Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

ROZAN, S. J. (books) (stories) (continued)

• Childhood (ss) Compulsion (e-book), Mightywords.com 2000
• Motormouth (vi) EQMM Apr 2001
• Double-Crossing Delancey (nv) Mystery Street, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2001 [Lydia Chin]
• Going Home (ss) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002
• The Last Kiss (ss) Dangerous Women, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2005
• Passline (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005
• Shots (na) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• Building (ss) Manhattan Noir, ed. Lawrence Block, Akashic Books 2006; (Harlem).
• The Next Nice Day (ss) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• [untitled] (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• Sunset (ss) Hardboiled Brooklyn, ed. Reed Farrel Coleman, Bleak House Books 2006
• Bronx Noir [ed.] (oa) Akashic Books 2007
• Hothouse (ss) Bronx Noir, ed. S. J. Rozan, Akashic Books 2007; (Botanical Garden).
• Introduction (in) Bronx Noir, ed. S. J. Rozan, Akashic Books 2007
• Undocumented (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

RUARK, E. B. (stories)

• Ante Bellum (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2002

RUBENSTEIN, BRUCE (stories)

• Smoke Got in My Eyes (ss) Twin Cities Noir, ed. Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Akashic Books 2006; North End (St. Paul).

RUBER, PETER (stories)

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

RUBIN, BILLIE; pseudonym of Ute Hacker (stories)

• Living Next Door to Malace (ss) 2001; from Teuflische Nachbarn, ed. Ingrid Schmitz & Ina Coelen, Scherz Verlag.

RUBIN, RICHARD (stories)

• The Ghosts of Emmett Ill. (tc)

RUBINO, DIANA (stories)

• Souvenir (ss) Espionage Magazine Jul 1987

RUBINO, JANE (Ellen) (1950- ) (stories)

• Fruitcake (n.) Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing 1997 [Cat Austen]
• Cake Job (na) Deadly Morsels, ed. Anon., Worldwide 2003 [Cat Austen]

RUBINSTEIN, GILLIAN (Margaret, née Hanson) (1942- ); see pseudonym G. M. Hanson (stories)

RUCKA, GREG (1969- ) (stories)

• Contact and Cover (ss) The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly, Little Brown 2008

RUDMAN, MARK (1948- ) (stories)

• Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau) (pm) The Millennium Hotel 1996

RUDOLPH, JANET A. (stories)

• Murderous Affairs (ar) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1990, Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1991

RUEHLMANN, BILL (stories)

• We May As Well Continue Being Carrollish: A Bow Before the Queen (ar) The Tragedy of Errors and Others, Crippen & Landru 1999

RUFTY, CYNTHIA (stories)

• Holmes Emerging (pm) EQMM Feb 2002

RULE, ANN (1935- ) (stories)

• The Road Trip (nv) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997

RULE, REBECCA (stories)

• Thief (ss) AHMM Jun 2004

RUNYON, CHARLES (West) (1928-1987) (stories)

• A Good Head for Murder (ss) AHMM Nov 1974

RUNYON, (Alfred) DAMON (1880-1946) (stories)

• Butch Minds the Baby (ss) Colliers Sep 13 1930
• “Gentlemen, the King!” (ss) Colliers Apr 25 1931
• The Snatching of Bookie Bob (ss) Colliers Sep 26 1931
• A Story Goes with It (ss) Cosmopolitan Nov 1931
• What, No Butler? (ss) Colliers Aug 5 1933
• Sense of Humor (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1934
• So You Won’t Talk! (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1937

RURIK, ADAM (stories)

• That’s What to Do (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

RUSCH, KRISTINE KATHRYN (1960- ); see pseudonym Kris Nelscott (books) (stories)

• The Young Shall See Visions, and the Old Dream Dreams (ss) AHMM Jul 1989
• A Time for Every Purpose (nv) Amazing May 1990
• The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• Five Starving Cats and a Dead Dog (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
• Little Miracles (ss) AHMM Jun 1992
• Alien Influences (nv) F&SF Jul 1992
• Hide and Seek (na) The Further Adventures of Batman 2, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1992 [Batman]
• Hitchhiking Across an Ancient Sea (ss) Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Atlanta, GA: Unnameable Press 1992
• On the Wings of Angel (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993 [Batman]
• Strays (nv) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• The Unknown Soldier (ss) Confederacy of the Dead, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Roc 1993
• Bring Me the Head of Anne Boleyn (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• Common Sense (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• Second Fiddle (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Küchen (ss) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• Scars (nv) AHMM mid-Dec 1995
• Pudgygate (ss) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• Models (nv) EQMM Nov 1997
• Love and Justice (ss) Once Upon a Crime, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1998
• Details (ss) EQMM Dec 1998
• Jackie-O (ss) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• Her Mother’s Secrets (nv) EQMM Mar 1999
• Kindred Souls (ss) Cemetery Dance #32 1999
• Rehabilitation (ss) EQMM Jan 2000
• The Retrieval Artist (na) Analog Jun 2000 [Miles Flint]
• The Silence (nv) EQMM Jun 2000
• Spinning (nv) EQMM Jul 2000
• Improvements (ss) Murder Most Medieval, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, Cumberland House 2000
• Updates (nv) AHMM Sep 2000
• Parking Space Vigilantes (ss) EQMM Dec 2000
• The Perfect Man (nv) Murder Most Romantic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Denise Little, Cumberland House 2001
• Ghosts (ss) Death by Horoscope, ed. Anne Perry & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2001
• Little Miracles and Other Tales of Murder (co) Five Star 2001
• The Dead Line (nv) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• Heroics (nv) EQMM Apr 2002
• Remodeling (nv) EQMM Feb 2003
• Cat Nap (ss) Kittens, Cats, and Crime, ed. Ed Gorman, Five Star 2003
• Conversation with Kristine Kathryn Rusch (iv) AHMM Jun 2003
• The Destruction of a Goddess (nv) AHMM Jun 2003
• Cowboy Grace (nv) The Silver Gryphon, ed. Gary Turner & Marty Halpern, Golden Gryphon Press 2003
• Thorns (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2004
• ProtectVision (ss) EQMM May 2004
• Jury Duty (ss) Crimewave #8 2005
• Snow Angels (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006
• Sweet Young Things (nv) EQMM Mar/Apr 2006
• Fumes (ss) AHMM Apr 2006
• The End of the World (na) Alien Crimes, ed. Mike Resnick, SFBC 2007
• Substitutions (nv) Places to Be, People to Kill, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren, DAW 2007
• Incident at Lonely Rocks (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2007
• The Moorhead House (ss) EQMM Jan 2008
• G-Men (nv) Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, Solaris 2008
• The Secret Lives of Cats (nv) EQMM Jul 2008
• Discovery (ss) AHMM Nov 2008
• Introduction (in)

RUSE, GARY ALAN (1946- ) (stories)

• The Phantom Chamber (nv) The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Carroll & Graf 1987 [Sherlock Holmes]
• What If, God Forbid, Sherlock Holmes Had Never Lived? (pm) EQMM Jan 1991
• The Holmes Team Advantage (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Night Tidings (nv) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

RUSHFORD, PATRICIA (stories)

• “Killing with Kindness: An Interview with Patricia Rushford” by Lisa Williamson (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1998

RUSHTON, WILLIAM (George) (1937-1996) (stories)

• from W. G. Grace’s Last Case (ex)

RUSSELL, ALAN (Louis) (1956- ) (stories)

• Married to a Murderer (ss) Malice Domestic 5, Phyllis A. Whitney, Pocket 1996

RUSSELL, AMANDA (stories)

• The Tibetan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ar) Tibetan Review Aug 1982

RUSSELL, BERTRAND (Arthur William) (1872-1970) (stories)

• The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X (ss) 1951

RUSSELL, CAROLYN (stories)

• Hannah’s Song (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004
• One Rotten Apple (ss) Beyond the Mundane: Unravelings, ed. Daniel J. Reitz, Mundania Press 2004

RUSSELL, E(nid) S(herry) (1924- ) (stories)

• Last Bite (ss) EQMM Apr 1992
• Blind Justice (ss) EQMM Sep 1992

RUSSELL, ERIC FRANK (1905-1978) (stories)

• It’s Hell to Be Shot (ss) Mystery Stories #15 1939

RUSSELL, GARRETT (stories)

• Double or Nothing (ss) Crimewave #3 2000
• Catch a Falling Star (ss)
• Murder on the Eastern & Oriental Express (ss)
• Of Pearls and Swine (ss)
• Punch Drunk (ss)
• Roo Kill (ss)

RUSSELL, J. S.; pseudonym; see under Russell, Jay (stories)

RUSSELL, JAY (S.) (1961- ); pseudonym (stories)

• The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (ss) Dark Detectives, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer 1999 [Marty Burns]
• The PWG Interview with Jay Russell (iv) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001

RUSSELL, JEREMY (stories)

• Prayer Denied (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001

RUSSELL, JOHN (1885-1956) (stories)

• The Burglar (ss) 1913
• The Knife (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 7 1925

RUSSELL, LEE K. (stories)

• The Potted Purple Petunia (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Jul 1967
• The Girl in the Orange Beret (nv) AHMM Sep 1984
• The Man at the Back of the Bus (ss) AHMM Dec 1988
• Ma Goose’s Crib Rhymes #1040: unearned income (pm) EQMM Aug 1992

RUSSELL, MARK (stories)

• The Lesson (nv) 1985

RUSSELL, MARTIN (James) (1934- ) (stories)

• Bye-Bye, Shimmy (nv) The Darker Side of Death, London: Collins 1985
• Diamond and Pearl (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990

RUSSELL, RAY(mond Robert) (1924-1999) (stories)

• The Murder of Conan Doyle (ss) Playboy May 1955
• Ding-Dong, the Lizard’s Dead (nv) Murder in Los Angeles, Adams Round Table, Morrow 1987

RUSSELL, W(illiam) (1807-1877) (stories)

• Hunting Rogues (ss)

RUSSO, DEBORAH (stories)

• Show Up (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1985

RUSSO, RICHARD PAUL (1954- ) (stories)

• Celebrate the Bullet (nv) IASFM mid-Dec 1991

RUSSU, JULIA (stories)

• Motherly Love (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

RUTALE, PATRICIA (stories)

• Under Ice (ss) EQMM Feb 2002

RUTHERFORD, R. C. (stories)

• Cold Blue Wind (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002

RUTTER, ERIC (stories)

• The Voice at the Barbican Gate (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2008

RUUD, WILLIAM (stories)

• The Very Last One (ss) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991

RYAN, ALAN (1943- ) (stories)

• The Witch, the Child, and the U.P.S. Fellow (ss) AHMM Oct 1982
• Kiss the Vampire Goodbye (nv) AHMM Jun 1985

RYAN, MARK; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (stories)

• Motel Girl (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• The Farmers Daughter (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• Never Trust a Stripper (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jun 1961

RYAN, MARY C. (stories)

• Ellen Keegan’s Revenge (nv) Murder At the Races, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• Jeremiah’s Lily (ss) Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• Murder in Kilcurry (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001

RYAN, MICHAEL G. (stories)

• The Tidal (nv) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007

RYAN, MIKE (stories)

• The Jogger (vi) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

RYAN, ROB (1951- ) (stories)

• Shit Happens (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999

RYAN, WILL (stories)

• Sonnet from the Pen of a Mug (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• Anonymous Clyde (pm) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005
• Sonnet Number 18.1 (pm) EQMM Jun, Jul 2005
• Like, Clueless! (pm) EQMM Nov 2005
• C Seven H Fourteen O Two (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006

RYCROFT, CHARLES (stories)

• from “The Analysis of a Detective Story” (ex)

RYDER, BILL; pseudonym of Bud Ampolsk, (1923?- ) (stories)

• Shake-Down Bait! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• Hell’s Third Degree! (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• The Violent Persuader! (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957
• Hell on Wheels! (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• Death’s Loveless Caress (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• One Foot in Hell! (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• She’ll Shriek for Death! (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• Lust Claims a Bride (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• Horror’s Handmaidens (nv) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• Portrait of the She-Devil of Lust (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963

RYKENA, STEPHEN (stories)

• Conscience (ss) 2001; from Stadtanzeiger; Schaurige Funde, Verlag der Criminale.
• Cold-Blooded (ss) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003; first published in the newspaper Stadtanzeiger, 2002.

RYSTROM, EILEEN (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Big Dog Laughed (vi) AHMM Mar 1994

RZETELNY, HARRIET (stories)

• Graveyard Blues (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• Angel Dust (ss) AHMM Jun 2001
• Amazing Grace (ss) AHMM Feb 2003
• Proud Mary (ss) AHMM Nov 2006 [Molly Lewin]
• Death of an Anarchist (ss) AHMM Sep 2008

S., H. B. (stories)

• A Detective’s Story (ss)

SABASTIAN, INEZ (stories)

• Marked for Murder (nv) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1946

SABATINI, RAFAEL (1875-1950) (books) (stories)

• The Red Mask (ss) The Ludgate Magazine Dec 1898
• The Evidence of the Sword (ss) The Royal Magazine Sep 1900
• Judge Foscaro’s Crime (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1904
• The Face of the Clock (ss) The Realm Aug 1904
• The Spiritualist (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1905
• His Last Chance (ss) American Illustrated Magazine Dec 1905
• Wirgman’s Theory (ss) The London Magazine Jul 1906