Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

POWELL, TALMAGE (stories) (continued)

• Hot-rod Hoodlum (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Nov 1957
• Sudden, Sudden Death (na) AHMM Nov 1957
• The Deadly Doll (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Jun 1958
• The Delinquent and the Doll (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1959
• Peeping Tom (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Apr 1959
• I Had a Hunch, and... (ss) AHMM May 1959
• You Are Sick, Sick, Sick! (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959
• H-Man (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• Murder Method (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan 1961
• Beauty Be Damned! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1962
• Old Man Emmons (ss) AHMM Feb 1962
• Somebody Cares (ss) EQMM Dec 1962
• The Confident Killer (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
• The Vital Element (ss) AHMM Nov 1967
• New Neighbor (ss) AHMM Oct 1975
• A Way with a Will (ss) AHMM Apr 1 1981
• The Beacon (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1981
• Night of the Goblin (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1981
• A Mother’s Heart (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1981
• The Deaths of Lorna Garth (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1982

POWELL, WILLIAM DYLAN (stories)

• Evening Gold (ss) EQMM Nov 2006

POWER, JO-ANN (1944- ); see pseudonym Ann Crowleigh (stories)

POWER, MARGARET RAE (1943- ); see pseudonym Margo Power (stories)

POWER, MARGO; pseudonym of Margaret Rae Power, (1943- ) (stories)

• Editorial Note (ed) Murderous Intent Sum 1996, Sum, Fll 1997
• All There Is and More (vi) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• Editorial Notes (ed) Murderous Intent Spr, Sum/Fll 1998, Spr, Sum, Fll, Win 1999

POWERS, BILLIE LEE (stories)

• The Factrix (ss) EQMM Aug 1984
• Saint Daddy (ss) EQMM Sep 1984
• Betsy’s Dictionary (ss) EQMM Jun 1987

POWERS, RALPH; house pseudonym (stories)

• Marked in Red (ss) Ten Detective Aces May/Jun 1933
• The Devil’s Deadline (ss) Capt. Hazzard Magazine May 1938

POWLESLAND, PAUL (stories)

• Guilt Trip (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1981

POWYS, T(heodore) F(rancis) (1875-1953) (stories)

• The Hunted Beast (ss) The White Paternoster, London: Chatto & Windus 1930
• A Suet Pudding (ss) Full Score, ed. T. I. Fytton Armstrong, London: Rich & Cowan 1933

POZZESSERE, HEATHER GRAHAM (1953- ); see pseudonym Heather Graham (stories)

PRATCHETT, TERRY (David John) (1948- ) (stories)

• # ifdefDEBUG + “world/enough” + “time” (ss) Digital Dreams, ed. David V. Barrett, NEL 1990

PRATER, LON (stories)

• Leg Work (ss) North Florida Noir, ed. Michael Lister, Pottersville Press 2006

PRATHER, RICHARD S(cott) (1921-2007) (stories)

• The Double Take (nv) Manhunt Jul 1953 [Shell Scott]
• The Live Ones (ss) 1956 [Shell Scott]
• Film Strip (nv) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 1960 [Shell Scott]
• The Guilty Party (ss) Come Seven/Come Death, ed. Henry Morrison, Pocket 1965 [Shell Scott]

PREDDY, MELISSA (stories)

• The Coffee Break (ss) Detroit Noir, ed. E. J. Olsen & John C. Hocking, Akashic Books 2007; (Grandmont-Rosedale).

PREECE, SIÂN (1965- ) (stories)

• Second Hand (ss) Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

PREISS, BYRON (Cary) (1953-2005) (books) (stories)

• Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe [ed.] (oa) Knopf 1988 [Philip Marlowe]
• Foreword (fw)

PREPOLEC, CHARLES V. (books) (stories)

• Curious Incidents 2: Being a Collection of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [ed. with J. R. Campbell] (oa) Mad for a Mystery 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Introduction: Water, Water, Everywhere (in)

PRESCOTT, GORDON R. (stories)

• Never Hit Old Ladies (vi) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mar 1966

PRESCOTT, HARRIET ELIZABETH; [i.e., Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford] (1835-1921) (stories)

• Mr. Furbush (ss)

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. (1796-1859) (stories)

• from History of the Conquest of Mexico (ar)

PRESS, SKIP (stories)

• The Alexander Aberration (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1987

PRESTON, ALISON (1949- ) (stories)

• Women of the West (ss)

PRESTON, DOUGLAS (stories)

• Gone Fishing [with Lincoln Child] (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Lieutenant Douglas D’Agosta]

PRIBUS, MARILYN (stories)

• Occupant Box 253 (ss) EQMM Dec 1 1980

PRICE, (Alan) ANTHONY (1928- ) (stories)

• A Green Boy (nv) Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan 1973 [Gaius Celerius]
• The Berzin Lecture (ss) Winter’s Crimes 15, ed. George Hardinge, London: Macmillan 1983

PRICE, E(dgar) HOFFMANN (Trooper) (1898-1988); see pseudonym Hamlin Daly (books) (stories)

• Triangle with Variations (ss) Droll Stories May 1924
• A Burning Clue (ss) Ten Detective Aces May/Jun 1933
• The Devil’s Crypt (nv) Strange Detective Stories Jan 1934
• Night in Manilla (ss) Spicy-Adventure Stories Oct 1935
• The Walking Dead (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories Nov 1935
• Scourge of the Silver Dragon (nv) Gold Seal Detective Dec 1935
• Satan’s Daughter (nv) Spicy Mystery Stories Jan 1936
• Pit of Madness (ss) Spicy Mystery Stories Apr 1936
• Crystal Clues (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Aug 1936
• Revolt of the Damned (ss) Spicy-Adventure Stories Mar 1937
• You Can’t Fight a Woman (ss) Spicy Western Stories Jan 1939
• The White Savage (na) Red Star Adventures Jun 1940 [Matalaa, The White Savage]
• The Cruise of the Savage (na) Red Star Adventures Aug 1940 [Matalaa, The White Savage]
• Savage Jeopardy (na) Red Star Adventures Oct 1940 [Matalaa, The White Savage]
• Treasure of the Savage (na) Red Star Adventures Jan 1941 [Matalaa, The White Savage]
• She Herded Him Around (ss) Spicy Western Stories Feb 1941 [Simon Bolivar Grimes]
• Murder Salvage (ss) Spicy Detective Stories Apr 1941 [Honest John Carmody]
• Every Man a King (nv) Speed Adventure Stories Nov 1943
• Drink or Draw (nv) Speed Western Stories Dec 1943 [Simon Bolivar Grimes]
• Satan’s Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps (co) Wildside Press 2004

PRICE, JOHN BASYE (stories)

• Death and the Rope Trick (ss) London Mystery Magazine #21 1954

PRICE, MAGGIE (stories)

• Night Flames (na) Crimes of Passion, ed. Anon., Worldwide Mystery 2002

PRICE, ROBERT M(cNair) (1954- ) (stories)

• The Prying Investigations of Edwin M. Lillibridge (ss) Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Dimensions Books 2006

PRICE, STEVEN C. (stories)

• Lake Whisper (ss) Dead in the Water, ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood, RendezVous Press 2006

PRICHARD, H. HESKETH; see under Prichard, Hesketh (stories)

PRICHARD, (Hesketh Vernon) HESKETH [F.R.G.S.] (1876-1922); see pseudonym H. Heron (stories)

• The Murder at the Duck Club (ss) November Joe: Detective of the Woods 1913 [November Joe]
• The Black Fox Skin (nv) [November Joe]
• The Crime at Big Tree Portage (nv) [November Joe]

PRICHARD, KATE; [i.e., Katherine O’Brien Prichard] (1851-1935); see pseudonym E. Heron (stories)

PRICHARD, MATHEW (stories)

• Agatha Christie and The Orient (ar) The Strand Magazine #2 1999

PRIESTLEY, (Opal) LEE (Shore) (1904-1999) (stories)

• The Mystery of the Steel Jewels (na) 1950
• The Steel Jewels Mystery (na) 1950; also as “The Mystery of the Steel Jewels”.

PRIMEAU, J. (stories)

• Project-GLD [with Wilma Bednarz] (ss)

PRINCE, ALISON (Mary) (1931- ) (stories)

• Sarah (ss) The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Dennis Hamley, Oxford University Press 2003

PRINCE, HAROLD (stories)

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

PRINCE, HARRY (stories)

• Game Plan (ss) AHMM Sep 8 1980
• Blue, Sky, and the Mark (ss) The Saint Magazine Aug 1984

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