Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

SMITH, D. W. “PROF”; see under Smith, Dean Wesley (stories)

SMITH, DEAN WESLEY (1950- ) (stories)

• Black Betsy (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• Two Roads, No Choices (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Sprinkle on a Memory (ss) EQMM Jan 2005

SMITH, DENIS O. (stories)

• The Adventure of the Silver Buckle (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• A Hair’s Breadth (ss) The Strand Magazine #1 1998 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Adventure of the Crimson Arrow (ss) The Strand Magazine #2 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]
• An Incident in Society (ss) The Strand Magazine #3 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]

SMITH, DIANE L. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Swan Song (vi) AHMM Sep 1996

SMITH, DIXIE L. (stories)

• A Soiree of Suspects (ss) EQMM Sep 1985

SMITH, DOUGLAS (stories)

• What’s in a Name? (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

SMITH, EDGAR W. (stories)

• On the Later Tales (ar) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965

SMITH, ELAINE CAMPBELL (stories)

• Souvenir (vi) EQMM Jun 1996

SMITH, ELIZABETH THOMASINA MEADE (1844-1914); see pseudonym L. T. Meade (stories)

SMITH, EMORY (stories)

• A Thirst for Revenge (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1984
• Hunter (ss) AHMM Apr 1985

SMITH, ERNEST BRAMAH (1868-1942); see pseudonym Ernest Bramah (stories)

SMITH, EVELYN E. (1927-2000) (stories)

• Miss Melville Rejoices (nv) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991

SMITH, F. J. (stories)

• One Doll Too Many (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1958
• Vindictive Woman (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• Shoot Him Like a Dog (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Dec 1958
• I’ll Kill You Before Morning (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jan 1960

SMITH, FRANK E. (1919-1984); see pseudonym Jonathan Craig (stories)

SMITH, GEORGE H(enry) (1922-1996) (stories)

• Too Lustful to Live! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957

SMITH, GUY N(ewman) (1939- ); see pseudonym Gavin Newman (stories)

• The Case of the Sporting Squire (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Murder So Cool (ss) 1998
• The Silent Shot (ss) The Strand Magazine #5 2000

SMITH, HARRISON (stories)

• All No Good Punks (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• Sweethearts and Robbers (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• Cops on the Take (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jun 1961

SMITH, IAIN CRICHTON (1928-1998) (stories)

• The Inheritance, by Author Unknown (vi)

SMITH, JAMIE (stories)

• Let Your Light Shine (ss) The Mysterious Bruce, ed. Anon., The Brucedale Press 1997

SMITH, JOE F. J. (stories)

• Shake the Lady Down! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959

SMITH, JOY V. (stories)

• The Doorway (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1999
• Stray Cats (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1999
• Guard Dog (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1999
• Old Rex (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1999

SMITH, JUDITH KLERMAN (stories)

• Trickery (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

SMITH, JULIE; [i.e., Julienne Drew Smith] (1944- ) (books) (stories)

• Grief Counselor (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1978
• Crime Wave in Pinhole (ss) AHMM May 21 1980
• Project Mushroom (ss) EQMM Feb 1984
• Red Rock (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• Blood Types (ss) Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1989
• Cul-de-sac (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• Montezuma’s Other Revenge (ss) Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1990
• A Match Made in Hell (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
• Silk Strands (ss) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992 [Sgt. Ward Donaldson]
• Strangers on a Plane (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996
• “Interview with Julie Smith” by J. Alec West (iv) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• The End of the Earth (ss) Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997 [Skip Langdon]
• Where the Boys Are (ss) MHCMM Fll 1998 [Sgt. Ward Donaldson]
• Too Mean to Die (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• Always Othello (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999 [Skip Langdon]
• Fresh Paint (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• Mean Rooms: A Short Story Collection (co) Five Star 2000
• House of Mischief (ss) MHCMM Sum 2000
• Let’s Go Knock Over Seaside (nv) A Confederacy of Crime, ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet 2001
• Kid Trombone (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004 [Talba Wallis]
• Hotwalking (ss) Murder at the Racetrack, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• [untitled] (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• Dead Men’s Shirts (ss) EQMM Nov 2006
• New Orleans Noir [ed.] (oa) Akashic Books 2007
• Introduction (in) New Orleans Noir, ed. Julie Smith, Akashic Books 2007
• Loot (ss) New Orleans Noir, ed. Julie Smith, Akashic Books 2007; (Garden District).

SMITH, KAREN (stories)

• Club Dead (pm) Murderous Intent Fll 1997

SMITH, KAY NOLTE (1932-1993) (stories)

• Caveat Emptor (ss) AHMM Jun 1976

SMITH, KEVIN BURTON (stories)

• A Conversation with Kevin Burton Smith (iv) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2001
• Two Fingers (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001

SMITH, LISA RENÉ (books) (stories)

• Dead and Breakfast [ed. with Linda Houle] (oa) L & L Dreamspell 2007
• The Old Pine Lodge (ss) Dead and Breakfast, ed. Lisa René Smith & Linda Houle, L & L Dreamspell 2007

SMITH, LIZ (stories)

• Introduction (in)

SMITH, MARIE (books) (stories)

• More Ms. Murder [ed.] (an) Xanadu 1991
• Nobel Crimes [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1992
• Mammoth Book of Golden Age Detective Stories [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 1994
• Introduction (in)

SMITH, MARK HASKELL (stories)

• The Day Trader in the Trunk of Cleto’s Car (ss) WlSNoir 2007; (Los Angeles, California).

SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ; [born Martin William Smith] (1942- ) (books) (stories)

• Death by Espionage [ed.] (an) Cumberland House 1999
• Introduction (in)

SMITH, MARY D. (stories)

• Lament for a Legend: Lizzie Borden Revisited (ss) The Armchair Detective Spr 1978

SMITH, MICHAEL S. (stories)

• Mercedes (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1982
• Positive Identification (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984

SMITH, MORRIS (stories)

• Claiming Territory (ss) AHMM Feb 1990

SMITH, NEVILLE (1940- ) (stories)

• Heartache Tonight (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998

SMITH, P. (stories)

• Sherlock Holmes In: The Grey Nun Legacy (ss) Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books 1992 [Sherlock Holmes]

SMITH, PAULINE C(oggeshall) (1908-1994) (stories)

• I Killed Him! (nv) AHMM Sep 1968
• A Little Bit of a Jigsaw Puzzle (ss) AHMM Feb 1975
• Changes (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1980
• The Mechanical Heart (ss) AHMM Jul 16 1980
• The Opal Necklace (ss) AHMM Jun 24 1981
• The Plough Horse (ss) AHMM Nov 11 1981
• The Son (ss) AHMM Jun 1982
• After Jamie (ss) AHMM Jul 1982
• Earl Crawford—My Ambition—English I (ss) AHMM Jul 1983
• The Dog (ss) AHMM Aug 1986

SMITH, PENNY (1955- ); see pseudonym Penny Sumner (stories)

SMITH, PERRY MICHAEL (1937- ) (stories)

• For Jeff (ss) EQMM Feb 1998

SMITH, PETER MOORE (1965- ) (stories)

• Forgetting the Girl (ss) The MacGuffin Spr 1999

SMITH, R. T. (stories)

• Ina Grove (nv) The Virginia Quarterly Review Fll 2005

SMITH, RICHARD A., M.D. (stories)

• Remembering My Hanai Father (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999

SMITH, RICHARD R(ein) (1930- ); see pseudonym Richard Reinsmith (stories)

SMITH, ROB (stories)

• The Kiss (ss) Birmingham Noir, ed. Joel Lane & Steve Bishop, Tindal Street 2003

SMITH, ROBERT CHARLES (1938- ); see pseudonym Robert Charles (stories)

SMITH, ROBERT D.; see pseudonym Jack Dolphin (stories)

SMITH, SARAH (Winthrop) (1947- ) (stories)

• Fearful (ss) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998

SMITH, STEVIE (1902-1971) (stories)

• The Murderer (pm)

SMITH, TIM (books)

• San Francisco Thrillers [ed. with John Miller] (an) Chronicle Books 1995

SMITH, VERN (stories)

• Foil for the Fire (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001
• The Gimmick (ss) Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003

SMITH, WILLIAM F. (stories)

• His Own Executioner (pm) EQMM May 5 1980
• Oriental Thug (pm) EQMM Jul 23 1980
• Post Mortem (pm) EQMM Jul 23 1980
• Congealed Weapon (pm) EQMM Sep 10 1980
• Literary Larceny (pm) EQMM Dec 1 1980
• Successful Failure (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1983
• The Perfectionists (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1984
• An Almost Perfect Crime (nv) AHMM Apr 1987
• Temporary Solution (pm) EQMM Feb 1990
• One Man’s Meat (pm) EQMM Mar 1990
• Quitting Cold Turkey (pm) EQMM Aug 1990
• Dead Giveaway (pm) EQMM Sep 1990
• Turning the Tables (pm) EQMM Oct 1990
• Cold Comfort (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1990
• Thief’s Brief Grief (pm) EQMM Dec 1990
• The Story That Won: Letter Perfect (vi) AHMM Jul 1992
• Powered Sugar (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1992
• The Plot Thickens (pm) EQMM Jan 1995
• My Good Deed (nv) AHMM Jun 1996
• Who Put the Poison in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? (ss) AHMM Jun 1997

SMITH, WILLIAM I. (stories)

• Everybody Calls Me Rocky (ss) EQMM Aug 1976
• What You Don’t Know (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1985
• George and the Safety Box Lady (vi) AHMM Apr 1987
• George and Miss Gleason (ss) AHMM Sep 1994

SMITH, WILLIAM M. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Stairway to Nowhere (vi) AHMM May 1993

SMITH, WILLIAM P. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Off the Wall (vi) AHMM Dec 1992

SMITTENAAR, H. G. (stories)

• DeKok and the Hammer Blow, by Baantjer (ss) EQMM Feb 2005 [Insp. Jurriaan DeKok]
• DeKok and the Death of a Rottweiler, by Baantjer (ss) EQMM Jun 2006; from De Cock en een hammerslag, Uitgeverij De Fontein, Baarn, Netherlands, 1996. [Insp. Jurriaan DeKok]

SMOKE, STEPHEN (Lee) (1949- ); see pseudonym Hamilton T. Caine (stories)

SMOKE, STEPHEN L. (stories)

• From the Desk of the Publisher (ed) Mystery Mar/Apr 1980

SMULLYAN, RAYMOND (Merrill) (1919- ) (stories)

• From the Files of Inspector Craig (pz) What Is the Name of This Book?—The Riddle of Dracula & Other Logical Puzzles, Prentice-Hall 1978
• More from the Files of Inspector Craig (pz) What Is the Name of This Book?—The Riddle of Dracula & Other Logical Puzzles, Prentice-Hall 1978
• Unsolve: (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982
• Unsolved: A More Interesting Case (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982
• Unsolved: A Most Interesting Case of All (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982
• Unsolved: A Still More Interesting Case (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982
• Unsolved: The Next Trial (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982
• Unsolved: The Second Account (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982

SNELL, EDMUND (1889-?) (stories)

• The Dead Hand of Si Davit (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936

SNOW, C(harles) P(ercy) [Baron Snow] (1905-1980) (stories)

• A Coat of Varnish (ex) 1979

SNOW, FRANK (stories)

• The Little Tramp (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957

SNOW, NICHOLAS (stories)

• I Want My Lawyer (ss) EQMM Dec 1 1980

SNOW, ROBERT L. (stories)

• Law & Disorder: Old Salt (ar) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• Law & Disorder: Teletype (ar) The Saint Magazine Aug 1984

SNOW, WALTER (1905-1973) (stories)

• Blonde by the Roadside (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957

SNYDER, FRANK (stories)

• The Slump (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994
• Like Father (ss) AHMM Feb 1995
• Carnival Ride (ss) AHMM May 1996

SNYDER, FRED (stories)

• Beer Wine Snacks (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• How to Keep a Secret (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

SNYDER, KEITH (1966- ) (stories)

• Dead Gray (nv) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007

SO, GERALD (stories)

• A Little Trouble (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2004
• “Mickey Spillane” (pm) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2007

SODARO, CRAIG (1948- ) (books) (stories)

• Make It Mystery: An Anthology of Short Mystery Plays (oc) Meriwether Publishing 2006
• Case of the Dangerfield Diamond (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A noir parody for 3 males, 4 females).
• Clue in the Library (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A mystery-comedy for 4 males, 7 females).
• For Better or Worse (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A drama for 2 males, 4 females).
• Into Thin Heir (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A classic detective story for 4 males, 5 females).
• Introduction (in) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006
• The Little Women Mystery (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A mystery-comedy for 7 females).
• The Mermaid (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A drama for 3 males, 4 females).
• Mommy’s a Zombie! (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A mystery-farce for 3 males, 8 females).
• The Mother Goose Mystery (pl) Make It Mystery, Meriwether Publishing 2006; (A mystery-comedy for 4 males, 5 females).