Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Clairvoyants • Arthur B. Reeve • (nv)
• The Clam Soup Connection • Fred Hamlin • (ss)
• The Clammer • D. A. McGuire • (nv)
• The Clan • Sherry Decker • (ss)
• Clancy of the Mounted Police • Robert W. Service • (pm)
• Clancy’s Bride • Terry Bacon • (ss)
• Clap Hands, There Goes Charlie • George Baxt • (ss)
• Clara Cates and the Hatchett Murder • Carolyn Jensen Watts • (nv)
• Clara’s Sacrifice • J. F. Freedman • (nv)
• Clarence and The Dead (and What Do They Tell You, Clarence? and The Dead Speak to Clarence) • Randall Kenan • (nv)
• Clarence Darrow • David W. Rintels • (ex)
• Clarimonde • Théophile Gautier • (nv)
• The Clarion Call • O. Henry • (ss)
• Clarise • Suzanne Jones • (ss)
• Clarity • Brynn Bonner • (nv)
• Clark Howard: A Chronology • Clark Howard • (bi)
• Clark Howard: A Chronology • Misc. Material • (bi)
• The Clash of Future and Past • David L. Transue • (ss)
• The Clasp of Rank • S. Carleton • (ss)
• A Class Act • Lyn Peters • (ss)
• Class Act • Jay Speyerer • (ss)
• Class Reunion • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• Class Reunion • Martin Werner • (ss)
• A Classic • Janet Hutchings • (ed)
• A Classic Case • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• A Classic Crime • Cecily Nabors • (ss)
• A Classic Forgery • Roy Vickers • (ss)
• The Classic Semerák Case • Josef Skvorecký • (ss)
• A Classical Mystery: The Healer’s Daughter • Frederick Highland • (ar)
• Claud • David Braly • (ss)
• Claws of Satan • Stuart Towne • (na)
• Claws of the Wind • Suzanne Frank • (ss)
• Clay Lies Still • William Bankier • (ss)
• Clay Pigeon • William Arden • (ss)
• Clay Pigeon • Michael Collins • (ss)
• The Clay-McBride Feud • Jay Murphy • (ss)
• The Clean Place • Robert Twohy • (ss)
• Clean Slate • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• Clean Slate • H. Wolff Salz • (ss)
• A Clean Sweep • Mary Higgins Clark • (nv)
• Clean Sweep • Debbie DiBacco • (pm)
• Clean Sweep • Barbara Paul • (nv)
• Clean Sweep • Roger Torrey • (nv)
• Clean Sweep for Lou • Louis Weinstein • (ss)
• Clean Up • Haze McEllhenny & Tribe • (ss)
• A Clean View on Murder • Patricia Harrington • (vi)
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Murder • Tim Wohlforth • (ss)
• Cleaner • Ashok K. Banker • (ss)
• Cleaning • Kenneth M. Austin • (ss)
• Cleaning Up • Peggy Wysong • (pm)
• Clear and Present Armadillo • Gerald W. Page • (ss)
• Clear as Glass • Helen Carpenter & Lorri Carpenter • (ss)
• Clear Conscience • Lawrence Harvey • (ss)
• Clear Sailing • Gillian Roberts • (nv)
• The Cleopatra Game • Jane Finnis • (nv)
• Cleo’s Asp • Edward D. Hoch • (nv)
• Clerical Error • James Gould Cozzens • (vi)
• A Clerical Error • Michael Jecks • (ss)
• Cleveland in My Dreams • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Clever and Quick • Christianna Brand • (ss)
• The Clever Cockatoo • E. C. Bentley • (ss)
• Clever Hans • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• A Cleverly Rearranged Murder • Richard L. Purtill • (ss)
• Clewsey’s Cliché’s Frontispiece: ‘Have a care, Constable, it may be a clue’ • Clewsey • (ct)
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘Come, come, Major—did nothing peculiar strike you about the time?’ • Clewsey • (ct)
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘How did you know the victim was a pawnbroker?’ • Clewsey • (ct)
• Clewsey’s Clichés: ‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important’ • Clewsey • (ct)
• Clewsey’s Clichés:
  ___ ‘Laverton-West gave him a fish-like stare’ • Clewsey • (ct)
  ___ ‘Quick, chaps! The swine have got Phyllis again’ • Clewsey • (ct)
  ___ ‘Wait! I think the dog knows something’ • Clewsey • (ct)
  ___ ‘While she waited for Nick to come round, Nora reviewed the facts of the case as she understood them’ • Clewsey • (ct)
• The Cliché Blues • John Peterson • (ss)
• Click! • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Clicker Training • Parnell Hall • (ss)
• The Client • Richard North Patterson • (ss)
• Cliff-Hanger • Elena Santangelo • (ss)
• Cliffhanger • Georgiana Eidukas • (ss)
• Cliffscape with Figures • June Thomson • (ss)
• Climbing Death • Raoul F. Whitfield • (ss)
• Climbing Sugar Hill • Joy Hewitt Mann • (ss)
• The Clincher • Jack Foxx • (ss)
• Clinging Vine • Robert Silverberg • (ss)
• A Clinical Interest in Murder • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• Clippin’ Coyotes • Jane Bosworth • (ss)
• The Cloak • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• Cloak and Dagger • John W. Jakes • (ss)
• Cloak and Digger • John W. Jakes • (ss)
• Cloak of Anarchy • Larry Niven • (ss)
• The Cloak of DeSouvre • Elizabeth Fancett • (ss)
• The Clock • A. E. W. Mason • (ss)
• The Clock That Counts the Dead • Edward Bryant • (ss)
• The Clock Winder’s Tale • Michelle Knowlden • (ss)
• Clocks • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Clockwork Rat • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Clos Carmine • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• Clos Carmine 1945 • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• Close Call • Erle Stanley Gardner • (nv)
• Close Calls • John Lutz • (ss)
• Close Cover Before Striking • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Close Shave • Ridley Pearson • (na)
• Close, But No Cigar • Barbara Paul • (ss)
• Closedown • Keith Miles • (ss)
• The Closer • Thomas Perry • (nv)
• Closer to the Flame • Jerry Sykes • (ss)
• The Closers • Paul Guyot • (nv)
• The Closet • L. C. Mohr • (vi)
• The Closet Hanging • Tony Fennelly • (n.)
• The Closing Circle • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• Closing the Doors • Rick Hautala • (ss)
• Closing Time • Neil Gaiman • (ss)
• Closing Time • Dana Kouba • (ss)
• Closing Time • Russ Martin • (ss)
• Closing Time • David Zeltserman • (ss)
• Closure • David White • (ss)
• Clothes • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Clothes Make the Man • G. M. Ford • (ss)
• The Cloud Beneath the Eaves • Barbara Owens • (ss)
• The Cloud Cracker • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Cloud Nine • Christianna Brand • (ss)
• Cloud of Smoke • Morris Hershman • (ss)
• Cloud Stalking Mice • Bruce Holland Rogers • (ss)
• Club Champion • Suzanne Jones • (ss)
• Club Dead • Rhys Bowen • (ss)
• Club Dead • Charlaine Harris • (n.)
• Club Dead • Karen Smith • (pm)
• Club Macavity • David F. Bischoff • (ss)
• The Club of Masks • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Club Rules • James Lowder • (nv)
• Clubbed to Death • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Clue in the Snow • Carter Dickson • (ss)
• Clue of Courage • Norvell W. Page • (ss)
• The Clue of the Broken Legs • Clayton Rawson • (pz)
• The Clue of the Hungry Horse • Erle Stanley Gardner • (na)
• The Clue of the Red Wig • John Dickson Carr • (nv)
• The Clue of the Screaming Woman • Erle Stanley Gardner • (na)
• The Clue of the Silver Spoons • Robert Barr • (ss)
• The Clue of the Tattooed Man • Clayton Rawson • (pz)
• The Clue of the Willy-Willy • Ann Morven • (ss)
• Clues • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• Clues Are What They Use • Dottie Pryse • (pz)
• Clutching at Straws • Ruth Rendell • (nv)
• Clutter • Brad Linaweaver • (ss)
• Coastguard’s Cottage • John Mortimer • (ss)
• The Coat • A. E. D. Smith • (ss)
• A Coat of Varnish • C. P. Snow • (ex)
• The Cobalt Blues • Clark Howard • (nv)
• The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street • Avram Davidson • (ss)
• The Cobra Woman • M. N. Lamarr • (ss)
• The Cocktail Party • Michelle Giles • (vi)
• Cocktails with the Corpse • Mary Jane Maffini • (ss)
• Cocoon • Greg Egan • (nv)
• The Code • Norman Kelley • (nv)
• Code No. 2 • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Code of the Poodles • James Powell • (ss)
• The Code on the Door • Tony Fennelly • (ss)
• Code Red: Terror on the Mall! • Bill Crider • (ss)
• Coded in Ernest • Anonymous • (cs)
• The Codex • D. G. Rowlands • (ss)
• Cody’s Art • Garry Disher • (ss)
• Cody’s Glance • Michael Fowler • (ss)
• Coffee and Murder • Carrie Channell • (ss)
• Coffee Break • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• Coffee Breaks • George L. Mina • (ss)
• Coffee Olé • Marie E. Truitt • (pm)
• Coffee to Go • Robert Campbell • (ss)
• The Coffee-Table Book • James Powell • (ss)
• The Coffin • Caradoc Evans • (ss)
• The Coffin Barricade • Emile C. Tepperman • (nv)
• Coffin Corner • Anonymous • (cs)
• A Coffin for a Banker • Hayford Peirce • (ss)
• The Coffin of Li Chu-Fung • Marlinspike • (ss)
• A Coffin of Rice • Martin Limón • (ss)
• The Coffin That Went to Sea • Frank Gruber • (ss)
• The Coffin Trimmer • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Coffin-Maker • Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin • (ss)
• Coffins for Two • Frederick C. Davis • (nv)
• Coiffeured to Kill • Laurence Donovan • (nv)
• Coin of the Realm • Pamela J. Fesler • (nv)
• Coincidence • J. Storer Clouston • (nv)
• The Coincidence • Celia Fremlin • (ss)
• Coincidence • Robert Twohy • (ss)
• Cold • Doug Cummings • (ss)
• The Cold • Rick McMahan • (ss)
• Cold and Deep • Frances Fyfield • (ss)
• Cold Angel • Laird D. Long • (ss)
• Cold as Fire • Lillian Stewart Carl • (ss)
• Cold as Ice • Quintin Peterson • (ss)
• Cold Blue Wind • R. C. Rutherford • (ss)
• Cold Cache • Louise S. Brownlee • (ss)
• Cold Call • Budge Burgess • (ss)
• Cold Case • Diane Duane • (ss)
• Cold Cocked • James R. Winter • (ss)
• Cold Comfort • Catherine Aird • (ss)
• Cold Comfort • William F. Smith • (pm)
• Cold Comfort Client • Roger Jones • (ss)
• Cold Comforts • Peter Crowther • (ss)
• A Cold Coming • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• Cold Deck • John F. Dobbyn • (pm)
• Cold Feet • Kristine Coblitz • (ss)
• Cold Green Light • Moss Tadrack • (ss)
• Cold Money • Ellery Queen • (ss)
• A Cold Murder • B. J. Bourg • (ss)
• The Cold Room • L. A. Wilson, Jr. • (ss)
• Cold Shoulder • Terry Black • (ss)
• Cold Spell • Donna Andrews • (nv)
• Cold Storage • Barry Donnelly • (ss)
• Cold Storage • Robert Turner • (ss)
• Cold Sweet Drizzle • Jan Carol Sabin • (ss)
• Cold Turkey • Diane Mott Davidson • (ss)
• Cold Turkey • Carole Nelson Douglas • (ss)
• Cold Turkey • Graham Masterton • (ss)
• Cold Waters • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• The Cold Winds of Adesta • Thomas Flanagan • (ss)
• The Cold Woods • Joseph Payne Brennan • (ss)
• The Cold Yellow Sea • Martin Limón • (ss)
• Cold-Blooded • Stephen Rykena • (ss)
• Cold-Blooded Dame • Al James • (ss)