Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

ANONYMOUS (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Judgement of Daniel, (ss)
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995
• * Lector Returns, (ms) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• * The Left-Handed Thief, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * “Lizzie Borden took an ax”, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * Lord Randal, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * The Missing Centurion, (ss)
  • The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
• * Murder Flies the Night [by Robert J. Hogan], (ss) G-8 Dec 1936
  • High Adventure #54 2000
• * Murder in the Railway Train: A Broadsheet Ballad, (pm) 1870
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * The Murder of “Jake” Lingle, (ar) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Oct 1930
• * The Mute Witness, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * The Mysterious Countess [attrib W. S. Hayward], (nv) ca. 1861; from Revelations of a Lady Detective, c. 1864.
  • Twelve Women Detective Stories, ed. Laura Marcus, Oxford University Press 1997
• * Pfalz Alarm [by Robert J. Hogan], (ss) G-8 Dec 1936
  • High Adventure #54 2000
• * The Phantom Burglar, (nf) Gun Molls Magazine Aug 1931
  • High Adventure #64 2002
• * Phantom Detective [Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom Detective)], (cs) Thrilling Comics
  • Action Adventure Stories #2 1997
• * Publisher’s Preface, (pr)
  • The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries, Ellery Queen, Crippen & Landru 2005
• * The Puzzle, (nv)
  • AHMM Apr 1993
• * “The Recent Murders”, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * A Record-Breaking 25th Anniversary, (ed) EQMM May 1998
• * River of Ice [Richard Henry Benson The Avenger], (pl) Aug 15 1941
  • Pulp Vault #1 1988
• * The Secret Cipher: A Detective’s Story, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * The Shadow of the Ghost, (nf) Gun Molls Magazine Aug 1931
  • High Adventure #64 2002
• * Sherlock Holmes Umpires Baseball [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Feb 25 1906
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Solved One Murder Mystery But Created Another, (nf) Scientific Detective Annual 1944
• * A Spanish Ghost Story, (ss)
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
• * A Spanish Story, (ss)
  • The Cat of Bast & Other Stories of Mystery, ed. William E. Thorner, Regency 1958
• * Spent Her Life and Fortune Hunting a Killer, (nf) The American Weekly
  • Scientific Detective Mar 1945
• * Story of a Detective “Expert”, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost, (ss) New Christmas Annual, 1867 1866
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994
• * Tear Drop Tank [Richard Henry Benson The Avenger], (pl) Aug 1 1941
  • Pulp Vault #5 1989
• * A Tell-Tale Ink Mark, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * The Tell-Tale Key; or A Woman as a Detective, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * Three Gold Crowns [Richard Henry Benson The Avenger], (pl) Aug 22 1941
  • Pulp Vault #1 1988
• * The Torn Glove, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * Tracing a Murderer, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * The Twisted Ring, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * Vidocq, or the Charcoal Burner of France, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * What Your Penmanship Tells, (cl) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Oct 1930
• * Who Killed Cock Robin?, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * World of Fantasy, (nf) News of the World
  • Scientific Detective Mar 1945
• * Written in Blood, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008
• * X, the Phantom Fed, (cs) Sure-Fire Comics Sep 1940
  • Action Adventure Stories #98 2001

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• * Sleuth Mystery Magazine [v1 #2, December 1958], (mg)
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959

_____, reviews:

• * Egg by James McConnell, (br) Detective Mystery Stories #40 2003
• * Samsara by John Hamilton Lewis, (br) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003

ANTHONY, BILL (chron.)

• * The Devil Wants Blood, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962

ANTHONY, CASH (chron.)

• * The Stand-In, (ss) Dead and Breakfast, ed. Lisa René Smith & Linda Houle, L & L Dreamspell 2007

ANTHONY, MEREDITH (chron.)

• * Murder at the Butt End of Nowhere, (ss) EQMM Dec 2006
• * Murder on the Main Line, (ss) EQMM Jul 2008

ANTIEAU, KIM (1955- ) (chron.)

• * At a Window Facing West, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1990

ANTONI, BRIAN (1959- ) (chron.)

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

ANTONI, ROBERT (chron.)

• * How to Make Photocopies in the Trinidad & Tobago National Archives, (ss) Trinidad Noir, ed. Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason, Akashic Books 2008

ANVIL, CHRISTOPHER; pseudonym of Harry C. Crosby, (1922- ) (chron.)

• * The King’s Legions [Colonization; Vaughan Nathan Roberts], (na) Analog Sep 1967
  • Tin Stars, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986
• * The Problem Solver and the Spy [Richard Verner], (ss) EQMM Dec 1965
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies, ed. Anon., Random House 1982
• * The Speleologist Spy, (ss)
  • Reader’s Digest Mystery Top-Picks, ed. Judith Hatch, Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader’s Digest Educational Division 1977

APODACA, JENNIFER (chron.)

• * Fast Boys, (na) Wicked Women Whodunit, ed. Anon., Brava 2005

APPEL, BENJAMIN (1907-1977) (chron.)

• * Dock Walloper, (nv) Dock Walloper, Lion 1955
  • Hard-Boiled, ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1995
• * Murder of the Frankfurter Man, (ss) 1934
  • Master’s Choice, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 1999

APPEL, RENÉ; (1945- ) (chron.)

• * Bloody Hot, (ss) EQMM Aug 2006; originally published in Dutch in Elsevier, 2004.; tr. by Josh Pachter
  • Passports to Crime: Finest Mystery Stories from International Crime Writers, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2006; tr. by Josh Pachter

APRIL, STEVE; pseudonym of Leonard S. Zinberg, (1911-1968) (chron.)

• * “But You Don’t Know Me!”, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Feb 1966
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual Sum 1971; given in toc as “But You Know Me”

AQUINO, JOHN T(homas) (1949- ) (chron.)

• * A Dead Man’s Wish, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2006
• * The Mysterious Death of the Shadow Man [Henry Bagnet], (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• * The Name-Catcher’s Tale, (ss) Shakespearean Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1998
• * When the Dead Rise Up, (ss) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997

ARADAI, CHARLES (chron.)

• * Fathers and Sons, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006

ARANGO, ARTURO (chron.)

• * Murder, According to My Mother-in-Law, (ss) Havana Noir, ed. Achy Obejas, Akashic Books 2007

ARCHER, JEFFREY (Howard) (1940- ) (books) (chron.)

• * The Alibi, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * Charity Begins at Home, (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * The Commissioner, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * Don’t Drink the Water, (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * A Greek Tragedy, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * In the Eye of the Beholder, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * It Can’t Be October Already, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * Know What I Mean?, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * Maestro, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office, (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * Preface, (pr)
  • Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * The Red King, (nv) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007
• * The Wisdom of Solomon, (ss) Cat o’ Nine Tales and Other Stories, Macmillan 2007

ARCHER, JULES (1915- ) (chron.)

• * One Man Invasion of Mexico, (ar) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987
• * Takeo Yoshikawa: Success at Pearl Harbor, (ar) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986

ARCHER, MILES (chron.)

• * For What It’s Worth, (ss) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• * Hell Hath No Fury, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #32 2003
• * Il Beso di Morta, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002

ARCHER, PETER (chron.)

• * Darkly, Through a Glass of Ale, (nv) Realms of Mystery, ed. Philip Athans, Lake Geneva: TSR 1998

ARCHIBALD, JOE; [i.e., Joseph Stopford Archibald] (1898-?) (chron.)

• * China Wary [Dizzy Duo], (ss) Ten Detective Aces Jul 1937
  • High Adventure Nov 2006
• * Rumble Seat, (ss) The Phantom Detective Apr 1934
  • High Adventure #52 2000
• * Two-Timing Willie [Willie Klump], (ss) Popular Detective Dec 1944

ARDAI, CHARLES (1969- ); see pseudonym Richard Aleas (books) (chron.)

• * The Balancing Man, (ss) AHMM May 1990
  • Fun and Games at the Whacks Museum and Other Horror Stories, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Simon & Schuster 1994
• * A Bar Called Charley’s, (ss) AHMM Nov 1990
• * Carmine and the Christmas Presence, (ss) AHMM Jan 1992
  • Murder Under the Mistletoe and Other Stories, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1992
• * The Case, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1992
• * From Zaire to Eternity, (ss) AHMM Jul 1989
  • High Adventure, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Good Samaritan, (ss) Manhattan Noir, ed. Lawrence Block, Akashic Books 2006; (Midtown).
• * Guest Editorial, (ed) AHMM Apr 1995
• * Hello, You’re Dead, (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• * The Home Front, (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006
• * Introduction, (in)
  • New England Crime Chowder, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, International Polygonics 1992
• * Introduction (with Cynthia Manson), (in)
  • High Adventure, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Barnes & Noble 1992
  • Kingpins, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Futurecrime, ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, Fine 1992
• * The Investigation of Things, (nv) AHMM Feb 1991
  • Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1991
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995
• * Kyushu’s Disguise, (ss) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997
• * The Last Story [Black Widowers], (ss) EQMM Dec 2002
  • The Return of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov, Carroll & Graf 2003
• * The Long Day, (ss) EQMM Mar 1988
• * Masks, (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• * Nobody Wins, (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1993
  • August Is a Good Time for Killing, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1998
• * Payback, (nv) AHMM Apr 1992
• * Rainey Day, (ar) EQMM Jun 2004
• * The Rememberer, (nv) AHMM Feb 1993
• * Secret Service, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• * Takeout Order, (ss) EQMM Apr 1989
• * The Theft of Incrementation, (ss) EQMM Jul 1988

ARDEN, WILLIAM; pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, (1924-2005) (chron.)

• * The Bizarre Case Expert, (ss) EQMM Jun 1970
  • Detection, ed. James Gibson & Alan Ridout, John Murray 1978
• * Clay Pigeon, (ss) Argosy Mar 1971
  • Espionage Magazine Oct 1986

ARLEN, MICHAEL; pseudonym of Dikran Kuyumjian, (1895-1956) (chron.)

• * The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon], (ss) Pan May 1923
  • Mystery, ed. A. K. Barton, London: Dent 1937
• * Gay Falcon [Falcon], (nv) The Strand Jan 1940; also as “A Man Called Falcon”.
  • EQMM Mar 1945
  • More Murder on Cue, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1990
• * The Gentleman from America, (ss) The Tatler Christmas 1924
  • A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen, ed. Anon., London: Daily Express 1934
  • AHMM Sep 1986
• * The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin], (nv) The Sketch Christmas 1923
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994
• * A Man Called Falcon [“Gay Falcon”; Falcon], (nv) The Strand Jan 1940
  • More Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1994
  • The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• * Midnight Adventure [Prince Rudolf], (ss) The Strand Nov 1938
  • EQMM Mar 1948
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Red Antony [Lord George Tarlyon], (nv) The Sketch Dec 25 1922; also as “The Smell in the Library”.
• * The Smell in the Library [“Red Antony”; Lord George Tarlyon], (nv) The Sketch Dec 25 1922
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991

ARMIN, JANINE (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction (with Nathaniel G. Moore), (in) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008

ARMITAGE, ROLAND (chron.)

• * Hate Inanimate, (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940

ARMITAGE, SIMON (chron.)

• * Gooseberry Season, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
• * “Hitcher” [from Book of Matches], (ex) London: Faber and Faber 1993
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

ARMOUR, R(obert) C(outts) (1874-1956?); see pseudonym Coutts Brisbane (chron.)

ARMSTRONG, AARON (chron.)

• * A Noir Gallery, (il) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2001

ARMSTRONG, ANTHONY; pseudonym of George A. A. Willis, (1897-1976) (chron.)

• * The Case of Mr. Pelham, (ss) Esquire 1940
  • EQMM Jun 1955
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * One-Way Street [Detective Inspector Painton], (ss) 1946
  • EQMM Nov 1952
  • Fifty Years of the Best from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Carroll & Graf 1991
  • AHMM Sep 1992