Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

WEIKART, JIM; [i.e., James Weikart] (1940- ); see pseudonym James W. Riley (stories)

• Harry’s Tax Charity Case (ss) EQMM Jun 1996

WEIL, THOMAS E., JR. (stories)

• Let the Seller Beware (pm) EQMM Jan 1990

WEIMAN, BARBARA OWENS; see under Owens, Barbara (stories)

WEINBERG, ROBERT E(dward) (1946- ) (books) (stories)

• Hard-Boiled Detectives: 23 Great Stories from Dime Detective Magazine [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Stefan Dziemianowicz] (an) Gramercy Books 1992
• Catacombs (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993 [Batman]
• Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames [ed. with Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Barnes & Noble 1993
• 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories [ed. with Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Barnes & Noble 1993
• 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories [ed. with Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Barnes & Noble 1994
• The Midnight El (ss) Return to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1994 [Sidney Taine]
• Ro Erg (ss) Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc 1995
• Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & J. M. Morgan] (oa) Random House 1996
• What Makes a Good Mystery Story? [with J. M. Morgan] (in) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman [with Lois H. Gresh] (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories [ed. with Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Barnes & Noble 1997
• Three Meetings and a Funeral [with Lois H. Gresh] (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories [ed. with Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Barnes & Noble 1998
• Crafty Cat Crimes: 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Stefan Dziemianowicz] (an) Barnes & Noble 2000
• Death Rides the Elevator [with Lois H. Gresh] (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• Murder in Monkeyland [with Lois H. Gresh] (ss) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• Introduction: Paul Pry (in)

WEINBERGER, DAVID (stories)

• Flame’s Redheaded Impostor (ss) AHMM May 1982

WEINER, ANDREW (Simon) (1949- ) (stories)

• The Map (ss) Northern Frights, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1992

WEINER, ERIC (stories)

• The Interrogation (ss) Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995

WEINMAN, SARAH (stories)

• Edgar Round-up 2003 (ar) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• Seguidilla (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• Guest Editor Sarah Weinman’s Introduction (in) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• An Interview with John Williams (iv) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• A Sack of Potatoes (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2005
• Out of Clay (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Jan 2006 [Stuart Kovacs]
• Don’t Walk in Front of Me (ss) Baltimore Noir, ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books 2006; (Pikesville).
• Politics and Poker (ss) AHMM Jun 2006
• Twilight on Second Avenue (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• The Dybbuk Made Me Do It (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2006 [Stuart Kovacs]
• Boy Inside the Man (ss) EQMM May 2007
• Lookout (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Blooming (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007
• The Best in Online Mystery Fiction in 2004 (ar)
• Hen Night (ss)
• The Newest Four-Letter Word in Mystery (ar)
• Online Mystery Fiction in 2005 and 2006 (ar)
• Online Mystery Fiction in 2007 (ar)

WEINSTEIN, LOUIS (stories)

• How I Became a Jeweler (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• Clean Sweep for Lou (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
• The Long Memory (ss) AHMM Aug 1982
• The Descendants of Frost (ss) AHMM Dec 1982
• The Lipkin-Wexler Affair (ss) EQMM Feb 1983
• A Lesson from the Master (nv) AHMM Jul 1983
• Rags and Stones (nv) AHMM Jun 1984
• Think Like a Schemer (nv) EQMM Apr 1985
• Tony’s Son (nv) AHMM Aug 1985
• Mystery Stew (pm) EQMM Nov 1987
• Pioneer Woman (nv) AHMM May 1988

WEIR, ALISON (stories)

• To Gain a Throne (ex) 1992

WEIR, CHARLENE (M.) (1937- ) (stories)

• The Gold Key (ss) AHMM Apr 29 1981
• Murder Take Two (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1998

WEIR, HUGH C(osgro) (1884-1934) (stories)

• The Man with Nine Lives (nv) Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, Page 1914 [Madelyn Mack]

WEIS, MARGARET (Edith Baldwin) (1948- ) (stories)

• Murder They Wrote [with Ann Mayer] (pm) EQMM Aug 1991

WEISFELD, VICTORIA (stories)

• Evidence (ss) EQMM Aug 2007

WEISMAN, JOHN (1942- ) (stories)

• There Are Monsterim (ss) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996

WEISS, BERNICE F. (stories)

• Where Does a Golem Go? (ss) AHMM Nov 1995; revised from “The Golem of Laffinstock”, Inside Fall 1993.
• The Story That Won: No Sign of Life (vi) AHMM Jul 1996

WEISS, JEANETTE (stories)

• Homes, Sweet Homes (pm) EQMM Jun 30 1980
• Behind Bars (pm) EQMM Oct 1990
• Media Favorite (pm) EQMM Nov 1990
• Family Dynamics (pm) EQMM Oct 1991

WEISZ, PIERRE (stories)

• from “Simenon and ‘Le Commissaire’” (ex)

WELCH, E. N. (stories)

• Just an Unofficial Investigation (ss) AHMM Feb 1987

WELCH, MIKE (stories)

• In Search of Johnny Three-Legs (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

WELCOME, JOHN; pseudonym of John Needham Huggard Brennan, (1914- ) (books) (stories)

• Best Smuggling Stories [ed.] (an) Faber & Faber 1967
• Introduction (in)

WELDON, FAY; [born Franklin Birkinshaw] (1933- ) (stories)

• Un Crime Maternel (ss) 1991

WELHAM, DAVID (stories)

• Waiting for the Assassin (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

WELK, MARY (stories)

• The Tell-Tale Glow (vi) About Mysteries; A Modern Retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart.

WELK, MARY V. (1946- ) (stories)

• Hickory Dickory Doc (ss) Mayhem in the Midlands, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Christine Matthews, Hats Off Books 2002
• Code Blue (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007

WELL, CHRIS (stories)

• The Story That Won: Time Flies (vi) AHMM Jan 2003

WELLEN, EDWARD (Paul) (1919- ) (books) (stories)

• The Taste of Revenge (ss) 1958
• Which One’s the Guilty One? (ss) AHMM May 1959
• Hangover (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1966
• Play Death (vi) AHMM Apr 1974
• Final Acquittal (ss) AHMM Jun 1974
• Sanity Clause (ss) F&SF Jan 1975
• A Wreath for Justice (ss) AHMM Jan 1975
• Mrs. Grady’s Swan Song (ss) EQMM Jun 1975
• It Ain’t Hay (ss) AHMM Feb 1976
• Fair Exchange (ss) EQMM Jul 1976
• The Perfect Rotter (ss) AHMM Jul 1976
• Inside Evidence (ss) EQMM Oct 1976
• Rubout (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1976
• The Last Mile (ss) AHMM Sep 1977
• Devil’s Pass (ss) EQMM Jan 1978
• Experiment (ss) AHMM Jan 1978
• The Adventure of the Blind Alley (vi) EQMM Jun 1978
• The Plan of the Snake (ss) EQMM Apr 1979
• Trouble Light (vi) AHMM May 1979
• The Time and the Place (ss) AHMM Jan 2 1980
• Death Dance (vi) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• In Old Edinburgh (vi) EQMM Apr 7 1980
• Finger of Fate (ss) F&SF Jun 1980
• The Whisper of Gold (ss) AHMM Jul 16 1980
• The Payoff (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981
• A Lesson for Bodkin (vi) AHMM Feb 3 1982
• Spur the Nightmare (nv) F&SF Mar 1983
• The Man from the Fifty-ninth (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1983
• The Postmaster & the Slave (ss) Stamp World 1983
• The Purist (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• Born Victims (ss) Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 2, ed. Eleanor Sullivan & Karen A. Prince, Davis 1984
• Voiceover (nv) Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Bluejay 1984
• Nothing of the Kind (vi) EQMM May 1985
• Stork Trek [with Josh Pachter] (nv) AHMM Jul 1985
• Slashaxe (ss) EQMM Jan 1986
• Backup (ss) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986
• Waswolf (ss) F&SF Sep 1987
• The House That Jack Built (nv) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1987 [Sherlock Holmes]
• From Parts Unknown (nv) 14 Vicious Valentines, ed. Rosalind M. Greenberg, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Avon 1988
• Balloons (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990 [Batman]
• A Nice Save (vi) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994
• Red Is the Color of My Truelove’s Blood (ss) New Mystery v4 #4 1996
• Perps: A Short Story Collection (co) Five Star 2001
• Death & Taxes (vi) Perps: A Short Story Collection, Five Star 2001
• State of the Art (ss) Perps: A Short Story Collection, Five Star 2001
• Oddsmaker (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005

WELLER, ARCHIE (stories)

• Songs of the Sea (nv) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• Dead Roses (nv) A Corpse at the Opera House, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992
• All the Pretty Little Horses (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993

WELLES, (George) ORSON (1915-1985) (stories)

• It’s in the Bag (ss) [Harry Lime]

WELLMAN, GORDON K. (stories)

• The Kidnappers (nv) Mystery Stories #5 1936

WELLMAN, LARRY K. (stories)

• Family Tradition (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #43 2003
• The Manhunt (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #48 2004
• The Ringmaster (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #55 2004

WELLMAN, MANLY WADE (1903-1986) (stories)

• The Witch’s Cat (ss) Weird Tales Oct 1939
• But Our Hero Was Not Dead (ss) Argosy Aug 9 1941 [Sherlock Holmes]
• A Star for a Warrior (ss) EQMM Apr 1946 [David Return]
• A Knife Between Brothers (ss) EQMM Feb 1947 [David Return]
• Vandy, Vandy (ss) F&SF Mar 1953 [John]
• Rouse Him Not (ss) Kadath Jul 1982 [John Thunstone]

WELLS, BASIL (Eugene) (1912-2003) (stories)

• 600 W (ss) Crack Detective Jan 1945
• Satan Picks the Winner (ss) 10-Story Detective Magazine Dec 1947
• All the Angles (ss) Smashing Detective Stories Sep 1954
• Hiding Place (ss) Smashing Detective Stories May 1956

WELLS, CAROLYN; [i.e., Carolyn Wells Houghton] (1869-1942) (stories)

• Christabel’s Crystal (ss) 1905
• The Adventure of the Clothes-Line (ss) The Century May 1915 [Sherlock Holmes]

WELLS, CHUCH (stories)

• The Counterfeit Murderer! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958

WELLS, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946) (stories)

• The Moth (ss) Pall Mall Gazette Mar 28 1895
• A Moth—Genus Novo (ss) Pall Mall Gazette Mar 28 1895; also as “The Moth”.
• Pollock and the Porroh Man (ss) New Budget May 23 1895
• The Cone (ss) Unicorn Sep 18 1895
• The Red Room (ss) The Idler Mar 1896
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (ss) The Illustrated London News Jul 1898
• Mr. Ledbetter’s Vacation (ss) The Strand Oct 1898

WELSH, LOUISE (stories)

• God and Fortune (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2004

WELTY, EUDORA (1909-2001) (stories)

• Old Mr. Granada (ss) The Southern Review Spr 1938; also as “Old Mr. Marblehall”.
• Old Mr. Marblehall (ss) The Southern Review Spr 1938
• A Curtain of Green (ss) A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, Harcourt Brace 1938
• The Hitch-Hikers (ss) The Southern Review Aut 1939

WENDLAND, AUDREY (stories)

• Part of the Game (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1984

WENSLEY, FREDERICK PORTER (stories)

• “Blodie Belgium” (nf) Forty Years of Scotland Yard, Frederick Porter Wensley, Doubleday, Doran 1930

WENTWORTH, K(athy) D. (1951- ) (stories)

• The Ronnie (ss) AHMM Aug 1991
• No Place LIke Home (ss) AHMM Oct 1993
• Under the Weather (ss) AHMM Oct 1995
• Her Fair and Unpolluted Flesh (nv) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000
• Cat and Mouse (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

WERNER, MARTIN (stories)

• A Little Game (ss) EQMM Feb 1991
• Money and Mrs. Markham (ss) EQMM May 1991
• Christmas Party (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1991
• Class Reunion (ss) EQMM Jul 1993

WESSEL, JOHN (1952- ) (stories)

• Neighbors (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005

WESSELHOEFT, CONRAD (stories)

• Teddy Roosevelt and the Great Adventure (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983

WEST, B. J. (books) (stories)

• Fog City Nocturne: from the Casebook of Nick Chambers [ed.] (oa) Apocryphile Press 2006 [Nick Chambers]
• Introduction (in) Fog City Nocturne, ed. B. J. West, Apocryphile Press 2006
• The Low Road (na) Fog City Nocturne, ed. B. J. West, Apocryphile Press 2006 [Chambers Nick]
• Queen of Hearts, King of Diamonds (nv) Fog City Nocturne, ed. B. J. West, Apocryphile Press 2006 [Chambers Nick]

WEST, CHARLES (stories)

• Do You Think I’m Crazy? (vi) Hardboiled #24 1998

WEST, CHARLES, JR. (195?- ) (stories)

• Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen (ss) EQMM Aug 18 1980

WEST, CHASSIE (L.) (1938- ) (stories)

• Nightmare in Nowhere (na) Bark M for Murder, ed. Anon., Avon 2006

WEST, CHRISTOPHER (1954- ) (stories)

• The Melchester Murders (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1994

WEST, CLAUDIA (stories)

• The Knockout in the Leopard Coat (ss) Fog City Nocturne, ed. B. J. West, Apocryphile Press 2006 [Chambers Nick]

WEST, DALE (stories)

• Mirage Off Market (nv) Fog City Nocturne, ed. B. J. West, Apocryphile Press 2006 [Chambers Nick]

WEST, J. ALEC (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Replacement Thief (vi) AHMM Feb 1994
• Billie Sue Mosiman (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• Ed Gorman (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• Good Things Come in Small Packages—Even Mysteries (ar) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
• The Full Moon Murders (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1996
• Interview with Richard Lupoff (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1996
• Mysterious Essay—Failure at Five (ar) Murderous Intent Sum 1996
• An Interview with Carolyn Hart (iv) Murderous Intent Sum 1997