Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Unknown Lady of Sutton Bank • Peter N. Walker • (ar)
• The Unknown Murderer • H. C. Bailey • (nv)
• The Unknown Peer • E. C. Bentley • (ss)
• Unknown Pleasures • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• The Unknown Soldier • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• The Unknown Traitor • Eric Ambler • (vi)
• Unlawful Contact • Monica Wood • (ss)
• The Unlicensed Victuallers • Leslie Charteris • (na)
• The Unlikely Demise of Cousin Claude • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• Unlikely Friends • Michael Bishop • (ss)
• Unloved Corpse • Wyatt Blassingame • (ss)
• Unlucky in Love, Unlucky at Cards • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• Unmarked Graves • George C. Chesbro • (ss)
• The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Chapman • (vi)
• An Unmentionable Death • Simon Brett • (ss)
• An Unmourned Death • Jaqueline Girdner • (ss)
• The Unmurdered Professor • Lloyd Biggle, Jr. • (ss)
• The Unnamable • H. P. Lovecraft • (ss)
• Unnatural Causes • Richard F. McGonegal • (ss)
• Unnaturally Inclined • Joy Hewitt Mann • (pm)
• Unplanned Ride • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• Unplayable Lies • William G. Tapply • (ss)
• The Unpleasantness at the Arts & Letters Club • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Unpleasantness at the Big Boys Club • Marele Day • (ss)
• An Unprejudiced Eye • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker • Dorothy L. Sayers • (ss)
• Unquiet Graves • James Powell • (ss)
• Unreasonable Doubt • Max Allan Collins • (nv)
• Unreasonable Doubt • Stanley Ellin • (ss)
• Unreasonable Doubt • K. L. Jones • (ss)
• Unreasonable Facsimile • George Baxt • (ss)
• Unrolling the Dead • Ian Morson • (nv)
• Unseen Demons • Adam-Troy Castro • (na)
• The Unseen Door • Margery Allingham • (ss)
• The Unseen Player • H. Russell Wakefield • (ss)
• Unsettled Scores • Jürgen Ehlers • (ss)
• An Unsettling Incident • John Paxton Sheriff • (ss)
• Unsinkable • Elizabeth Foxwell • (ss)
• Unsolved • Robert V. Kesling • (pz)
• The Unsolved • Robert V. Kesling • (pz)
• Unsolved • Robert V. Kesling • (pz)
• Unsolved • Guy Savant • (pz)
• The Unsolved Case • Anne Whitehouse • (pm)
• ’Unsolved’ Crimes • Cheryl Jorgensen • (ss)
• The Unsolved Mystery at Box 29 • Joseph E. Taylor • (ss)
• The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face • Dorothy L. Sayers • (nv)
• Unsolved:
  ___ Alley Barber and the Thirty Thugs • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ The Antique Store Shooting • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ Bad Karl’s Cavern • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ The Boshkung Mystery Rectangle • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ The Case of the Scalpel Murder • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ Cutting Up the Pierce Arrow • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ A Double Assassination at “The Falls” • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ Finding the Clue • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ From “Sine Timore” • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ The Gangster’s Valet • Randle McKay & Lassiter Wren • (pz)
  ___ Getting Away with It • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ The Hall of Seventy Rooms • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ (haunted house) • Joe Boddy • (pz)
  ___ The Inspector Marquard’s Quandary • Randle McKay & Lassiter Wren • (pz)
  ___ An Interrupted Patrol • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ The Invitation to Crime • Randle McKay & Lassiter Wren • (pz)
  ___ The Knight’s Tale • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ A Lunch Date • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ Monster Hunt • Dave Phillips • (pz)
  ___ A More Interesting Case • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
  ___ A Most Interesting Case of All • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
  ___ The Next Trial • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
  ___ Our Town • Stew Thornley • (pz)
  ___ The Results of the Eighth Race • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ The Second Account • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
  ___ A Spy Hunt • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ A Still More Interesting Case • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
  ___ Talking Turkey • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ To Be or Not to Be—Authentic • Ken Weber • (pz)
  ___ Treasure Island • Walter Shepherd • (pz)
  ___ (untitled) • Randle McKay & Lassiter Wren • (pz)
  ___ (untitled) • Guy Savant • (pz)
  ___ (untitled) • Lawrence Treat • (pz)
  ___ (untitled) • Ken Weber • (pz)
• Unsolve:
• (pz) Alice in Puzzle-Land, Morrow 1982 • Raymond Smullyan
• (pz) For Amazement Only, Penguin 1942 • Walter Shepherd
• (pz) ~AHMM Jun~0571~, ~Dec 1991~0577~, ~Feb~0662~, ~Apr~0664~, ~Oct 1992~0670~ • Guy Savant
• Unsound Mind • Anthony Berkeley • (ss)
• The Unstoppable Man • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• An Unsuitable Job for a Mullin • Susan Dunlap • (ss)
• The Unsung Song of Mary Gallinger • Linda Lay Shuler • (nv)
• The Unsuspected • Jay Wilson • (ss)
• An Unsuspected Condition of the Heart • Jan Burke • (ss)
• Untainted in Night Work • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Until Gwen • Dennis Lehane • (nv)
• Until I Do • Robert Lopresti • (ss)
• Until Proven Innocent • S. L. Franklin • (nv)
• Until You Are Dead • John Lutz • (ss)
• Untimely Visitor • John Bender • (ss)
• Untitled • E. L. Doctorow • (ss)
• Untitled • Hayford Peirce • (ss)
• untitled (“All things are strange things...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• untitled (“Come thou not near me...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• untitled (“I am a liar and a hater...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• untitled (“Sing unto me a song...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• untitled (“There is a dearth of darkness...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• untitled (“You sit there side by side...”) • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• (untitled) • T. S. Eliot • (ex)
• (untitled) • Debbie Gish • (ed)
• (untitled) • Antonio Gramsci • (lt)
• untitled) • Haerold Nicholson • (ex)
• (untitled) • Edgar Allan Poe • (ms)
• (untitled) • Allen Pryce-Jones • (ex)
• (untitled) • Raymond Queneau • (ms)
• (untitled) • Norman Shrapnel • (ex)
• Untold Story • Breanda Cross • (ss)
• Untying the Knot • Barry Baldwin • (ss)
• Unusual Floral Organs • K. J. A. Wishnia • (ss)
• An Unusual Suspect • Brian M. Thomsen • (ss)
• The Unusual Suspects • Misc. • (bg)
• Unwanted Body • Paul Ellsworth Triem • (ss)
• An Unwanted Woman • Ruth Rendell • (nv)
• Unwelcome Guest • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Unwilling Sleep • Simon Brett • (ss)
• An Unwilling Witness • Stephen D. Rogers • (ss)
• Unwinding • William F. Harvey • (ss)
• The Unwritten Code • C. Bruce Hunter • (ss)
• Up at the Riverside • Marcia Muller • (nv)
• Up for a Nickel • Thomas S. Roche • (nv)
• Up In Smoke • Arthur Montague • (ss)
• Up on the Housetop • Elena Santangelo • (ss)
• Up the Airy Mountain • Chaz Brenchley • (nv)
• Up the Close and Down the Stair • S. J. Perelman • (ss)
• Up the Garden Path • Joyce Christmas • (ss)
• Up the Hill • Robert Halsted • (ss)
• Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly • Dave Eggers • (nv)
• Up the Pole • Liz Palmer • (ss)
• Up Yours • Julian Rathbone • (ss)
• Up, up and away: An Interview with Connie Shelton • Lisa D. Williamson • (iv)
• Updates • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (nv)
• Upon My Soul • Robert J. Randisi • (ss)
• Upon Reflection • Elliott Capon • (ss)
• The Upper Berth • F. Marion Crawford • (nv)
• The Upper Hand • Alan J. Warren • (ss)
• An Upright Woman • H. R. F. Keating • (nv)
• Upside Down • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• Upstaging Murder • Carolyn G. Hart • (ss)
• The Upstairs Flat • Elizabeth A. Dalton • (ss)
• The Upstairs Room • Patricia Moorhead • (ss)
• Upward Mob-Ility • Seymour Kapetansky • (pm)
• Upward Mobility • Marguerite Buranelli • (pm)
• Urban Legend • Reginald Hill • (ss)
• An Urban Legend Puzzle • Norizuki Rintaro • (nv)
• Urban Pageant • Karen Skowron • (ss)
• The Urge • Mary Sass • (ss)
• The Urgent Message • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Used • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• User Unfriendly • Ruth A. Gerik • (ss)
• Users and Losers • William D. Cissna • (ss)
• The Usual • J. W. Whitehead • (ss)
• The Usual Table • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Utterly Perfect Murder • Ray Bradbury • (ss)
• V-2 • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• V. Mostly Murder • Jack Adrian • (si)
• The V.I. Doesn’t Stand for “Very Interesting” • Tom Thornton • (mr)
• A Vacance en Campagne • Tim Heald • (ss)
• The Vacancy • Kate Ellis • (ss)
• Vacancy at Cubana’s Hotel • DeLoris Stanton Forbes • (ss)
• Vacation Trip • Doris Miles Disney • (ss)
• Vacation with Murder • Roger Torrey • (ss)
• Vacuum • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Vacuum Cleaner • Gladys Mitchell • (ss)
• The Vagrant • Douglas D. Armstrong • (ss)
• A Vague Implication • Darren Subarton • (ss)
• Val McDermid • Adrian Muller • (iv)
• The Vale of the White Horse • Sharyn McCrumb • (ss)
• Valentin Follows a Curious Trail • G. K. Chesterton • (nv)
• Valentine for a Dead Lady • Mel D. Ames • (nv)
• A Valentine from Teacher • Jim Knapp • (ss)
• Valentine, July Heat Wave • Joyce Carol Oates • (ss)
• Valentine’s Night • Nancy Pickard • (nv)
• Valentino’s Valediction • Amy Myers • (ss)
• The Valet Mystery • Rafael Sabatini • (ss)
• Valhalla • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• Validation • Stephen D. Rogers • (ss)
• The Valley Murders • Jamie Grant • (pm)
• The Valley of Angustias • Steven Torres • (ss)
• The Valley of Arrows • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Valley of Dead Millionaires • James Powell • (ss)
• The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle • (n.)
• The Valley of Little Fears • Erle Stanley Gardner • (ss)
• The Valley of the Crucifiction • Orrin Hollmer • (na)
• Valuables • Kristine Scheid • (ss)
• The Valuation • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Value for Money • Julian Symons • (ss)
• The Value of Detective Stories • G. K. Chesterton • (ar)
• Value Received • Andrew H. Vachss • (vi)
• Vampire • Joseph Monninger • (ss)
• The Vampire • Joyce Carol Oates • (nv)
• Vampire Dollars • William F. Nolan • (nv)
• Vampire Dreams • Dick Lochte • (ss)
• Vampire Genes • W. S. Bachman • (ss)
• The Vampire in the Iron Mask • Joseph Commings • (nv)
• The Vampire Man • Percy Spurlark Parker • (ss)
• The Vampire of the Village • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
• The Vampire Theme • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Vampires Next Door • Peter Sellers • (ss)
• Van der Valk and the False Caesar • Nicolas Freeling • (vi)
• The Van Winkle Loaf • James Powell • (nv)
• The Vandal • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• Vandals • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Vandy, Vandy • Manly Wade Wellman • (ss)
• Vanished • Edward C. Lynskey • (ss)
• Vanished • Chris Niles • (ss)
• Vanished As She Sang • Clayton Emery • (nv)
• The Vanished Crown • Ernest Bramah • (nv)