Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

ROBINSON, PETER (books) (stories) (continued)

• Missing in Action (nv) EQMM Nov 2000 [Frank Bascombe Special Constable]
• April in Paris (nv) Love and Death, ed. Carolyn Hart, Berkley Prime Crime 2001
• Gone to the Dawgs (ss) The Mighty Johns, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• The Duke’s Wife (ss) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
• The Cherub Affair (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• Shadow on the Water (ss) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
• The Magic of Your Touch (ss) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
• Blue Christmas (ss) Crippen & Landru 2005 [Insp. Alan Banks]
• Blue Christmas (ss) Crippen & Landru 2005 [Insp. Alan Banks]
• Birthday Dance (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• The Eastvale Ladies’ Poker Circle (nv) Dead Man’s Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt 2007
• Walking the Dog (ss) Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books 2008; (The Beach).
• The Price of Love (ss) The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly, Little Brown 2008
• Books and Short Stories by Peter Robinson: A Checklist (bi)
• Introduction (in)

ROBINSON, PHILIP (1969- ) (stories)

• Angel (ss) Mysterious Erotic Tales, ed. Anon., O’Mara 1996

ROBINSON, ROXANA (stories)

• The Face-Lift (ss) Atlantic Monthly 2000

ROBINSON, SPIDER (1948- ) (stories)

• God Is an Iron (nv) Omni May 1979

ROBINSON, TODD (stories)

• Delivery (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

ROBSON, RUTHANN (stories)

• The Pool (ss) Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995
• The Death of the Subject (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996

ROBY, KINLEY (stories)

• The Tonto Plateau (ss) EQMM Aug 2004

ROBY, MARY LINN (1930- ) (stories)

• See and Tell (ss) AHMM Apr 1967

ROCHE, PAUL (stories)

• from Oedipus the King, by Sophocles (pm)

ROCHE, THOMAS S. (books) (stories)

• Noirotica [ed.] (oa) Masquerade/Rhinoceros 1996
• Up for a Nickel (nv) Noirotica, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1996
• Hell on Wheels (ss) The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 1996
• Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction [ed.] (oa) Masquerade/Rhinoceros 1997
• Forgetaboutit (nv) Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction, ed. Thomas S. Roche, Rhinoceros 1997
• Dirty Pool (ss) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
• All Cats Are Grey (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001
• Bank Job (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• Introduction (in)

ROCK, PETER (stories)

• Stranger (ss) Zoetrope All-Story Spr 2000

RODEN, BARBARA (1963- ) (stories)

• The Adventure of the Suspect Servant (ss) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997; winner of a pastiche contest in 1989; revised for this first appearance. [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Great Detectives: Jacques Futrelle’s Thinking Machine (ar) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• The Great Detectives: Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt (ar) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• The Great Detectives: G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown (ar) The Strand Magazine #3 1999
• No Ghosts Need Apply? (ar) Ghosts in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2006 [Holmes Sherlock]

RODEN, CHRISTOPHER (stories)

• Conan Doyle Beyond Baker Street: Captain Sharkey: The Pirate Anti-Hero (ar) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• Conan Doyle Beyond Baker Street: Round the Fire Stories (ar) The Strand Magazine #2 1999

RODGERS, ALAN (Paul) (1959- ) (stories)

• Souvenirs [with James D. Macdonald] (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• The Kidnapping of Roni Tahr (nv) Future Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW 1999

RODMAN, ERIC; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (stories)

• Drunken Sailor (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• Doublecrosser’s Daughter (nv) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Dec 1958
• Death of a Gigolo (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1959
• Hard-Hearted Woman (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• Crime of Passion (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961

RODMAN, HOWARD A. (stories)

• The Frightening Frammis [with Jon Robin Baitz] (pl) Fallen Angels, ed. Anon., Grove Press 1993
• The Quiet Room (pl) Fallen Angels, ed. Anon., Grove Press 1993

RODRIGUEZ, ABRAHAM, JR. (stories)

• Jaguar (ss) Bronx Noir, ed. S. J. Rozan, Akashic Books 2007; (South Bronx).

ROE, CAROLINE (Medora née Sale) (1943- ); also as Medora Sale (stories)

• Getting It Right (ss) Bloody Words: the anthology, ed. Caro Soles & Cheryl Freedman, Baskerville Books 2003

ROE, JUDY (stories)

• Murder in the Barrens (nv) AHMM Apr 2008

ROGAK, LISA ANGOWSKI (stories)

• The Wall (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992

ROGAL, STAN (stories)

• Dress Rehearsal (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991
• And Then He Sings (ss) Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2001
• Lie to Me Baby (ss) Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003

ROGERS, BRUCE HOLLAND; pseudonym of Bruce P. Rogers, (1958- ) (stories)

• Snapping Out of It (ss) EQMM Sep 1991
• Enduring as Dust (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• Hollywood Considered as a Seal Point in the Sun (nv) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• The Cat, the Watch and the Deep Blue Sea (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• Masked Marauders of the Mossbelt (nv) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• Cloud Stalking Mice (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999

ROGERS, BRUCE P(aul) (1958- ); see pseudonym Bruce Holland Rogers (stories)

ROGERS, CHERYL (stories)

• Naked Flame (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
• Pearler (ss) EQMM Feb 2007
• Such Rage of Honey (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2008

ROGERS, CHRIS (1944- ) (stories)

• Spare Change (ss) AHMM Jun 1995
• My Finger’s in the Light Socket and My Head’s in the Oven (ss) AHMM May 1996
• Comes Around (ss) AHMM Dec 2008

ROGERS, JAY (stories)

• A Family Matter (ss) Hardboiled #11 1990

ROGERS, JOEL TOWNSLEY (1896-1984) (stories)

• The Doom Club (ss) Air Stories Win 1937 [Captain Death]
• The Hanging Rope (na) New Detective Magazine Sep 1946
• The Murderer (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 23 1946

ROGERS, LENORA K. (stories)

• Another Close Call (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1981
• Secrets (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1997
• The Hanging Tree (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 1999
• The Supper Stop (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1999
• Goners (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2000
• On a Gray Day (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2001
• Heat (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2001
• A Major Impairment (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 2002

ROGERS, STEPHEN D. (stories)

• Suitable for Framing (vi) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• On My Mark (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 1999
• The Half-Dozen Gang (pm) EQMM Aug 2000
• A Forensic Scientist Urges Caution (pm) EQMM Nov 2001
• Playing with Fire (ss) Plots with Guns Nov/Dec 2001
• Bourne Again (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Win/Spr 2002
• Hard as Diamonds (ss) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2002
• The Money Case (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Jun 2002
• Death Valley Girl (ss) Plots with Guns Sum 2002
• The Eighth Stage (ss) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2002
• Old Tricks Do the Trick (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2002
• The Bourne Again Bridge (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #31 2002
• Rousted (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2003
• In League with a Redhead (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2003
• Victimless Crime (pm) EQMM Feb 2003
• Disturbed (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2003
• Dust Is Thicker than Water (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2003
• The Big League (ss) Who Died in Here?, ed. Pat Dennis, Penury Press 2004
• Whacking for Gomez (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2004
• Time’s A’Wasting (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2004
• Hit and Ran (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2004
• Inn (ss) Plots with Guns May/Jun 2004
• Officer Down (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug 2004
• White Collar Crime (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2004
• An Unwilling Witness (ss) Shred of Evidence Feb 2005
• People Like Us (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005
• Validation (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2005
• Consider It Lit (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 2005
• A Dog Named Mule (ss) Shred of Evidence Aug-Nov 2005
• Set in Stone (ss) Thou Shalt Not..., ed. Lee Allen Howard, Dark Cloud Press 2006
• Last Call (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Fll 2006
• Where’s the Beef? (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2007
• The Story That Won: Bedtime Story (vi) AHMM Mar 2008
• The Cajun Triangle (vi) About Mysteries; What to do... What to do... when your husband is so inconsiderate as to cause you to murder him...
• Physician Heal Thyself (vi) About Mysteries; The trouble, you see, is how to hide the mud on your shoes when you’ve dug your own grave... .

ROGERS, WAYNE; [name changed from Archibald Bittner] (stories)

• Hell’s Brew (nv) Thrilling Mystery Jan 1936
• King of America (ss) Operator #5 Mar/Apr 1938
• Murder Is a Merry Maid (nv) Mystery Tales Mar 1938

ROGOW, ROBERTA (Winston) (1942- ) (stories)

• Our American Cousins (ss) The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Adventure of Ricoletti of the Club Foot (and his abominable wife) (ascribed to P.G. Wodehouse) (nv) Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Adventure of Vanderbilt and the Yeggman (nv) The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1998 [Sherlock Holmes]

ROHLFS, ANNA KATHARINE; see under Green, Anna Katharine (stories)

ROHMER, BEDFORD (stories)

• The Golden Bride of Wo-Fan (ss) New Mystery Adventures Mar 1935

ROHMER, ROBERT B. (stories)

• The Love Motel, by Shizuko Natsuki (nv) EQMM Jul 1989
• The Woman on the Phone, by Shizuko Natsuki (nv) EQMM May 1990

ROHMER, SAX; pseudonym of A. Sarsfield Ward, (1883-1959) (stories)

• The Green Spider (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Oct 1904
• The Death of Cyrus Pettigrew (ss) The London Magazine Mar 1909
• Tchériapin (ss) The Sovereign Magazine Apr 1920
• Serpent Wind (ss) Colliers Nov 7 1942 [Bimbashi Baruk]
• Fu Manchu and the Frightened Redhead (ss) This Week Feb 1 1959 [Fu Manchu; Nayland Smith]
• The Stolen Peach Stone (ss)

ROLAND, ROSALIND (stories)

• If Thine Eye Offend Thee (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

ROLEY, BRIAN ASCALON (stories)

• Kinship (ss) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic Books 2007

ROLLINS, JAMES; pseudonym of Jim Czajkowski (stories)

• Kowalski’s in Love (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006 [Sigma Force]
• Introduction (in) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008

ROLLINS, JESSIE (stories)

• The Pasture Lands (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1998

ROLLINS, VIKI S. (stories)

• Assault of the Yow-Ling Jewels (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

ROLLINS, WILLIAM, JR. (1897-1950) (stories)

• Chicago Confetti (nv) Black Mask Mar 1932

ROLT, L(ionel) T(homas) C(aswell) (1910-1974) (stories)

• New Corner (ss) Mystery Stories #20 1939
• The Mine (ss) Mystery Stories #25 1942

ROMAN, RUSSELL NEWTON (stories)

• The What-If Twist (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1980

ROMANSKY, KATE (stories)

• Footsteps (ss) EQMM May 1993

ROMIG, JACK (stories)

• The Star Detective (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1996

ROMUN, ISAK; pseudonym of Gordon Bennett (stories)

• The Galen Bird (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1981
• The Message (ss) AHMM Sep 16 1981
• The Double Fishhooks (ss) AHMM Jan 6 1982
• Material Witness (ss) EQMM Aug 1982
• Death’s Gray Land (ss) EQMM Dec 1982
• The Enjoyment of an Artist (ss) AHMM Apr 1983
• The Block (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983
• Merit (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Feb 1984
• In Love with Death (ss) EQMM May 1984
• Poison (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1984
• Breakfast at The Kawnbawza (ss) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• Dinner in the Upper Latitudes (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985
• The Pattern of His Death (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1985
• Letter From Moscow (ss) Espionage Magazine Feb 1986
• The Romanticist (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• Love Is Here to Stay (ss) Espionage Magazine Oct 1986
• The Oracle of the Flag (ss) AHMM Dec 1987
• Brittany (ss) AHMM Nov 1988
• The Oriana Folio (ss) AHMM Jun 1989
• Cage (ss) Detective Story Magazine Aug 1989
• The Pulcinella Pastiche (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• The Colsum Painting (ss) AHMM Mar 1994

RONALD, JAMES (1905-1995?) (stories)

• The Second Bottle (ss) Liberty Aug 18 1945

RONDOU, CAROL (stories)

• Behind Enemy Lines [with John Helfers] (ss) Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2000

RONNS, EDWARD; pseudonym of Edward S. Aarons, (1916-1975) (stories)

• Terror in the Town (nv) Detective Story Magazine Feb 1946

RONOWSKI, AL (stories)

• Wait Watcher (pm) EQMM Nov 1993

ROOK, CLARENCE (1862-1915) (stories)

• The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal (ss) The Harmsworth Magazine Sep 1898

ROOME, DOUGLAS (Derek); pseudonym of Douglas R. Empringham, (1933- ) (stories)

• Chain Sawing (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May 2002

ROOME, FRANK B. (stories)

• Swann’s Song (ss) EQMM Sep 9 1981
• Dead Man’s Walk (ss) EQMM Feb 24 1982

ROONEY, DAVID A. (stories)

• The Story That Won: Down the Primrose Path (vi) AHMM Dec 1997
• The Story That Won: Raise the Tectonic! (vi) AHMM Jul/Aug 1998
• The Story That Won: The Dead Lettercarrier Office (vi) AHMM Dec 1998