Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

HELLER, JEFF; pseudonym of Henry Slesar & Jay Folb (stories)

• Dig We Must (ss) AHMM Aug 1961

HELLER, KEITH (1949- ) (stories)

• Man’s Inherited Death (ss) EQMM Mar 1987 [George Man]
• Man’s Noble Art of Self-Defense (ss) EQMM Apr 1988
• Chased Delights; Or, The Missing Minutes (nv) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994 [Catherine & William Blake]
• The Brother in the Tree (ss) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996
• Catherine Blake and the Bandy Children (ss) EQMM Feb 1997

HELLER, LORENZ (Albert) (1892-1972); see pseudonym Larry Holden (stories)

HELLER, WILLIAM (stories)

• Murder by Direction (mr) AHMM Win 1989, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul...

HELLMAN, WILLIAM (stories)

• Easy Kill (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Sep 1946

HELLMANN, LIBBY FISCHER (books) (stories)

• The Last Radical (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001
• House Rules (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005
• Detour (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• Chicago Blues [ed.] (oa) Bleak House Books 2007
• Preface (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007
• The Whole World Is Watching (ss) Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime, ed. Sara Paretsky, Signet 2007
• Your Sweet Man (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007
• The Jade Elephant (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• High Yellow (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

HELMS, RICHARD (Warren) (1955- ) (stories)

• The Gospel According to Gordon Black (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2007; Winner, 2008, Derringer Award for Best Short Story.

HELPINGSTINE, DANIEL (stories)

• Angel Face (ss) Murder Is My Business, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Dutton 1994

HELSON, LINDA (stories)

• Spinnaker Man (ss) Ste. Catharine’s Standard 2002

HELWIG, DAVID (Gordon) (1938- ) (stories)

• Red Barn, Interior (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST (1899-1961) (stories)

• My Old Man (ss) Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co. 1923
• The Killers (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1927
• Harry Morgan—Autumn (ss)
• The Secret Agent’s Badge of Courage (ar)

HEMLIN, TIM (1960- ) (stories)

• Redemption (ss) EQMM Jul 1999

HEMLOCK, VIOLET (stories)

• Shopping (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996

HEMMINGSON, MICHAEL (1966- ) (books) (stories)

• The Playwrights (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• Gun Shot Wound (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers [ed.] (an) Carroll & Graf 2001
• from White Russian (ex) 2001
• Introduction (in)

HEMMINGTON, MICHAEL (stories)

• Pain (ss) Hardboiled #22 1996
• Shadow of the Dog (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

HEMON, ALEKSANDER (stories)

• The Deep Sleep (ss) Esquire Nov 2000

HENDERSHOT, CYNTHIA (H.) (1939- ) (stories)

• Angels (ss) Plots with Guns Feb/Mar 2000
• Faces (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000
• Bell (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2002
• Kidnapped (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004

HENDERSON, B. S. (stories)

• Wer’wolf (nv) Mystery Stories #10 1937

HENDERSON, C(hristopher-John) J(ames) (1951- ) (stories)

• Tim Truman’s Scout (ar) Hardboiled #3 1985
• What You Pay For (ss) Hardboiled #4 1986 [Jack Hagee]
• Terry Beatty (ar) Hardboiled #5 1986
• Nothing Comes Cheap (ss) Hardboiled #6 1986 [Jack Hagee]
• Toothpick (ss) Hardboiled #8 1987 [Jack Hagee]
• Dance (ss) Espionage Magazine Sep 1987 [Jack Hagee]
• You Can’t Take It with You (ss) Eldritch Tales #14 1987
• A Game to Be Played (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1988
• ’Til You Die (ss) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1989
• A Sandy Beach (ss) 1989 [The Suiciders]
• Review [of Blossom by Andrew Vachss] (br) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1990
• All the Money in the World (ss) Hardboiled Detective #10 1990 [Jack Hagee]
• All’s Well that Ends Well (nv) Hardboiled #11 1990 [Jack Hagee]
• Bread Ahead (ss) Diamond Books 1990 [Jack Hagee]
• Granny Gumption Solves a Murder [with Charles Hoffman] (vi) Hardboiled Detective #11 1991 [Granny Gumption]
• Granny Gumption Solves a Murder (vi) Hardboiled Detective #11 1991 [Granny Gumption]
• Whose Turn Is It? (ss) Obsessions, ed. Gary Raisor, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• Sacrifice (ss) 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• Free the Old Ones (nv) Made In Goatswood, ed. Scott David Anioloswski, Chaosium 1995 [Severn Valley]
• That Liberates and Enslaves (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1997
• The Best Meal (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1997 [Jack Hagee]
• The Return of Granny Gumption (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1997 [Granny Gumption]
• Change from Your Dollar (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1997 [Jack Hagee]
• The Longest Pleasure (vi) 1998
• Bet Your Own Man (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1999
• The First Thing We Do... (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
• Woolworth’s... For All Your Defensive Needs (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2002/Win 2003
• The Questioning of the Azathothian Priest (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006

HENDERSON, DION (Winslow) (1921-1984) (stories)

• Babysitter (ss) AHMM Aug 1961

HENDERSON, LAUREN (Milne) (1966- ) (books) (stories)

• Last Night at the Scala (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
• I Was Barbarella (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• Dark Mirror (ss) Murder Through the Ages, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 2000
• Tart Noir [ed. with Stella Duffy] (oa) Prime Crime 2002
• Tragic Heroines Tell All (nv) Tart Noir, ed. Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Prime Crime 2002
• His Last Duchess (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2003
• Introduction [with Stella Duffy] (in)

HENDERSON, ROBERT (stories)

• The Intruder (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 13 1965

HENDERSON, RONALD (stories)

• Cop Maker (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Apr 5 1941
• Oswald Has His Night (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1946
• Murder Is My Business (ss) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1947

HENDRICKS, VICKI (Due) (1951- ) (stories)

• Dance of the Manatee (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic 1995
• West End (ss) Murder for Revenge, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1998
• Gators (ss) Mississippi Review Sum 2000
• Introduction (in) Plots with Guns Sum 2002
• Stormy, Mon Amour (ss) Tart Noir, ed. Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Prime Crime 2002
• The PWG Interview with Vicki Hendricks (iv) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2003
• Purrz, Baby (ss) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• [untitled] (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• Boozanne, Lemme Be (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006
• The Big O (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

HENDRICKSEN, LOUISE (1923- ) (stories)

• No Cookies for Santa (na) Murder Under the Tree, ed. Anon., Zebra 1993

HENION, ANDY (stories)

• Trailertown (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2004

HENLE, THEDA O. (1918-2005) (stories)

• A Harmless Vanity (ss) EQMM Mar 25 1981

HENNESSEY, MIKE (stories)

• A Favor for Sal (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug 2004

HENRICKSEN, BRUCE (stories)

• Dealers (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

HENRY, JAMES F. (stories)

• The Dead Murderer (ss)

HENRY, O.; pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, (1862-1910) (stories)

• The Diamond of Kali (ss) 1896
• Mammon and the Archer (ss) 1902
• A Retrieved Reformation (ss) Cosmopolitan Apr 1903
• After Twenty Years (vi) 1904
• Calloway’s Code (ss) Munsey’s Sep 1906
• The Cop and the Anthem (ss) The Four Million, Doubleday 1906
• The Ransom of Red Chief (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 6 1907
• The Last Leaf (ss) The Trimmed Lamp, McClure 1907
• Thimble, Thimble (ss) Hampton’s Broadway Magazine Dec 1908
• Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet (ss) The Gentle Grafter, McClure 1908 [Jeff Peters]
• Roads of Destiny (nv) Roads of Destiny, Doubleday 1909
• The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes (ss) Sixes and Sevens, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1911 [Shamrock Jolnes]
• Caught (ss)
• The Clarion Call (ss)
• Conscience in Art (ss) [Jeff Peters]
• The Gift of the Magi (ss)
• The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud (ss)

HENRY, SUE (1940- ) (stories)

• Ham Grease Jimmy and the No Shirt Kid (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996
• Murder She Wrote (ss) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
• Losing Streak (ss) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
• Sister Death (ss) Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime, ed. Sara Paretsky, Signet 2007

HENSLEY, JOE L.; [i.e., Joseph Louis Hensley] (1926-2007) (books) (stories)

• Argent Blood (ss) F&SF Aug 1967
• Shut the Final Door (ss) Tricks and Treats, ed. Joe Gores & Bill Pronzini, Doubleday 1976
• The Calculator (ss) AHMM Dec 1979
• Trial Tactics (ss) AHMM Oct 27 1980 [Donald Robak]
• Widow (ss) Who Done It?, ed. Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, Houghton Mifflin 1980
• Deadly Hunger (ss) Final Doors, Doubleday 1981
• Fifty Chinese (ss) Final Doors, Doubleday 1981 [Donald Robak]
• Killer Scent (ss) Final Doors, Doubleday 1981
• Paint Doctor (ss) Final Doors, Doubleday 1981
• The Tourist (ss) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• Searcher (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984 [Cannert]
• Finder (ss) The Saint Magazine Aug 1984 [Cannert]
• The Decision (ss) EQMM Feb 1985
• On the Rocks (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1985
• The Home (ss) EQMM Nov 1985
• Savant (ss) F&SF Dec 1985
• The Retiree (ss) Robak’s Firm, Doubleday 1987
• Trial (ss) Robak’s Firm, Doubleday 1987
• Truly Yours, John R. Jacks (ss) Robak’s Firm, Doubleday 1987
• Whistler (ss) Robak’s Firm, Doubleday 1987
• Catnapper (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Deadly Hunger and Other Tales (co) Five Star 2001
• A Lot of Sense (ss) Deadly Hunger and Other Tales, Five Star 2001
• Watcher (ss) Deadly Hunger and Other Tales, Five Star 2001
• Child’s Play (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• A Few Words (pr)

HENSLEY, NATHANIEL A. (stories)

• The Burn (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

HENSON, HERB (stories)

• Paquette’s Birthday (ss) AHMM Win 1989
• A Killing at Saint Peter’s Gate (nv) AHMM Oct 1991
• Pinatubo’s Wake (nv) AHMM Jul 1992
• A Dead Sailor’s Secret (nv) AHMM Aug 1993

HENSON, ROBERT (stories)

• Father Says (ss) Shenandoah 1966
• Lizzie Borden in the P.M. (nv) Quarterly Review of Literature v18 #3-4 1973
• Billie Loses Her Job (nv) The Antioch Review Win 1979
• Lindbergh—or Dillinger (nv) Western Humanities Review 1979

HERALD, BEVERLY TAYLOR (stories)

• Male Fraud (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1995
• Double-Talk [with Taylor McCafferty] (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995

HERBERT, FRANK (Patrick) (1920-1986) (stories)

• Murder Will In (nv) F&SF May 1970 [Bailey (afterlife of)]

HERBERT, JOHN M. (stories)

• One Plus One Is What? (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1980
• Rendezvous (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1982

HERBERT, MARY H(ouser) (1957- ) (stories)

• Thieves’ Justice (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

HERBERT, ROSEMARY (books) (stories)

• Oxford Book of American Detective Stories [ed. with Tony Hillerman] (an) Oxford 1996
• The Indomitable Amelia (bg) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997; Elizabeth Peters on Amelia Peabody Emerson.
• The Inspector as Iconoclast (bg) MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997; Colin Dexter on Inspector Morse.
• Twelve American Crime Stories [ed.] (an) Oxford University Press 1998
• Murder on Deck! Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories [ed.] (an) Oxford University Press 1998
• Front and Center at the 87th Precinct (bg) MHCMM Sum 1998; Ed McBain on Steve Carella.
• Courting Crime with Rumpole of the Bailey (bg) MHCMM Fll 1998; John Mortimer on Horace Rumpole.
• Linda Barnes: Listening to Her Muse (bg) MHCMM Sum 1999; on Carlotta Carlyle.
• A New Omnibus of Crime [ed. with Tony Hillerman] (an) Oxford University Press 2005
• Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with Tony Hillerman] (in)
• Preface (pr)

HERING, HENRY A(ugustus) (1864-?) (stories)

• The Late Eugene Aram (ss) Adventures and Fantasies, Wright & Brown 1930

HERIOT, C. D. (1905-1972) (stories)

• The Trapdoor (ss) Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries, eds. J. M. Parrish & J. R. Crossland, London: Odhams Press 1936

HERMAN, PAM (stories)

• The Scent of Death (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #40 2003

HERMANSON, ERIC (stories)

• Not in My Back Yard (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2000
• Forever Pain (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

HERNANDEZ, LOLITA (stories)

• Over the Belle Isle Boundary (ss) Detroit Noir, ed. E. J. Olsen & John C. Hocking, Akashic Books 2007; (East Grand Boulevard).

HERNDON, BOOTON (1915-1995) (stories)

• The Cop and the Lady (vi) Detective Tales Jan 1949

HERNDON, NANCY (Ruth Fairbanks) (1934- ) (stories)

• Time Bombs (ex) 1997 [Elena Jarvis]

HERNDON, NANCY R. (stories)

• Murder by Snail (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990
• The Ice Bag in Question (ss) The Fourth WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press: Freedom, CA 1991

HERODOTUS (485?-425 BC) (stories)

• The Thief versus King Rhampsinitus (vi)

HERON, E.; pseudonym of Kate Prichard, (1851-1935) (stories)

• The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith [with H. Heron] (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jan 1898 [Flaxman Low]
• The Story of Baelbrow [with H. Heron] (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Apr 1898 [Flaxman Low]

HERON, H.; pseudonym of Hesketh Prichard, (1876-1922) (stories)

• The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith [with E. Heron] (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jan 1898 [Flaxman Low]
• The Story of Baelbrow [with E. Heron] (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Apr 1898 [Flaxman Low]