades”, by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin, (ex) 1834
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

DeCANDIDO, KEITH R. A. (chron.)

• * Getting the Chair, (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004

DeCHANCIE, JOHN (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Murder On-Line, (ss) Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
• * The Richmond Enigma [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

DÉCHARNÉ, MAX (chron.)

• * Chelsea Three, Scotland Yard Nil, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (King’s Road).

DECKER, RICHARD E. (books) (chron.)

_____, ed.

• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 8 # 6, June 1963], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 8 # 8, August 1963], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 8 #11, November 1963], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964

DECKER, SHERRY (chron.)

• * A City in Italy, (ss) AHMM Dec 2005
• * The Clan, (ss) AHMM Nov 1999
• * Hicklebickle Rock, (ss) AHMM Jun 1998
• * The Proper Application of Pressure to a Wound, (ss) AHMM Dec 2008

DeCOSTA, BARBARA (chron.)

• * Cabin 6, (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

DEDMAN, STEPHEN (1959- ) (chron.)

• * Ravens, (ss) Interzone Feb 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003

DEE, ED(ward J., Jr.) (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Ernie K.’s Gelding, (ss) Bronx Noir, ed. S. J. Rozan, Akashic Books 2007; (Van Cortlandt Park).

DEEGAN, FRANCES M.; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * The Want-Ad Murders, (nv) Detective Story Magazine Mar 1944
  • Detective Story Annual 1948, ed. Daisy Bacon, Street & Smith 1948

DeFILIPPI, JAMES (chron.)

• * A Fog of Many Colors, (ss) New Mystery v5 #1 1997

DEFOE, DANIEL; pseudonym of Daniel Foe, (1660-1731) (chron.)

• * The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, (ar) booklet Jul 1706
  • A Century of Thrillers: Second Series, ed. Anon., Daily Express 1935
• * The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley, (ss) Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe, London 1722
  • The Cat of Bast & Other Stories of Mystery, ed. William E. Thorner, Regency 1958
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
• * A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, (ar) 1706
  • Mystery, ed. A. K. Barton, London: Dent 1937

deFORD, MIRIAM ALLEN (1888-1975) (chron.)

• * De Crimine, (ss) EQMM Oct 1952
  • The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
• * Danger—Woman at Work, (ss) EQMM Dec 1956
  • More Ms. Murder, ed. Marie Smith, London: Xanadu 1991
• * The Moors Murders, (ar) The Saint Detective Magazine Aug 1967
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * Nameless Enemy, (ss) EQMM Mar 1966
  • Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1991
• * The Oleander, (ss) Every Week 1930
  • EQMM Nov 1946
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

DE FRANCESCHI, MARISA (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Things Remembered, (ss) Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995

DeGRANE, SUSAN (chron.)

• * How Are You Today, Owen?, (ss) Hardboiled #13 1992

DeHAHN, JULIA; pseudonym of Eleanor Sullivan, (1928-1991) (chron.)

• * Girls and Boys Together, (nv) AHMM Dec 15 1980
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * Looking the Other Way, (ss) AHMM Jan 30 1980

DE HAMEL, (Gustave) HERBERT CF4b (chron.)

de HAMEL, HERBERT (chron.)

• * The Mills of Hell, (ss)
  • Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935

DEHAN, RICHARD; pseudonym of Clotilde Graves, (1863-1932) (chron.)

• * The Compleat Housewife, (ss) Under the Hemes, Dodd, Mead 1917
  • Murder on the Menu, ed. Peter Haining, New York: Carroll & Graf 1992