Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

MAVIANO, TREVOR (chron.)

• * Blood Money, (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2003
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005
• * An Earful from Maviano, (ed) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003, May/Jun 2004
• * An Earful from Maviano: A Very Noir Year, (ed) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2004
• * An Earful from Maviano: Noir Is Life, Life Is Noir, (ed) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2004
• * An Earful from Maviano: The Brit Issue?, (ed) Plots with Guns Sum 2004
• * An Earful: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy, (ed) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• * An Earful: Stranger Than Fiction, (ed) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• * An Earful: The Power of Negative Thinking, (ed) Plots with Guns Sum 2003
• * An Earful: What You Know, (ed) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2003
• * An Earful: Writing and Me, (ed) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2003
• * The PWG Interview with Mark T. Conard, (iv) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2004
• * The PWG Interviews with: Sean Doolittle, (iv) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• * The PWG Interviews: Eddie Muller, (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004

MAWR, NOEL DORMAN (chron.)

• * From Villain to Vigilante, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1991

MAXWELL, A. E.; pseudonym of Ann Maxwell & Evan Maxwell (chron.)

• * True Crime:
  ___ The Man in Ed Cates’ Grave, (ar) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984

MAXWELL, ANN (Elizabeth Lowell) (1944- ); see pseudonym A. E. Maxwell (chron.)

MAXWELL, CLAYTON (chron.)

• * Public Enemies, (cs) G-Men Oct 1935
  • High Adventure #83 2005
• * Public Enemies, (cs) G-Men Detective May 1937
  • Pulp Review #21 1995
• * Public Enemies, (cs) G-Men Detective Jul 1938
  • Pulp Review #21 1995
• * Public Enemies, (cs) G-Men Detective Jun 1939
  • Pulp Review #21 1995

MAXWELL, EVAN (1943- ); see pseudonym A. E. Maxwell (chron.)

MAXWELL, GLYN (Meurig) (1962- ) (chron.)

• * The Uninvited, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

MAY, FREDERICK (chron.)

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• * All Passion Spent, by Luigi Pirandello, (ss) 1965
  • Nobel Crimes, ed. Marie Smith, Carroll & Graf 1992

MAYBERRY, FLORENCE V. (chron.)

• * Alone with the Witches, (ss) EQMM Oct 1976
  • Ellery Queen’s A Multitude of Sins, ed. Ellery Queen, Curley 1986
• * The Girl Downstairs, (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
• * A Goodbye Sound, (ss) EQMM May 1974
  • More Ms. Murder, ed. Marie Smith, London: Xanadu 1991
• * The Grass Widow, (ss) EQMM Aug 1977
  • Masters of Suspense, ed. Ellery Queen & Eleanor Sullivan, Galahad 1992
• * The Hallucination, (ss) EQMM Jan 1983
• * Lady in the Black Cape, (ss) EQMM May 1982
• * Miz Sammy’s Honor, (ss) EQMM Jun 1992
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
  • Once Upon a Crime II, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1996
• * The Secret, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1992
  • Death on the Veranda, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994
• * Smiling Joe and the Twins, (nv) EQMM Sep 1993
  • Once Upon a Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, St. Martin’s 1994
• * The Stranger, (ss) EQMM Nov 1992
  • The Deadliest Games, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1993
• * When Nothing Matters, (ss) EQMM Dec 1979
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Where Are the Birds?, (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
• * Widow?, (ss) EQMM Jun 1985
  • Scarlet Letters, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991

MAYER, ANN (chron.)

• * Murder They Wrote (with Margaret Weis), (pm) EQMM Aug 1991

MAYER, ERIC (1950- ) (chron.)

• * And All That He Calls Family (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2001
• * Beauty More Stealthy (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (nv) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996
• * A Byzantine Mystery (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1993
• * Chosen of the Nile (with Mary Reed) [Herodotus], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002
• * Death on the Trans-Mongolian Railway (with Mary Reed) [Inspector Dorj], (ss) EQMM Mar 2000
• * Even Kings Die (with Mary Reed), (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• * The Finger of Aphrodite (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
• * Fortune’s Other Steward (with Mary Reed), (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * The Lady Fish Mystery (with Mary Reed), (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• * Leap of Faith (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (ss) EQMM Nov 1998
• * A Lock of Hair for Proserpine (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * Locked in Death (with Mary Reed) [Inspector Dorj], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006
• * A Mithraic Mystery (with Mary Reed) [John the Eunuch], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995
• * The Obo Mystery (with Mary Reed), (ss) EQMM Jun 1995
• * The Oracle of Amun (with Mary Reed) [Herodotus], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * A Shadow That Dies (with Mary Reed), (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• * The Three-legged Cat of Great Clatterden (with Mary Reed), (nv) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007

MAYER, MATT (chron.)

• * Available Light, (ss) Shades of Noir, ed. Lisa Manns, Archon Gaming Inc. 1996

MAYERS, CARROLL (chron.)

• * The Big Good-bye, (ss) Killers Mystery Story Magazine Nov 1956
• * Cheap Little Tramp, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jun 1961
• * Cora and Twenty Grand, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958
• * The Cure, (ss) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1967
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #3 1973
• * Don’t Call It Blackmail, (ss) AHMM Jan 30 1980
• * Dream Heist, (ss) AHMM Jul 16 1980
• * Murro’s Other Enterprises, (ss) AHMM Sep 16 1981
• * One Down, (ss) AHMM Apr 1 1981
• * Peep Show, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1957
• * A Piece of the Action, (ss) AHMM Aug 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * Private Enterprise, (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1968, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1968
• * Reform Movement, (ss) AHMM Mar 26 1980
• * The Second Key, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1958
• * The Setup, (vi) AHMM Feb 4 1981
• * A Slight Change of Plan, (ss) AHMM Aug 13 1980
• * The Trouble with Blackmail, (ss) AHMM Sep 1966
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967
• * You Can’t Kill Me, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960

MAYERSON, EVELYN (c1930- ) (chron.)

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

MAYHAR, ARDATH (Frances Hurst) (1930- ) (chron.)

• * Aunt Dolly, (ss) Dark at Heart, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Karen Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1992
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Creek, It Done Riz, (ss) Cold Blood, ed. Richard T. Chizmar, Ziesing 1991
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Face in the Fog, (ss) Hardboiled #29/30 2003
• * Fungus Grows in the Dark, (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994
• * Jigsaw, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• * Knit Lady, (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984
• * Lonesome Canefield Blues, (ss) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991
• * A Most Genteel Pursuit, (ss) AHMM Feb 1995
• * The Mug, (ss) Hardboiled #22 1996
• * No Olive Branch, (ss) Espionage Magazine Apr 1986
• * Ratings War, (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1987
• * Stiff Sentence, (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004
• * Watch-Cat, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * You Can’t Fool a Wife, (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984

MAYNARD, CHRISTOPHER (chron.)

• * Better Late Than Never, (ss) Purnell’s Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Anon., Bristol: Purnell 1982

MAYNARD, R. T.; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * Crazy Like a Fox, (ss) Super-Detective Dec 1942
  • High Adventure Jul 2006

MAYO, GWEN (chron.)

• * Fool’s Gold, (ss) Low Down and Derby, ed. Abigail Jones, Overmountain Press 2006

MAYO, LOUIS J. (chron.)

• * The Nearest Missing Person, (ss) EQMM May 1988

MAYOR, ARCHER (Huntington) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Instinct, (nv) The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, ed. The Editors of the Mysterious Press, Mysterious Press 2001

MAYOR, BARBARA (chron.)

• * Careers, (pm) EQMM Jan 2007

MAYR, DALLAS WILLIAM (1946- ); see pseudonym Jack Ketchum (chron.)

MAZEL, HENRY F. (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Never Take a Shave at a Shop Named Delilah’s [Alex Rada], (ex) Thrilling Detective (online) Nov 1998; from Murderously Incorrect, Crime and Again Press, 1999.

MEACHAM, BETH (Ann) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Ashes to Ashes, (nv) More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993
• * A Spark in the Darkness, (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994

MEADE, L(illie) T(homas); pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, (1844-1914) (chron.)

• * The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur (with Robert Eustace), (ss) The Harmsworth Magazine Jul 1894
  • Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection, ed. Michael Cox, New York: Oxford University Press 1992
• * The Death Chair (with Robert Eustace) [*Dr. Chetwynd; *Dr. Paul Cato], (nv) The Strand Jul 1899
  • Crime Stories from the ‘Strand’, ed. Geraldine Beare, Folio Society 1991
• * The Face in the Dark (with Robert Eustace), (ss) The Harmsworth London Magazine Jul 1903
  • Vintage Detective Stories, ed. Mike Higgs, London: Galley Press 1987
• * The Horror of Studley Grange (with Clifford Halifax) [*Doctor Halifax], (nv) The Strand Jan 1894
  • The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Nick Rennison, No Exit 2008
• * Madame Sara (with Robert Eustace) [*Madame Sara], (nv) The Strand Oct 1902
  • Murder British Style, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Man Who Disappeared (with Robert Eustace), (nv) The Strand Dec 1901
  • 12 Tales of Murder, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1998
• * Mr. Bovey’s Unexpected Will (with Robert Eustace), (ss) The Harmsworth Magazine Apr 1899
  • Detection by Gaslight, ed. Douglas G. Greene, Dover 1997
  • Twelve Women Detective Stories, ed. Laura Marcus, Oxford University Press 1997
• * The Outside Ledge (with Robert Eustace) [*Florence Cusack], (ss) The Harmsworth Magazine Oct 1900
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

MEADOWS, AL (chron.)

• * Step Up and Be Murdered!, (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Jul 1958

MEADOWS, JOEL (chron.)

• * 100 Bullets, (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

MEADOWS, LEE E. (c1950- ) (chron.)

• * A Small Matter, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004

MEAKER, MARIJANE (Agnes) (1927- ); see pseudonyms M. E. Kerr & Vin Packer (chron.)

MEANEY, JOHN (chron.)

• * Via Vortex, (nv) Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, Solaris 2008

MEANS, DAVID (chron.)

• * Carnie, (ss) Witness 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001
• * Sault Ste. Marie, (ss) Harper’s Aug 2004
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Houghton Mifflin 2005
• * The Spot, (ss) New Yorker Aug 21 2006
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2007, ed. Carl Hiaasen, Houghton Mifflin 2007

MEARS, GILLIAN (chron.)

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

MECKLEM, TODD (1965- ) (chron.)

• * Fixing Mr. Foucher’s Fence, (ss) Young Blood, ed. Mike Baker, Zebra 1994
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998

MEDAWAR, TONY (books) (chron.)

• * Afterword, (aw) 13 to the Gallows, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * Appendix 2: Notes for the Curious, (ms) 13 to the Gallows, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * A Checklist of the Cockrill Mysteries, (bi) The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill’s Casebook, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * A Checklist of the Sheringham and Moresby Mysteries in Anthony Berkeley Cox (with Arthur Robinson), (bi)
  • The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham’s Casebook, Anthony Berkeley, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * In and Out of Darkness, (in) The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill’s Casebook, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Master of the Final Twist (with Arthur Robinson), (in)
  • The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham’s Casebook, Anthony Berkeley, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * Suspense on Stage, (in) 13 to the Gallows, Crippen & Landru 2008
• * Suspense on the High Seas: John Dickson Carr (with James E. Keirans), (ar) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

MEDD, E. POWYS (chron.)

• * The Hand from Earth, (ss) Mystery Stories #14 1939

MEDINA, PABLO (1948- ) (chron.)

• * Benny Rojas and the Rough Riders, (ss) Las Vegas Noir, ed. Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce, Akashic Books 2008; (West Las Vegas).
• * Johnny Ventur’s Seventh Try, (ss) Havana Noir, ed. Achy Obejas, Akashic Books 2007

MEE, HUAN; pseudonym of Charles H. Mansfield & W. E. Mansfield (chron.)

• * The Russian Cipher, (ss)
  • Espionage Magazine May 1987