Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

RITCHIE, RITA; pseudonym of Rita Reitci, (1930- ) (stories)

• American Primitive (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982

RITCHIE, STEVE (stories)

• Post Mortem (ss) AHMM May 1987
• You Can’t Really Blame Them (ss) AHMM Nov 1996
• Dig the Hole First (ss) AHMM Mar 2004

RITTENBERG, MAX (1880-?) (stories)

• The Mystery of the Sevenoaks Tunnel (ss) The London Magazine Oct 1913 [Magnum]

RITTERSPAK, BRIAN; pseudonym of Barry Forshaw (stories)

• Jeffrey Robinson (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999
• Audiocrime (rv) Crime Time #23 2001
• Colin Dexter interviewed by Brian Ritterspak (iv) Crime Time #23 2001
• Writing for the Maverick Reader: Alan Furst [with Woody Haut] (iv) Crime Time #23 2001

RIVIERE, JOAN (stories)

• from Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud (ex)

ROBARDS, KAREN (1954- ) (books) (stories)

• Wait Until Dark [ed.] (oa) Pocket Books 2001
• Manna from Heaven (na) Wait Until Dark, ed. Karen Robards, Pocket 2001

ROBB, CANDACE (stories)

• The Bone Jar (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995

ROBB, MARTI; see pseudonym Mariah Stewart (stories)

ROBB, MICHAEL (stories)

• Rubber Gun Squad (vi) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN (1922-2008) (stories)

• The Erasers (ex) 1964

ROBBINS, A. B. (stories)

• The Magic Touch (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005

ROBBINS, GRENVILLE (stories)

• The Broadcast Murder (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1928

ROBBINS, MICHAEL (stories)

• The Pointman’s Last Assignment (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr, Nov 1999
• Tile Fire Quencher 1814 (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• Kalila Maji (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2002
• Burning Flags (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 2002

ROBBINS, ORMOND; see pseudonym Dane Gregory (stories)

ROBERSON, CHRIS; [i.e., John Christian Roberson] (1970- ) (stories)

• Death on the Crosstime Express (ss) Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, Solaris 2008

ROBERSON, JENNIFER; [i.e., Jennifer Mitchell Roberson O’Green] (1953- ) (stories)

• Piece of Mind (ss) Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004

ROBERT, HARRY (stories)

• Don’t Look for Me; I’ll Find You (ss) AHMM Apr 1960

ROBERTS, BARRIE (1939- ) (stories)

• The Mystery of the Addleton Curse (nv) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Disappearance of Daniel Question (ss) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
• The Case of the Christmas Poisonings (ss) The Strand Magazine Christmas 2001 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Affair of the Christmas Jewel (ss) The Strand Magazine #9 2002 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Affair of the Weeping Child (ss) The Strand Magazine #13 2004 [Sherlock Holmes]

ROBERTS, BETHANY (stories)

• Powderburn [with John Maddox Roberts] (nv) AHMM Dec 1996

ROBERTS, C(arl) E(ric) BECHHOFER (1894-1949) (stories)

• The English Filter (ss) The Strand Mar 1926

ROBERTS, DALE J. (stories)

• Trail of Death (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 1995

ROBERTS, DOREEN; [i.e., Doreen Roberts Hight] (1934- ); see pseudonym Kate Kingsbury (stories)

ROBERTS, DOROTHY JAMES (1903-1990); see pseudonym Peter Mortimer (stories)

ROBERTS, ELIZABETH (stories)

• Reverberation (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1995

ROBERTS, GEORGE THOMAS (1910-1968); see pseudonyms George Chance & G. T. Fleming-Roberts (stories)

ROBERTS, GILLIAN; pseudonym of Judith A. Greber, (1939- ) (books) (stories)

• Hog Heaven (ss) Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1989
• Fury Duty (ss) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
• What’s a Woman to Do? (ss) Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
• One Beautiful Body (ss) EQMM Dec 1992
• Goodbye, Sue Ellen (ss) Malice Domestic 2, Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 1993
• The Shrine of Eleanor (nv) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• Where’s the Harm in That? (ss) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
• Murder, She Did (ss) Murder, They Wrote II, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1998
• After Happily Ever (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Goodbye, Dolley (nv) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• Clear Sailing (nv) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• Where’s the Harm? (co) Five Star 1999
• Heart Break (ss) Irreconcilable Differences, ed. Lia Matera, HarperCollins 1999
• The Man Who Didn’t Read Good Books (nv) Left Coast Crimes, ed. Valerie Feldman, Left Coast Crime 2004
• Ellie’s Chair (nv) Murder Most Crafty, ed. Maggie Bruce, Penguin US 2005
• The Old Wife’s Tale (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2007
• Let This Be a Lesson (ss)
• Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing (ss)

ROBERTS, JOHN MADDOX (1947- ) (stories)

• Mightier than the Sword (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1993 [SPQR]
• Lotto (ss) AHMM Dec 1993
• Pirates (ss) AHMM Jan 1995
• Hitter (ss) EQMM Nov 1995
• The King of Sacrifices (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995 [SPQR]
• The Statuette of Rhodes (ss) Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times 1996 [SPQR]
• Powderburn [with Bethany Roberts] (nv) AHMM Dec 1996
• The Etruscan House (nv) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998 [SPQR]
• An Academic Question (ss) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998 [SPQR]
• Venus in Pearls (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2001 [SPQR]
• The Will (nv) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003 [SPQR]

ROBERTS, JOHN STORM (stories)

• It’s a Long Flight to L.A. (ss) EQMM Jun 2 1980
• One Point Too Far (ss) EQMM Jan 27 1982

ROBERTS, LES (A.) (1937- ) (books) (stories)

• Little Cat Feet (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• The Scent of Spiced Oranges (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Good Boys (ss) Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 1992
• Angel of Death (ss) City Reports Dec 1993
• The Fat Stamp (ss) Elvis Rising, ed. Kay Sloan and Constance Pierce, Avon 1993
• The Pig Man (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994 [Saxon]
• The Catnap (nv) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• The Brave Little Costume Designer (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Willing to Work (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• The Gathering of the Klan (nv) Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2000 [Milan Jacovich]
• Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories (co) Five Star 2002
• Jazz Canary (nv) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004 [Milan Jacovich]

ROBERTS, LILLIAN M. (1959- ) (stories)

• Manor Beast (ss) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• Rest Stop (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• The Reunion (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999

ROBERTS, P. J. (stories)

• Room 408 (ss) Pulsar! Fll 1989
• The Dream (ss) EOD #2 1991
• The Ghost of the Living (ss) EOD #8 1992
• Red Rattler to Spencer St. (ss) Masque Noir Sep 1998
• The Flame Beast (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1998
• Kangaroo Range (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Dec 1998
• The Wrong Person (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 1999
• The Fourth Night (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 1999
• The Egrigor (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Aug 1999
• The Green Bus (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1999
• Conan Doyle (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Feb 2000
• The Freak (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2000
• Austrailian Halloween (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2000
• The Scream in the Night (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2000
• The Bunyip (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2000
• The Glen Hartwell Horrow (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2001
• Lucifer (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• The Dead are Walking (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2001
• The Day of the Dryad (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan, Feb 2002
• The Kleptomaniac (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 2002
• Haunted Mountain (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 2002
• A Dream of Jekyll & Hyde (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2002

ROBERTS, PEGGY; [i.e., Margaret A. Roberts] (1957- ) (stories)

• Mercy (vi) MHCMM Sum 2000

ROBERTS, R(ichard) ELLIS (1879-1953) (stories)

• The Narrow Way (ss) The Other End, London: Palmer 1923

ROBERTS, RALPH (stories)

• Mystery Writers Word Puzzle (pz) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983
• The Colonel and the Alien (ss) Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
• The Greatest Detective of All Time (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]

ROBERTS, S(ydney) C(astle) (1887-1966) (stories)

• The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts (ss) 1945 [Sherlock Holmes]

ROBERTS, SIDNEY (stories)

• Night for Slaughter (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1958

ROBERTS, TOM (stories)

• Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Raoul F. Whitfield Appearing in Black Mask [with Peter Ruber & E. R. Hagemann] (bi)

ROBERTSON, CHARLTON (stories)

• The Toast of Death (ss) Mystery Stories #20 1939
• Dark Visitors (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940

ROBERTSON, COLIN (1906-1980) (stories)

• You Can’t Rely on People (ss) Argosy (UK) Mar 1973

ROBERTSON, LINDA (stories)

• Mrs. Hudson Reminisces (ss) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Mrs. Hudson). [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Mystery of Dr. Thorvald Sigerson (ss) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004 [Sherlock Holmes]

ROBERTSON, LYLE (stories)

• Night Noises (vi) Detective Book Magazine Sum 1943

ROBERTSON, MORGAN (Andrew) (1861-1915) (stories)

• Hangman’s Knot (ss) High-Seas Adventures Dec 1934
• Steel and Flame (ss) High-Seas Adventures Dec 1934

ROBERTSON, P. J. (stories)

• Orinoco (ss) Low Down and Derby, ed. Abigail Jones, Overmountain Press 2006
• Death of a Best Friend (ss) Racing Can Be Murder, ed. Brenda R. Stewart & Tony Perona, Blue River Press 2007

ROBERTS-PAUL, MASON (stories)

• Halloween on Shady Glen Road (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

ROBINSON, ARTHUR (books) (stories)

• A Checklist of the Sheringham and Moresby Mysteries in Anthony Berkeley Cox [with Tony Medawar] (bi)
• The Master of the Final Twist [with Tony Medawar] (in)

ROBINSON, B(ertram) FLETCHER (1871-1907) (stories)

• Fogbound [with J. Malcolm Fraser] (ss) The London Magazine Aug 1903

ROBINSON, BRIAN (stories)

• Missing the Sign (nv) AHMM May 1999
• Slave Without a Master (nv) AHMM Feb 2001

ROBINSON, FRANK M(alcolm) (1926- ) (stories)

• One Month in 1907 (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• The Phantom of the Barbary Coast (nv) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Heartstopper (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000

ROBINSON, GREGOR (stories)

• The Haitian Murders (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• The Disappearance of Daphne (ss) AHMM Apr 1988
• Voodoo Death (ss) AHMM Feb 1989
• Metamorphosis (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• Pearls from Heaven (ss) AHMM Dec 1990
• Partners (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• Guns at the Edge of the Empire (ss) AHMM Mar 1991
• A Stranger Comes to the Village (ss) AHMM Jun 1992
• Coup D’Etat (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
• A Knowledge of Poisons (ss) B&A 1992
• Flight from the Palm Court (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• Pearls and Colored Stones (ss) EQMM Aug 1994
• Free, Has a Weapon (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994

ROBINSON, JEFFREY (1945- ) (stories)

• “Jeffrey Robinson” by Brian Ritterspak (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

ROBINSON, KATHERINE (books)

• The Red-Headed League and Other Mystery Plays [ed.] (an) Scholastic 1986

ROBINSON, KENT (stories)

• His in the End (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003
• Play a New Game (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #45 2004

ROBINSON, KIM STANLEY (1952- ) (stories)

• Mercurial (nv) Universe 15, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1985

ROBINSON, (Esme Stuart) LENNOX (1886-1958) (stories)

• A Pair of Muddy Shoes (ss) Eight Short Stories, Unwin 1919

ROBINSON, LILLIAN S. (1941- ) (stories)

• Afterword (aw)
• For Further Reading (ms)

ROBINSON, LYNDA S(uzanne) (1951- ) (stories)

• Death of a Place-Seeker (nv) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
• Disease-Demon (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999 [Lord Meren]
• Heretic’s Dagger (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002 [Lord Meren]
• The Abolitionist (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005

ROBINSON, PETER (1950- ) (books) (stories)

• Fan Mail (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
• Innocence (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• Anna Said... (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992 [Insp. Alan Banks]
• Just My Luck (ss) Bouchercon XXII Souvenir Programme Book 1992
• Not Safe After Dark (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
• The Good Partner (ss) EQMM Mar 1994 [Insp. Alan Banks]
• Summer Rain (ss) EQMM Dec 1994 [Insp. Alan Banks]
• Lawn Sale (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• Carrion (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
• Some Land in Florida (nv) EQMM Dec 1996
• The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
• The Wrong Hands (ss) EQMM Apr 1998
• Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories (co) Crippen & Landru 1998
• In Flanders Fields (nv) Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998, , Crippen & Landru 1999 [Frank Bascombe Special Constable]
• Memory Lane (ss) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• Murder in Utopia (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000