Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

BARREAUX (chron.) (continued)

• * Sally the Sleuth: [*Sally the Sleuth]
  ___ Hawaiian Spy Hunt [Sally the Sleuth], (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1941
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007
  
  ___ Matinee Murder [Sally the Sleuth], (cs) Spicy Detective Stories Feb 1937
  • Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, ed. Otto Penzler, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007

BARRETT, ANN (chron.)

• * Prints, (ss) Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002

BARRETT, DEAN (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Death of a Legend, (ss) Blue Murder Jul 1999

BARRETT, KATHLEEN ANNE (1953- ) (chron.)

• * Milwaukee Winters Can Be Murder, (n.) New York: Bouregy 1996
  • Homicide for the Holidays, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 2000

BARRETT, LYNNE (chron.)

• * Blue Vandas, (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007
• * Elvis Lives, (ss) EQMM Sep 1990
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1991, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1991
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Murder to Music, ed. Cynthia Manson & Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Simply the Best Mysteries, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Hush Money, (nv) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
• * The Noir Boudoir, (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

BARRETT, NEAL (Patrick), Jr. (1929- ) (chron.)

• * Hit, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
• * Interstate Dreams, (ex) 1999
  • Lone Star Sleuths, ed. Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis & Rollo K. Newsom, University of Texas Press 2007
• * Tony Red Dog, (nv) Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Hardboiled, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992

BARRETT, TONDA (chron.)

• * St. Anne Mystery, (nv) AHMM Jul 1984
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

BARRETT, WILLIAM E(dmund) (1900-1986) (chron.)

• * The Ghost Buster, (nv) All Detective Magazine Sep 1934
  • High Adventure #43 1998
• * A Man’s Last Hours, (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Oct 1936
  • Hard-Boiled Detectives, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy Books 1992

BARRIE, [Sir] JAMES M(atthew), Bart. (1860-1937) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Two Collaborators [in Chapter XI; Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Memories and Adventures, Arthur Conan Doyle, London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

BARRON, STEPHANIE; pseudonym of Francine Mathews, (c1963- ) (chron.)

• * Jane and the Spoils of Stoneleigh, (nv) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998

BARRY, DAVE (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Booger, (rr) The Miami Herald Tropic Nov 1995
  • Naked Came the Manatee, ed. Tom Schroder, Putnam’s 1997

BARRY, DESMOND (chron.)

• * Backgammon, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Soho).

BARRY, LYTTLETON (chron.)

• * The Red Death, (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb, Mar, Apr 1999

BARSOTTI, KATE (chron.)

• * Dirt, (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008

BARSOTTI, MARK (chron.)

• * Camera Guy, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2007

BARSSE, EDILLSON; pseudonym of K. A. Gannon (chron.)

• * The Killing Sun, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 1999
• * Welcome, Beloved, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1998

BARSTEAD, MARK (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Nerves, (vi) AHMM Jan 2000

BART, D(avid) J. (chron.)

• * The City Different, (ss) AHMM Jan 1994
• * Fever, (ss) AHMM Sep 1996
• * Just Kidding, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• * Montezuma’s Castle, (ss) AHMM Oct 1997
• * Prom Night, (ss) A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2003
• * Red Rock Crossing, (nv) AHMM Oct 1994
• * Starved Rock, (ss) AHMM Mar 1993
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Perfect Pickup, (vi) AHMM Dec 1991
  ___ Smart Bomb?, (vi) AHMM Feb 1992
• * Under the Playground, (ss) AHMM May 1993
• * Who Is Jim Vogelbaugh?, (ss) AHMM Jun 1992

BARTELS, ELISHA EFUA (chron.)

• * Woman Is Boss, (ss) Trinidad Noir, ed. Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason, Akashic Books 2008

BARTELS, SCOTT (chron.)

• * Swear Not by the Moon, (nv) Tamaqua Fll 1997
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998

BARTH, JOHN (Simmons) (1930- ) (chron.)

• * from The Floating Opera, (ex) 1956
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

BARTHELME, DONALD (1931-1989) (chron.)

• * Captain Blood, (ss) Overnight to Many Distant Cities, Putnam 1987
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

BARTHOLOMEW, NANCY; [i.e., Nancy Bartholomew Long] (1955- ) (chron.)

• * Dead in the Water, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1994
• * Sierra Reveals All, (ss)
  • Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999

BARTON, ANNE; pseudonym of Florence Barton, (1931- ) (chron.)

• * Trip to Toronto, (ss) Bloody Words: the anthology, ed. Caro Soles & Cheryl Freedman, Baskerville Books 2003

BARTON, ANTIGONE (chron.)

• * More People Like Me, (ss) AHMM Jan 1998

BARTON, BARRY; pseudonym of Robert Sidney Bowen, (1900-1977) (chron.)

• * Low Ceiling for Nazi Hell-Hawks [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Aug 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #64 1999
• * Red Wings for the Blood Battalion [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Aug 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #116 2002
• * The Sky Beast of Berlin [Captain Combat], (na) Captain Combat Apr 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #57 1999

BARTON, BILLY (1927- ) (chron.)

• * The Final Verdict, (pm) EQMM Mar 10 1980

BARTON, CLINT (chron.)

• * Fables by Firelight, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1995

BARTON, EUSTACE ROBERT (1868-1943); see pseudonym Robert Eustace (chron.)

BARTON, DR. FLORENCE (1931- ); see pseudonym Anne Barton (chron.)

BARTON, GEORGE (1866-1940) (chron.)

• * Adventure of the Baritone Singer [Bromley Barnes], (ss)
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

BARTON, WILLIAM (Renald, III) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Russian Grave (with Michael Capobianco) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

BARWOOD, LEE; pseudonym of Marlene Y. Satter (chron.)

• * By the Book, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984

BARZUN, JACQUES (1907- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Editors’ Introduction (with Wendell Hertig Taylor), (in)
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983
• * Five Clerihews, (pm) EQMM Jan 14 1980
• * How Holmes Came to Play the Violin, (ar) The Baker Street Journal Jul 1951
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

_____, reviews:

• * Catalogue of Crime, (br) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr 1990

BASHOVER, ALBERT (chron.)

• * The Cache, (ss) AHMM Jul 1990
• * The Case of the Copped Cockatoo, (ss) AHMM Jun 1995
• * The Case of the Juggled Jewels, (ss) AHMM Feb 1996
• * The Case of the Perfidious Pupil, (ss) AHMM Nov 1994
• * Criminal Justice, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
• * Key for Two, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• * A Souvenir of Rumania, (ss) AHMM Mar 1991
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Modus Operandi, (vi) AHMM Nov 1990

BASKET, HELENA (chron.)

• * Catacombs, (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996

BASSMAN, HIRSCH (chron.)

• * What Does Your Face Tell?, (cl) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr 1930

BASTABLE, BERNARD; pseudonym of Robert Barnard, (1936- ) (chron.)

• * Reader, I Strangled Him, (ss) EQMM May 1995

BATAILLE, GEORGES (chron.)

• * from Story of the Eye, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

BATEMAN, COLIN (1962- ) (chron.)

• * The Case of Mrs. Geary’s Leather Trousers, (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• * NIPD Blue, (ss) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998

_____, [ref.]

• * “The PWG Interviews with: Colin Bateman” by Jennifer Jordan, (iv) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003

BATES, REBECCA S. W.; see under Bates, Rebecca Williamson (chron.)

BATES, REBECCA WILLIAMSON (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Burning Down on a Thousand, (ss) Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

BATORY, DANA MARTIN (chron.)

• * Armed, and Saintly, (ar) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

BATTEN, JACK (Hubert, Jr.) (1932- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Annexationist Conspiracy (with Michael Bliss) [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977; also as “Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure”.
• * Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure (with Michael Bliss) [“The Adventure of the Annexationist Conspiracy”; Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Weekend Magazine May 28 1977
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996; annotated by Trevor S. Raymond.
• * Snapshot, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992

BATTIATA, MARY (chron.)

• * Blood Feud, (tc)
  • The Best American Crime Writing 2006, ed. Mark Bowden, Harper Perennial 2006

BATTIN, B(rinton) W(arner) (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Ailurophobia, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998

BATTISON, BRIAN (1939-1998) (chron.)

• * Before the Cock Crows [Insp. Jim Ashworth], (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
• * The Perfect Way to Murder Your Spouse, (nv) Midwinter Mysteries 4, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1994

BATTLE, FRANCIS C. (chron.)

• * With Intent to Kill!, (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957

BATTLES, BRETT (chron.)

• * Perfect Gentleman, (ss) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

BAUM, L(yman) FRANK (1856-1919) (chron.)

• * The Suicide of Kiaros, (ss) The White Elephant Sep 1897
  • EQMM Nov 1954
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992

BAUMGART, MARK (chron.)

• * The Personal Touch, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002

BAUSCH, RICHARD (Carl) (1945- ) (chron.)

• * The Man Who Knew Belle Starr, (nv) Atlantic Monthly Apr 1987
  • EQMM Sep 1990
• * Something Is Out There, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007

BAXT, GEORGE (1923-2003) (chron.)

• * Adamant Eve, (ss) EQMM Jul 1987
• * All Keyed Up, (ss) EQMM Nov 1995
• * Any Resemblance Living or Dead, (ss) EQMM Oct 1991
• * The Burying of Treasure, (ss) EQMM Jun 1989
• * Call Him Ishmael, (ss) EQMM Jun 1984
• * Clap Hands, There Goes Charlie, (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Cut from the Same Cloth, (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980
  • Murder to Music, ed. Cynthia Manson & Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Drink to Me Only, (ss) EQMM Mar 1990
• * Exotic Cuisine, (ss) EQMM Dec 1992
  • Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * A Fool and His Money, (ss) EQMM May 1988
• * Full Moon [Pharoah Love], (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1994
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * Gertrude and Alice and Spite and Malice, (ss) EQMM Aug 1984
• * Go to the Devil, (ss) EQMM Mar 1989
• * Going to Pieces, (ss) EQMM Jul 1988
• * Guess Who, (ss) EQMM May 1990
• * Handig, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
• * Hearing Voices, (ss) EQMM Aug 1991
• * The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case, (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1995
  • Murder at the Movies, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 1999
• * I Hate Lucy, (ss) EQMM Dec 1991
• * I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus, (ss) EQMM Sep 1990
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1990
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002
• * I Wish He Hadn’t Said That, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
• * In the Time of Nick, (ss) EQMM Mar 1986
• * The Man Who Slew Too Much, (ss) EQMM Jan 1989
• * Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, (ss) EQMM Mar 1983
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Neatness Counts, (ss) EQMM Sep 1987
• * Play It by Fear, (ss) EQMM Nov 1990
• * Play Lover for Me, (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982
• * Premonitions, (ss) EQMM Feb 1995
• * Question Mark, (ss) EQMM Dec 1986
• * Recipe for Veal Meat Again, (ms) Crime à la Carte, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Secrets Can Be Dangerous to Your Health, (ss) EQMM Jan 1993
• * Show Business, (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1982
• * Show Me a Hero, (ss) EQMM Jul 15 1981