Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

FINNEY, HOWARD, Jr. (chron.)

• * Murder on the Limited, (ss) Detective-Dragnet Magazine Sep 1932
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

FINNEY, JACK; [i.e., Walter Braden Finney] (1911-1995) (chron.)

• * The Face in the Photo [“Time Has No Boundaries”], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1962
  • AHMM Feb 1999
• * I’m Scared, (ss) Colliers Sep 15 1951
  • EQMM Oct 1991
• * Such Interesting Neighbors [Colliers, Jan 6 ’51], (pl)
  • The Red-Headed League and Other Mystery Plays, ed. Katherine Robinson, Scholastic 1986
• * Time Has No Boundaries, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1962; also as “The Face in the Photo”.
• * The Widow’s Walk, (ss) EQMM Jul 1947
  • Verdict Crime Detection Magazine Nov 1956

FINNEY, PATRICIA (1958- ); see pseudonym P. F. Chisholm (chron.)

FINNEY, WALTER BRADEN (1911-1995); see under Finney, Jack (chron.)

FINNIS, JANE (chron.)

• * The Cleopatra Game, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003

FIORINI, DEBRA ANN (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Dial “S” for Spy, (vi) AHMM Sep 1999

FIRTH, MATTHEW (chron.)

• * Can You Take Me There, Now?, (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

FIRTH, N. WESLEY; pseudonym of Norman Firth, (1920-1949) (chron.)

• * Gavoti Was Yellow, (ss) Vengeance Shorts #1 1945
• * Lady! Here’s the Morgue!, (ss) Vengeance Shorts #2 1946

FIRTH, NORMAN (1920-1949); see pseudonym N. Wesley Firth (chron.)

FISCHER, BRUNO (1908-1992); see pseudonym Russell Gray (chron.)

• * Five O’Clock Menace, (ss) Black Mask May 1949
  • Hardboiled Detective #11 1991
• * I’ll Slay You in My Dreams, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Sep 1944
  • Hard-Boiled Detectives, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy Books 1992
• * Service Call, (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1961
  • Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1960
• * Smile, Corpse, Smile!, (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Feb 1948
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2001
• * We Are All Dead, (nv) Manhunt May 1955
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Carroll & Graf 1996

FISCHER, CURT (chron.)

• * Book’m, Banquo, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 1990
• * Double Daylight, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994
• * Leonardo, Prefect of Verona, (ss) AHMM May 1985
• * McMaster’s Captain, (ss) Hardboiled #21 1996
• * Nethersled, (ss) AHMM Aug 1985
• * Wilderness Pilot, (ss) AHMM Jul 1990

FISH, FREDERICK A. (chron.)

• * In Death Preceded, (ss) AHMM Nov 1993

FISH, ROBERT L(loyd) (1912-1981) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Belles Letters [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980
• * The Adventure of the Odd Lotteries [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Jul 1975
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
• * The Adventure of the Patient Resident [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Feb 11 1980
• * The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Feb 1967
  • EQMM Aug 1991
• * The Adventure of the Pie-Eyed Piper [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981
• * The Adventure of the Short Fuse [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980
• * The Adventure of the Ukrainian Foundling Orphans [Schlock Homes], (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
• * The Booby Trap, (ss) EQMM Oct 6 1980
  • Silver Screams, ed. Cynthia Manson & Adam Stern, Longmeadow 1994
• * Double Entry, (ss) EQMM Jan 1969
  • EQMM Aug 1991
• * In the Bag, (ss) Playboy Apr 1973
  • EQMM Nov 1975
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * Muldoon and the Numbers Game, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul/Aug 1973
  • EQMM Aug 1978
  • Win, Lose or Die, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Carroll & Graf 1996
• * One of the Oldest Con Games, (ss) EQMM Mar 1977
  • Grifters and Swindlers, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1993
• * Punishment to Fit the Crime, (ss) EQMM Apr 7 1980
• * The Wager [Kek Huuygens], (ss) Playboy Jul 1973
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000

FISHER, ARLENE (chron.)

• * Dying Words, (pz) AHMM Jun, Jul/Aug, Dec 2003, Jun, Nov 2004, Jul/Aug, Sep 2005, Jan/Feb, May, Dec 2008
• * Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle, (pz) AHMM Mar, Apr, May 2005, Jan/Feb, Mar 2006
  • AHMM Mar 2007
• * Dying Words Acrostic Puzzle, (pz) AHMM May, Jul/Aug, Sep, Oct, Dec 2006, Apr, Sep, Dec 2007, Jul/Aug, Sep 2008

FISHER, CARMEN (chron.)

• * Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, (ss) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996

FISHER, CHRISTOPHER (chron.)

• * Tattletale, (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

FISHER, EVE (chron.)

• * At the End of the Path, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002
• * The Camping Trip, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2003
• * Drifts, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006
• * The Four Roasters, (ss) AHMM Mar 1999
• * Grownups Are All Alike, (ss) AHMM Apr 1997
• * Houdini, (ss) AHMM Nov 2003
• * The Lagoon, (ss) AHMM Apr 2008
• * Not the Type, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2007
• * Nude with Snow Geese, (ss) AHMM Dec 2002
• * Public Immunity, (ss) AHMM Nov 2007
• * Sophistication, (ss) AHMM May 2007
• * Zoo Story, (ss) AHMM May 1999

FISHER, M(ary) F(rances) K(ennedy) (1908-1992) (chron.)

• * Recipe for North Country Tart, (ms) The Art of Eating, Macmillan 1949
  • Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Twenty-Four Petits Fours, (ss) EQMM Apr 1964
  • Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * The Young Weatherman, (vi) EQMM Apr 1984

FISHER, PEGGY WURTZ (chron.)

• * The Pickup, (ss) EQMM Oct 1984

FISHER, RUDOLPH (1897-1934) (chron.)

• * From The Conjure-Man Dies, (ex) Covici 1932
  • Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995

FISHER, STEVE; [i.e., Stephen Gould Fisher] (1912-1980); see pseudonym Stephen Gould (chron.)

• * Emperor Blackmail [Mark Turner], (ss) Ten Detective Aces Mar 1937
  • High Adventure May 2006
• * Goodbye, Hannah, (ss) Double Detective Dec 1938
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2001
• * If Christmas Comes [Tony Key], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Dec 25 1937
  • EQMM Jan 1944
  • Silver Screams, ed. Cynthia Manson & Adam Stern, Longmeadow 1994
• * The Sacred Dragon [Mark Turner], (ss) The Mysterious Wu Fang Jan 1936
  • High Adventure #55 2000
• * Shanghai Murder, (ss) The Mysterious Wu Fang Dec 1935
  • High Adventure #42 1998
• * You’ll Always Remember Me, (ss) Black Mask Mar 1938
  • Pulp Fiction: The Villains, ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus 2007
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007

FISHKIN, SHELLEY FISHER (chron.)

• * Editor’s Note, (pr)
  • The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, Mark Twain, Oxford University Press 1996
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, Mark Twain, Oxford University Press 1996

FISHLER, BARRY (chron.)

• * The Street Where You Live, (vi) Crimewave #6 2002

FISHMAN, JOSEPH FULLING (chron.)

• * Old Calamity Stages an Act [?], (ss) Detective Fiction Apr 6 1929; also as “Old Calamity Tries a Bluff”.
• * Old Calamity Tries a Bluff [“Old Calamity Stages an Act"?], (ss) Detective Fiction Apr 6 1929
  • The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959
• * Old Calamity’s Stick-up, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 23 1934
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

FITCH, JANET (1955- ) (chron.)

• * The Method, (nv) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic Books 2007

FITCH, STONA (chron.)

• * The End of Indian Summer, (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

FITTERER, TERRY LERDALL (chron.)

• * Adios, Amigo!, (pm) EQMM Apr 2003
• * Blank Check (with Katherine H. Brooks), (pm) EQMM Aug 2002
• * He Auto Be Ashamed, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• * Snored to Death, (pm) EQMM Feb 2004

FITTS, JAMES FRANKLIN (1840-1890) (chron.)

• * The Guest-Chamber of the Inn at St. Ives, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008

FITZGEORGE-PARKER, MARK DANIEL; see pseudonym Mark Daniel (chron.)

FITZGERALD, F(rancis) SCOTT (Key) (1896-1940) (chron.)

• * The Captured Shadow, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 29 1928
  • AHMM Sep 1993
• * The Fiend, (ss) Esquire Jan 1935
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * The Four Fists, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1920
  • AHMM Oct 2001
• * from The Great Gatsby, (ex) 1925
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996
• * The Scandal Detectives, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 28 1928
  • AHMM Apr 1991

FITZGERALD, KITTY (1946- ) (chron.)

• * At Loubles, (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995

FITZGERALD, NIGEL (1906-1985) (chron.)

• * The Man in the Middle, (ss) Suspense (UK) Mar 1960
  • Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery, ed. Peter Haining, Barnes & Noble 2000

FITZGERALD, TED (chron.)

• * The Cat That Got Away, (ss) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• * Nicole [Matthew Gereghty], (nv) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998
• * Very Slick and Very Deadly, (ss) Hardboiled #14 1992
• * Wild Card, (nv) Gryphon Double Novel #1, ed. Anon., Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books 1991

FITZSIMMONS, PAUL MICHAEL (chron.)

• * The Night Before Christmas, (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960

FITZWATER, JUDY; [i.e., Judith Daryl McGuire Fitzwater] (1948- ) (chron.)

• * From Golden Girl to Rich Dude Kryptonite: Why Veronica Mars Is in with the Out-Crowd, (ar) NptNoir 2007

FLAIG, SUZANNE (chron.)

• * Whatever Happened to Sandy Kloss?, (ss) ByLine Magazine
  • By the Chimney with Care, ed. Tont Burton, Wolfmont Publishing 2006

FLANAGAN, DALE FURUTANI (1946- ); see pseudonym Dale Furutani (chron.)

FLANAGAN, JIM (chron.)

• * Taps for Willie, (ss) EQMM Aug 12 1981

FLANAGAN, MARY (1969- ) (chron.)

• * The Wedding Dress, (ss)
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991

FLANAGAN, O. S. (chron.)

• * Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Herd of Scarletts, (ss) AHMM Mar 1996
• * One More Drink for the Runway, (ss) AHMM Jan 1995
• * Uncle Grover’s Last Will and Test, (ss) AHMM Nov 1993
• * Wordsey’s Debut, (ss) AHMM Apr 1994

FLANAGAN, THOMAS (James Bonner) (1923-2002) (chron.)

• * The Cold Winds of Adesta [Major Tennente], (ss) EQMM Apr 1952
  • EQMM Jul 1991

FLANDERS, DOUG (chron.)

• * The Living Corpse, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959

FLANNERY, SEAN; pseudonym of David Hagberg, (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Windsor R.I.P., (nv) Solved, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1991

FLECKER, (Herman) JAMES ELROY (1884-1915) (chron.)

• * from Hassan, (ex) 1922
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

FLEISCHER, LAWRENCE (chron.)

• * Devil’s Stakes, (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

FLEMING, IAN (Lancaster) (1908-1964) (chron.)

• * From a View to a Kill [James Bond], (nv) 1959
  • Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century, ed. Anon., The Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library 1990
• * The Living Daylights [James Bond], (ss) The Sunday Times (London) Feb 4 1962
  • EQMM Mar 1969
  • High Adventure, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Property of a Lady [James Bond], (nv) The Ivory Hammer 1963
  • AHMM Jul 1994
• * Risico [James Bond], (nv) For Your Eyes Only, Jonathan Cape 1960
  • The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, ed. Michael Cox, Oxford University Press 1996

FLEMING-ROBERTS, G. T.; pseudonym of George Thomas Roberts, (1910-1968) (chron.)

• * The Assassin’s Shroud [The Ghost], (ss) Red Star Mystery Oct 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #45 1999
• * The Case of the Black Magician [The Ghost], (na) The Green Ghost Detective Sum 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #20 1998
• * The Case of the Broken Broom [Green Ghost], (nv) Thrilling Mystery Fll 1943
  • Action Adventure Stories #89 2001
• * The Case of the Clumsy Cat [Green Ghost], (na) Thrilling Mystery Mar 1943
  • Pulp Review May 1994
  • High Adventure #77 2004
• * The Case of the Flaming Fist [Green Ghost], (na) The Green Ghost Detective Win 1941
  • Action Adventure Stories #13 1997
• * City of Deadly Sleep [Captain Zero], (n.) Captain Zero Nov 1949
  • High Adventure #63 2002
• * The Corpse Came C.O.D., (nv) Hooded Detective Nov 1941
  • Pulp Vault #4 1989
• * The Crimson Complex, (ss) Ten Detective Aces Sep 1933
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994