Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

CHURCH, ROBERT (books) (stories)

• Anglian Blood [ed. with Martin Edwards] (oa) Rampant Horse Limited 1995
• Seventeenth-Century Justice: The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches (ar) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995; revised from an article in The Criminologist.
• Foreword [with Martin Edwards] (fw)
• Introduction [with Martin Edwards] (in)

CHURCHILL, EDWARD (Delos) (stories)

• Design for Destruction (na) G-Men Detective Spr 1945 [Dan Fowler]

CHURCHILL, JILL; pseudonym of Janice Young Brooks, (1943- ) (stories)

• The Bun Also Rises (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996

CHUTE, DAVID (stories)

• Hardboiled Renaissance (ar) Crime Time v2 #1 1998

CHUTE, VERNE (1917- ) (stories)

• Never Trust the Obvious (ss) Short Stories Oct 10 1944

CICIARELLI, RICHARD (stories)

• A Hard Bargain (vi) EQMM Jul 23 1980
• Heavy Bet (ss) AHMM Mar 4 1981
• Tony Libra and the Killer’s Calendar (ss) AHMM Oct 1982
• Winning Numbers (ss) EQMM Apr 1992
• Hold a Candle to the Devil (ss)
• The Scam (ss)

CIPORIN, LEONE (stories)

• A Rose by Any Other Name (ss) Chesapeake Crimes II, ed. Donna Andrews & Maria Y. Lima, Quiet Storm Books 2005

CIPRA, MIKE (stories)

• Loving the Monster (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

CIRCUS, ANTHONY; pseudonym of Edward D. Hoch, (1930-2008) (stories)

• Assignment: Enigma (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980

CISLER, DAVID N. (stories)

• The Problem of the Sussex Scalping (ss) Curious Incidents 2, ed. J. R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, Mad for a Mystery 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

CISSELL, BONNIE J. (stories)

• Gone But Not Forgotten (vi) EQMM Sep 10 1980

CISSNA, WILLIAM D. (stories)

• Follow the Money (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994
• The Newspaper Man (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994
• Users and Losers (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

CITTADINO, ROBERT (stories)

• Family Business (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1984
• Sense of Justice (ss) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986

CLAIRE, EDIE; pseudonym of Edie Swihart, (1965- ) (stories)

• Never Neck at Niagara (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Leigh Koslow]

CLAIRE, JEANNE S.; pseudonym of Jeannie Stewart (stories)

• Lost Jewel (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1998
• Cake and Chips (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jan 1999

CLAPPERTON, DICK (stories)

• Red for Danger (ss)

CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864) (stories)

• from “St. Martin’s Eve” (pm)

CLARK, ALFRED ALEXANDER (Gordon) (1900-1958); see pseudonym Cyril Hare (stories)

CLARK, CAROL HIGGINS (1956- ) (stories)

• For Whom the Beep Tolls (ss) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
• “The Female PI Next Door” by Yona Zeldis McDonough (bg) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
• Too Many Cooks (ss) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997

CLARK, DALE; pseudonym of Ronal Kayser, (1905-1988) (stories)

• Mercy Killing (vi) Dime Detective Magazine Apr 1939
• The Sting of the Hornet (nv) Double Detective Jul 1940
• Better Hands (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 15 1941
• Smoke Sign (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly May 10 1941

CLARK, ELISABETH (stories)

• Caught (ss) Plots with Guns Fll 1999

CLARK, GEOFFRY HERBERT (stories)

• The Horror of Manley’s Island (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936
• The Island of Ho Pin (ss) Mystery Stories #5 1936

CLARK, M. H. (stories)

• Bell, Book, and Suburbia [with Jeanne Leiter] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999

CLARK, MARY HIGGINS (1929- ) (books) (stories)

• Deadline from Paradise (ss) Extension Aug 1958; also as “Milk Run”.
• Milk Run (ss) Extension Aug 1958
• Last Flight to Denubia (ss) Extension 1958; also as “Stowaway”.
• Stowaway (ss) Extension 1958
• “Interview: Mary Higgins Clark” by H. Edward Hunsburger (iv) Crime Digest Sep/Oct 1982
• Lucky Day (nv) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1986
• The Lost Angel (nv) Woman’s Day Dec 2 1986
• Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (na) Woman’s Day Aug 4 1987 (+1)
• Double Vision (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 23 1988
• Death on the Cape (nv) Woman’s Day Jul 18 1989 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories (co) Somon & Schuster 1989
• The Anastasia Syndrome (n.) 1989
• That’s the Ticket (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989
• Voices in the Coalbin (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• The Body in the Closet (nv) Woman’s Day Aug 7 1990 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Plumbing for Willy (nv) Family Circle Aug 1992 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (oa) Pocket 1993
• As It Was in the Beginning (in) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• By the End of August (vi) 1993 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Lottery Winner (co) Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Bye, Baby Bunting (nv) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• A Clean Sweep (nv) Justice in Manhattan, Adams Round Table, Stamford, CT: Longmeadow 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• The Lottery Winner (na) The Lottery Winner, Simon & Schuster 1994 [Alvirah Meehan; Willy Meehan]
• Bad Behavior [ed.] (an) Gulliver 1995
• Definitely, a Crime of Passion (nv) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
• In Defense of Suspense (pr) MHCMM #1 1996, Spr, Sum/Fll 1997, Sum, Fll 1998, Sum 1999, Sum 2000
• My Gal Sunday (oc) Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• A Crime of Passion (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Hail, Columbia! (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël (nv) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• They All Ran After the President’s Wife (na) My Gal Sunday, Simon & Schuster 1996 [Henry Parker Britland IV; Sunday Britland]
• Lady Sleuth, Lady Sleuth, Run Away Home (nv) MHCMM Spr 1997
• The Plot Thickens [ed.] (oa) Pocket/Mystery Guild 1997
• The Man Next Door (nv) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997
• Power Play (nv) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
• Haven’t We Met Before? (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
• The Night Awakens [ed.] (oa) Pocket 2000
• Murder at the Roundtable (ms) MHCMM Sum 2000
• The Funniest Thing Has Been Happening Lately (nv) Murder in the Family, The Adams Round Table, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• Author’s Note (aw)
• Introduction (in)

CLARK, MITCH (stories)

• She Had Murder in Her Heart! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• Murder Is an Accident! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958

CLARK, MONICA (stories)

• The Story That Won: A Prickly Figure (vi) AHMM Mar 2007
• The Story That Won: Three Amigos? (vi) AHMM May 2007

CLARK, SARAH (stories)

• Serenade (nv) AHMM Apr 1991
• Paternity (nv) AHMM Jan 1993

CLARK, SIMON (1958- ) (stories)

• In This Sign, Conquer [with Gail-Nina Anderson] (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996; by-lined “Nina-Gail Anderson & Simon Clark” on contents page.
• The Adventure of the Fallen Star (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Now Fetch Me an Axe (nv) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Fenian Ram (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001
• Nightmare in Wax (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]

CLARK, TRACY P. (stories)

• For Services Rendered (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

CLARKE, ANNA (1919-2004) (stories)

• Caesar’s Wife (ss) EQMM May 1983
• The Laburnum Tree (nv) EQMM Aug 1983
• Outside the Law (ss) EQMM May 1984
• Triangle at Sea (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• Mr. Mundon’s Memoirs (ss) EQMM May 1985
• The Silver Teapot (ss) EQMM Sep 1985
• The Secret Path (ss) EQMM Mar 1987
• The Mystery of Percy’s Heart (ss) EQMM Aug 1989

CLARKE, ARTHUR C(harles) (1917-2008) (stories)

• Crime on Mars (ss) EQMM Jul 1960

CLARKE, BRENDA MARGARET LILIAN HONEYMAN; see pseudonym Kate Sedley (stories)

CLARKE, GEORGE ELLIOTT (stories)

• Numbskulls (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (East York).

CLARKE, PERCY C. (stories)

• Extremes Meet (ss) Mystery Stories #18 1939

CLAY, MALISSA A. (stories)

• ’Til Death Do We Part (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994
• Joe (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

CLAYTON, D. L. (stories)

• The Sidewinder (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1985

CLAYTON, DEBORAH HILLYARD (stories)

• The Move (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988

CLAYTON, DONET MEYNELL (stories)

• Crime Without Equity (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• The Weaver (pm) EQMM Apr 1998

CLAYTON, RICHARD HENRY MICHAEL (1907-1993); see pseudonym William Haggard (stories)

CLEARY, C. P. (stories)

• The Case of the Searching Widow (ss) Scientific Detective Annual 1944

CLEARY, MELISSA; house pseudonym (stories)

• You’ll Never Bark in This Town Again (nv) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• Good Dog Wenceslas (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999

CLEAVER, HYLTON (Reginald) (1891-1961) (stories)

• By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man (ss) The Strand Mar 1934

CLEEVE, BRIAN (Brendon Talbot) (1921-2003) (stories)

• “Death” (ss) London Mystery Magazine #17 1953
• High Terror (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 15 1958
• Foxer (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 18 1965
• The Revenge of Big Michael (ss)

CLEEVES, ANN (Richardson) (1954- ) (stories)

• A Winter’s Tale (ss) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992
• The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
• The Plater (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• Sad Girls (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• A Rough Guide to Tanga (ss) Crime in the City, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2002
• Games for Winter (ss) Green for Danger, ed. Martin Edwards, Do-Not Press 2003
• Owl Wars (ss) Crime on the Move, ed. Martin Edwards, The Do-Not Press 2005
• Going Back (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007

CLEGG, DOUGLAS (Alan) (1958- ) (stories)

• Becoming Men (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999
• Introduction (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

CLELAND, JANE K. (stories)

• Killing Time (ss) AHMM Nov 2008 [Josie Prescott]

CLEMEAU, CAROL; pseudonym of Carol Clemeau Esler, (1935- ) (stories)

• Curses (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
• Dead Wood (ss) EQMM Apr 1985

CLEMENS, ANTHONY (stories)

• Ink’s Jinx (ss) Secret Agent “X” Sep 1934

CLEMENS, BRIAN (Horace) (1931- ) (stories)

• The Embassy Incident (ss) 1982; also as “The Professionals”.
• The Professionals (ss) 1982

CLEMENS, MATTHEW (stories)

• Family Values (ss) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998

CLEMENS, MATTHEW V. (1956- ) (books) (stories)

• A Woman’s Touch [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000
• My Lolita Complex [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Lie Beside Me [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003 [John Sand]
• Graveyard Shift [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Hot Blood XI, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Kensington 2003
• “Stakeout on Rush Street,” Chicago, Illinois, 1943 [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2, ed. Anon., Simon Pulse 2003 [Buffy, the Vampire Slayer]
• A Pebble for Papa [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004
• East Side, West Side [with Max Allan Collins] (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
• My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence [with Tina L. Jens & Max Allan Collins] (co) Twilight Tales, Inc. 2006
• Murderlized [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007
• “I Had Bigfoot’s Baby!” [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) [Hellboy]
• Sand on the Beach [with Max Allan Collins] (ss) [John Sand]

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (1835-1910); see pseudonym Mark Twain (books) (stories)

CLENDENING, LOGAN, M.D. (1884-1945) (stories)

• The Case of the Missing Patriarchs (vi) 1934

CLEPHANE, IRENE (stories)

• from Les mots, Gallimard, by Jean-Paul Sartre (ex) London: Hamish Hamilton 1964

CLERC, SJAAN (stories)

• Perfectly Murderous (pm) EQMM Mar 10 1980
• Scuttlebutt? (pm) EQMM May 5 1980

CLEVERLY, BARBARA (stories)

• Here Lies (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003 [Ellie Hardwick]
• Love-Lies-Bleeding (ss) EQMM Aug 2004 [Ellie Hardwick]
• A Threatened Species (ss) EQMM Nov 2005
• Killing by the Clock (ss) EQMM Feb 2008
• A Black-Tie Affair (ss) EQMM Aug 2008

CLEWSEY (stories)

• Clewsey’s Cliché’s Frontispiece: ‘Have a care, Constable, it may be a clue’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Come, come, Major—did nothing peculiar strike you about the time?’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘How did you know the victim was a pawnbroker?’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Laverton-West gave him a fish-like stare’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Quick, chaps! The swine have got Phyllis again’ (ct) Red Herrings
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Wait! I think the dog knows something’ (ct) Red Herrings