Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

HOLDING, JAMES (stories) (continued)

• A Visitor to Mombasa (ss) AHMM Mar 1974
• The Photographer and the Jockey (ss) EQMM Aug 1974 [Photographer]
• Still a Cop (ss) EQMM Dec 1975 [Hal Johnson, Library Fuzz]
• Card Sense (ss) EQMM Dec 17 1979
• Half a Loaf (ss) EQMM May 5 1980
• The Reward (ss) AHMM Oct 1 1980
• The Photographer and the Arsonist (ss) AHMM Nov 19 1980 [Photographer]
• Shima Maru (nv) AHMM Jan 7 1981
• Work of Art (ss) AHMM Feb 4 1981
• The Only One of Its Kind (ss) EQMM Feb 25 1981
• By Person or Persons Unknown (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• The Search for Tamerlane (ss) EQMM May 20 1981
• Portrait in Yellow (ss) AHMM Dec 9 1981
• The Photographer and the Letter (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982 [Photographer]
• China Trader (ss) AHMM Mar 3 1982
• A Deal in Rubies (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• Sideswipe (ss) EQMM Jun 1982
• A Decent Price for a Painting (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
• The Photographer and the Final Payment (ss) EQMM Dec 1982 [Photographer]
• Author! Author! (pm) EQMM Feb 1983
• First Class All the Way (ss) AHMM mid-Sep 1983
• Never Wake a Sleeping Man (ss) AHMM Nov 1983
• A Temporary Bind (ss) EQMM Jan 1984
• The Book Clue (ss) EQMM Feb 1984
• The Photographer and the Sailor (ss) EQMM Mar 1984 [Photographer]
• Phase Four (ss) EQMM Nov 1984
• The Grave Robber (ss) Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes 2, ed. Eleanor Sullivan & Karen A. Prince, Davis 1984
• To His Credit (ss) EQMM Dec 1987
• The Final Deadbeat (ss) AHMM Feb 1988
• Exit the Dragon (ss) AHMM May 1988
• The Bank Job (ss) EQMM Jun 1988
• Bylines (pm) EQMM Jan 1990
• Another Grave Tone (pm) EQMM Mar, Sep, Oct, Nov 1990, Jan, Mar, Apr, Jul 1992, Mar 1993, Jun, Sep 1994
• The Ransom (pm) EQMM Apr 1990
• More Grave Tones (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1991
• Another Grave Tone (David Stout) (pm) EQMM Sep 1992

HOLDSWORTH, MRS. GEOFFREY LISLE; see under Stern, Gladys B. (stories)

HOLFACKET, RUSS (stories)

• The Rapist (vi) Hardboiled Detective #10 1990

HOLLAND, JOYCE (1950- ) (stories)

• The Perils of Paula (ss) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• Long John Jones (pm) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• Pretty Kitty (vi) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

HOLLAND, STEPHEN (1962- ) (books) (stories)

• Mean Streetmaps (ar) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• Introduction (in)

HOLLANDER, BARRY (stories)

• Lord Torquiere (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

HOLLANDSWORTH, SKIP (stories)

• The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob (tc)

HOLLEDGE, JAMES (stories)

• Min Kuo Died Like a Man (ss)

HOLLEY, CHAD (stories)

• The Island in the River (ss) Greensboro Review Fll 1999

HOLLEY, LANCE A. (stories)

• Too Broke for Bullets (ss) AHMM Jan 1987

HOLLIDAY, A. E. (stories)

• To Live and Die in Dixie (ss) Hardboiled #23 1997

HOLLIDAY, LIZ (1958- ) (stories)

• And She Laughed (nv) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• Provenance (nv) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999

HOLLINGDALE, R. J. (stories)

• from “Mademoiselle de Scudéry”, by E. T. A. Hoffmann (ex) 1982
• from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (ex)

HOLLINGS, KEN (stories)

• Betamax (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Canary Wharf).

HOLLMER, ORRIN (stories)

• Sapphire Mesa (na) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Aug 1934 [Wayne Morgan, The Masked Rider]
• The Valley of the Crucifiction (na) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Jan 1936 [Wayne Morgan, The Masked Rider]

HOLM, CHRIS F. (stories)

• The World Behind (ss) EQMM Jun 2007

HOLM, JANET (stories)

• A Pocket of Cold (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981

HOLMES, EMORY, II (stories)

• A.K.A., Moises Rockafella (ss) The Cocaine Chronicles, ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books 2005
• Dangerous Days (nv) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic Books 2007

HOLMES, H. H.; pseudonym of William A. P. White, (1911-1968) (stories)

• The Stripper (ss) EQMM May 1945 [Sister Mary Ursula OMB]

HOLMES, L(ywellyn) P(erry) (stories)

• Horses Wild! (ss) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Feb 1949 [Cactus County]

HOLMES, RUPERT (1947- ) (stories)

• The Garden Path to Hell (pm) 1986
• The Monks of the Abby Victoria (nv) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007

HOLMSTROM, DAVID (stories)

• Our Little Red Shovels (ss) AHMM Apr 1987
• A Bad Night in Kansas (ss) AHMM Feb 1995

HOLSTAD, ELORISE (stories)

• You Never Take Me Anywhere (ss) Detective Story Magazine Aug 1989

HOLT, CONNIE (stories)

• Hawks (ss) AHMM Jun 1989

HOLT, ESTHER J. (stories)

• Talking Is Better (ss) AHMM Aug 1984
• Just the Trees (ss) AHMM Jan 1986
• Where Are You Now, Melinda? (ss) AHMM Feb 1986
• Ainsley (ss) AHMM Nov 1989
• Blackberry Days (ss) AHMM Aug 1992
• Orange Sofa (ss) AHMM Sep 1992
• Cemetery Flowers (ss) AHMM Apr 1993
• Waiting (ss) AHMM Nov 1994
• Our Faye (ss) AHMM May 1996
• Anna Catherine (ss) AHMM May 2001

HOLT, HAZEL (1928- ) (stories)

• After All... (ss) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• Journey’s End (ss) And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001 [Sheila Malory]

HOLT, HENRY (c1878-1962) (stories)

• The Almost Perfect Crime (ss)

HOLT, SAM; pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake, (1933- ) (stories)

• Terror’s Sultry Sister! (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959

HOLT, THOMAS; see under Holt, Tom (stories)

HOLT, TOM; [i.e., Thomas Charles Louis Holt] (1961- ) (stories)

• Cinna the Poet (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• A Good Report of the Worm (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• Accidental Death (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• Never Forget (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
• Without Fire (ss) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2004

HOLTBY, WINIFRED (1898-1935) (stories)

• Why Herbert Killed His Mother (ss) Truth Is Not Sober, Macmillan 1934

HOLTON, HAL (stories)

• Incident in Berlin (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1990

HOLTON, HUGH; [i.e., Hubert Walter Holton] (1946-2001) (stories)

• Police Bulletin (cl) Hardboiled Detective #11, #12 1991
• The Thirtieth Amendment (ss) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• Nick Castle—Private Eye (ss) Homicide Hosts Presents, ed. Helen Esper Olmsted, Write Way Publishing 1996
• The Werewolf File (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

HOLTZER, SUSAN (1940- ) (stories)

• The Golden Rounds (ss) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999

HOME, STEWART (Ramsey) (1962- ) (stories)

• Rigor Mortis (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Ladbroke Grove).

HOMES, A(my) M(ichael) (1961- ) (stories)

• Looking for Johnny (ss) Christopher Street, Norton 1990

HONEYBONE, DAVID (stories)

• World Mystery Report: Australia (ar)
• World Mystery Report: Australia [with Lucy Sussex] (ar)

HONEYCOMBE, (Ronald) GORDON (1936- ) (stories)

• from “George Smith, The Murder of Bessie Mundy, 1912” (ex) The Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970, Gordon Honeycombe 1982

HONIG, DONALD (1931- ); see pseudonym Donald Martin (stories)

• Man with a Problem (ss) AHMM Jul 1958
• Job for a Sunday Morning (ss) Sleuth Mystery Magazine Dec 1958
• The Wealthy Grave (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
• An Honest Man’s Legal Justice (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
• Wonderful, Wonderful Violence (ss) AHMM May 1959
• Voices in Dead Man’s Well (ss) AHMM Sep 1959
• The Empty Room (ss) AHMM Nov 1959
• Truth and Murder (ss) AHMM Apr 1960
• The Immortals (ss) AHMM Jun 1963
• A Person with a Square White Beard (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mar 1966
• Minutes of Terror (ss) AHMM Sep 1974

HOOD, HAROLD (stories)

• Mirror, Mirror (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1998
• The Chase (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1998
• Animal House (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 1999

HOOD, ROBERT (Maxwell) (1951- ) (books) (stories)

• Peripheral Movement in the Leaves Under an Orange Tree (ss) AHMM Mar 1989
• Dreams of Death (ss) AHMM Jul 1990
• Mugger’s Game (ss) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• Hitmen on Holidays (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991
• Bloody Hide (ss) A Corpse at the Opera House, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992
• Crosstown Traffic [ed. with Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden] (oa) Five Islands Press 1993
• Sandcrawlers (nv) Case Reopened, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Allen & Unwin Australia 1993; based on “The Wanda Beach Murders” case.
• Voyeur Night (ss) Crosstown Traffic, ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Five Islands Press 1993

HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845) (stories)

• from “The Dream of Eugene Aram” (ex)

HOOD, THOMAS (1835-1874) (stories)

• The Shadow of a Shade (ss) Bow Bells Christmas 1869

HOOK, MISTY (stories)

• Boom Goes the Dynamite: Why I Love Veronica and Logan (ar) NptNoir 2007

HOOPER, JEAN (stories)

• Awakening (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1997
• The Savior (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1998
• Judgement (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1999
• Family Celebration (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999
• Foul Play (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2001

HOOVER, J. EDGAR (1895-1972) (stories)

• We Prove Them Innocent (nf) Scientific Detective Annual 1944

HOPKINS, BRIAN (A.) (1960- ) (stories)

• The Tumbleweed Rustlers Snack and Save (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001 [Martin Zolotow]

HOPKINS, PAULINE E(lizabeth) (1856-1930) (stories)

• Talma Gordon (ss) Colored American Magazine 1900

HOPKINS, R(obert) THURSTON (1883-1958) (stories)

• Death at the Mosque of Omar (nv) Mystery Stories #10 1937
• Second Chances (ss) Mystery Stories #11 1937
• Beyond the Last Blue Mountains (ss) Ghosts & Goblins 1938
• The Tower of the Forty Companions (nv) Ghosts & Goblins 1938
• Another Man’s Poison (ss) Mystery Stories #19 1939
• The Release of Wedderburn’s Ghost (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940; given as by H. Thurston Hopkins on ToC.
• The Ghost Takes Up the Feud (ss) Mystery Stories #25 1942
• Corpses Can Walk (ss)

HOPKINSON, HARRY R. (stories)

• So She Married the Earl of Fenlyn (pm) EQMM Mar 2002
• The Ballad of Sweet Lucy (pm) EQMM Jan 2003
• Too High on the Hog (pm) EQMM Feb 2007

HOPLER, JAY (books) (stories)

• The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder for Hire [ed.] (an) The Overlook Press 1996
• Introduction: In Search of the Assassin (in); abridged from original appearance in Pequod.

HOPLEY-WOOLRICH, CORNELL GEORGE; see under Woolrich, Cornell (books) (stories)

HORENKAMP, MICHAEL (stories)

• The Loss of Danny Rafferty (ss) AHMM Dec 1994
• Our Little Secret (ss) AHMM Sep 1996

HORGAN, PAUL (1903- ) (stories)

• Muzza (nv) Things As They Are, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1964

HORLER, (Harry) SYDNEY (1888-1954) (stories)

• The Case of Allan Mandeville (nv)
• The House in Greek Street (na)
• The Screaming Skull (na)

HORNBOSTEL, DON(ald W.) (stories)

• Roundup (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1998
• Miriam’s Retirement (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1999
• Letter of the Law (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2000
• The Agreement (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Sep 2000
• Silent Murder (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2000
• Eye Opener (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Aug 2001
• A Night to Forget (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 2001
• The Last Train Robbery (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002
• Loose Talk (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• Last Case, Please (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Sep 2002
• Triple Target (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003

HORNBY, NICK (stories)

• Otherwise Pandemonium (ss) McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books 2003

HORNE, BYRNE (stories)

• Boomerang Bullets (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Jun 1934

HORNE, JACKSON W.; pseudonym of Allan R. Bosworth, (1901-1986) (stories)

• Murder on the Roof (ss) Private Detective Stories Mar 1939

HORNER, BRUCE (stories)

• Mina’s Kiss (nv) Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

HORNER, RALPH (stories)

• Witch’s Moon (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar, Apr, May 2002
• Lost Legacy (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov 2002

HORNIG, DOUG(las) (1943- ) (stories)

• Access to Power (ss) EQMM May 1986

HORNIMAN, ROY (1874-1930) (stories)

• A Fatal Affinity [with C. E. Morland] (nv) The Ludgate Magazine Jul 1894

HORNSBY, ALYSON (stories)

• Be Your Own Best Friend [with Wendy Hornsby] (ss) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• Out of Time [with Wendy Hornsby] (ss) Mothers & Daughters, ed. Jill M. Morgan, NAL 1998

HORNSBY, WENDY (Nelson) (1947- ) (books) (stories)

• Nine Sons (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
• Wendy Goes to the Morgue (ar) Mystery Scene 1992
• High Heels in the Headliner (ss) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
• New Moon and Rattlesnakes (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
• Ghost Caper (ss) Ten Tales, ed. James Cahill (uncredited), James Cahill 1994