Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

ASHLEY, MIKE (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Strands of Mystery, (ar) The Strand Magazine #3 1999

ASHTON, RICHARD (chron.)

• * Torpedoed, (ss) Mystery Stories #22 1941

ASHTON, WINIFRED (1888-1965); see pseudonym Clemence Dane (chron.)

ASIMOV, ISAAC; [anglicized from Isaak Iudich Azimov] (1920-1992) (books) (chron.)

• * 64 Million Trillion Combinations [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 5 1980; also as “Sixty Million Trillion Combinations”.
• * The Acquisitive Chuckle [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jan 1972
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Adventure of the Retired Colourman, (pm) Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks, The Mysterious Press 1978
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Afterword: Birth of the Black Widowers, (ar) I. Asimov, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday 1994
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Alibi [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Sep 1989
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Backward Look [Black Widowers], (ss) IASFM Sep 1979
  • Isaac Asimov’s Detectives, ed. Gardner Dozois & Sheila Williams, Ace 1998
• * The Biological Clock [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1973; also as “Early Sunday Morning”.
• * Can You Prove It? [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jun 17 1981
• * A Case of Income-Tax Fraud [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Nov 1976
  • Ellery Queen’s A Multitude of Sins, ed. Ellery Queen, Curley 1986
• * The Caves of Steel [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series], (n.) Galaxy Oct 1953 (+2)
  • Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1954
  • Robots and Murder, SFBC 1999
• * Child’s Play, (ss) EQMM Jan 1986
• * A Chip of the Black Stone [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jul 1974; also as “The Iron Gem”.
• * The Common Name, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1986
• * The Cross of Lorraine [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 1976
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
  • Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1991
  • Detective Stories, ed. Philip Pullman, Kingfisher 1998
• * The Curious Omission [Black Widowers], (ss) Tales of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1974
  • EQMM Dec 1991
• * Early Sunday Morning [“The Biological Clock”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1973
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Envelope [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * Foreword: The Loveable Criminality of P.G. Wodehouse, (fw)
  • Wodehouse on Crime, P. G. Wodehouse, International Polygonics 1990
• * The Four-Leaf Clover [Black Widowers], (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Fourth Homonym [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1985
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Gilbert and Sullivan Mystery [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981
• * The Good Samaritan [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
• * The Guest’s Guest [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Aug 1991
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Haunted Cabin [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Oct 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Tin Stars, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
  • Robots and Murder, SFBC 1999
• * The Iron Gem [“A Chip of the Black Stone”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jul 1974
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Last Man, (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• * The Legacy, (ss) EQMM Apr 1988
• * The Lost Dog, (ss) EQMM Jun 1988
  • Mysterious Menagerie, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1996
• * Lost in a Space Warp [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Lucky Piece [Black Widowers], (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Man Who Never Told a Lie [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Oct 1972
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998
• * The Man Who Pretended to Like Baseball [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980; also as “The Woman in the Bar”.
• * Mirror Image [Elijah (Lije) Baley], (ss) Analog May 1972
  • Tin Stars, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986
• * A Monday in April [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 1983
• * The Naked Sun [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series], (n.) Astounding Oct 1956 (+2)
  • Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1957
  • Robots and Murder, SFBC 1999
• * Neither Brute Nor Human [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Apr 1984
• * New England Equinox, (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• * Northwestward [Batman; Black Widowers], (ss) The Further Adventures of Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1989
  • AHMM Apr 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * Nothing Might Happen!, (ss) AHMM Dec 1983
• * The Obvious Factor [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 1973
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Old Purse [“The Snatched Purse”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The One and Only East [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1975
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983
• * Ph as in Phony [“The Phony Ph.D.”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jul 1972
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Phoenician Bauble [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 1982
• * The Phony Ph.D. [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jul 1972; also as “Ph as in Phony”.
• * Police at the Door [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jun 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Queen & King, (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• * The Quiet Place [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1988
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Recipe [Black Widowers], (ss) Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Redhead [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Oct 1984
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Robots of Dawn [Elijah (Lije) Baley; Robot Series], (n.) Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1983
  • Robots and Murder, SFBC 1999
• * A Safe Place, (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• * The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth], (ss) F&SF Jan 1955
  • Sci-Fi Private Eye, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1997
• * Sixty Million Trillion Combinations [“64 Million Trillion Combinations”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM May 5 1980
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Snatched Purse [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1987; also as “The Old Purse”.
• * The Speck [Union Club], (ss) EQMM Dec 1983
• * The Sports Page [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Apr 1977
  • Cloak and Dagger, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, New York: Avenel 1988
• * The Stamp, (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• * Straight Lines, (ss) EQMM Dec 1985
• * A Study in Scarlet, (pm) Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks, The Mysterious Press 1978
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Sunset on the Water [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jun 1986
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Taunter, (ss) EQMM Oct 1985
• * The Teddy Bear, (ss) EQMM May 1987
• * Ten, (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• * The Tercentenary Incident, (ss) EQMM Aug 1976
  • Futurecrime, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Fine 1992
• * To the Barest [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Aug 1979
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * Triple Devil [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Aug 1985
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * Triply Unique, (ss) EQMM Jul 1984
• * Unique Is Where You Find It [Black Widowers], (ss) The Edge of Tomorrow, Tor 1985
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * Upside Down, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• * Where Is He? [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Oct 1986
  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1990
• * The Woman in the Bar [“The Man Who Pretended to Like Baseball”; Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Wrong House [Black Widowers], (ss) Banquets of the Black Widowers, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1984
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Year of the Feast, (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• * Yes, but Why? [Black Widowers], (ss) The Armchair Detective Spr 1990
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf 2003

ASPLER, TONY (1939- ) (chron.)

• * The Perfect Crime, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• * Year of the Dragon, (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998

ASPLUND, RUSSELL WILLIAM (chron.)

• * The Rabbi and the Sorcerer, (ss) AHMM Oct 1998
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

ASQUITH, [Lady] CYNTHIA (Mary Evelyn, née Charteris) (1887-1960) (chron.)

• * The Corner Shop, (ss) Hutchinson’s Magazine Sep 1926
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1986

ASTON, RICHARD (chron.)

• * Sabotage, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

ASTOR, WILLIAM WALDORF (1848-1919) (chron.)

• * Monsieur de Néron, (ss) The Pall Mall Magazine Aug 1895
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994

ATHERTON, NANCY (T.) (c1967- ) (chron.)

• * Honeymoon, (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
• * Naked Came the Farmer, Chapter 6: Friends in Low Places, (rr) Accent Mar 6 1998

ATKEY, PHILIP (1908-1985); see pseudonym Barry Perowne (chron.)

ATKINS, FRANK; [i.e., Francis Henry Atkins, Sr.] (1840-1927); see pseudonym Frank Aubrey (chron.)

ATKINS, JOE (chron.)

• * Saigon, (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

ATKINSON, ALEX (1916-1962) (chron.)

• * Chapter the Last: Merriman Explains, (vi) Punch Aug 15 1951
  • The Art of the Impossible, ed. Jack Adrian & Robert Adey, Xanadu 1990
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002

ATKINSON, LISA (chron.)

• * Yule Be Sorry, (ss) EQMM Dec 2005

ATODA, TAKASHI (chron.)

• * Napoleon Crazy, (ss) 1979
  • EQMM Mar 1989
• * The Visitor, (ss) 1979
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1988; tr. by Gavin Frew

ATWOOD, MARGARET (Eleanor Kilian) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Murder in the Dark, (vi)
  • Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991
• * Weight, (ss) Vogue Aug 1990
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992

ATWOOD, RUSSELL (chron.)

• * East of A, (ss) EQMM Jun 1996

AUBERT, ROSEMARY (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Getting Rid of Cottage Pests, (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997
• * Gifts, (ss) Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
• * The Midnight Boat to Palermo, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Shaving with Occam’s Razor, (ss) Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996

AUBREY, FRANK; pseudonym of Frank Atkins, (1840-1927) (chron.)

• * The Third Figure, (ss) The Queen Nov 11 1899
  • 12 Mystery Stories, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1998

AUBREY-FLETCHER, HENRY L(ancelot) (1887-1969); see pseudonym Henry Wade (chron.)

AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS (Stanton) (1917- ) (chron.)

• * The Colonel’s Foundation, (ss) 1955
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992
• * The Senior Partner’s Ghosts, (ss)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998
• * The Tender Offer, (ss) 1955
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001

AUDEN, W(ystan) H(ugh) (1907-1973) (chron.)

• * “Detective Story”, (pm)
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993
• * from “Paid on Both Sides”, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from “The Guilty Vicarage”, (ar) Harper’s May 1948
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * Victor, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

AUERBACH, JESSICA (Lynn) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Police Report, (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996

AUGSBURG, PAUL DERESCO (chron.)

• * The Inquest, (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

AUGUST, DAVID; pseudonym of David Linzee, (1952- ) (chron.)

• * Blind Corner, (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• * Toad Crossing (with John Lutz), (ss) AHMM Jul 1996
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Crime After Crime, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, St. Martin’s 1999

AULD, LORLY (chron.)

• * Denise Doesn’t Live Here, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

AUMONIER, STACY (1887-1928) (chron.)

• * Business and Desires, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 2 1920
  • AHMM Nov 1987
• * Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty, (ss) 1916
  • AHMM Apr 1985
• * Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty, (ss) The Strand Sep 1922
  • Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories, ed. David Stuart Davies, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 2006
• * A Source of Irritation, (ss) The Century Jan 1918
  • Danger Is the Password: Stories of Wartime Spies, ed. Phyllis R. Fenner, Morrow 1965

AUSTER, PAUL (Benjamin) (1947- ); see pseudonym Paul Benjamin (books) (chron.)

• * Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story, (ss) 1990
  • Murder at Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1991
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
• * City of Glass, (n.) Sun & Moon 1985
  • The New York Trilogy, Penguin 1990
• * City of Glass [from New York Trilogy], (ex) Sun & Moon 1985
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993