Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

BOWEN, ROBERT SIDNEY (chron.) (continued)

• * Curse of the Living Corpse [as by C. K. M. Scanlon; Masked Detective], (na) The Masked Detective Win 1942

BOWEN, RPBERT SYDNEY; see under Bowen, Robert Sidney (chron.)

BOWEN, SIDNEY (Jr.); see under Bowen, Robert Sidney (chron.)

BOWEN, SYDNEY (Jr.); see under Bowen, Robert Sidney (chron.)

BOWERS, HELEN (chron.)

• * The Bit Player, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006
• * Ticket to Madrid, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006

BOWERS, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * The Conjuror’s Hand, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Jan 1994
• * Don’t Answer That!", (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1994

BOWES, PATRICIA (chron.)

• * Found Money, (ss) The Mysterious Bruce, ed. Anon., The Brucedale Press 1997

BOWKER, DAVID (chron.)

• * Beauty with Cruelty, (nv) Mean Time, ed. Jerry Sykes, The Do-Not Press 1998
• * Johnny Seven, (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007

BOWLES, PAUL (Frederic) (1910-1999) (chron.)

• * The Eye, (ss) The Missouri Review 1978
  • EQMM Jan 1 1981

BOWLING, SUE ANN (chron.)

• * The Case of the Incompetent Police Dog, (vi) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BOWMAN, JEFFREY ROBERT (chron.)

• * Stonewalls, (ss)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2004, ed. Nelson DeMille, Houghton Mifflin 2004

BOX, C. J. (chron.)

• * Pirates of Yellowstone, (ss) Meeting Across the River, ed. Jessica Kaye & Richard Brewer, Bloomsbury U.S.A. 2005
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2006, ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin 2006

BOYD, J. P. (chron.)

• * The Rust on the Moon, (ss) AHMM Oct 1987

BOYD, JERRY (1930?-2002); see pseudonym F. X. Toole (chron.)

BOYD, PAULA (1959- ) (chron.)

• * Hot Enough to Kill [Jolene Jackson], (ex) 1999
  • Lone Star Sleuths, ed. Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis & Rollo K. Newsom, University of Texas Press 2007

BOYD-HALL, CAROL (chron.)

• * The Pictures Come and Go, (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981

BOYLAN, ELEANOR (Daly) (1916- ) (chron.)

• * The House of Voices [Clara Gamadge], (ss) AHMM Oct 2001
• * The Ring in the Sand, (ss) AHMM Jan 2003
• * Simon and Dorothea, (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005

BOYLE, JACK (?-1928) (chron.)

• * Boston Blackie’s Mary [Boston Blackie], (nv) Redbook 1917
  • More Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1994
  • The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995

BOYLE, MARJORIE Q. (chron.)

• * Cats-Paw, (pm) EQMM Feb 11 1980

BOYLE, T(homas) CORAGHESSAN (1948- ) (chron.)

• * The Hit Man, (ss) 1980
  • The Killing Spirit, ed. Jay Hopler, The Overlook Press 1996

BOYLE, THOMAS (1939- ) (chron.)

• * The Night of the Bloody Man, (ss) Hardboiled #21 1996

_____, [ref.]

• * “A Conversation with Thomas Boyle” by Gary Lovisi, (iv) Hardboiled #18 1994

BOZMAN, E. F. (1895-1968) (chron.)

• * The White Road, (ss) Ghost Stories, ed. John Hampden, London: Dent 1939
  • AHMM Jan 1998

BRACK, ROBERT (1959- ) (chron.)

• * Trumpets for Max Jericho, (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994; from Nautilus Literarischer Taschenkalender 1991, Hamburg: Edition Nautilus 1990.; tr. by William Adamson

BRACKEN, MICHAEL (Patrick) (1957- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Bed of Roses, (ss) Gent May 1996
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Con Job, (ss) Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Cuts Like a Knife, (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• * Even Roses Bleed [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Even Roses Bleed, Books in Motion 1995
  • Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * Fair Warning [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Even Roses Bleed, Books in Motion 1995
  • Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
  • Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• * Feel the Pain, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• * First Blonde on the Left, (ss) Bust Out! 1995
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Glass Houses, (nv) Even Roses Bleed, Books in Motion 1995
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * The Great Little Train Robbery, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1985
  • Detective Mystery Stories Sep 2002
• * Heartbreak Hotel [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Even Roses Bleed, Books in Motion 1995
  • Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * Husks, (ss) Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Lesser of Two Evils, (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2002
• * Lucky Seven [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Even Roses Bleed, Books in Motion 1995
  • Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * A Matter of Policy, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1985
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * My Client’s Wife ["Moe Ron" Boyette], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2007
• * Only Business [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * The Only Good Red [Christian Gunn], (ss) Espionage Magazine Feb 1985
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Only Heroes Die, (vi) Espionage Magazine Nov 1985
• * Partners [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Hardboiled #9 1988
  • Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * A Price to Pay, (ss) Score Sep 1995
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Rock and a Hard Place, (ss) Juggs Apr 1996
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Snowbird (with Tom Sweeney), (nv) EQMM Dec 2007
• * Soft Focus, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2002
• * Tequila Sunrise and the Horse [Nathaniel Rose], (ss) Tequila Sunrise, Wildside Press 2000
• * Three’s a Shroud, (ss) Gent Feb 1991
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * Vengeance to Show in the Third, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000
• * With Extreme Prejudice [Christian Gunn], (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984
  • Bad Girls, Wildside Press 2000

BRACKETT, BEVERLEY (chron.)

• * Eternal Vigilance: Black Coffee, (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2003
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005

BRACKETT, CLARA (chron.)

• * A Thanksgiving Story, (pm) EQMM Nov 1991

BRACKETT, LEIGH (Douglas) [Mrs. Edmond Hamilton] (1915-1978) (books) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Wandering Red-Head, (ss) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Apr 1943; also as “Red-Headed Poison”.
• * The Death Dealer, (na) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Mar 1943; also as “The Misfortune Teller”.
• * Design for Dying, (nv) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jun 1944
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
  • Pure Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * I Feel Bad Killing You, (nv) New Detective Magazine Nov 1944
  • Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames, ed. Robert E. Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
  • A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, New American Library 2002
• * The Misfortune Teller [“The Death Dealer”], (na) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Mar 1943
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * Murder in the Family, (nv) Mammoth Detective Mar 1943
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * Murder Is Bigamy, (nv) Thrilling Detective Jul 1945
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * No Good from a Corpse, (ex) 1944
  • Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 1999
• * No Good from a Corpse, (n.) New York: Coward-McCann 1944
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * No Star Is Lost, (ss) Thrilling Detective Jul 1944
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * Red-Headed Poison [“The Case of the Wandering Red-Head”], (ss) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Apr 1943
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * So Pale, So Cold, So Fair, (nv) Argosy Jul 1957
  • Hard-Boiled, ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1995
  • Twelve American Crime Stories, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998
  • No Good from a Corpse, Dennis McMillan 1999

BRADBURY, RAY(mond Douglas) (1920- ) (chron.)

• * And So Died Riabouchinska, (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Jun/Jul 1953
  • Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs 1988
• * At Midnight, in the Month of June, (ss) EQMM Jun 1954
  • Uncertain Endings: The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories, ed. Otto Penzler, Pegasus Books 2007
• * Austen and Jausten: The Twins of Time, (ss) The Strand Magazine #9 2002
• * B & B: Brackett & Bradbury: 1944, (in)
  • No Good from a Corpse, Leigh Brackett, Dennis McMillan 1999
• * Darling Adolf, (ss) Long After Midnight, Knopf 1976
  • Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery, ed. Peter Haining, London: Little Brown UK 1994
• * Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds, (ss) Gallery Apr 1976
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * Grand Theft, (ss) EQMM Jul 1995
• * The Mafioso Cement-Mixing Machine, (ss) The Strand Magazine #13 2004
• * My Perfect Murder, (ss) Playboy Aug 1971; also as “The Utterly Perfect Murder”.
• * Night Train to Babylon, (ss) Driving Blind, Avon 1997
  • EQMM Dec 1997
  • Cutting Edge, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The Scythe, (ss) Weird Tales Jul 1943
  • Mystery Stories, ed. Helen Cresswell, Kingfisher 1996
• * Sixty-Six, (ss) The Strand Magazine #11 2003
• * The Utterly Perfect Murder [“My Perfect Murder”], (ss) Playboy Aug 1971
  • The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• * The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1950
  • The Gourmet Crook Book, ed. Tony Wilmot, Everest Books 1976; given as “The Veld” in toc.
• * The Very Gentle Murders, (ss) EQMM May 1994
• * The Whole Town’s Sleeping, (ss) McCall’s Sep 1950
  • Uncertain Endings: The World’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories, ed. Otto Penzler, Pegasus Books 2007
• * The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone, (ss) Charm Jul 1954
  • EQMM Jan 1984
  • The Haunted Hour, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley Prime Crime 1995
• * The World the Children Made, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1950; also as “The Veldt”.

BRADDON, M(ary) E(lizabeth) [Mrs. John Maxwell] (1835-1915) (chron.)

• * Levison’s Victim, (ss) Belgravia Jan 1870
  • Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection, ed. Michael Cox, New York: Oxford University Press 1992
• * Samuel Lowgood’s Revenge, (ss) Ralph the Bailiff and Other Tales, Ward 1862
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991
• * The Shadow in the Corner, (ss) All the Year Round Sum 1879
  • Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories, ed. David Stuart Davies, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 2006

BRADFORD, JAMES MICHAEL ALOYSIUS (1954- ); see pseudonym Jimmy Nail (chron.)

BRADFORD, K. TEMPEST (chron.)

• * The Seventh Reflection, (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006

BRADFORD, MIKE (chron.)

• * Diamonds Glitter, Blood Stains, (ss) Low Down and Derby, ed. Abigail Jones, Overmountain Press 2006

BRADFORD, ROSE DAWN (chron.)

• * Asking for It, (ss) Hardboiled #19 1994
• * Principles, (ss) Hardboiled #14 1992
  • Hardboiled, ed. Stuart Coupe & Julie Ogden, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1992

BRADLEY, CHRIS (chron.)

• * Double Take, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Dec 1988

BRADLEY, FLEUR (chron.)

• * Circling the Drain, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2007
• * Mall Crawling, (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug-Nov 2005

BRADLEY, MATTHEW R. (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Noir: Three Novels of Suspense, Richard Matheson, Delavan, WI: G&G Books 1997

BRADLEY, RAY (chron.)

• * The Bus Bandits, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1984

BRADLEY, SUSANNAH (chron.)

• * Just a Crossed Line, (ss) Purnell’s Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Anon., Bristol: Purnell 1982

BRADLEY, WORTHEN (chron.)

• * A Song for The Scowrers, (sg) 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

BRADSHAW, GILLIAN (Marucha) (1956- ) (chron.)

• * The Justice of Isis, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002
• * The Malice of the Anicii, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003

BRADSHAW, JAMES STANFORD (chron.)

• * The First Comic Detective, (ar) The Armchair Detective Fll 1991

BRADSHAW, T. M. (chron.)

• * The Cat’s Jewels, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BRADY, JOHN (Mary) (1955- ) (chron.)

• * A Stone of the Heart, (n.) London: Constable 1988
  • Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996

BRADY, KATHLEEN (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998

BRAHEN, MARILYN MATTIE (chron.)

• * All in a Golden Afternoon, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

BRAHMS, CARYL; pseudonym of Doris Caroline Abrahams, (1901-1982) (chron.)

• * The Once-in-a-Lifetime Dress, (ss) AHMM Sep 16 1981

BRAINARD, DULCY (chron.)

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

BRALY, DAVID (chron.)

• * 614 Spruce, (ss) AHMM May 1984
• * Appointment at Weehawken, (ss) AHMM Jan 1999
• * The Blow, (ss) AHMM Sep 1982