Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

BAXT, GEORGE (chron.) (continued)

• * Splitting Heirs, (ss) EQMM Mar 1993
• * Stroke of Genius, (ss) EQMM Jun 1987
• * Uneasy Lies the Dead, (ss) EQMM Jun 1993
• * Unreasonable Facsimile, (ss) EQMM Feb 1991
  • Silver Screams, ed. Cynthia Manson & Adam Stern, Longmeadow 1994
• * The Vulture Within, (ss) EQMM Jun 1983
• * What You Been Up to Lately?, (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
• * What’sisname, (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• * Widow’s Pique, (ss) EQMM Jan 1990
• * The William Shakespeare Murder Case, (ss) EQMM Oct 1987
  • Once Upon a Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1994
• * The Woman I Envied, (ss) EQMM Jun 1982
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * The Woman Who Cried Wolf, (ss) EQMM Sep 1985
• * Writer’s Block, (ss) EQMM May 1982

BAXT, JOHN (chron.)

• * Cauldron Boil, Cauldron Bubble, (ss) EQMM Nov 1983
• * Dream Lover, (ss) EQMM Feb 1986

BAXTER, ALIDA (chron.)

• * Afterwards, (ss) Woman’s Day
  • 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992

BAXTER, CYNTHIA (chron.)

• * Pick Up Dry Cleaning, Commit the Perfect Murder, (ss) Murder New York Style, ed. Randy Kandel, L & L Dreamspell 2007

BAXTER, FRANK C. (chron.)

• * The Hound of the Baskervilles [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965

BAXTER, JEAN RAE (chron.)

• * Loss, (ss) Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003

BAXTER, JOHN (Martin) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Back, (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993

BAXTER, STEPHEN M(ichael) (1957- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * All is True, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * Columbiad, (ss) Science Fiction Age May 1996
  • The Strand Magazine #10 2003
• * Fate and the Fire-lance, (nv) Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, Solaris 2008
• * Glass Earth, Inc., (ss) Future Histories, ed. Stephen McClelland, Horizon House (UK) 1997
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003
• * A Midsummer Eclipse, (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * The Modern Cyrano, (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• * The Strongest Armour, (ss) Villains!, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992

BAY, AUSTIN (1951- ) (chron.)

• * The Last Time I Saw Buddy Swing, (ss) Hardboiled Detective #12 1991

BAYER, ANN (chron.)

• * Account Settled, (pm) EQMM Aug 1992
• * Blood Relations, (ss) EQMM Feb 1987
• * Gertrude, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1997
• * A Pleasure to Deal With, (ss) EQMM Nov 1987
  • Readers’ Choice, ed. Anon., Davis 1990
• * Two Heads Are Better Than One, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1987

BAYER, WILLIAM (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Mirror Girl, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993

BAYLESS, MARTHA (chron.)

• * A.k.a. Pookums, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BEAGLE, PETER S(oyer) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Mr. Sigerson [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

BEALS, STEPHEN (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 1, ed. Stephen Beals, Six Lakes Arts 1989
  • Mysteries from the Finger Lakes, Vol. 2, ed. Stephen Beals, Chapel Street 1992

BEAMS, DAVID (chron.)

• * Tales of Chinatown, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1990

BEAN, SPAULDING (chron.)

• * What Have You Done Now?, (ss) EQMM Oct 1986

BEANE, JIM (chron.)

• * Jeanette, (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Deanwood, N.E).

BEAR, ELIZABETH; [i.e., Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky] (1971- ) (chron.)

• * Tiger! Tiger! [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003

BEAR, GREG(ory Dale) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Blood Music, (nv) Analog Jun 1983
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

BEARD, HENRY (chron.)

• * The Last Recall, (nv) The National Lampoon Feb 1972
  • The Defective Detective, ed. Steve Carper, Citadel Press 1992

BEARE, GERALDINE (books) (chron.)

• * Editor’s Preface, (pr)
  • Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’, ed. Geraldine Beare, Folio Society 1991

BEATON, M. C.; pseudonym of Marion C. Gibbons, (1936- ) (chron.)

• * Handle with Care, (ss) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001
• * A Highland Christmas [Hamish Macbeth], (n.) New York: The Mysterious Press 1999
  • Very Merry Mysteries, ed. Anon., Mystery Guild 2003

BEATTY, TERRY (chron.)

• * Auld Acquaintance (with Wendi Lee) [Dick Tracy], (ss) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990
• * Full-Body Santa (with Wendi Lee), (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• * Photo Swipe (with Wendi Lee), (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995

_____, [ref.]

• * “Terry Beatty” by C. J. Henderson, (ar) Hardboiled #5 1986

BEATTY, WENDI LEE; see under Lee, Wendi (books) (chron.)

BEATY, (Arthur) DAVID (1919-1999) (chron.)

• * Ghosts, (nv) Mystery in the Sunshine State, ed. Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pineapple Press 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000
• * The Last of Lord Jitters, (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

BEAUDOIN, SEAN (chron.)

• * Jakes, (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

BEAUMONT, DR. EDGAR (1860-1921); see pseudonym Clifford Halifax (chron.)

BEAUMONT, ROGER A(lban) (1935- ) (chron.)

• * The Flawed Soothsayer: General MacArthur’s G-2, (ar) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985

BEAVER, JIM (chron.)

• * The Afternoon Blood Show, (nv) AHMM Apr 29 1981

BECK, ALLEN; pseudonym of Hugh B. Cave, (1910-2004) (chron.)

• * Always Together [as by Hugh B. Cave], (ss) Death, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy 1982
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994

BECK, K. K.; pseudonym of Kathrine Kristine Beck Marris, (1950- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Ground Glass, (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• * Hollywood Homicide [Iris Cooper], (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Peril Under the Palms [Iris Cooper], (n.) Walker 1989
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * A Romance in the Rockies [Iris Cooper], (nv) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Rule of Law, (ss) Malice Domestic 4, Carolyn G. Hart, Pocket 1995
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Seascape [Iris Cooper; Jack Clancy], (nv) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
• * The Tell-Tale Tattoo [Iris Cooper], (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories, Five Star 2002

BECKER, LARRY (chron.)

• * Love, Honor and Kill (with Cordner Nelson), (ss) Scientific Detective May 1947

BECKETT, M. E. (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Dating Sally, (ss) EQMM Mar 1994

BECKMAN, CHARLES, Jr.; pseudonym of Charles Boeckman, Jr. (chron.)

• * Murder on My Mind, (ss) New Detective Magazine Nov 1949
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * One-Way Fare, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957
• * The Terrible Laugh, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958

BECKMAN, JANE (chron.)

• * A Proposition He Could Not Refuse, (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985

BEDFORD, JEAN (Gladys Agnes) (1946- ) (chron.)

• * Cousin to Death, (ss) A Corpse at the Opera House, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992
• * Finding Fire, (ss) Crosstown Traffic, ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood, Five Islands Press 1993
• * Take My Aching Heart, (ss) Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994

BEDFORD, JOAN (chron.)

• * Sleeping Dog, (ss) Case Reopened, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Allen & Unwin Australia 1993; based on “The Beaumont Children Mystery” case.

BEDFORD, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * The Matchmaker (with Bruce Dettman), (ss) AHMM Nov 1983

BEDFORD-JONES, H(enry James O’Brien) (1887-1949) (chron.)

• * The Last Man, (nv) Adventure Jan 1938
  • Action Adventure Stories #78 2000

BEDNARZ, WILMA (chron.)

• * Project-GLD (with J. Primeau), (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967
• * Under the Pipal Tree, (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967

BEE, ROBERT (chron.)

• * Betting Slips, (ss) Plots with Guns Jun/Jul 2000

BEEBE, LUCY C. (chron.)

• * Shape Up or Ship Out, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984

BEECHCROFT, WILLIAM; pseudonym of William F. Hallstead, (1924- ) (chron.)

• * Blowback, (ss) AHMM May 1997
• * Czech for a Short Bier, (ss) EQMM Apr 1993
• * Death Magic, (ss) AHMM Sep 1997
• * Dotty Blue, (ss) AHMM Oct 1996
• * Floater, (ss) EQMM Mar 1995
• * Fugu, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• * Hamadryad, (ss) EQMM Mar 1994
  • Mysterious Menagerie, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1996
• * Last the Best, (ss) EQMM Feb 1996
• * Playing It by Ear, (ss) AHMM Sep 1995
• * Tee for Two, (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
• * Torrent, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1991
• * Turkey Durkin and the Catfish, (ss) EQMM Oct 1992

BEELER, CHARLES RICHARD (1888-1961); see pseudonym Caddo Cameron (chron.)

BEERS, JINX (chron.)

• * Everything Is a Matter of Timing, (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

BEESTON, L(eonard) J(ohn) (1874-1963) (chron.)

• * His Final Choice, (ss) Top-Notch Feb 1 1914
  • Detective Mystery Stories Nov 2001

BEFELER, MIKE (chron.)

• * Never Trust a Poison Dart Frog, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Missing Missile, (vi) AHMM Jun 2006

BEGG, JOYCE (chron.)

• * The Reunion, (ss) Murder and Company, ed. Harriet Ayres, Pandora 1988
  • EQMM Apr 1993

BEGG, PAUL (chron.)

• * On the Trail of Jack the Ripper, (ar) The Strand Magazine #6 2001

BEHAN, BRENDAN (1923-1964) (chron.)

• * The Execution, (ss) 1978
  • Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery, ed. Peter Haining, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * The Informers [from The Scarperer, as by Emmet Street], (ex) Irish Times 1953
  • Great Irish Detective Stories, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1993

BEHNEY, L. E. (chron.)

• * Dry Spell, (ss) EQMM Apr 1975
  • Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures, ed. Ellery Queen, Chivers Press 1995
• * The Man Who Kept His Promise, (ss) EQMM Aug 1966
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * Why Don’t You Like Me?, (ss) EQMM Aug 1966
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992

BEINHART, LARRY (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Death in a Small Town, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
  • New Mystery Spr 1995
• * Funny Story, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
  • EQMM Dec 1996
  • Murder Is No Mitzvah: Short Mysteries about Jewish Occasions, ed. Abigail Browning, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

BELBIN, DAVID (1958- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Bad Presents, (ss) The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Dennis Hamley, Oxford University Press 2003
• * Introduction, (in)
  • City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997
• * Paying for It, (nv) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

BELEJACK, BARBARA (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * The Deepest South, by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

BELKNAP, LISA (books) (chron.)

_____, ed.

• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 6 # 8, August 1961], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962
• * Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [v 7 # 2, February 1962], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

BELL, D. O. (chron.)

• * Safe and Free, (ss) EQMM Feb 11 1980
• * She Will Live Forever, (ss) EQMM Apr 7 1980

BELL, DONNA (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Out of the Woods, (ss) EQMM Apr 1984

BELL, IAN A. (chron.)

• * Mystery Trains: Crime Writers & the Railway, (ar) The Strand Magazine #5 2000