Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

JORY, DENNIS (chron.)

• * She Devil!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958

JOSEPH, ALISON (1958- ) (chron.)

• * Faith and Death, (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

JOSEPHUS (chron.)

• * from The Jewish War, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

JOSHI, S(unand) T(ryambak) (1958- ) (chron.)

• * Powers of the Mind: L.P. Davies, (ar) The Armchair Detective Spr 1991

JOY, MARK S. (chron.)

• * Of Dogs and Men, (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981

JOYCE, FRANCES; pseudonym of Sandra Meyer (chron.)

• * Ach, Die Seemann Ist Perdu, (ss) EQMM Mar 1997
• * Requiem, (ss) EQMM Jul 2003
• * A Well Excavated Grave, (ss) EQMM Jul 2002
• * The Wheel, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1994

JOYCE, GRAHAM (William) (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Horrorgraph, (ss) Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press 1999
• * The Reckoning, (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994

JOYCE, JAMES (Augustine) (1882-1941) (chron.)

• * Finnegans Wake, (ex) London: Faber and Faber 1939
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993
• * The Hanging of Myles Joyce, (nf)
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993
  • Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996

JOYCE, M. H. (chron.)

• * “The Key”, (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005

JOZIATIS, BRENDA (chron.)

• * Chairs, (ss) EQMM Aug 2003
• * A Glass of Water, (ss) EQMM Nov 2004
• * Ms. Mitty, (ss) EQMM Jul 2007
• * Too Bad, (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005
• * Voices, (ss) EQMM Jul 2005

JUDSON, THEODORE (chron.)

• * The Sultan’s Emissary, (ss) Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, Solaris 2008

JUNG, CARL GUSTAV (1875-1961) (chron.)

• * The Tower, (ss) Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C. G. Jung, 1961 1961
  • Mystery Stories, ed. Helen Cresswell, Kingfisher 1996

JUNG, CHERIE (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * PWG Interview: Cherie Jung of Over My Dead Body!, (iv) Plots with Guns Apr/May 2000

JUNG, JASON (chron.)

• * Saving Face, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

JUST, WARD S(wift) (1935- ) (chron.)

• * About Boston, (nv) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1983
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992

JUSTICE, DAVID (chron.)

• * Don’t Mention It, (ss) AHMM May 1988
• * I Don’t Do Divorce Cases, (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
  • Tales of Obsession, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Screens, (nv) AHMM Jan 1989
• * Watch the Birdie, (ss) AHMM Jun 1988

KACIRKOVA, EVA (chron.)

• * Tattoo Blue, (ss) New Mystery Win 1994; tr. by Simon Pellar

KAFKA, FRANZ (1883-1924) (chron.)

• * Before the Law, (vi)
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992
• * “A Case of Fratricide”, (ex) 1981
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993; tr. by J. A. Underwood
• * from “A Fratricide”, (ex)
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996; tr. by Edwin Muir & Willa Muir

KAGAN, JANET (Megson) (1946-2008) (chron.)

• * She Was Blonde, She Was Dead—And Only Jimmilich Opstromommo Could Find Out Why!!!, (ss) More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993

KAGEY, RUDOLF (Hornaday) (1904-1946); see pseudonym Kurt Steel (chron.)

KAHN, MICHAEL A. (1952- ) (chron.)

• * The Bread of Affliction [Rachel Gold], (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 1999
  • Mystery Midrash, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 1999
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004
• * Cook County Redemption, (nv) Legal Briefs, ed. William Bernhardt, New York: Doubleday 1998
• * Strange Bedfellows, (nv) Women Before the Bench, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Prime Crime 2001
• * Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper [Rachel Gold], (nv) Criminal Kabbalah, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 2001

KAHN, WILLIAM B. (chron.)

• * The Succored Beauty, (ss) The Smart Set Oct 1905
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

KAISER, HAROLD D. (chron.)

• * Grant the Artist His Subject, (ss) AHMM Mar 1986
• * Guileford’s Revenge, (ss) AHMM Jan 1988
• * The Mumpher Man, (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994
• * Rainy Day Blues, (ss) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991
• * Scamsters, (ss) AHMM Nov 1987

_____, reviews:

• * Book Review, (br) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991

KAISER, MARCIA (chron.)

• * Come to Jamaica, (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1999

KAJANË, JIRI (chron.)

• * The Same, Only Different!, (nv) Minnesota Review 1995; from Wake Up. It’s Time to Go to Sleep, 1993.
  • The Killing Spirit, ed. Jay Hopler, The Overlook Press 1996; tr. by Kevin Phelan & Bill U’Ren

KALDERA, RAVEN B. (chron.)

• * Predator, (ss) Blood Kiss, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press 1994
  • Sexcrime, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press 2000

KAMENSKY, MARK J. (chron.)

• * You Meet All Kinds, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1984

KAMINSKY, LUCY (chron.)

• * Mother Knows Best (with Stuart M. Kaminsky), (nv) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996

KAMINSKY, STUART J. (chron.)

• * The Mystery of Alfred Hitchcock, (ar) Mystery May 1981

KAMINSKY, STUART M(elvin) (1934- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Adele, (ss) EQMM Aug 1995
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000
• * Amnesia, (ss) Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Bitter Lemons [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999
• * Blowout in Little Man Flats, (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
  • Blowout in Little Man Flats, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press 1998
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Blue Note, (ss) Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007
• * The Buck Stops Here, (ss) Mr. President, Private Eye, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Francis M. Nevins, Jr., Ballantine 1989
  • Under the Gun, ed. Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi & Martin H. Greenberg, NAL 1990
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Busted Blossoms [Toby Peters], (ss) Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Murderous Schemes, ed. Donald E. Westlake, New York: Oxford University Press 1996
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
  • A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, New American Library 2002
• * Confession [Abe Lieberman], (ss) Mystery Midrash, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 1999
  • First Cases, Volume 4, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2002
• * Dead Cat on Gila Street [Sheriff George Fingerhurt], (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
• * Drup Number One, (ss) New Mexico Quarterly Review Win 1966
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Evangeline, (ss) Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During the History of Hollywood, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Pegasus Books 2007
• * Explosion at Lipmann’s Glass Factory [George Fingerhurt], (ss) MHCMM Sum 2000
• * The Final Toast [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1987
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Find Miriam, (na) New Mystery v5 #1 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000
• * Here Comes the Interesting Part, (pl) Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Hidden, (ss) Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc 1995
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * In Thunder, Lightning or in Rain, (ss) The Ultimate Witch, ed. Byron Preiss & John Betancourt, Dell 1993
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999
• * It Comes with the Badge, (ss) The Wooster Review Mar 1984
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * It’s a Wise Child Who Knows, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Nov 1966
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
  • Opening Shots Volume 2: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share their First Published Stories, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * Joyce’s Children [Lew Fonesca], (ss) EQMM Jul 1999
  • Crème de La Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2000
• * Justice, (nv) Guilty as Charged, ed. Scott Turlow, Pocket 1996
• * Listen, My Children [Bollo Breedlove; Peter Breedlove], (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Sep 1967
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Long Odds [Toby Peters], (ss)
  • Murder on the Ropes, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
• * The Man from Capetown [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Murder in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * The Man Who Beat the System, (nv) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Man Who Hated Books, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
• * The Man Who Laughs [Batman], (ss) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990
• * The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance [Toby Peters], (nv) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Mother Knows Best (with Lucy Kaminsky), (nv) Great Writers & Kids Write Mystery Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jill M. Morgan & Robert Weinberg, Random House 1996
• * Punishment, (ss) The Armchair Detective Sum 1991
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1992, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1992
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * Reliable Witness, (ss)
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999
• * Scorpion’s Kiss, (ss) 2000; “Der Skorpion in der Waage”, Aszendent Mord, Germany 2000.
  • Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * The Shooting of John Roy Worth, (ss) EQMM Jun 2004
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Houghton Mifflin 2005
• * Snow, (ss) First Cases, Volume 3, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * Snow Birds, (nv) Private Eyes, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Signet 1998
• * Sometimes Something Goes Wrong, (nv) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, ed. James Ellroy, Houghton Mifflin 2002
• * The Tenth Man [Abe Lieberman], (ss) Criminal Kabbalah, ed. Lawrence W. Raphael, Jewish Lights Publishing 2001
• * The Voice of a Child [Bollo Breedlove; Peter Breedlove], (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Apr 1967
  • Opening Shots, Mystery Scene Press 1991
  • Hidden and Other Stories, Five Star 1999
• * What You Don’t Know, (ss) Death by Espionage, ed. Martin Cruz Smith, Cumberland House 1999

KANDEL, RANDY (books) (chron.)

• * Name Tagging, (ss) Murder New York Style, ed. Randy Kandel, L & L Dreamspell 2007

KANE, ANDREA (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Stone Cold, (na) Wait Until Dark, ed. Karen Robards, Pocket 2001

KANE, FRANK (1912-1968) (chron.)

• * Dead Drunk [Johnny Liddell], (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Spr 1953
  • Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1960
• * Deadly Error, (nv) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Live Blonde—Dead Millionaire [Johnny Liddell], (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957
• * Red Hot - and Dead, (ss) Suspect Detective Stories Oct 1956

KANE, HENRY (J.) (1918- ) (chron.)

• * Death in Bed [Peter Chambers], (nv) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960
• * Please Forgive Me, (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959

KANTER, PETER (chron.)

• * From the Publisher, (ms) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002

KANTNER, (Timothy) ROB(in) (1952- ) (books) (chron.)

• * C Is for Cookie [Ben Perkins], (ss) AHMM Sep 1982
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1990
  • First Cases, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Dutton 1996
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * Cinnamon Twist [Ben Perkins], (ss) AHMM Dec 1982
• * Crooked Lake, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005
• * The Customer, (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• * Dead Last, (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• * Duck Work [Ben Perkins], (ss) AHMM Feb 1988
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * Dynamite Park [Ben Perkins], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1984
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * The Eye Went By [Ben Perkins], (ss) AHMM Dec 1986
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * Fly Away Home [Ben Perkins], (ss) Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986
  • The Eyes Still Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1996
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * The Forever Trip [Ben Perkins], (nv) AHMM Sep 1985
  • P.I. Files, ed. Loren D. Estleman & Martin H. Greenberg, Ivy 1990
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Trouble Is What I Do, Point Blank 2005
• * Goin’ Vegas [Ben Perkins], (ss) AHMM Jun 1984
• * How High the Dog Jumps, (ss) AHMM Nov 1992
• * Killing Time, (ss) AHMM Feb 1984