Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Favors • Eric Umland • (ss)
• Favour for Favour • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• The Favour of a Tyrant • Keith Taylor • (ss)
• Fear • Anonymous • (ed)
• Fear • Joseph Payne Brennan • (nv)
• The Fear • Jason Gould • (ss)
• The Fear • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Fear and a Rural Family in Oregon • David Braly • (vi)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas • Hunter S. Thompson • (ex)
• Fear and Trembling • Ralph McInerny • (ss)
• Fear and Trembling’s • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• The Fear from the Lake • Oswell Blakeston • (ss)
• Fear Is a Killer • William Bankier • (ss)
• Fear is Your Enemy • Eddy Thomas • (ss)
• Fear of Failure • Parnell Hall • (nv)
• A Fear of Spiders • Patrick Scaffetti • (ss)
• Fear Rides the Stars • Ray Cummings • (nv)
• Fear Stacks the Deck • William H. Duhart • (ss)
• Fear-Me-Now • Terry Dowling • (nv)
• Fearful • Sarah Smith • (ss)
• Fearless • Walter Mosley • (nv)
• The Fearless One • Jack London • (ss)
• A Feast for Fools • JoAnne Lucas • (ss)
• The Feast in the Abbey • Robert Bloch • (ss)
• A Feast of Coins • Douglas R. Empringham • (ss)
• Feasting with Foxes • Clyde Haywood • (ss)
• Feather Weaver • Octavio Ramos, Jr. • (ss)
• Feathers • Helen J. Rosta • (ss)
• Feathers in the Rain • S. J. Gilpin • (ss)
• The Featherston Whisperer • Wade H. Mosby • (ss)
• Feature Attraction—Murder • Richard W. Bishop • (vi)
• Fed Up • Michael Christie • (ss)
• Fed Up • Marie E. Truitt • (pm)
• The Federal Case • Robert Lopresti • (ss)
• A Federation Event • Ian Callinan • (ss)
• Fedoras and Flourishes: The State of the Private-Eye Art • Loren D. Estleman • (ar)
• Fee • Peter Straub • (na)
• Feedback • T. M. Adams • (ss)
• The “Feedum & Weap” Stories • Dennis McMillan • (ar)
• Feel the Pain • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Feel the Power • Angie Irvine • (ss)
• A Feeling for the Truth • William T. Lowe • (ss)
• A Feeling of Resignation • Jeffry Scott • (nv)
• Feis • Wendi Lee • (nv)
• Feisty Girls Out for a Good Time • Amelia G • (nv)
• Feline Felon • Bob Perkins • (pm)
• Feline Felony • Michelle Giles • (ss)
• A Feline Felony • Lael J. Littke • (ss)
• Felis Domestica • Dorothy Sucher • (ss)
• Felix Culpa • Hal Charles • (ss)
• Fell, Slipped Jumped • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• A Fellside Tragedy • Hubert Crackanthorpe • (ss)
• Felon • Les Edgerton • (ss)
• The Felonious Courtship of Miles Peabody • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• The Female PI Next Door • Yona Zeldis McDonough • (bg)
• Female Private Eyes • Laura Lipman • (ar)
• Femme Fatale • Laura Lippman • (ss)
• Femme Fatale • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Femme Fatale Blues • Maxim Jakubowski • (ss)
• Fen Hall • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• The Fenchurch Street Mystery • Baroness Orczy • (ss)
• The Fencing Crib • Mark Graham • (nv)
• Fencing In • Elizabeth N. Moon • (ss)
• Fender Bender • H. H. Morris • (ss)
• Fenian Ram • Simon Clark • (ss)
• Fergus O’Hara, Detective • Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• Ferry Noir • Chris Rippen • (ss)
• Ferry Slip • Don James • (vi)
• The Ferrying Command • Scott Morgan • (na)
• The Ferryman • Paul Bishop • (ss)
• Fertile Imagination • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• Festival in Black • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Fetch • Dorothy Cannell • (nv)
• A Fête Worse than Death • Paula Gosling • (ss)
• Fever • D. J. Bart • (ss)
• The Fever Tree • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• A Few Dead Birds • George Bagby • (ss)
• A Few Lights Short of a Strand • Laurel McClimans • (ss)
• A Few Miles South of Nowhere • James A. Ritchie • (ss)
• A Few Selected Sentences • B. S. Johnson • (ss)
• A Few Small Repairs • Jeff Abbott • (ss)
• A Few Strokes for Mitzi • Herbert Resnicow • (ss)
• A Few Words • Joe L. Hensley • (pr)
• A Few Worms Among Friends • Bob Stretton • (ss)
• Fiat de Luxe • Robert Halsted • (nv)
• Fiction • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Fidelity • John Malcolm • (ss)
• The Field • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Field Bazaar • Arthur Conan Doyle • (vi)
• The Fiend • F. Scott Fitzgerald • (ss)
• The Fiend in the Fortress • Silver Donald Cameron • (ss)
• The Fiend of the Cooperage • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ss)
• A Fierceness Deep Inside • William Bankier • (vi)
• The Fiery Wooing of Mordred • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Fifth Column Murders • C. K. M. Scanlon • (na)
• The Fifth Dimension • Peter Godfrey • (ss)
• The Fifth Grave • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• The Fifth Quarter • Stephen King • (ss)
• Fifth Time Dead • John Paxton Sheriff • (ss)
• Fifty Acres of Prime Seaweed • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• Fifty Chinese • Joe L. Hensley • (ss)
• The Fifty-Pound Ripoff • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Fifty-Third Card • Henry Slesar • (nv)
• The Fifty-Thousand-Pound Joke • Jean Darling • (ss)
• Fight Story • Brent Haywood • (nv)
• Fighter • Cortright McMeel • (ss)
• Fighting Cheek: Eliot Pattison • Barry Forshaw • (iv)
• The Figure Quoted • Ngaio Marsh • (ss)
• The Figurehead Murder • J. Edward Brown • (ss)
• Figures • Bill Mitchell • (ss)
• File # 1: Find the Girl • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 1: The Mayfield Case • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 2: Stakeout on Page Street • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 3: The Pedretti Case • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 3: The Three Halves • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 4: Lincoln Sedan Deadline • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 5: Be Nice to Me • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 5: The Maria Navarro Case • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 6: Beyond the Shadow • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 7: O Black and Unknown Bard • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 8: The O’Bannon Blarney File • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File # 9: Full Moon Madness • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File #10: The Maimed and the Halt • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File #11: Jump Her Lively, Boys! • Joe Gores • (ss)
• File #12: Do Not Go Gentle • Joe Gores • (ss)
• The File Closed • Marcia Muller • (ss)
• File Number Eight • Avram Davidson • (ss)
• A Filial Duty • Dave Hardy • (vi)
• Filial Gifts • Herbert Resnicow • (ss)
• The Filial Wife • Martin Limón • (ss)
• Fill In the Dashes • Jack Luzzatto • (pz)
• Film at Eleven • S. J. Rozan • (nv)
• Film Classics • J. D. Hunt • (mr)
• Film Detectives of the Past • Misc. Material • (nf)
• Film Noir • Nikki Baker • (nv)
• Film Review: Murder Rooms: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes • H. R. F. Keating • (ar)
• Film Strip • Richard S. Prather • (nv)
• Fin de Siècle • Joyce Carol Oates • (ss)
• Final Accounting • Richard R. Fleshman • (ss)
• Final Acquittal • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• Final Answers • Claire M. Caterer • (ss)
• The Final Appointment • S. Patrick • (ss)
• The Final Chance • David Williams • (ss)
• The Final Chapter • Wayne Glausser • (ar)
• The Final Cut • Terry Barbieri • (ss)
• The Final Deadbeat • James Holding • (ss)
• Final Deadline • Tabatha Yeatts • (ss)
• Final Demand • John Wainwright • (ss)
• Final Dining • Roger Zelazny • (ss)
• Final Escape • Dennis Richard Murphy • (pm)
• Final Exam • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Final Fling • Michael Penncavage • (ss)
• Final Game • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• The Final Game Plan • Jerrold Phaon • (ss)
• Final Jeopardy • Sue Pike • (ss)
• Final Jeopardy • B. K. Stevens • (nv)
• The Final Kill • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• Final Marks, Final Secrets • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• A Final Midrash • Richard Fliegel • (nv)
• Final Night Extra • Julian Symons • (ss)
• The Final Paragraph:
  ___ 800-Pound Gorilla • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Amos’s Last Words • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ The Best Disguise • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ The Cabin Killer • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Door to Door • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Good for the Soul • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Killing with Calories • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ The Last Battlefield • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Murder on the Internet • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Murder Set to Music • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ One More Question • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ Out of the Woods • Henry Slesar • (pz)
  ___ The Principal • Henry Slesar • (pz)
• Final Payment • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Final Payment • Virgil Strieby • (pm)
• The Final Performance • Patrick Scaffetti • (ss)
• The Final Problem • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ss)
• The Final Puzzle • James L. Oddie • (vi)
• The Final Rejection • Vicki Shaull Carleton • (ss)
• Final Respects • C. J. Winters • (ss)
• Final Resting Place • Marcia Muller • (ss)
• Final Reunion • Lisa Lepovetsky • (ss)
• Final Rites • Doug Allyn • (ss)
• Final Score • Hal Charles • (ss)
• The Final Secret • Henry T. Parry • (ss)
• The Final Toast • Stuart M. Kaminsky • (ss)
• The Final Trick • Raymond Steiber • (ss)
• The Final Truth • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• Final Turn • Clements Jordan • (ss)
• The Final Verdict • Billy Barton • (pm)
• Final Vows • Elizabeth Ann Scarborough • (nv)
• Finale • Fredric Brown • (pm)
• Finale • Michael Underwood • (ss)
• Finally, a Murder • George C. Fore • (nv)
• Find a High Place • Suzanne Jones • (ss)
• The Find at Fenham Bog • Verbena Pastor • (ss)
• Find It • Mary Freeman • (ss)
• Find Me • Jeffrey Bush • (ss)
• Find Miriam • Stuart M. Kaminsky • (na)
• Find the Woman • Ross Macdonald • (nv)
• Finder • Joe L. Hensley • (ss)
• Finders Keepers • Michael Christie • (ss)
• Finders Keepers • Paul V. Fornatar • (ss)
• Finders Killers! • John D. MacDonald • (nv)
• Finding Fire • Jean Bedford • (ss)
• Finding Joe Finch • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Finding Lou • John Straley • (ss)
• Finding the Wind • Lisa Lepovetsky • (ss)
• A Fine Art • Jill McGown • (ss)
• The Fine Art of Betrayal • Karen Haber • (nv)
• The Fine Art of Revenge • Susan Dodson • (ss)
• Fine Business • Jas. R. Petrin • (ss)
• A Fine Figure • Richard E. Givan • (ss)
• Fine for Littering • Marianne Wilski Strong • (ss)
• The Fine Line • Tom Tolnay • (ss)
• A Fine Mess • Jan Christenson • (ss)
• A Fine Opportunity • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• A Fine Set of Teeth • Jan Burke • (nv)
• A Fine Summer’s Evening • Beth Leydin • (vi)
• Finger in Every Lie • Denise Swanson • (ss)