Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

GILBERT, MICHAEL (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Police Business [Fearne and Bracknell], (ss) EQMM Nov 1999
• * A Prince of Abyssinia [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens], (ss) Argosy (UK) Mar 1962; also as “The Uninvited”.
• * A Problem in Ethics [Fearne and Bracknell], (ss) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• * Professional Riposte, (ss) EQMM May 1965
  • Senior Sleuths, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley 1996
• * Rats’ Castle [Fearne and Bracknell], (ss) EQMM Aug 1998
• * The Reign of Terror [Jonas Pickett], (nv) EQMM Oct 1985
  • Anything for a Quiet Life, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * The Road to Damascus [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens], (ss) Argosy (UK) Jun 1966
  • Road to Damascus, Finland: Eurographica 1990
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
• * Rough Justice [Insp. Patrick Petrella], (ss) EQMM Mar 1977
  • Law and Order, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1997
• * Safe!, (ss) Woman’s Journal Mar 1956
  • Suspense (UK) Aug 1958
  • More Murder on Cue, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1990
• * Scream in a Soundproof Room [“The Cabinet Maker”], (ss) Reveille Apr 26 1955
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Second Skin [“The Oyster Catcher”; Insp. Patrick Petrella], (ss) Argosy (UK) Aug 1957
  • EQMM Sep 1958
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
• * A Sense of History [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens; Commander Elfe], (ss) EQMM Jul 23 1980; also as “Signal Tresham”.
• * The Seventh Musket, (ss) Argosy (UK) Aug 1954
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Sheik Goes Shopping, (ss) Lilliput Apr 1957
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * Signal Tresham [“A Sense of History”; Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens; Commander Elfe], (ss) EQMM Jul 23 1980
  • The Oxford Book of Spy Stories, ed. Michael Cox, Oxford University Press 1996
• * Something Like Hard Work [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg], (ss) The (London) Evening Standard Jul 11 1950
  • The Man Who Hated Banks and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Source Seven [Insp. Patrick Petrella], (ss) John Bull Aug 29 1953; also as “Heroin 1963”.
  • EQMM Jul 15 1981
• * The Squeeze, (ss) The (London) Evening Standard Jan 29 1951; also as “Squeeze Play”.
• * Squeeze Play [“The Squeeze”], (ss) The (London) Evening Standard Jan 29 1951
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The System [Henry Montague Bohun], (ss) Argosy (UK) Apr 1970
  • John Creasey’s Mystery Bedside Book, 1975, ed. Herbert Harris, Hodder Stoughton 1974
• * The Terrible Mrs. Barker [Insp. Patrick Petrella], (ss) Argosy (UK) Jul 1959
  • The Man Who Hated Banks and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Ticker Batson’s Last Job [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg], (ss) Sunday Chronicle May 7 1950
  • The Man Who Hated Banks and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 1997
• * Tiger Country [Fearne and Bracknell], (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 5, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Little, Brown 1995
  • EQMM Oct 1995
• * Trembling’s Tours [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens], (ss) Argosy (UK) Jul 1962; also as “Fear and Trembling’s”.
  • Road to Damascus, Finland: Eurographica 1990
• * The Two Footmen [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1987
  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [revised], ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh & Jon L. Lellenberg, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Under the Last Scuttleful [“A Corner of the Cellar”], (ss) Argosy (UK) Mar 1955
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Uninvited [“A Prince of Abyssinia”; Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens], (ss) Argosy (UK) Mar 1962
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Sinister Spies, ed. Anon., Random House 1982
  • Murder British Style, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Unstoppable Man [“Amateur in Violence”; Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg], (ss) John Bull Nov 19 1949
  • Masterpieces of Adventure, ed. Louis Morris, Hart 1966
• * Verdict of Three, (ss) EQMM Feb 1979
  • The Curious Conspiracy and Other Crimes, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Violence Peddlers [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens], (nv) EQMM Feb 25 1981; also as “Mercenaries”.
• * Vivat Regina [Jonas Pickett], (nv) EQMM Dec 1984
  • Anything for a Quiet Life, Carroll & Graf 1990
• * We’ve Come to Report a Murder, Sir [Jonas Pickett], (nv) EQMM Nov 1986
  • Anything for a Quiet Life, Carroll & Graf 1990

GILBERT, S. (chron.)

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• * The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, by Georges Simenon [from L’Homme qui regardait passer les trains, Fayard; Paris, 1938], (ex) 1942
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

GILBERT, SARAH (chron.)

• * Curtain, (pm) EQMM Jun 1991
• * For Goodness’ Sake, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1984
• * Open and Shut Case, (ss) AHMM Dec 1984

GILBERT, [Sir] W(illiam) S(chwenck) (1836-1911) (chron.)

• * The Burglar’s Story, (ss) Holly Leaves Dec 8 1883
  • 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1994
• * My Maiden Brief, (ss)
  • Murder & Other Acts of Literature, ed. Michele Slung, St. Martin’s 1997
• * The Yarn of the Nancy Bell, (sg) Current Literature Oct 1901
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

GILCHRIST, ELLEN (1935- ) (chron.)

• * The Last Diet, (ss) Drunk With Love, Little, Brown 1986
  • EQMM Nov 1987
• * Revenge, (ss) 1981
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991

GILDEN, MEL (1947- ) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (James Phillimore).

GILES, GAIL (chron.)

• * Your Keys or Mine?, (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990

GILES, KRIS (chron.)

• * Double Entry, (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1959

GILES, MICHELLE (chron.)

• * The Assignment, (vi) About Mysteries; Just when the teacher had begun to lose hope for her student, she turns it around with the assignment...
• * The Bold and the Beautiful, (vi) Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• * The Cocktail Party, (vi) Murderous Intent Fll 1999; You just never know what might be on the minds of the man and woman whose eyes met across a crowded room at the cocktail party...
  • About Mysteries
• * Feline Felony, (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2003
• * Two-Timing, (vi) About Mysteries; How hard could it be to get away with murder of your two-timing husband? —.

GILFORD, C(harles) B(ernard) (1920- ) (chron.)

• * The Already Dead, (nv) AHMM Oct 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1968, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1968
• * Biggest Risk, (nv) Manhunt Aug 1956
  • AHMM Oct 27 1980
• * The Body Behind the Billboard, (ss) AHMM Sep 1957
  • AHMM mid-Dec 1990
• * Bull in a China Shop, (ss) EQMM Sep 1957
  • Ellery Queen’s Mystery Stories #2, ed. Anon., Bonomo 1979
• * The Cemetery Man, (ss) AHMM Jun 1963
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1964, ed. Richard E. Decker, Davis 1964
• * The Coldbrook Crime, (ss) AHMM Mar 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * Hang Him to the Nearest Tree, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957
• * Heaven Can Wait, (ss) EQMM Aug 1953
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991
• * Never Kill for Love, (nv) AHMM Apr 1960
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960
• * The Night Lincoln Died, (ss) AHMM Nov 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1960, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1960
• * No Passion to Kill, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Notes for a Murder Story, (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * Now I am Alone, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Nov 1957
• * That Stranger, My Son, (ss) Manhunt Oct 1954
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• * Too Timid for Death, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• * Trouble Girl, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1957

GILL, ANTON (1948- ) (chron.)

• * Lord of Storms [Huy the Scribe], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * Scorpion’s Kiss [Huy the Scribe], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002

GILL, B. M.; pseudonym of Barbara Margaret Trimble, (1921-1995) (chron.)

• * Forty-two Headmasters Are Missing, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 23, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1991

GILL, JESSE (chron.)

• * The Price of Freedom, (ss) Espionage Magazine Sep 1987

GILL, JOE (1919-2006) (chron.)

• * Go Kill Yourself, (ss) Espionage Magazine Feb 1986

GILL, ZANE (chron.)

• * Brains Can’t Talk, (ss) Suspense Stories #1 1954

GILLBERG, GOSTA (chron.)

• * The Perfect Imperfect, (ss) Perfectly Criminal, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1996

GILLETTE, VIRGINIA MARY (1920-1995) (chron.)

• * Lydia’s House, (ss) EQMM Nov 1985

GILLIAM, RICHARD (chron.)

• * Hotel Stygia, (ss) Fred Olen Ray’s Weird Menace, ed. Fred Olen Ray, Hollywood, CA: American Independent Press 1994
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

GILLIS, JACKSON (Clark) (1916- ) (chron.)

• * The Case of the Drifting Dropout, (ss)
  • Reader’s Digest Mystery Top-Picks, ed. Judith Hatch, Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader’s Digest Educational Division 1977

GILLOGLY, KEVIN (chron.)

• * The Shakedown, (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE (Anna) PERKINS (Stetson) (1860-1935) (chron.)

• * The Yellow Wallpaper, (ss) New England Magazine Jan 1892
  • Tales of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Theodore W. Hipple, Allyn and Bacon 1977

GILMAN, DOROTHY; [i.e., Dorothy Gilman Butters] (1923- ) (chron.)

• * The Stalker, (ss) AHMM Jan 2002

GILMAN, LAURA ANNE (1967- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction (with Jennifer Heddle), (in)
  • Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000
• * Overrush, (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004
• * Palimpsest, (nv) Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow, Ace 2004

GILMORE, JAMES M. (chron.)

• * The Night Stalker, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1984

GILMORE, MIKAL (chron.)

• * from Shot in the Heart, (ex) 1994
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

GILPIN, S. J. (chron.)

• * Feathers in the Rain, (ss) Crimewave #2 1999

GILSON, [Major] CHARLES (James Louis) (1878-1943) (chron.)

• * The Old Buddha’s Bed, (nv) Short Stories Sep 25 1940
  • Mystery Stories #25 1942

GILSON, H. McDONOUGH (chron.)

• * A Quiet Night in Queens, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

GIORGIO, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * Nobody Cares, (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• * Perfect Ten, (ss) The Strand Magazine #1 1998

GIRALDI, PHILIP (chron.)

• * Guest Editorial: The CIA Ghost: A Memoir, (ed) AHMM Jul/Aug 2000

GIRARDI, ROBERT (chron.)

• * The Defenestration of Aba Sid, (na) A Vaudeville of Devils, Sceptre 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, ed. Donald E. Westlake, Houghton Mifflin 2000

GIRARDIER, GENE (chron.)

• * Diner of Death, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Oct 1999

GIRDNER, JAQUELINE (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Don’t Eat the Red Herring, (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
• * An Unmourned Death, (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990

GISCHLER, VICTOR (chron.)

• * The Art of Death, (ss) Futures: Short Tales for Story Lovers Apr/May 2001
• * Duffers of the Apocalypse, (ss) Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir, ed. Duane Swierczynski, Busted Flush Press 2006
• * Gischler’s *Final* Hard-boiiled Dixie, (cl) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Big Fat Edgar Loser, (cl) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2002
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Don’t Write Off Workshops, (cl) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Film Noir & Economics, (cl) Plots with Guns Jul/Aug 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Getting Ugly at Bouchercon, (cl) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: It’s the Fiction, Stupid, (cl) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Long Live Filth, (cl) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2002
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: My Smile Is Tired, (cl) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2002
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Pulp Hits the Big Screen, (cl) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: PWG Debut, (cl) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Reader Survey, (cl) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Readers Respond, (cl) Plots with Guns Sum 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Remembering Blue Murder, (cl) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2003
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Summer Grab Bag, (cl) Plots with Guns Sum 2002
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Susan Glaspell and Mysteries in the Canon, (cl) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: The Wrong Case at the Right Time, (cl) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2001
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Waiting for Bouchercon, (cl) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2002
• * Hard-boiled Dixie: Writing Means Traveling, (cl) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2002
• * Hitting Rufus, (ss) Lynx Eye Spr 1998
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, ed. Ed McBain, Houghton Mifflin 1999
• * Karate Babes from the Year 3000 (with Smith), (ss) Plots with Guns Oct-Dec 2000
• * A Kiss Like Money [Connor Samson], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sep 2000
  • North Florida Noir, ed. Michael Lister, Pottersville Press 2006
• * Misty’s World, (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2005
• * Poet Relocation Program, (ss) EQMM May 2003
• * Santa and the Concubines, (ss) Plots with Guns Win 2000