Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Chronological List

PTACEK, KATHRYN; [i.e., Kathryn Anne Ptacek Grant] (1952- ) (stories)

• Siblings (ss) Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• The Boys (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Cat Burglar (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

PUBLISHERS, THE (stories)

• Charles B. Child (pr)

PUGMIRE, JOHN (stories)

• The Tunnel of Death, by Paul Halter (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005; first published in La Nuit du Loup, Hachette Livre, 2000.
• The Night of the Wolf, by Paul Halter (ss) EQMM May 2006; ©2000, translated from the French.; tr. by Robert Adey

PULLMAN, PHILIP (Nicholas) (1946- ) (books) (stories)

• Detective Stories [ed.] (an) Kingfisher 1998
• Introduction (in)

PULVER, MARY MONICA; [i.e., Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld] (1943- ); see pseudonyms Monica Ferris & Margaret Frazer; also as Mary Kuhfeld (stories)

• Pass the Word (ss) AHMM Mar 1983
• The Quality of Mercy [with Libbet Proudfit] (nv) AHMM Feb 1984
• All at Sea (ss) AHMM Mar 1984
• The Oldest Established, Permanent Floating (ss) AHMM Mar 1986
• Father Hugh and the Deadly Scythe (ss) AHMM May 1990 [Father Hugh]
• Father Hugh and the Miller’s Devil (ss) AHMM Sep 1990 [Father Hugh]
• A Magnet for Trouble (ss) AHMM Aug 1995
• Ordeal by Fire (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995 [Father Hugh]
• The Shrewd Taming of Lord Thomas (nv) Shakespearean Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997
• To Whom the Victory? (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999
• Father Hugh and the Kettle of St. Frideswide (ss) Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000 [Father Hugh]

PULVER KUHFELD, MARY MONICA; see under Pulver, Mary Monica (stories)

PUNSHON, E(rnest) R(obertson) (1872-1956) (stories)

• The Haunted Chessmen (ss) The Novel Magazine Mar 1916

PURTILL, RICHARD L(awrence) (1931- ) (stories)

• A Cleverly Rearranged Murder (ss) AHMM May 27 1981

PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER SERGEIEVITCH (1799-1837) (stories)

• from “The Queen of Spades” (ex) 1834
• The Queen of Spades (nv) 1834
• The Coffin-Maker (ss)

PYARCELL, A. A.; pseudonym of Raul Garcia Capella, (1933- ) (stories)

• A Great Pair of Boots (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 1997

PYLE, HOWARD (1853-1911) (stories)

• Tom Chist and the Treasure Box (ss)

QUEEN, CARLOS (stories)

• Fake Eyes (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003

QUEEN, CAROL (stories)

• Silencer (ss) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• Heaven Sent (ss) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997

QUEEN, ELLERY; pseudonym of Frederic Dannay & Manfred B. Lee (books) (stories)

• The Adventure of the One-Penny Black (ss) Great Detective Apr 1933 [Ellery Queen]
• The One-Penny Black (ss) Great Detective Apr 1933; also as “The Adventure of the One-Penny Black”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock (ss) Mystery League Oct 1933 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Mad Tea-Party (nv) The Red Book Magazine Oct 1934; also as “The Mad Tea-Party”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Mad Tea-Party (nv) The Red Book Magazine Oct 1934 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Last Man Club (pl) Jun 15 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of Napoleon’s Razor (pl) Jul 9 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Bad Boy (pl) Jul 30 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the March of Death (pl) Oct 15 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Haunted Cave (pl) Oct 22 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Lost Child (pl) Nov 26 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Black Secret (pl) Dec 10 1939 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Dying Scarecrow (pl) Jan 7 1940 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Woman in Black (pl) Jan 14 1940 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Forgotten Men (pl) Apr 7 1940 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Dark Cloud (pl) Jun 23 1940 [Ellery Queen]
• Editor Ellery Queen Explains (ed) EQMM Fll 1941
• The Adventure of Mr. Short and Mr. Long (pl) Jan 14 1943 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds (pl) EQMM May 1943; also as “The Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds”; first broadcast May 5, 1940. [Ellery Queen]
• The Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds (pl) EQMM May 1943 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Murdered Ship (pl) EQMM Jul 1943 [Ellery Queen]
• The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore (pl) The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Ellery Queen, Little, Brown: Boston 1944; Broadcast January 14, 1943 on the radio drama The Adventures of Ellery Queen.
• The Adventure of the Murdered Moths (pl) May 9 1945 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Dead Cat (ss) EQMM Oct 1946 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Telltale Bottle (ss) EQMM Nov 1946 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Inner Circle (nv) EQMM Jan 1947 [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the President’s Half Disme (nv) EQMM Feb 1947; also as “The President’s Half Disme”. [Ellery Queen]
• The President’s Half Disme (nv) EQMM Feb 1947 [Ellery Queen]
• The Ides of Michael Magoon (nv) EQMM Mar 1947 [Ellery Queen]
• Adventure of the Dauphin Doll (nv) EQMM Dec 1948 [Ellery Queen]
• The Dauphin’s Doll (nv) EQMM Dec 1948; also as “Adventure of the Dauphin Doll”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Lady Couldn’t Explain (ss) This Week Dec 4 1949; also as “The Lonely Bride”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Lonely Bride (ss) This Week Dec 4 1949 [Ellery Queen]
• 101 Years’ Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941 [ed.] (an) Modern Library 194?
• Murder Without Clues (ss) This Week Jan 29 1950; also as “The Three Widows”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Three Widows (ss) This Week Jan 29 1950 [Ellery Queen]
• A Lump of Sugar (ss) This Week Jul 9 1950 [Ellery Queen]
• The Mystery of the 3 Dawn Riders (ss) This Week Jul 9 1950; also as “A Lump of Sugar”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Gamblers’ Club (ss) This Week Jan 7 1951 [Ellery Queen]
• Driver’s Seat (ss) This Week Mar 25 1951 [Ellery Queen]
• Lady, You’re Dead! (ss) This Week Mar 25 1951; also as “Driver’s Seat”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of the Emperor’s Dice (ss) EQMM Apr 1951 [Ellery Queen]
• The Emperor’s Dice (ss) EQMM Apr 1951; also as “The Adventure of the Emperor’s Dice”. [Ellery Queen]
• As Simple as ABC (nv) EQMM May 1951; also as “The Gettysburg Bugle”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Gettysburg Bugle (nv) EQMM May 1951 [Ellery Queen]
• The Fallen Angel (ss) EQMM Jul 1951 [Ellery Queen]
• Cold Money (ss) This Week Mar 20 1952 [Ellery Queen]
• The Phantom Train (ss) This Week Aug 31 1952; also as “Snowball in July”. [Ellery Queen]
• Snowball in July (ss) This Week Aug 31 1952 [Ellery Queen]
• The Myna Bird Mystery (ss) This Week Dec 28 1952; also as “The Myna Birds”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Myna Birds (ss) This Week Dec 28 1952 [Ellery Queen]
• The Accused (ss) Today’s Family Feb 1953 [Ellery Queen]
• The Robber of Wrightsville (ss) Today’s Family Feb 1953; also as “The Accused”. [Ellery Queen]
• “My Queer Dean!” (ss) This Week Mar 8 1953 [Ellery Queen]
• The Motive (nv) Argosy Aug 1956 [Ellery Queen]
• Terror Town (nv) Argosy Aug 1956; also as “The Motive”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Case Against Carroll (na) Argosy Aug 1958 [Ellery Queen]
• Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 1 [ed.] (an) May Fair 1959
• Great Short Masterpieces of Mystery - Always Trust a Cop by Octavus Roy Cohen and 15 and Other Stories [ed.] (an) Black’s Readers Service Co. 195?
• Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 2 [ed.] (an) Thorpe & Porter Ltd. 1961
• Half a Clue (ss) This Week Aug 25 1963 [Ellery Queen]
• Half a Clue to Murder (ss) This Week Aug 25 1963; also as “Half a Clue”. [Ellery Queen]
• Last Man to Die (ss) This Week Nov 3 1963 [Ellery Queen]
• Ellery Queen’s 1964 Anthology Volume 4 [ed.] (an) Davis 1963
• Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 3 [ed.] (an) Davis 1963
• Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 5 [ed.] (an) Davis 1964
• Dead Ringer (ss) The Diners Club Magazine Mar 1965 [Ellery Queen]
• Abraham Lincoln’s Clue (ss) MD Jun 1965; also as “The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue”. [Ellery Queen]
• The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue (ss) MD Jun 1965 [Ellery Queen]
• Uncle from Australia (ss) The Diners Club Magazine Jun 1965 [Ellery Queen]
• The President Regrets (ss) The Diners Club Magazine Sep 1965 [Ellery Queen]
• Wedding Anniversary (ss) EQMM Sep 1967 [Ellery Queen]
• The Three Students (ss) Playboy Mar 1971 [Ellery Queen]
• The Odd Man (ss) Playboy Jun 1971
• The Honest Swindler (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sum 1971 [Ellery Queen]
• The Reindeer Clue (ss) The National Inquirer Dec 23 1975 [Ellery Queen]
• Ellery Queen’s A Multitude of Sins [ed.] (an) Curley 1986
• Six of the Best Short Novels by Masters of Mystery [ed.] (an) Robert Hale 1987
• Classic Crime [ed.] (an) Robinson 1988
• Masters of Suspense [ed. with Eleanor Sullivan] (an) Galahad 1992
• Ellery Queen’s Faces of Mystery [ed.] (an) Curley Publishing 1992
• Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures [ed.] (an) Chivers Press 1995
• The Tragedy of Errors and Others (co) Crippen & Landru 1999
• The Tragedy of Errors (uw) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999
• The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries (co) Crippen & Landru 2005 [Ellery Queen]
• Editor’s Note (pr)
• Introduction (in)

QUELCH, H. STANLEY (stories)

• Danse Macabre (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940

QUENEAU, RAYMOND (1903-1976) (stories)

• (untitled) (ms) Batons, chiffres et lettres Sep 15 1945

QUENTIN, PATRICK; pseudonym of Richard Wilson Webb & Hugh Callingham Wheeler, works after 1952 are by Wheeler alone (stories)

• Puzzle for Poppy (ss) EQMM Feb 1946 [Peter & Iris Duluth]

QUERTERMOUS, BYRON (stories)

• Angel Eyes (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #35 2003

QUILL, MONICA; pseudonym of Ralph McInerny, (1929- ) (books) (stories)

• A Sound Investment (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1988
• The Other Urn (nv) AHMM Mar 1989 [Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey]
• Miss Butterfingers (nv) EQMM Mar 1993
• Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose (nv) EQMM Jun 1993
• Death Takes the Veil (nv) EQMM Mar 1995
• Intent to Kill (ss) EQMM Jan 1996
• The Visitor (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1997
• Death Takes the Veil and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2001
• Veronica’s Veil (nv) Murder Most Catholic, ed. Ralph McInerny, Cumberland House 2002
• No Wick for the Rested (ss) EQMM Jul 2007 [Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey]

QUILLER-COUCH, [Sir] ARTHUR T(homas) (1863-1944) (stories)

• The Roll-Call of the Reef (ss) The Idler Jun 1895
• A Pair of Hands (ss) The Cornish Magazine Dec 1898
• The Seventh Man (ss) Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribner’s 1900
• The Rider in the Dawn (ss) Two Sides of the Face, Macmillan 1903
• The Bend of the Road (ss) The Illustrated London News Nov 27 1905

QUIN-HARKIN, JANET (1941- ); see pseudonym Rhys Bowen (stories)

QUINN, BRIAN (stories)

• Home on the Range (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

QUINN, COLBY (stories)

• Turnabout (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Dec 1938

QUINN, SEABURY (Grandin) (1889-1969) (stories)

• The Monkey God (ss) Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927
• Children of Ubasti (nv) Weird Tales Dec 1929 [Jules de Grandin]

QUINTON, ANN (stories)

• The Bedell Virgin (ss) Anglian Blood, ed. Robert Church & Martin Edwards, Rampant Horse Limited 1995

QUIRK, JOE (1966- ) (stories)

• “Joe Quirk” by Robert ’Bob’ Galbraith (iv) Crime Time v2 #1 1998
• The Ultimate Rush (ex) Crime Time v2 #1 1998

QUIROZ, LEOBARDO SARAVIA (books) (stories)

• Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border [ed.] (an) San Diego State University Press 1996
• Ayesha, a Woman’s Name (ss)
• Introduction (in)

RABASSA, GREGORY (1922- ) (stories)

• The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, by Gabriel García Márquez (ss) The Leaf Storm and Other Stories, London: Cape 1972
• from Chronicles of a Death Fortold, by Gabriel García Márquez (ex) 1986

RABE, JEAN (Marie) (1942- ) (stories)

• Nothing Newsworthy (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• Hell Matter (ss) Kittens, Cats, and Crime, ed. Ed Gorman, Five Star 2003

RABE, PETER (1921-1990) (stories)

• Anatomy of a Killer (n.) London: Abelard-Schuman 1960
• The Box (n.) New York: Fawcett 1962

RABIN, BRANDY (stories)

• Crime Bakery (pm) EQMM Jun 2003

RABOTEAU, EMILY (stories)

• Smile (ss)

RACHEL, DAVID (stories)

• The Last Man I Killer (ss) Eureka Literary Magazine Spr 2004

RACHMAN, STEPHEN (stories)

• Poe, Magazines, & the Origins of Detective Fiction (ar) The Strand Magazine #13 2004

RADCLIFFE, (Henry) GARNETT (1899-?) (stories)

• The Thirteenth Mummy (na) Mystery Stories #2 1936
• The Abominable Snowman of Katayadu (ss) Mystery Stories #9 1937

RADFORD, IRENE (stories)

• The Divi (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

RADIN, EDWARD (David) (1909-1966) (stories)

• The Cafe Society Murder (ar) True Detective

RAE, GEORGE WILLIAM (stories)

• It’s Your Neck! (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine May 1946
• Death’s Old Sweet Song (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Sep 1946
• The Night the Rat Danced (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Nov 1947

RAE, MARTI (stories)

• Promises To Keep (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1997

RAE, SIMON (books) (stories)

• The Faber Book of Murder [ed.] (an) Faber 1994
• Introduction (in)

RAFFERTY, S. S.; pseudonym of John J. Hurley, (1930-2000) (stories)

• The Rhode Island Lights (nv) EQMM Sep 1975 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• The New Jersey Flying Machine (nv) EQMM Nov 1975 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• The Georgia Resurrection (ss) EQMM Feb 1976 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• Here Comes Mr. Pritchard (ss) AHMM May 1976
• The Pennsylvania Thimblerig (ss) EQMM Aug 1976 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• Things that Go Bump and Grind in the Night (ss) AHMM Sep 1976
• The Christmas Masque (nv) EQMM Dec 1976 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• Alectryon Slept (nv) AHMM Jun 1977 [Chick Kelly]
• The Curse of the Connecticut Clock (nv) Fatal Flourishes, Avon 1979 [Captain Jeremy Cork]
• Go Disco ’Tec, Chick! (nv) AHMM Jan 2 1980 [Chick Kelly]
• The Hawk Spoils a Broth (nv) AHMM Jun 16 1980
• The Hawk and High Society (nv) AHMM Aug 13 1980
• Suspects Time, Chick! (nv) AHMM Oct 1 1980 [Chick Kelly]
• The Hawk and the Dome of Hell (nv) AHMM Sep 16 1981
• The Incomplete Salmagundi (nv) AHMM Nov 11 1981
• Tall Tommy and the Millionaire (nv) AHMM Sep 1982 [Chick Kelly]