Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• But the Corpse Can’t Laugh • Mary Jane Maffini • (ss)
• But What’s Done Is Done • Jack Leavitt • (pm)
• But Words Will Never Hurt Me • Richard Dean • (ss)
• “But You Don’t Know Me!” • Steve April • (ss)
• But You Know Us • Ed McBain • (ss)
• But You’ll Never Follow Me • Karl Edward Wagner • (ss)
• Butch Minds the Baby • Damon Runyon • (ss)
• Butcher Boy • Daniel Sontup • (ss)
• The Butcher Knife Murder • Joseph Payne Brennan • (ss)
• The Butcher of Seville • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Butcher of St Pierre • Susan B. Kelly • (ss)
• Butchers • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Butcher’s Boy • Thomas Perry • (ex)
• The Butler Couldn’t Quite Do It • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Butler Dunnit • Tim Heald • (ss)
• Butler in the Brink • JoAnne Lucas • (ss)
• Butlers in Love • B. K. Stevens • (nv)
• Butterflies • L. A. Taylor • (ss)
• The Butterfly Case • Gray Usher • (ss)
• Button in the Bag • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button? • Nick Carr • (ss)
• Buttons • E. M. Winch • (ss)
• Buy Me That Knife! • Ellis Hart • (ss)
• Buying the Farm • John Swan • (ss)
• Buzz and Ginger in Space Against Time, Episode 7 • Frederick Highland • (vi)
• By a Person Unknown • Naguib Mahfouz • (ss)
• By Bizarre Hands • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• By Book or By Crook • Gene Fehler • (pm)
• By Child Undone • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• By Dawn’s Early Light • Nolen Harsh • (pm)
• By Dint of Freak Weather • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• By Force and Against the King’s Peace • James S. Dorr • (nv)
• By Hendon Central Station I Sat Down and Wept • Mark Timlin • (ss)
• By His Own Hand • Rex Stout • (ss)
• By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man • Hylton Cleaver • (ss)
• By Letter and Affection • Terry Mullins • (ss)
• By Night Disguised • Donald Olson • (ss)
• By Person or Persons Unknown • James Holding • (ss)
• By Road or Rail • Agatha Christie • (ss)
• By Telephone • Harry Farjeon • (ss)
• By the Book • Lee Barwood • (ss)
• By the Book • Janet Dawson • (nv)
• By the Dawn’s Early Light • Lawrence Block • (nv)
• By the End of August • Mary Higgins Clark • (vi)
• By the Hair of the Head • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• By the Monkey-Ladder Vine • Anne Weston • (nv)
• By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• By the Scruff of the Soul • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • (ss)
• By the Sea • Valerie E. Polichar • (ss)
• By the Terrible Mountain • Ron Butler • (nv)
• By the Time the Witchblood Blooms • Anne Bishop • (ss)
• By the Time You Read This • Larry S. Hoke • (ss)
• By the Time You Read This • Keith Miles • (ss)
• By Water • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• By Woman’s Wit • Fred M. White • (ss)
• Bye, Baby Bunting • Mary Higgins Clark • (nv)
• Bye-Bye, Shimmy • Martin Russell • (nv)
• Byline for Murder • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Byline for Murder • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Bylines • James Holding • (pm)
• Bypass for Murder • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• Byron • Jack Albert • (ss)
• The Bystander • Thomas Berdine • (ss)
• Bystanders • Graham Powell • (ss)
• A Byzantine Mystery • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (ss)
• C Is for Cookie • Rob Kantner • (ss)
• C Seven H Fourteen O Two • Will Ryan • (pm)
• C-Jag • Cornell Woolrich • (nv)
• C12: Department of Bank Robberies • Michael Gilbert • (na)
• Caballito del Diablo • Terri de la Peña • (ss)
• Cabana • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• Cabaret Aux Assassins • Cara Black • (nv)
• Cabbages and Things • Marianne Wilski Strong • (ss)
• Cabin Fever • Pat Dennis • (ss)
• Cabin Fever • Patrick Irelan • (ss)
• The Cabinet Maker • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• The Cablegram • T. S. Stribling • (ss)
• The Cache • Albert Bashover • (ss)
• Cache and Carry • Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Cackle Bladder • William Campbell Gault • (nv)
• The Cactus Killer • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Cadaver Seekers • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The Cadaver Seekers: Episode 2 • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The Cadaver Waltzed at Noon • Deborah Adams • (ss)
• Caesar, I am Here • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• Caesar’s Wife • Anna Clarke • (ss)
• Café Con Leche • Marcos Donnelly • (nv)
• The Café of Terror • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Cafe Society Murder • Edward Radin • (ar)
• The Cage • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• Cage • Isak Romun • (ss)
• Cagebird • Margaret Lawrence • (ss)
• Cages • Ed Gorman • (ss)
• Cagney & Lacey • Serita Deborah Stevens • (ex)
• Cain • Andrew H. Vachss • (vi)
• Cain Was Innocent • Simon Brett • (nv)
• Cain’s Curse • Jack Nimersheim • (nv)
• Cairene Dawn • Jay Caselberg • (ss)
• The Cairo Cat Caper • Peter Schweighofer • (ss)
• The Cairo Road • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Cajun Dish Served Cold • Cornelia Snider Yarrington • (pm)
• The Cajun Triangle • Stephen D. Rogers • (vi)
• Cake and Chips • Jeanne S. Claire • (ss)
• Cake Job • Jane Rubino • (na)
• The Calculator • Joe L. Hensley • (ss)
• Calculator Man • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Calendar Girl • Chuck Bushnell • (sl)
• The Caleso Murders • Raoul F. Whitfield • (ss)
• The Caliber of Death • Clayton Matthews • (ss)
• Calibre • Ken Bruen • (ss)
• The Calico Dog • Mignon G. Eberhart • (nv)
• The Calico Kid • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The California Contact • Clark Howard • (nv)
• The California Killer • Tower Lowe • (ss)
• California Winter • Wrenn Wynn Burke • (ss)
• The Call from the Vacant House • Stuart Bachan • (ss)
• Call Him Ishmael • George Baxt • (ss)
• Call Home • Dennis Etchison • (ss)
• Call It Dead Time • Andy Straka • (nv)
• Call It Macaroni • Jan Burke • (ss)
• Call Me Walt • Jerry Sykes • (ss)
• Call Me Wiggins • Norman Schreiber • (nv)
• The Call of the Lorelei • Paul Halter • (ss)
• Call The Police • Fred W. Hunter • (ss)
• Call to Witness • Nancy Schachterle • (ss)
• Called to Judgement • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• The Caller • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• Callers • Frederick Highland • (vi)
• The Callers • Janet Nodar • (ss)
• Calling Cards • Mike Ripley • (ss)
• Calling Dr. Death • C. William Harrison • (ss)
• Calling Squad Cars! • L. Ron Hubbard • (ss)
• Calling the Tune • Steve Donoghue • (ss)
• Calloway’s Code • O. Henry • (ss)
• The Calls At Dinnertime • Alice Millar • (ss)
• Calves in the Barn on a Monday Morn • David K. Harford • (nv)
• Camaro Blue • Bill Moody • (ss)
• The Camberwell Poisoning Case • Stillman Drake • (ss)
• The Camel Driver • James B. Sweeney • (ss)
• The Camel Market • D. L. Siluk • (ss)
• A Cameo Disappearance • E. Brooks Peters • (ss)
• Cameron and the Mother • Elizabeth Stead • (ss)
• The Cameronian Preacher’s Tale • James Hogg • (ss)
• Camoodi • Juba Kennerley • (ss)
• Camouflage • Alanna Knight • (ss)
• Camouflage • Robert Reed • (na)
• Camp Affair • Karen Parker • (ss)
• The Camping Trip • Eve Fisher • (ss)
• The Campus Ghost • Carolyn Keene • (ss)
• Can Shoot • Michael Collins • (nv)
• Can You Answer These? • Misc. Material • (pz)
• Can You Hear Me? • Gretchen Sprague • (ss)
• Can You Prove It? • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• “Can You Run with It?” • Lewis Shiner • (si)
• Can You Take Me There, Now? • Matthew Firth • (ss)
• The Canadian Caper • Robert Edward Eckels • (ss)
• A Canadian Catastrophe • Naomi • (pm)
• Canadian Winners of International Crime Fiction Awards • David Skene-Melvin • (ms)
• Canal Blues • Rebecca Tope • (ss)
• The Canary and the Cat • Brian Plante • (vi)
• The Canasta Club • Eleanor Taylor Bland • (nv)
• The Cancellation • Reginald Hill • (ss)
• The Cancelling of Mrs Arbuthnot • Elizabeth Ferrars • (ss)
• The Cancer Cowboy Rides • John Connolly • (na)
• Candala • George C. Chesbro • (ss)
• Candidate for Death • Theodore Tinsley • (ss)
• Candidate for Murder • Nels Leroy Jorgensen • (ss)
• Candie-Gram • Michael Garrett • (ss)
• A Candle for Christmas • Reginald Hill • (nv)
• A Candle for the Bag Lady • Lawrence Block • (nv)
• Candles in the Rain • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• Candy Cane Wars • James Powell • (ss)
• A Candy Store • Gene Murray • (ss)
• Cannibal • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• Cannibal Compromise • Gary Every • (ss)
• The Cannibal Gourmet • James Powell • (nv)
• Canon • John Vermeulen • (ss)
• Can’t Catch Me • Thomas Morrissey • (ss)
• The Canterville Ghost • Oscar Wilde • (nv)
• A Canticle for Wulfstan • Peter Tremayne • (nv)
• Canyon Dreams • Julie Garbarczyk • (ss)
• A Capital Cat Crime • Richard T. Chizmar • (ss)
• Capital of the World • Jim Patton • (ss)
• Cap’n Bob and Gus • Bill Crider • (ss)
• The Cap’n Sleeps • John Earl Davis • (ss)
• Da Capo • Janet LaPierre • (nv)
• Capriccio for Unaccompanied Violin • S. L. Franklin • (ss)
• The Capricorn Moment • Amanda Cross • (ss)
• The Captain • Francis Marsden • (ss)
• The Captain and Mr. Tuttle • Joel Helgerson • (ss)
• Captain Benvolio Bullhorner • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• Captain Benvolio Bullhorner Series Sleuths • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• Captain Binh and the Bidji • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• Captain Blood • Donald Barthelme • (ss)
• Captain Cook: Detective • Theodore Mathieson • (ss)
• Captain Dangers Sky Trail • Scott Morgan • (nv)
• Captain Joe Miron’s Peace & Quiet Bar • Thomas Gibbs Gee • (ss)
• Captain Leopold and the Impossible Murder • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold and the Mystery Woman • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold and the Silver Foxes • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold Beats the Machine • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold Goes Fishing • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold Goes to the Dogs • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold Plays a Hunch • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold Views a Crime Scene • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold’s Birthday • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold’s Gamble • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Captain Leopold’s Secret • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Captain M. Caper • Avram Davidson • (nv)
• Captain Murderer • Charles Dickens • (ss)
• Captain Nash and the Wroth Inheritance • Raymond Butler • (n.)
• Captain Pasharooney • Avram Davidson • (ss)
• Captain Rogers • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• Captured in Silver • Teresa Edgerton • (ss)
• The Captured Shadow • F. Scott Fitzgerald • (ss)
• The Car • Patricia Highsmith • (ss)
• The Car in the Mexican Quarter • Jim Thompson • (ss)