Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

RICE, CRAIG (books) (stories) (continued)

• Death in the Moonlight (ss) Popular Detective Mar 1953 [Melville Fairr]
• Quiet Day in the County Jail (ss) Manhunt Jul 1953
• The Dead Mr. Duck (ss) Verdict Aug 1953; also as “The Man Who Swallowed a Horse”. [John J. Malone]
• The Man Who Swallowed a Horse (ss) Verdict Aug 1953 [John J. Malone]
• The Dead Undertaker (ss) Manhunt Dec 1953 [John J. Malone]
• Murder Marches On (ss) Manhunt Dec 1953; also as “The Dead Undertaker”. [John J. Malone]
• Beyond the Shadow of a Dream (nv) EQMM Feb 1955 [John J. Malone]
• Shot in the Dark (nv) Manhunt Aug 1955 [John J. Malone]
• The Frightened Millionaire (na) The Saint Detective Magazine Apr 1956 [John J. Malone]
• No, Not Like Yesterday (nv) The Saint Detective Magazine Nov 1956 [John J. Malone]
• Say It with Flowers (nv) Manhunt Sep 1957 [John J. Malone]
• One More Clue (nv) Manhunt Apr 1958 [John J. Malone]
• They’re Trying to Kill Me (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Feb 1959 [John J. Malone]
• Wry Highball (ss) EQMM Mar 1959 [John J. Malone]
• Hard Sell (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 1960 [John J. Malone]
• Murder, Mystery and Malone (co) Crippen & Landru 2002 [John J. Malone]
• I’ll See You in My Dreams (ss) Crippen & Landru 2006 [John J. Malone]

RICE, JAMES (1843-1882) (stories)

• The Case of Mr. Lucraft [with Walter Besant] (nv) The Case of Mr. Lucraft and Other Stories, Sampson Low 1876

RICE, JANE (Dixon) (1913-2003) (stories)

• The Mystery of the Lion Window (nv) AHMM Oct 1984
• The Last Straw (ss) AHMM Mar 1985
• The Crossroads (nv) AHMM Aug 1985
• The Misfits (nv) AHMM Feb 1989

RICE, KANE (stories)

• He Wanted a Gun (ss) Suspense Stories #3 1954

RICH, KIM (stories)

• Terminal (nv) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002

RICH, LANI DIANE (stories)

• Welcome to Camp Noir (ar) NptNoir 2007

RICHARDS, CHARLOTTE (stories)

• The Story That Won: A Chair-itable Theft (vi) AHMM Sep 1994
• The Bell’s Toll (vi) About Mysteries; Intrigued by an iron dinner bell hanging from a lightning-blased tree, mystery writer Charlie Hanaman’s inquiries led him to a story about the toll of the bell — .

RICHARDS, JAY (stories)

• Real Mean Kids (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959
• Night of the Ripper! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• Black Fins of Terror! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• Death in a Plastic Bag (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960
• Thanks for Killing Me (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• Run from Her, Killer (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1960
• Dark Hunger! (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960

RICHARDS, KEL(vin Barry) (1946- ) (stories)

• The Amateur Hangman (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991

RICHARDS, PHIL (stories)

• Death Grip (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1982

RICHARDS, TONY (1956- ) (stories)

• The Writing on the Wall (ss) AHMM Sep 1991
• Hamadryad (ss) AHMM Dec 1991

RICHARDSON, D. L. (1951?-1994) (stories)

• Hunter and the Widow (ss) AHMM Jun 1984
• Hunter and the Bayman Puzzle (ss) AHMM Aug 1986
• Hunter and the Ice Man (ss) AHMM Oct 1987
• Emerald Hookers and Gold Shields (nv) AHMM Mar 1991
• Hunter and the Sanibel Trade (nv) AHMM Jun 1993
• G-Men and Old Loves (ss) AHMM Jul 1993
• The Provenance of Death (nv) AHMM Jun 1994

RICHARDSON, DUNCAN (stories)

• Free Spirits (ss)
• Riding by Moonlight (ss)
• Shooting Through (ss)

RICHARDSON, IAN (stories)

• “Interview: Ian Richardson” by Andrew F. Gulli (iv) The Strand Magazine #10 2003

RICHARDSON, ROBERT (Oliver) (1940- ) (stories)

• The Crime Writers’ Association (ar) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• The Woman of Goodwill (nv) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994; first published, in an abridged form, in the Independent, Christmas 1993. [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Ghost of Christmas Past (nv) EQMM Jan 1995

RICHMAN, PHYLLIS (C.) (1939- ) (stories)

• Catering to Crime (ar) MHCMM Spr 1997

RICHMOND, BRIAN (stories)

• The Good Kid (ss) AHMM May 2004
• Edwin the Confessor (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005

RICHMOND, HARRY (stories)

• The Master Mind (ss) Suspense Stories #2 1954

RICHMOND, ISABEL (stories)

• The Story That Won: Les Sentinels (vi) AHMM Apr 1996

RICHMOND, KENNETH (stories)

• A Light on t’Fell (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

RICHTER, JOAN S. (stories)

• The House That Jill Built (ss) EQMM May 20 1981
• The Last Rendezvous (nv) EQMM Mar 1995
• The Oak’s Long Shadow (ss) EQMM Aug 1995
• A Legacy of Questions (ss) EQMM Aug 1998
• Recipe Secrets (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998
• The River’s Child (ss) EQMM Jun 1999
• Assignment in Prague (ss) EQMM May 2001
• The Dance of the Apsara (nv) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• Love and Death in Africa (ss) EQMM Jan 2005
• The Gambling Master of Shanghai (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005

RICHTER, STACEY (stories)

• The First Men (ss) Michigan Quarterly Review 1998

RICKARDS, JOHN (stories)

• Twenty Dollar Future (ss) Expletive Deleted, ed. Jen Jordan, Bleak House Books 2007
• Wish (ss)

RIDDELL, MRS. J. H. [i.e., Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan Riddell] (1832-1906) (stories)

• The Banshee’s Warning (ss) London Society Christmas 1867
• Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning (ss) London Society Christmas 1867; also as “The Banshee’s Warning”.
• A Terrible Vengeance (nv) Princess Sunshine and Other Stories, London: Ward & Downey 1889

RIDENOUR, MARC V. (stories)

• Keeping the System Honest (ar) Hardboiled #17 1994

RIDLER, JASON S. (stories)

• Alone with the Dead at Kakabeka Falls (ss) Dead in the Water, ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood, RendezVous Press 2006

RIDOUT, ALAN (John) (1934- ) (books)

• Detection [ed. with James Gibson] (an) John Murray 1978

RIDPATH, MICHAEL (Williams Gerrans) (1961- ) (stories)

• Partnership Track (ss) The Detection Collection, ed. Simon Brett, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2006

RIEDER, INES (stories)

• 7.62, by Pieke Biermann (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996

RIFFENBURGH, ANNE (stories)

• Leap of Faith (ss) Murder on Sunset Boulevard, ed. Rochelle Krich, Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman, Top Publications 2002

RIFFLE, ANNETTE (books) (stories)

• And the Dying Is Easy [ed. with Joseph Pittman] (oa) Signet 2001
• Introduction [with Joseph Pittman] (in)

RIFKIN, SHEPARD (1918- ) (stories)

• There Are Worse Places (ss) Story 1947

RIHA, JOHN (stories)

• The Chaplain’s Kachina (ss) EQMM Apr 2000

RILEY, CINDY (stories)

• Mystery Buff (pm) EQMM Dec 1991

RILEY, DAVID B. (stories)

• Unfinished Business (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995
• Lords (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1999
• Mister Rex (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2000

RILEY, JAMES W.; pseudonym of Jim Weikart (stories)

• Buried at Gettysburg (ss) AHMM Oct 2000

RILEY, JOHN (stories)

• Break Time (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005

RILEY, LOUIS (stories)

• The Old Pro (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1967

RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS (1876-1958) (stories)

• The Treasure Hunt (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 1926 [Letitia (Tish) Carberry]
• The Dog in the Orchard (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1940
• The Lipstick (nv) Cosmopolitan Jul 1942
• Murder and the South Wind (nv) Good Housekeeping Jun 1945
• The Splinter (ss) EQMM Sep 1955

RINELLI, V. (stories)

• Carlos Captures the Smugglers [with Irma Schmidt] (ss)

RINTARO, NORIZUKI; pseudonym (stories)

• An Urban Legend Puzzle (nv) EQMM Jan 2004; first published in Japanese in 2001.; tr. by Beth Cary

RINTELS, DAVID W. (stories)

• Clarence Darrow (ex) Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1975

RIORDAN, RICK; [i.e., Richard Russell Riordan, Jr.] (1964- ) (stories)

• A Small Silver Gun (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998 [Tres Navarre]
• Ticket to Midland (nv) Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2000 [Tres Navarre]
• The Last King of Texas (ex) 2000 [Jackson “Tres” Navarre]
• The Prized Gentleman (ss) EQMM Jul 2001
• A Good Day’s Work (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003 [Jackson “Tres” Navarre]

RIPLEY, ANN (1926- ) (stories)

• Woman in a Box (ss) AHMM Apr 1999
• Skunked (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• Time in the Lap Lane (ss) EQMM Nov 1999

RIPLEY, MIKE; [i.e., Michael David Ripley] (1952- ) (books) (stories)

• Smeltdown (nv) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
• Lord Peter and the Butterboy (ss) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991
• Our Man Marlowe (ss) 1991
• The Trouble with Trains (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991
• Calling Cards (ss) Winter’s Crimes 24, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1992
• New Year’s Eve (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• Brotherly Love (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994 [Angel]
• Fresh Blood [ed. with Maxim Jakubowski] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1996
• Fresh Blood 2 [ed. with Maxim Jakubowski] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1997
• MacEvoy’s Revenge (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
• Fresh Blood 3 [ed. with Maxim Jakubowski] (oa) The Do-Not Press 1999
• Angel Eyes (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999
• The Great Detectives: Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion (ar) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• Foreword (fw)

RIPPEN, CHRIS (1940- ) (stories)

• Ferry Noir (ss) Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998; tr. by Emmy Muller
• Under My Skin (ss) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999
• Barefoot (ss) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003; first published in Mord und Steinschlag, Kriminalstorys (Murder and Rockfall, Criminal Stories), ed. Jürgen Ehlers & Jürgen Alberts, Leda-Verlag, 2002.
• The Best (ss) 2003; first published in Nachtboot, House De Geus, Breda.

RIPPERGER, WALTER F. (stories)

• House of a Thousand Deaths (nv) Ten Detective Aces Apr 1934
• Murder Will (ss) Mystery Stories #5 1936
• The Stolen Cross (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936
• Flowers on a Grave (nv) Double Detective Nov 1937
• Murder on Maracaibo Street (ss) Clues Nov 1937; also as “Murder on the Maracaibo Road”.
• Murder on the Maracaibo Road (ss) Clues Nov 1937
• Four Men of Crime (nv) Mystery Stories #9 1937
• The Affair of the Three Turtles (ss) Double Detective Mar 1938
• The Cardboard Clue (nv) Mystery Stories #13 1938

RITCHIE, JACK; pseudonym of John George Reitci, (1922-1983) (stories)

• Divide and Conquer (ss) Manhunt Feb 1957
• Don’t Twist My Arm (ss) Manhunt Apr 1958
• #8 (ss) AHMM Jun 1958
• 22 Stories Up—22 Down (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
• The $5,000 Getaway (ss) AHMM May 1959
• Remains to Be Seen (ss) AHMM Jun 1961
• Goodbye, Memory (ss) AHMM Aug 1961
• The Deveraux Monster (ss) Manhunt Feb 1962
• The Green Heart (ss) AHMM Mar 1963
• The Operator (nv) AHMM Jun 1963
• Ten Minutes from Now (ss) AHMM Oct 1963
• A New Leaf (ss) 1963
• Anyone for Murder? (ss) AHMM Jan 1964
• The Little Green Book (ss) Intrigue Mystery Magazine Jan 1966
• Goodbye, Sweet Money (ss) AHMM Apr 1967
• By Child Undone (ss) AHMM Oct 1967
• The Moonlighter (vi) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Dec 1967
• The Killing Philosopher (vi) AHMM Jun 1968
• Pardon My Death Ray (ss) AHMM Oct 1969
• Finger Man (ss) AHMM Jul 1972
• The Angler (ss) AHMM Oct 1975
• The Weather Man (ss) The Elk’s Magazine Jan 1976
• Nobody Tells Me Anything (ss) EQMM Oct 1976 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Cardula Detective Agency (ss) AHMM Mar 1977 [Cardula]
• The Seed Caper (ss) EQMM Aug 1977
• Variations on a Scheme (ss) AHMM Sep 1977 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• Hung Jury (ss) EQMM Dec 1977 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Gourmet Kidnaper (ss) EQMM Sep 1979 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Way to Do It (ss) EQMM Jan 14 1980
• The Alphabet Murders (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1980 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Third-Floor Closet (ss) EQMM Jun 30 1980
• More Than Meets the Eye (ss) EQMM Sep 10 1980 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• That Last Journey (ss) AHMM Dec 15 1980
• For the Good of Society (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Dec 1980
• The Absence of Emily (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
• In the Public Eye (ss) Woman’s World Mar 10 1981
• This Gun for Hire (ss) Woman’s World Mar 24 1981
• Win Some, Lose Some (ss) EQMM Mar 25 1981 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• Body Check (ss) EQMM Jul 15 1981
• The Connecting Link (ss) EQMM Oct 7 1981 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Message in the Message (ss) EQMM Dec 2 1981 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• A Case of Identity (ss) EQMM Jan 27 1982
• The Return of Cardula (ss) AHMM Feb 3 1982 [Cardula]
• The Orange Murders (ss) EQMM Mar 24 1982
• Cardula and the Locked Rooms (ss) AHMM Mar 31 1982 [Cardula]
• Murder Off Limits (ss) EQMM Jun 1982 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Golden Goose (ss) EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• The Fifth Grave (ss) EQMM Oct 1982 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Method (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1982
• The Final Truth (ss) EQMM Feb 1983 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The Customer (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1983
• The O’Leary Conspiracy (ss) EQMM May 1983 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• Dial an Alibi (ss) Woman’s World Jun 7 1983 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• Cardula and the Briefcase (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983 [Cardula]
• The Journey (ss) EQMM Dec 1983
• The Second Letter (ss) EQMM Feb 1984
• The Investigator (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1984; given as by Jim Ritchie in toc.
• The Ghost of Claudia McKenny (ss) EQMM May 1984
• The Two Percent Solution (ss) EQMM Jun 1984 [Henry Turnbuckle]
• The House of Yorick (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984
• The Commissar (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984

RITCHIE, JAMES A. (stories)

• The Real West (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• Wild Strawberries (ss) EQMM Oct 1994
• A Few Miles South of Nowhere (ss) EQMM Apr 1998