Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Higher Up [Sidney Zoom], (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Sep 19 1931
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Honest Money [Ken Corning], (nv) Black Mask Nov 1932
  • Honest Money and Other Short Novels, Carroll & Graf 1991
  • Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters, ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus 2006
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007
• * In Full of Account [Ed Jenkins], (na) Black Mask May 1927
  • Dead Men’s Letters, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * Inside Job [Sidney Zoom], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jan 7 1933
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Kid Clips a Coupon, (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 21 1934
  • Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames, ed. Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2001
• * Laugh That Off [Ed Jenkins], (na) Black Mask Sep 1926
  • Dead Men’s Letters, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * Leg Man [Pete Wennick], (nv) Black Mask Feb 1938
  • Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford 1996
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
• * Lifted Bait [Sidney Zoom], (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Oct 21 1933
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * A Logical Ending, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 29 1933
  • The Danger Zone and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * Making the Breaks [Ken Corning], (nv) Black Mask Jun 1933
  • Honest Money and Other Short Novels, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * The Monkey Murder [Lester Leith], (nv) Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine Jan 1939
  • Pulp Fiction: The Villains, ed. Otto Penzler, Quercus 2007
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007
• * “My Name Is Zoom!” [Sidney Zoom], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 12 1930
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Perry Mason [“The Case of the Howling Dog”; Perry Mason], (ss) 1934
  • Crime Movies 2, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1997; this is the revised version that appeared in TV Guide.
• * Protection, (ss) Manhunt May 1955; also as “Danger Out of the Past”.
• * The Racket Buster [Paul Pry], (nv) Gang World Nov 1930
  • The Adventures of Paul Pry, The Mysterious Press 1990
• * Restless Pearls, (ss) All Detective Magazine Nov 1933
  • The Danger Zone and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * Slick and Clean [Paul Pry], (nv) Gang World Apr 1931
  • The Adventures of Paul Pry, The Mysterious Press 1990
• * Snowy Ducks for Cover, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Nov 1931
  • The Danger Zone and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * Stolen Thunder [Sidney Zoom], (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly May 19 1934
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Take It or Leave It [Pete Wennick], (nv) Black Mask Mar 1939
  • The Danger Zone and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * This Way Out [Ed Jenkins], (na) Black Mask Mar 1937
  • Dead Men’s Letters, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * Time for Murder, (nv) Dime Detective Magazine Jan 15 1933
  • The Danger Zone and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * The Top Comes Off [Ken Corning], (nv) Black Mask Dec 1932
  • Honest Money and Other Short Novels, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * The Valley of Little Fears, (ss) Argosy Sep 13 1930
  • EQMM Nov 4 1981
• * The Wax Dragon [Ed Jenkins], (na) Black Mask Nov 1927
  • The Blonde in Lower Six, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * Wiker Gets the Works [Paul Pry], (nv) Gang World Jan 1931
  • The Adventures of Paul Pry, The Mysterious Press 1990
• * Willie the Weeper [Sidney Zoom], (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Mar 29 1930
  • The Casebook of Sidney Zoom, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Yellow Shadows [Ed Jenkins], (na) Black Mask Feb 1928
  • The Blonde in Lower Six, Carroll & Graf 1990

GARDNER, JAMES ALAN (1955?- ) (chron.)

• * Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream, (nv) Asimov’s Feb 1997
  • Crossing the Line: Canadian Mysteries with a Fantastic Twist, ed. Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin, Pottersfield Press 1998

GARDNER, JOHN (Edmund) (1926-2007) (chron.)

• * Afterword: Moriarty and the Real Underworld, (ar) 1976
  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * I Have, (ss)
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998
• * The Loving You Get, (ss) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
  • MHCMM #1 1996
• * The Stay-Behinds, (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1991

GARDNER, JOHN C. (chron.)

• * License Renewed, (ex)
  • Crime Digest Jan/Feb 1982

GARDNER, TOM (chron.)

• * Random Acts, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

GARDNER, TONITA S. (chron.)

• * The Fabric of Discontent, (ss) AHMM Feb 4 1981
• * A Girl Can’t Always Have Everything, (ss) EQMM Dec 1972
  • More Murder on Cue, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1990
• * The Launching of Suellen Singleton, (ss) AHMM Dec 9 1981
• * Making Believe, (ss) EQMM Aug 1984
• * Safe Delivery, (ss) AHMM Apr 23 1980

GARFIELD, BRIAN (Francis Wynne) (1939- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Chalk Outline, (ss) EQMM May 20 1981
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * Charlie’s Game [Charlie Dark], (nv) Checkpoint Charlie, Mysterious Press 1981; revised from “Joe Cutter’s Game” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1976.
  • Cloak and Dagger, ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, New York: Avenel 1988
  • Death by Espionage, ed. Martin Cruz Smith, Cumberland House 1999
• * Charlie’s Shell Game [Charlie Dark], (ss) EQMM Feb 1978
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * Charlie’s Vigorish [Charlie Dark], (ss) EQMM Aug 1978
  • Kingpins, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Carroll & Graf 1992
• * Death Wish [“The Glory Hunter”], (ss) EQMM Sep 1977
  • Crime Movies, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1996
• * Ends and Means, (ss) AHMM Feb 1977
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * The Glory Hunter, (ss) EQMM Sep 1977; also as “Death Wish”.
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998
• * The Gun Law, (ss) AHMM Mar 1977
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * Hunting Accident, (ss) EQMM Jun 1977
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * King’s X, (ss) Murder California Style, The Southern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, St. Martin’s 1987
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
• * Riverboat Fighter, (ss) They Opened the West, ed. Tom W. Blackburn, Doubleday 1967
  • The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Scrimshaw, (ss) EQMM Dec 17 1979
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
  • The Edgar Award Book, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
  • Blowout in Little Man Flats, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1998
• * The Shopping List, (ss) EQMM Dec 2 1981
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * Two-Way Street [as by John Ives], (ss) EQMM Aug 1978
  • Suspended Sentences, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1993
• * The View, (ss) EQMM Jul 1983
  • Dark Crimes 2, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1993

GARFORTH, JOHN; pseudonym of Anthony Hussey (chron.)

• * A Quite Conventional Death, (nv) The Times of London Anthology of Detective Stories, London: Cape 1972
  • The Best Crime Stories, ed. Anon., Hamlyn 1984

GARNER, JUDITH (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Trick or Treat, (ss) EQMM Jul 1975
  • Murder for Halloween, ed. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, Mysterious Press 1994
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
  • Master’s Choice, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 1999

GARNER, MICHAEL (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * Brown Eyes and Green Hair, by Pentti Kirstilä, (ss) The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000; from the Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland’s Picture Magazine), 1989.

GARNER, SHARON K. (chron.)

• * Tickled to Death, (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004

GARNETT, CONSTANCE (1862-1946) (chron.)

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• * The Black Monk, by Anton Chekhov, (nv) The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Chatto & Windus
  • Sins of the Fathers, ed. Mark Bryant, Gollancz 1997
• * The Malefactor, by Anton Chekhov, (ss) EQMM Aug 1948
  • EQMM Dec 2007

GARRATT, PETER T. (1949-2004) (chron.)

• * Big Survivor, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002
• * Buried Fortune, (nv) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * Love’s Labour’s, Lost?, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * The Next Big Thing, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• * The Vasty Deep [Hamlet Christian], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2001

GARRETT, MICHAEL (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Candie-Gram, (ss) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
• * Sex Crimes, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003

GARRETT, PERCY (chron.)

• * The Knotted Handkerchief , (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008

GARRETT, (Gordon) RANDALL (Phillip David) (1927-1987) (chron.)

• * A Case of Identity [Lord Darcy], (na) Analog Sep 1964
  • The Dragon Done It, ed. Eric Flint & Mike Resnick, Baen 2008
• * Frost and Thunder, (nv) Asimov’s SF Adventure Magazine Sum 1979
  • High Adventure, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Barnes & Noble 1992

GARRETY, PAUL (chron.)

• * Life Cycle, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006

GARRIS, JEAN (chron.)

• * Remote Control, (ss) AHMM Feb 1962
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

GARRON, ROBERT A.; pseudonym of Howard Wandrei, (1909-1956) (chron.)

• * Old Hokey, (ss) Speed Mystery Sep 1943
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * A Straw for the Thirsty, (ss) Private Detective Stories Jan 1945
  • Private Detective Stories Jul 2007

GARRY, JANE (books) (chron.)

• * Preface (with Fred R. Shapiro), (pr)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

GARSON, VASELEOS; pseudonym of William J. Garson (chron.)

• * Kill Me Once, Kill Me Twice, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

GARSON, WILLIAM J.; see pseudonym Vaseleos Garson (chron.)

GARTON, RAY (1965- ) (chron.)

• * Website, (nv) Burton, MI: Subterranean Press 1997
  • Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999

GARVE, ANDREW; pseudonym of Paul Winterton, (1908-2001) (chron.)

• * The Last Link, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jul 1962
  • EQMM Sep 1982
• * Line of Communication, (ss) EQMM Oct 1967
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991

GARVEY, AMY (chron.)

• * Single White Dead Guy, (na) Wicked Women Whodunit, ed. Anon., Brava 2005

GARVEY, CHRISTINE (chron.)

• * News from Nowhere, (ms) Crime Time v2 #1 1998

GARVIE, CHARLES (chron.)

• * Ash, (vi) AHMM Feb 1990
• * Shhhhhh!, (ss) AHMM May 1991

GARVIN, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * Guided Tour, (ss) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Aug 1967
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #3 1973

GARWOOD, JUDITH (1941- ); see pseudonym Catherine Dain (books) (chron.)

GASH, JONATHAN; pseudonym of John Grant, (1933- ) (chron.)

• * Bundobast on Voyage, (ss) The Verdict of Us All, ed. Peter Lovesey, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Choosing of Barabbas, (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * Death by Golf, (nv) Murder in the Rough, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * Hot June, Cold Christmas, (nv) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991
• * Jack and Jill, R.I.P., (ss) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999
• * The Julian Mondays, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 18, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Macmillan 1986
  • Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1992
• * The Mood Cuckoo, (ss) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1994

GASKELL, MRS.; see under Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (chron.)

GASKELL, MRS. E(lizabeth) C(leghorn Stevenson) (1810-1865) (chron.)

• * The Doom of the Griffiths, (nv) Harper’s Monthly Jan 1858
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991
• * from Mary Barton, (ex) 1848
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996
• * The Sexton’s Hero, (ss) Howilt’s Journal Sep 1847
  • A Century of Thrillers: Second Series, ed. Anon., Daily Express 1935
• * The Squire’s Story, (ss) Household Words Christmas 1853
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934

GASPEY, THOMAS (1788-1871) (chron.)

• * A Racing Swindle, (ss)
  • Murder At the Races, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995

GASSON, ANDREW (chron.)

• * Wilkie Collins and Crime Fiction, (ar) The Strand Magazine #1 1998

GATES, DAVID EDGERLEY (1945- ); see pseudonym John Macnab (chron.)

• * Aces and Eights, (ss) AHMM Dec 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * Blood Money, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2007
• * The Blue Mirror, (ss) AHMM Dec 2001
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, ed. James Ellroy, Houghton Mifflin 2002