Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

FORBES-DENNIS, PHYLLIS (1884-1963); see pseudonym Phyllis Bottome (chron.)

FORD, COREY (1902-1969) (chron.)

• * The Third Door from the Left [as by John Riddell], (ss) Vanity Fair 1926
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992

FORD, DREY (chron.)

• * Halloween Terror, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

FORD, G(erald) M. (1945- ) (chron.)

• * Clothes Make the Man [Leo Waterman], (ss) EQMM Feb 1999

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview with G.M. Ford” by Lisa D. Williamson, (iv) Murderous Intent Fll 1999

FORD, JOHN (1586-1639) (chron.)

• * from ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, (ex) 1633
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

FORD, JOHN (chron.)

• * Too Bad About Margery, (ss) EQMM Jan 1997

FORE, GEORGE C. (chron.)

• * Finally, a Murder, (nv) AHMM Aug 1990
• * Lost and Found, (ss) AHMM Feb 1991

FOREMAN, BENJAMIN H. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Buffalo Wings, (vi) AHMM Dec 2006
  ___ Career Change, (vi) AHMM Jun 2003
  ___ Connoisseur Diamond, (vi) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005

FORESTER, C(ecil) S(cott); pseudonym of Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith, (1899-1966) (chron.)

• * Between Eight and Eight, (ss) EQMM Jun 1950
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * from Payment Deferred, (ex) 1926
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996
• * Intelligence, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 1942
  • Danger Is the Password: Stories of Wartime Spies, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, Morrow 1965
• * Plain Murder, (ex) 1930
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993
• * The Turn of the Tide, (ss) The Story-Teller 1934
  • EQMM Nov 1943
  • Horror and Homicide, ed. Anon., Checkerbooks 1949
  • More Murder on Cue, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1990

FORNATAR, PAUL V. (chron.)

• * The Act of Murder, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1998
• * As We Forgive, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Dec 1998
• * Bed One, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2000
• * Between the Pages, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2002
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2002
• * Boyhood Dreams, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2001
• * Brotherly Love, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2000
• * Chicken on Thursday, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2000
• * The Crossing Lady, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 1999
• * A Family That Prays Together, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2000
• * Finders Keepers, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Oct 1999
• * Getting the Bird, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2001
• * Hanging Dark, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2001
• * High Expectations, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2001
• * A House in the Country, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2001
• * The Last Christmas, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1999
• * The Last Visitor, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2002
• * Lucky Seven, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1999
• * Many Happy Remains, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 2002
• * May Kingdom Come, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2001
• * Miguel’s Miraculous Marionette, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002
• * Mr. Midnight Goes Trick or Treating, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999
• * Neverbe, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2000
• * New Blood, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 2000
• * Pictures on the Wall, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1999
• * Praying Hans, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 2002
• * Santa Bum, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 1999
• * A Single Mistake, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1998
• * The Sins of Eric Strong, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1999
• * The Successful Point, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Feb 1999
• * A Thief of Time, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 2000
• * Vertical Adventure, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1998
• * Windows, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• * The Woman in Question, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 1998
• * The Wrong Direction, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1998
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1999
• * Yes, Dear!, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1998

FORREST, KATHERINE V(irginia) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Jessie [Kate Delafield], (nv) Dreams and Swords, Naiad 1987
  • Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995
  • Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995

FORREST, RICHARD (Stockton) (1932- ) (chron.)

• * The Headmaster Helps One of His Boys, (ss) EQMM Jan 27 1982
  • Senior Sleuths, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley 1996
• * Lazy Man, (ss) EQMM Jun 1998
• * A Very Small Rasher, (ss) EQMM Feb 1994

FORREST, WILLIAMS (1918- ) (chron.)

• * The Game [“Lamb to the Slaughter”], (ss) Cavalier Nov 1962
  • EQMM Jan 1990
• * Lamb to the Slaughter, (ss) Cavalier Nov 1962; also as “The Game”.

FORSDYKE, ROGER (chron.)

• * Video Nasty, (ss) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995

FORSHAW, BARRY; see pseudonyms Vic Buckner, Eve Tan Gee & Brian Ritterspak (chron.)

• * Alan Moore, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• * Dead on Deansgate, (ar) Crime Time #23 2001
• * The Desk, (ed) Crime Time #23 2001
• * Evocation of an Era: Ed Gorman’s Sam McCain Trilogy, (ar) Crime Time #23 2001
• * Fighting Cheek: Eliot Pattison, (iv) Crime Time #23 2001
• * Gemma O’Connor, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• * John Lescroart, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• * King Max!, (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• * Robert Wilson’s Instruments of Darkness, (ar) Crime Time #23 2001
• * Tirade (with Peter Dillon-Parkin), (ed) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• * Will Christopher Baer: Violence is Useful, (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

_____, reviews:

• * Videocrime, (mr) Crime Time #23 2001

FORSYTH, FREDERICK (1938- ) (chron.)

• * The Day of the Jackal [“There Are Some Days...”], (nv)
  • Crime Movies, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1996
• * The Devil’s Alternative, (ex)
  • Crime Digest Oct/Nov 1981
• * No Comebacks, (ss) Playboy May 1973
  • Crime Digest Sep/Oct 1982
• * There Are No Snakes in Ireland, (nv) No Comebacks 1982
  • EQMM Jan 1984
  • Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
  • The New Edgar Winners, Mystery Writers of America, New York: Wynwood Press 1990
  • The Edgar Award Book, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
• * There Are Some Days..., (nv); also as “The Day of the Jackal”.
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998

FOSTER, ALAN DEAN (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Diesel Dream, (ss) Solved, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Lay Your Head on My Pilose, (ss) Futurecrime, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Fine 1992
• * Pein bek Longpela Telimpon, (ss) Future Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW 1999

FOSTER, G. F. (books) (chron.)

_____, ed.

• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v11 # 9, September 1966], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967
• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v12 # 4, April 1967], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967

FOSTER, JANE WOOLSEY (1935-1994); see pseudonym Nancy Livingston (chron.)

FOSTER, JOHN (chron.)

• * Reaper, (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998

FOSTER, RICHARD; pseudonym of Kendell Foster Crossen, (1910-1981) (chron.)

• * Babies for Sale [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Jun 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #122 2003
  • High Adventure #80 2005
• * The Case of the Clown Who Laughed [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Oct 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #84 2000
• * The Case of the Crooked Cane [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Aug 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #112 2002
• * The Case of the Fugitive Fingerprints [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Jun 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #95 2001
• * The Case of the Hollywood Ghost [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Oct 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #99 2001
• * The Case of the Invisible Enemy [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Dec 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #89 2001
• * The Case of the Vanishing Ships [The Green Lama], (ss) Double Detective Apr 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #103 2001
• * Croesus of Murder, (na) Double Detective May 1940
  • High Adventure #75 2004
• * Death’s Head Face [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Sep 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #107 2001
• * The Green Lama [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Apr 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #118 2002
• * The Man Who Wasn’t There [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Aug 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #78 2000
  • High Adventure May 2006
• * The Wave of Death [The Green Lama], (na) Double Detective Jul 1940
  • High Adventure Sep 2005

FOSTER, RICHARD J(ames) (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Kyrie, Eleison, (rr) Carnage at Christhaven, ed. William Griffin, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row 1989

FOULKE, ADRIENNE (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * The House, by André Maurois, (vi) Harper’s Jun 1931
  • AHMM Nov 1996

FOURACRE, JOHN (chron.)

• * Mystery by the Lake, (ss)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 1, ed. Stephen Beals, Six Lakes Arts 1989
• * The Short Story Writer, (ss)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 1, ed. Stephen Beals, Six Lakes Arts 1989

FOURMYLE, NICOLE ENGSTROM (chron.)

• * Moxie and the African Queen (with Elizabeth Engstrom), (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996

FOWLER, BERTRAM B(aynes) (1893-1981) (chron.)

• * Safety Deposit, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 11 1935
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER (1953- ) (chron.)

• * American Waitress, (ss) Crimewave #7 2003
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * Crocodile Lady, (nv) Crimewave #5 2001
• * Perfect Casting, (nv) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994

FOWLER, EARLENE (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Blue Time, (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999

FOWLER, KAREN JOY (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Private Grave 9, (ss) McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books 2003

FOWLER, KENNETH (A.) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Talebearer’s Wounds, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jan 1948
  • Detective Story Annual 1949, ed. Daisy Bacon, Street & Smith 1949

FOWLER, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * Cody’s Glance, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1981
• * The Frozen Dog, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1982

FOWLES, JOHN (Robert) (1926-2005) (chron.)

• * from The French Lieutenant’s Woman, (ex)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

FOX, CHRIS; pseudonym of Chris Naylor (chron.)

• * Criminals and the Robber, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 2002

FOX, JAMES (chron.)

• * from White Mischief, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

FOX, JAMES M.; pseudonym of Johannes Matthijs Willem Knipscheer, (1908-1989) (chron.)

• * Incident in Bogotá, (nv) AHMM Feb 1989
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * Start from Scratch [John and Suzy Marshall], (ss) Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, ed. Anthony Boucher, Simon & Schuster 1950
  • Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1957

FOX, JANET (1940- ) (chron.)

• * A Public Service, (vi) Tense Moments #2
  • Hardboiled Detective #11 1991

FOX, JAY (chron.)

• * Alias Roscoe Brent, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1982
• * Blood on the Beach, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1958
• * Edgar Allan’s Trunk, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981
• * Gittin By, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1981
• * Gotcha!, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983
• * Joyride to Terror, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1958
• * Kid Gang Big Shot, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1959
• * The Movement, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1982
• * Shark Bait!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958
• * Vendetta, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1983
• * Young Man With a Knife, (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959

FOX, LANA (chron.)

• * Partners, (vi) Murderous Intent Spr 1996

FOX, RANDY (chron.)

• * Saved, (ss) Hardboiled #16 1993

FOXWELL, ELIZABETH (books) (chron.)

• * Alice and the Agent of the Hun [Alice and FDR], (ss) Death Dines In, ed, Claudia Bishop & Dean James, Berkley 2004
• * Come Flit By Me [Alice and FDR], (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000
• * Introduction (with Martin H. Greenberg), (in)
  • Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997
  • Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998