Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007


Index: Stories, Listed by Title


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FROM:   THROUGH:
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
  • Activities: Before Reading
  • Activities: While Reading
  • The Adventure of the Penny Magenta
  • The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster
  • Alcatraz
  • Ale Celestial?
  • Anchor the Stiff!
  • Ancient Evil
  • An Appointment Up the Mountain
  • Appointment with Emil
  • Au Purr
  • Auction at McKay’s Corners
  • A Ballad of the White Plague
  • The Ballet Exercises
  • Behind the Screen, Chapter IV, In the Aspidistra
  • Behind the Screen, Chapter V
  • The Big Sequel
  • Big Shot
  • Blackjack Queen
  • Blackmail
  • The Blue Carbuncle
  • Blue Christmas
  • Boomerang Bullets
  • Boondoggle
  • Brillo
  • The Brim Whistle
  • But the Corpse Can’t Laugh
  • But What’s Done Is Done
  • Captain Leopold Beats the Machine
  • Captain Leopold Goes Fishing
  • The Case of the Fat FBI Agent
  • The Case of the Fiery Messengers
  • Cat Lady
  • The Cat Man
  • Charade of Death
  • Charades, Anybody?
  • A Christmas Present for His Wife
  • A Christmas Question
  • Clue of Courage
  • The Clue of the Broken Legs
  • Compulsion
  • Computer Error
  • The Copper Kings (HHC)
  • The Copper Let Him Go
  • The Cremains of the Day
  • The Crescent
  • The Cupid Mirror
  • Cupid’s Arrow
  • The Dark Gamble: End of the Trail
  • The Dark Glasses
  • Dead Men’s Shirts
  • Dead Men’s Shoes
  • The Death Cry
  • Death Cup
  • The Death Song
  • Death Spins the Wheel
  • Desperate Measures
  • The Desperate Minutes
  • Director’s Cut
  • Director’s Cut: An Interview with David Koepp
  • The $1.49-Day Killer
  • Dollars and Scents
  • Draw Your Breath in Pain
  • Drawing the Line
  • A Dynamite Story
  • The E-String
  • Element of Doubt
  • An Elementary Deduction
  • EQMM and Black Mask
  • EQMM Goes to the Movies
  • Extended Family
  • Extenuating Circumstances
  • A Family That Prays Together
  • Family Ties
  • A Few Worms Among Friends
  • Fiat de Luxe
  • First-Story Man
  • Fish
  • Footsteps in the Night
  • Footsteps in the Snow
  • Frame Me in Oils
  • Framed
  • from Cider with Rosie
  • from Citizens
  • from W. G. Grace’s Last Case
  • From Watson’s Scrapbook, by John H. Watson, M.D., as transcribed by by Marvin Kaye
  • A Gathering at Lake St. Catherine
  • The Gathering of the Klan
  • The Gilbert and Sullivan Mystery
  • Gilding Miss Lily
  • Golf Widow
  • Goliath
  • Gray Eyes
  • The Gray Lady
  • The Gun Law
  • Gun Music
  • Hard Labor Creek
  • Hard Luck Story
  • The Heart of Ahura Mazda
  • Heart of the Matter
  • The High Price of Cat Food
  • High Ramparts
  • Homecoming for a Killer!
  • Homefront
  • The House That Jack Built
  • The House That Jill Built
  • I Never Saw His Face
  • I Never Seen No Building Twenty Stories Tall
  • An Improper Way to Die
  • Improvements
  • Indian Rope Trick
  • Indian Summer
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Is She Alone?
  • Is There a Doctor in the House?
  • Jericho Plays It Cool
  • Jericho’s Way
  • Just Like Suzie
  • Just Like the Old Days
  • Kill the Woman and Child
  • Kill with Kindness
  • The Knock-off
  • The Knockout in the Leopard Coat
  • The Last of Clyde Dough
  • Last of Kin
  • A Legal Maneuver
  • Legally Dead
  • Lightning and Justice
  • Lightning Rider
  • The Lobsenz Intrusion
  • Lobster Night
  • Lost Leader
  • Lost Legacy
  • The Madness of Colonel Warburton (ascribed to Dashiell Hammett)
  • Mae and Ginger
  • Man on the Run
  • The Man on the Stair
  • Mariachi Redux
  • Maria’s Misfortune
  • Mayhem in Mayberry
  • Mayhem in the Magic City
  • Mickey Pat
  • “Mickey Spillane”
  • The Missing Chevy and Murder
  • The Missing Collectormaniac
  • More Than Bourbon and Kentucky Fried Chicken
  • More than Flesh & Blood
  • Mr. Strang Takes a Partner
  • Mr. Strang Takes a Tour
  • Murder in Central Park
  • Murder in Dublin
  • The Murdered Cousin
  • The Murdered Mummy
  • Mystery Express
  • Mystery for Christmas
  • Negative Nixons
  • Negatives
  • A Night in Hell
  • Night in Manilla
  • No Second Sunset
  • No Simple Solution
  • Now Pull the Trigger
  • Now What?
  • Old Rattler
  • Old Rex
  • One Morning They’ll Hang Him
  • One Murder in Maine
  • The Other Woman
  • The Other Woman
  • Pardon My Death Ray
  • The Pardoner’s Tale
  • A Penny Saved...
  • The Penny-a-Worder
  • Photo Finish
  • Photo Opportunity
  • Plot Counterplot
  • Plot It Yourself
  • Practicing
  • The Pragmatists Take a Bow
  • The Problem of the Courthouse Gargoyle
  • The Problem of the Covered Bridge
  • Punishment to Fit the Crime
  • Punk
  • Rain
  • Rain at Rashomon
  • Red Feather’s Daughter
  • The Red Ferrari
  • The Return of the Late, Great J. Edgar Hoover
  • The Return of the League
  • Road Trip
  • Roadhouse Doll
  • Rumpole’s Bonfire Night
  • Run for Justice
  • Satan’s Forge
  • Satan’s Masquerade
  • A Season of Regret
  • Season of Sharing
  • Serve and Volley
  • Served Cold
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost of Christmas Past
  • Silent Witness
  • Silently, in the Dead of Night
  • Slaughterhouse
  • The Slave
  • Snow, Snow, Snow
  • Snowball
  • A Sort of Miss Marple?
  • A Sort of the Truth
  • Spy Story
  • The Spy Who Came Back from the Dead
  • The Still Small Voice
  • Still Water
  • The Story That Won: In Plain Sight
  • The Story That Won: Just Looking
  • Strictly Diplomatic
  • Striding Folly
  • Survival
  • Survival
  • Tales of Chinatown
  • Tales out of School
  • Terror Has No Conscience!
  • Terror in the Town
  • These Hard Times
  • They All Ran After the President’s Wife
  • Three O’Clock
  • The Three of Spades
  • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt
  • To Break the Wall
  • Touch Not the Cat
  • The Touch of a Vanished Hand
  • Tripwire
  • The Triumph of Eve
  • Two Little Indians
  • Two Lunchdates with Destiny
  • An Unkindness of Ravens
  • The Unknown Lady of Sutton Bank
  • The Vanished Crown
  • The Vanished Ships
  • Vivian by Moonlight
  • The Vivisector Vivisected
  • Watson’s Mournful Reveries
  • The Watts Lions
  • What the Dormouse Said
  • What the East Wind Brought
  • White Out
  • White Out
  • The Wind in the Rose-Bush
  • Windfall
  • The Woman Who Came at Six O’Clock
  • The Woman Who Could Not Lie
  • The Year in Mystery and Crime Fiction: 2003
  • The Year in Mystery and Crime Fiction: 2004
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