Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

PRINCE, JEROME (stories)

• The Man in the Velvet Hat [with Harold Prince] (ss) EQMM May 1944 [Inspector Magruder]

PRIOR, ALLAN (1922- ) (stories)

• The Day Lucky’s Luck Ran Out (ss) Daily Mail Nov 1981

PRITCHETT, JILL (stories)

• Corner Booth (ss) EQMM Dec 2003

PRITCHETT, V(ictor) S(awdon) (1900-1997) (stories)

• A Story of Don Juan (ss) 1941

PRIZEL, YURI (1949?- ) (stories)

• A Reader’s Plea (pm) EQMM Nov 3 1980
• Learn Murder by Mail (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1982

PRONZINI, BILL; [i.e., William John Pronzini] (1943- ); see pseudonyms J. V. Drexel, Jack Foxx, William Jeffrey & Alex Saxon (books) (stories)

• You Don’t Know What It’s Like (ss) Shell Scott Mystery Magazine Nov 1966
• Night Freight (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1967
• Opportunity (ss) AHMM Dec 1967
• Words Do Not a Book Make (ss) AHMM May 1968
• It’s a Lousy World (ss) AHMM Aug 1968 [Nameless private eye]
• Sometimes There Is Justice (ss) AHMM Aug 1968; also as “It’s a Lousy World”. [Nameless private eye]
• Death of a Nobody (ss) AHMM Feb 1970 [Nameless private eye]
• The Man Who Collected ‘The Shadow’ (ss) F&SF Jun 1971
• I Know a Way (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1971
• The Pattern (ss) AHMM Sep 1971
• The Desperate Ones (ss) AHMM Nov 1971 [Carmody]
• The Assignment (ss) AHMM Feb 1972; also as “One of Those Cases”. [Nameless private eye]
• One of Those Cases (ss) AHMM Feb 1972 [Nameless private eye]
• All the Same (ss) AHMM Sep 1972
• I Ought to Kill You [with Barry N. Malzberg] (vi) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1972
• Thirst (ss) F&SF Nov 1973
• Proof of Guilt (ss) EQMM Dec 1973
• Fergus O’Hara, Detective (nv) AHMM Mar 1974
• The Riverboat Gold Robbery (nv) AHMM Mar 1974; also as “Fergus O’Hara, Detective”.
• A Matter of Life and Death [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1974
• Free-Lance Operation (nv) AHMM May 1975
• Quicker Than the Eye [with Michael J. Kurland] (nv) AHMM Sep 1975
• Vanishing Act [with Michael J. Kurland] (ss) AHMM Jan 1976 [Christopher Steele]
• Putting the Pieces Back (ss) AHMM Apr 1976
• Problems Solved [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) EQMM Jun 1976
• The Arrowmont Prison Riddle (nv) AHMM Oct 1976
• A Matter of Survival [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Dec 1976
• Sweet Fever (ss) EQMM Dec 1976
• Multiples [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Tricks and Treats, ed. Joe Gores & Bill Pronzini, Doubleday 1976
• Smuggler’s Island (nv) AHMM Mar 1977
• What Kind of Person Are You? [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Apr 1977
• The Last Plagiarism [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM May 1977
• Night Rider [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Jun 1977
• Under the Skin (ss) EQMM Oct 1977
• On Account of Darkness [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) F&SF Nov 1977
• Birds of a Feather [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Apr 1978
• Strangers in the Fog (ss) EQMM Jun 1978
• Bank Job (ss) EQMM Aug 1978
• Another Burnt-Out Case [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Fantastic Oct 1978
• Caught in the Act (ss) EQMM Dec 1978
• Deathlove (ss) Shadows #1, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday 1978
• His Name Was Legion (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1979
• Final Exam [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Feb 1979
• The Private Eye Who Collected Pulps (ss) EQMM Feb 1979; also as “The Pulp Connection”. [Nameless private eye]
• The Pulp Connection (ss) EQMM Feb 1979 [Nameless private eye]
• Rebound [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) EQMM Apr 1979
• Million-to-One Shot [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) EQMM Jul 1979
• Prose Bowl [with Barry N. Malzberg] (nv) F&SF Jul 1979
• Black Wind (ss) EQMM Sep 1979
• A Craving for Originality (ss) EQMM Dec 17 1979
• Clocks [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Shadows #2, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday 1979
• Peekaboo (ss) Nightmares, ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy 1979
• Where Have You Gone, Sam Spade? (nv) AHMM Jan 30 1980 [Nameless private eye]
• Times Change (ss) EQMM Feb 11 1980
• Blazing Guns of the Rio Rangers [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) AHMM Feb 27 1980
• The Lyran Case [with Barry N. Malzberg] (vi) Analog Mar 1980 [Lunar Immigration]
• Dead Man’s Slough (ss) AHMM May 21 1980 [Nameless private eye]
• Two Weeks Every Summer (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
• And Then We Went to Venus (ss) F&SF Jun 1980
• The Dispatching of George Ferris (vi) EQMM Jul 23 1980
• Connoisseur (ss) Who Done It?, ed. Alice Laurance & Isaac Asimov, Houghton Mifflin 1980
• A Killing in Xanadu (ss) A Killing in Xanadu, Bill Pronzini, Waves Press: Richmond VA 1980 [Nameless private eye]
• Labyrinth (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1980 [Nameless private eye]
• The Rec Field (ss) Chrysalis 6, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra 1980
• Demolition, Inc. [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1981; revised from Skullduggery, April 1980.
• The Terrarium Principle (ss) EQMM Apr 22 1981
• Whither Thou, Ghost [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) F&SF May 1981 [Lunar Immigration]
• The Hanging Man (ss) EQMM Aug 12 1981
• House Call [with Jeffrey M. Wallmann] (ss) AHMM Aug 19 1981
• Tiger, Tiger [with John Lutz] (ss) Mystery Sep 1981
• Coyote and Quarter-Moon [with Jeffrey M. Wallmann] (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1981
• Hoodwink (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1981 [Nameless private eye]
• Vanishing Point [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Analog Feb 1 1982 [Lunar Immigration]
• Dragonfire (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1982 [Nameless private eye]
• Scattershot (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1982 [Nameless private eye]
• Casefile (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1983 [Nameless private eye]
• Cat’s-Paw (nv) Waves Press 1983 [Nameless private eye]
• Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg (nv) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984 [Nameless private eye]
• The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Bonanza 1985
• Bones (n.) New York: St. Martin’s 1985 [Nameless private eye]
• Sanctuary (ss) Graveyard Plots 1985; also as “Twenty Miles from Paradise”. [Nameless private eye]
• Twenty Miles from Paradise (ss) Graveyard Plots 1985 [Nameless private eye]
• Crime and Crime Again [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg] (an) Morrow 1986
• Ace in the Hole (ss) Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986 [Nameless private eye]
• “A Talk with Bill Pronzini” by Todd Moore (iv) Hardboiled #6 1986
• Deathwatch (ss) Mystery Scene Reader #1, ed. Ed Gorman, Fedora 1987
• Stacked Deck (nv) The New Black Mask No.8, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1987
• Cloak and Dagger [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Avenel 1988
• Cache and Carry [with Marcia Muller] (ss) Small Felonies, St. Martin’s 1988 [Nameless private eye; Sharon McCone]
• Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern (ss) An Eye for Justice, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1988 [Nameless private eye]
• Mrs. Rakubian (ss) Small Felonies, St. Martin’s 1988
• No Room at the Inn (ss) Crime at Christmas, ed. Jack Adrian, Equation 1988 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Something Wrong (ss) Small Felonies, St. Martin’s 1988 [Nameless private eye]
• Wooden Indian (ss) AHMM Mar 1989
• Funeral Day (ss) New Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1989
• Here Comes Santa Claus (ss) Mistletoe Mysteries, Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1989 [Nameless private eye]
• Introduction to The Red Scarf (in) 1989
• Labyrinth/Bones (om) Knightsbridge 1990 [Nameless private eye]
• Stakeout (ss) Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1990 [Nameless private eye]
• Hoodwink/Scattershot (om) Knightsbridge 1990 [Nameless private eye]
• Dragonfire/Casefile (om) Knightsbridge 1990 [Nameless private eye]
• I Didn’t Do It (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990
• Bedeviled (nv) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991 [Nameless private eye]
• Cat’s-Paw/Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern (co) Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991 [Nameless private eye]
• Stacked Deck (co) Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1991
• La Bellezza Delle Bellezze (nv) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991 [Nameless private eye]
• Ancient Evil (ss) The Ultimate Werewolf, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell 1991
• Out Behind the Shed (ss) Final Shadows, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation 1991
• Souls Burning (ss) New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991 [Nameless private eye]
• Tom (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Liar’s Dice (ss) EQMM Nov 1992
• Shade Work (ss) EQMM Nov 1993
• The Coffin Trimmer (ss) Touch Wood, ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK 1993
• Kinsmen (na) Criminal Intent 1, ed. Anon., Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1993 [Nameless private eye]
• A Taste of Paradise (ss) EQMM Mar 1994
• The Cloud Cracker (ss) Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Jul 1994 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Lady One-Eye (nv) Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Sep 1994 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Out of the Depths (ss) EQMM Sep 1994
• Coney Game (nv) Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Nov 1994 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Engines (ss) The Mysterious West, ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins 1994
• Burgade’s Crossing (nv) Louis L’Amour Western Magazine #1 1994 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• One Night at Dolores Park (ss) EQMM Apr 1995 [Nameless private eye]
• The Desert Limited (ss) Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Nov 1995 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Home Is the Place Where (ss) EQMM Nov 1995 [Nameless private eye]
• Bomb Scare (vi) EQMM Dec 1995 [Nameless private eye]
• Hard-Boiled [ed. with Jack Adrian] (an) Oxford University Press 1995
• Cat Bay on Cat Cay (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• Worried Mother Job (nv) For Crime Out Loud, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd. 1995 [Nameless private eye]
• Man on the Run (ss) EQMM Feb 1996
• Boobytrap (nv) Guilty as Charged, ed. Scott Turlow, Pocket 1996
• The Monster (ss) EQMM Nov 1996
• Spadework: Stories of the “Nameless Detective” (co) Crippen & Landru 1996 [Nameless private eye]
• Angel of Mercy (ss) Diagnosis: Terminal, ed. F. Paul Wilson, Tor/Forge 1996
• Zero Tolerance (ss) Spadework, Crippen & Landru 1996 [Nameless private eye]
• Not a Lick of Sense (ss) The Fatal Frontier, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• The Horseshoe Nail (nv) EQMM Feb 1997 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• American Pulp [ed. with Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman] (an) Carroll & Graf 1997
• Detective Duos [ed. with Marcia Muller] (an) Oxford University Press 1997
• A Century of Mystery 1980-1989 [ed. with Marcia Muller] (an) MJF Books 1997
• Medium Rare (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Carpenter and Quincannon: Professional Detective Services (co) Crippen & Landru 1998 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• The Highbinders (nv) Carpenter and Quincannon: Professional Detective Services, Crippen & Landru 1998 [Sabrina Carpenter; John Quincannon]
• Sleuths (co) Five Star 1999
• Flood (ss) EQMM Apr 1999
• The Dying Time [with Marcia Muller] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
• Pure Pulp [ed. with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg] (an) Carroll & Graf 1999
• Wishful Thinking (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• The Big Bite (nv) Shots (online) v2 #6 1999 [Nameless private eye]
• The Man Who Loved Mystery Stories [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) The Strand Magazine #5 2000
• Night Freight (co) Leisure 2000
• Home (ss) Night Freight, Leisure 2000
• I Think I Will Not Hang Myself Today (ss) EQMM May 2000
• Oddiments: A Short Story Collection (co) Five Star 2000
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time (ss) Most Wanted, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2002 [Nameless private eye]
• More Oddiments (co) Five Star 2001
• Season of Sharing [with Marcia Muller] (ss) Crippen & Landru 2001 [Nameless private eye; Sharon McCone]
• Season of Sharing [with Marcia Muller] (ss) Crippen & Landru 2001 [Nameless private eye; Sharon McCone]
• Chip (ss) Mystery Scene #71 2001
• Just Looking (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Scenarios: A “Nameless Detective” Casebook (co) Five Star 2003 [Nameless private eye]
• The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch (na) Scenarios: A “Nameless Detective” Casebook, Five Star 2003; from Sosetsu Shincho, Japan 1982. [Nameless private eye]
• Problems Solved [with Barry N. Malzberg] (co) Crippen & Landru 2003
• Afterthought [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Problems Solved, Crippen & Landru 2003
• Me and Mitch [with Barry N. Malzberg] (ss) Problems Solved, Crippen & Landru 2003
• Preface: Long Time Passing (pr) Problems Solved, Crippen & Landru 2003
• The Collaborations of Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg (bi) Problems Solved, Crippen & Landru 2003
• The Bughouse Caper (na) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Free Durt (ss) EQMM Feb 2005
• The World by the Tail (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005
• Quincannon in Paradise (nv) EQMM Nov 2005 [John Quincannon]
• Devil’s Brew (nv) EQMM Dec 2006
• Blood Money (ss) [Carmody]
• ...But First a Few Words from the Author (in)
• Forgotten Writers: Jay/J.M. Flynn (bi)
• Introduction (in)
• Introduction [with Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg] (in)
• Introduction [with Jack Adrian] (in)
• Introduction [with Marcia Muller] (in)
• Introduction [with Martin H. Greenberg] (in)
• Jade (ss) [Dan Connell]
• A “Nameless Detective” Checklist (bi)
• Preface (pr)
• Preface: Anatomy of a Series (pr)
• Prelude: A Fast Drumroll (pr)
• Random Chunks of Muddle (aw)

PROUDFIT, LIBBET (stories)

• The Quality of Mercy [with Mary Monica Pulver] (nv) AHMM Feb 1984

PROVENCHER, ROSEMARIE (stories)

• The End (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1990

PRUCHA, LYNETTE (A.) (1955- ) (stories)

• Murder Is My Business (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990

PRUFER, KEVIN (stories)

• The Body in the Spring (ss) AHMM Jun 2005
• The River Market Murders (ss) AHMM Sep 2006

PRUITT, SUSAN (stories)

• Demise of the Cicada Killer (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #43 2003

PRUYN, LEONARD (1898-1973) (stories)

• Dinner at Garibaldi’s (ss) Malcolm’s Mar 1954

PRYCE-JONES, ALLEN (stories)

• (untitled) (ex)

PRYOR, JOSH (stories)

• Wrong Numbers (nv) Zoetrope All-Story Spr 1999

PRYSE, DOTTIE (stories)

• Clues Are What They Use (pz) Murderous Intent Fll 1999

PRZYBILKA, THOMAS (stories)

• The Copyist [with Stefan Slupetzky, Christoph Spielberg, Anke Gebert, Paul Lascaux & Richard Lifka] (ss) EQMM Dec 2006; tr. by Mary Tannert