Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

SEAMARK; pseudonym of Austin J. Small, (1894-1929) (chron.)

• * The Perfect Crime, (ss) The Strand Sep 1923
  • Detective Stories from The Strand, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1991

SEARLES, MARGARET (books) (chron.)

• * Cream Puffs, (ss) And Some of Them Are Dead, ed. Margaret Searles & Victoria Heckman, Deadly Alibi Press Ltd. 2002
• * Game Over, (ss) Never Safe, ed. Anon., Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006
• * Oatmeal Cookies, (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Spr 2002
  • Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

SEARLES, VERA (chron.)

• * The Big Witch, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999
• * The Little Brass Bowl, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2000
• * The Man Who Hated Memories, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2001
• * The Monkey Pit, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2000
• * The Old Building, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• * Wet Shadows, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• * The Woman in a Box, (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

SEARLS, HANK; [i.e., Henry Hunt Searls, Jr.] (1922- ) (chron.)

• * A Dish of Homicide [Mike Blair], (ss) Dime Detective Magazine Nov 1949
  • Hard-Boiled Detectives, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Gramercy Books 1992

SEATE, J. TROY (chron.)

• * Houseguest, (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug-Nov 2005

SEAVER, RICHARD (chron.)

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• * from Philisophy in the Bedroom, by Marquis de Sade, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995; tr. by Austryn Wainhouse

SEAY, ALI (chron.)

• * Lucky Man, (vi) About Mysteries; Sometimes there is just know way to know when you are about to become a lucky man —.

SEDLEY, KATE; pseudonym of Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman Clarke, (1926- ) (chron.)

• * The Chapman and the Tree of Doom [Roger the Chapman], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995

SEELEY, MILES P. (chron.)

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

SEFTON, LAURIE (chron.)

• * Going Straight (with Charles Von Rospach) [Batman], (ss) The Further Adventures of Batman 2, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1992
  • Legends of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1997

SEGAL, JOYCE (chron.)

• * The Missing Mystery Writer, (vi) EQMM Dec 1 1980

SEGRE, ALFREDO (1908- ) (chron.)

• * Justice Has No Number [Bastia], (nv) EQMM Apr 1948
  • EQMM Mar 1991

SEGRETTO, MIKE (books) (chron.)

• * We All Scream for Ice Cream, (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

SEGRIFF, LARRY (books) (chron.)

• * Allergic Reaction, (vi) 1993
  • Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Cat’s Eye, (ss) Cemetery Dance Fll 1993
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Introduction (with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg), (in)
  • Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
  • Murder Most Feline, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Cumberland House 2002
• * No Hard Feelings, (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * Parting Gift, (ss) Murder for Father, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• * Photo Opportunity, (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
  • A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * A Point of Honor, (ss) 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * Shoplifter, (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• * Unkindest Cut, (ss) Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995

SEGUIN, LOU (chron.)

• * Murder Me Gently, (ss) AHMM Aug 1985

SEIDEL, DENNIS (chron.)

• * Pilgrim in Perdition, (ss) North Florida Noir, ed. Michael Lister, Pottersville Press 2006

SEIDMAN, LISA (books) (chron.)

• * Over My Shoulder, (ss) A Deadly Dozen, ed. Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz & Cynthia Lawrence, Uglytown 2000

SEIDMAN, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * Gridlock, (ss) Mystery Jan 1982
• * The Night Watch, (ss) Mystery Jul 1982
• * Perchance to Dream, (ss) Mystery Mar 1981

SEKELSKY, JOSEPH A. (chron.)

• * The Charm Bracelet, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1985

SELBO, JULE (chron.)

• * He Told Her at the Laundromat, (ss) AHMM Jul 1986
• * Miss Nobody, (ss) AHMM Jun 1986

SELBY, HUBERT, Jr. (1928-2004) (chron.)

• * Tralala, (ss) Last Exit to Brooklyn, Grove Press 1957
  • Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics, ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books 2005

SELDON, BERNICE (chron.)

• * Murder in the Freud Archives, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #47 2004

SELLARS, CRIGHTON; pseudonym of Irma Peixotto Sellars (chron.)

• * The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Baker Street Journal Oct 1946
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

SELLARS, IRMA PEIXOTTO; see pseudonym Crighton Sellars (chron.)

SELLERS, KIM (chron.)

• * A Gift For the Conklins, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 1998

SELLERS, LILLIAN (chron.)

• * Starch (with Mary Anna Evans), (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2004

SELLERS, PETER (A.) (1956- ); see pseudonym Jack Paris (books) (chron.)

• * Advertising Hell, (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Arthur Ellis Award Winners and Nominees, (ms)
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Avenging Miriam, (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001
  • EQMM Dec 2001
• * Backroom Boys, (ss) EQMM Jun 2006
• * Blind Side, (ss) AHMM Nov 2008
• * Bombed, (ss) EQMM Jun 1994
  • Bloody York, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1996; revised, 1996.
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Boogie Man [“A Difference of Degree”], (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Bush Fever [as by Jack Paris], (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
  • Secret Tales of the Arctic Trails, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1997
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
  • Hardboiled #32 2004
• * Dead Meet, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Dents, (ss) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * A Difference of Degree, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985; also as “Boogie Man”.
• * Freak Attraction, (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Imposter, (ss) Northern Frights 3, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1995; also as “The Vampires Next Door”.
• * In the Fire, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2005
• * In the Hole, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
  • Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
  • Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Introduction (with Robert J. Sawyer), (in)
  • Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
• * Introduction (with Kerry J. Schooley), (in)
  • Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003
• * Last Resort, (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Loss of a Faculty, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984
• * Lost in Transit, (ss) Hardboiled #24 1998
• * Murder on the Polar Bear Express, (ss) EQMM Jan 2001
• * Murdoch’s Wife, (ss) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
  • Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• * Pack Animals, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• * Somewhere They Can’t Find Me, (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998
• * Songs in the Key of Death: The Fiction of William Bankier, (in)
  • Fear Is a Killer, William Bankier, Mosaic Press 1995
• * This One’s Trouble, (ss) AHMM Jul 1991
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Trophy Hunter, (nv) Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
  • Over the Edge, ed. Peter Sellers & Robert J. Sawyer, Pottersfield Press 2000
  • Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003
• * The Vampires Next Door [“Imposter”], (ss) Northern Frights 3, ed. Don Hutchison, Mosaic Press 1995
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999
• * Warren Road, (ss) AHMM Oct 2005
• * Whistling Past the Graveyard, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
  • EQMM May 1993
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard, Mosaic Press 1999

SELLYN, NATHAN (chron.)

• * The Emancipation of Christine Alpert, (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (Toronto Airport).

SELZER, RICHARD A. (chron.)

• * Adele Cleary [from “Diary of an Infidel”], (ex) Taking the World In for Repairs, Morrow 1986
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1989

SEMENOFF, MIKE (chron.)

• * Left Dead Center, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2002

SEMIONOV, JULIAN (chron.)

• * The Summer of ’37, (ss) New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993; tr. by Anthony Olcott

SENESE, REBECCA M. (chron.)

• * Face Dances, (ss) On Spec Sum 1996
  • Future Syndicate, ed. J. Alan Erwine, Nomadic Delirium Press 2007

SENTER, NANCY (chron.)

• * Why Sherlock Holmes? Nostalga for the Absolute [Sherlock Holmes], (ar) Mystery Mar 1981

SERANELLA, BARBARA (1956-2007) (chron.)

• * Misdirection, (nv) Greatest Hits, Robert J. Randisi, Carroll & Graf 2005

SERCU, KURT (chron.)

• * The Book Case (with Dale C. Andrews), (ss) EQMM May 2007

SERENI, ELIZABETH (chron.)

• * Mall Bimbo Script, (ss) New Mystery v4 #1 1996

SERENY, GITTA; pseudonym of Gitta Serenyi, (1923- ) (chron.)

• * from Into That Darkness, (ar)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

SERENYI, GITTA (1923- ); see pseudonym Gitta Sereny (chron.)

SERINI, ELIZABETH (chron.)

• * The Unhappy Hour, (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001

SERRA, ART (chron.)

• * The Gang Leader and the Witch, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jan 1960
• * Kill for Your Woman, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960

SERVICE, ROBERT W(illiam) (1874-1958) (chron.)

• * Clancy of the Mounted Police, (pm) Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto: Briggs 1909
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
• * The Shooting of Dan McGrew, (pm) Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: Briggs 1907
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
  • Secret Tales of the Arctic Trails, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1997

SESLING, ZVI A. (chron.)

• * Road Kill, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

SEWART, ALAN (1928- ) (chron.)

• * The Old Folks’ Home Murder, (ar) Northern Blood II, ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press 1995
• * The Village Blacksmith Murder, (ar) Northern Blood, ed. Martin Edwards, Didsbury 1992

SEWELL, PAMELA (1966- ) (chron.)

• * The Grotto, (ss) Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991

SEYMOUR, JOSEPH H. (chron.)

• * The Two-Ton Murder, (ss) Scientific Detective Dec 1946

SEYMOUR, LEE EDWARD (1957- ); see pseudonym Edward Lee (chron.)

SHAARA, MICHAEL (Joseph, Jr.) (1929-1988) (chron.)

• * The Wide and Starry Sky, (ss) AHMM Dec 1958
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1991
  • Blood Threat & Fears, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1993

SHADWELL, THOMAS (1642?-1692) (chron.)

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

SHAFER, CHARLES (A.) (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Police Blotter, (cl) Murderous Intent Fll, Win 1999
• * Police Blotter: Tag Man, (cl) Murderous Intent Spr 1999
• * Police Blotter: Traffic Stop, (cl) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• * Snookered, (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2003

SHAFFER, ANTHONY (Joshua) (1926-2001) (chron.)

• * The Cold-Blooded Tigress of London, (ar) London Mystery Magazine #16 1953
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * Larger Than Life, (ss) London Mystery Magazine #18 1953; also as “Sleuth”.
  • The Mammoth Book of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes, ed. Peter Haining, Robinson 1998
• * Murderer, (pl) 1975
  • Sweet Revenge, ed. Marvin Kaye, Fireside Theater 1992
• * Sleuth [“Larger Than Life”], (ss) London Mystery Magazine #18 1953
  • Crime Movies, ed. Peter Haining, Severn House 1996

SHAFFER, HAL (chron.)

• * Bantam Rooster, (ss) AHMM Feb 1988
• * Million Dollar Bet, (ss) AHMM Mar 1983

SHAHAR, ELUKI bes; see under bes Shahar, Eluki (books) (chron.)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) (chron.)

• * from 2 Henry IV, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * from Hamlet, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995