Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Finger Man • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• The Finger of Aphrodite • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (nv)
• Finger of Fate • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• The Finger of Suspicion • Tony Wilmot • (ss)
• Finger-prints of Revenge • H. F. Grey • (ss)
• Fingering a Killer • Malcolm McClintick • (ss)
• Fingerprint Ghost • Joseph Commings • (ss)
• Fingerprinting a Ghost • Tony Fletcher • (ex)
• Fingers to the Bone • Andrew Taylor • (ss)
• Finicky • John Lutz • (ss)
• The Finishing Touch • Barbara Ninde Byfield • (ss)
• The Finishing Touch • Iris Weigh • (ss)
• Finnegan’s Leap • Sherrard Gray • (ss)
• Finnegans Wake • James Joyce • (ex)
• The Fire • Geo Aggeler • (ss)
• Fire and Ice • Nancy Means Wright • (na)
• A Fire at Night • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Fire Bug • Walter Mosley • (ss)
• Fire Burning Bright • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• Fire Down Below • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• The Fire Dragon Caper • Joseph Commings • (nv)
• Fire Escape • Mike Handley • (vi)
• Fire in the Grass • Kandis Elliot • (nv)
• Fire in the Hole • Elmore Leonard • (na)
• Fire in the Islands • Hayford Peirce • (ss)
• Fire Lake • Doug Allyn • (ss)
• The Fire of London • Arnold Bennett • (ss)
• The Fire That Burneth Here • Anne Gay • (ss)
• The Fire Trap • T. J. Glenn • (ss)
• Fire Truck #5 • Nancy A. Collins • (nv)
• Fire Works • Paul Lascaux • (vi)
• The Firebird’s Feather • James Powell • (ss)
• Firebomb • Doug Allyn • (ss)
• Firebug • Annie Reed • (ss)
• Firecracker Kill • Max Allan Collins • (nv)
• Fireman • Andrew H. Vachss • (ss)
• Firetrap • Greg Cox • (nv)
• First • Kenji Jasper • (ss)
• The First Annual Mystery and Detective and Sherlockian Expo • Gary Lovisi • (ar)
• First Appearances • Tracey A. Forbes • (ss)
• First Blonde on the Left • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• First Blood • Edward D. Hoch • (nv)
• First Blood • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• First Class All the Way • James Holding • (ss)
• The First Colonial Murder • Theodore Mathieson • (ss)
• The First Comic Detective • James Stanford Bradshaw • (ar)
• The First Customer and the Florentine Dante • Fergus Hume • (ss)
• The First Five in Line • Charles Willeford • (uw)
• The First Golden Age of Detective Fiction • Douglas G. Greene • (in)
• First Job, Last Job • R. V. Branham • (ss)
• First Kill • Leslie G. Sabo • (ss)
• First Kill • Chet Williamson • (ss)
• The First Ladies’ Secret • Nancy Pickard • (ss)
• First Lead Gasser • Tony Hillerman • (ss)
• The First Men • Stacey Richter • (ss)
• First Offense • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• First Offense • Evan Hunter • (nv)
• First Offense • Ed McBain • (nv)
• The First One to Blink • Gar Anthony Haywood • (ss)
• First Principle • Marguerite Buranelli • (pm)
• The First Proof • Terence Faherty • (na)
• First Security • Lane Marsh • (ss)
• First Stand • Barry N. Malzberg • (ss)
• The First Stone • Erle Stanley Gardner • (nv)
• First Strike • George C. Chesbro • (ss)
• The First Thin Man • Dashiell Hammett • (uw)
• The First Thing We Do... • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• The First to Know • Diane E. Amov • (ss)
• First Victim • Kate Stephens • (ss)
• First Week in September • Jean Leslie • (ss)
• First You’ve Got to Cluit • Carol R. Mills • (pm)
• First-Story Man • A. L. Reynolds • (vi)
• Fish • Lienna Silver • (nv)
• A Fish Story • Dorothy A. Collins • (vi)
• The Fish Unturned: Avram Davidson • Gene Wolfe • (ar)
• The Fish-Pond • Gladys Mitchell • (ss)
• The Fish-Sitter • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Fishbowl • Pete Pazmino • (ss)
• A Fisher of Men • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Fisherman’s Friend • Ingrid Noll • (ss)
• Fisherman’s Luck • Nancy Schachterle • (ss)
• Fishing • Jay Caselberg • (ss)
• Fishing for Murder • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Fishing for Murder • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Fit for a Corpse • Brett Halliday • (nv)
• Fit for a Corpse • James M. Reasoner • (nv)
• Fitting In • Keith Miles • (ss)
• Fitting Up Stanley • Howard Douglas • (ss)
• Five Bullets • Alice Burton • (ss)
• Five Clerihews • Jacques Barzun • (pm)
• The Five Commandments of John Demarke • Thomas Mitchell • (ss)
• Five Days in a Texas Town • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Five Finger Exercise • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• Five Golden Ryo • Ann F. Woodward • (ss)
• Five Keys • Janwillem van de Wetering • (ss)
• The Five Kings • Leslie Charteris • (na)
• Five Men, Five Bullets • Hal Ellson • (ss)
• Five O’Clock Menace • Bruno Fischer • (ss)
• The Five of Swords • G. K. Chesterton • (nv)
• Five on the Gun • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• The Five Orange Pips • Arthur Conan Doyle • (nv)
• Five Rings in Reno • R. L. Stevens • (ss)
• The Five Senses of Mrs. Craggs • H. R. F. Keating • (nv)
• The Five Sides of Murder • Hal Charles • (ss)
• Five Starving Cats and a Dead Dog • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Five Trees • Lee Capps • (vi)
• The 500 Hours of Dr. Wisdom • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Fix • Thomas H. Cook • (ss)
• The Fix • Michael Grisi • (ss)
• The Fix • Robert Twohy • (ss)
• Fixation • Miles Tripp • (nv)
• Fixed • Jon Longhi • (ss)
• Fixed for Life • Helen Tucker • (ss)
• The Fixer • Camilla T. Crespi • (ss)
• The Fixer-Upper • James Powell • (ss)
• Fixing Mr. Foucher’s Fence • Todd Mecklem • (ss)
• Flake Piece • Carolyn Wheat • (ss)
• The Flame Beast • P. J. Roberts • (nv)
• The Flame of New Orleans • Jacqlyn Mage & Ann Phillips • (nv)
• Flame’s Redheaded Impostor • David Weinberger • (ss)
• Flaming Dawn • George Bruce • (ss)
• Flamingos on the Gras, Alas • Debra Wilson • (ss)
• Flash • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• Flash Attachment • Dell Shannon • (ss)
• Flash Light • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (nv)
• A Flash of Chrysanthemum • J. A. Jance • (ss)
• A Flash of White • Andrew H. Vachss • (ss)
• Flashback • David Braly • (ss)
• Flashback • Sue Pike • (ss)
• Flashback • Patrick Scaffetti • (ss)
• Flashpoint • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• Flashpoint • D. H. Reddall • (ss)
• Flat Share • Judith Saxton • (ss)
• Flat To Let • Marcus Magill • (ss)
• The Flaw • Julian Symons • (ss)
• The Flaw in the System • Jim Thompson • (ss)
• The Flawed Soothsayer: General MacArthur’s G-2 • Roger A. Beaumont • (ar)
• Fleahound in the Ninth District • Tony Fennelly • (ss)
• Fleance • Michael Longley • (pm)
• Fleeting Fashion • Bob Mendes • (ss)
• The “Flemings” • Georges Simenon • (ss)
• Flesh and Blood • Robert Twohy • (ss)
• Fleshmarket Close • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• Flibbertigibbet • Paul Finch • (na)
• Flicks • Bill Crenshaw • (nv)
• Flicks: A Film Review • Tom Thornton • (cl)
• Flies with Honey • Robert Cenedella • (ss)
• Flight #27 • Carl E. Marcus • (ss)
• A Flight from Fancy on the Route des Alpes • Anonymous • (ss)
• Flight from Fleet Street • John Dickson Carr • (pl)
• Flight from Fleet Street • Carter Dickson • (pl)
• Flight from the Palm Court • Gregor Robinson • (ss)
• Flight Into Disaster • Erle Stanley Gardner • (ss)
• Flight of Reason • Tappan Wright King • (ss)
• Flight of the Vultures • Robert J. Hogan • (ss)
• Flight to Nowhere • Charles Williams • (na)
• Flight to Reality • Robert C. Van Aken • (ss)
• Flights of Angels • William Bankier • (ss)
• Flimflam • Francis M. Nevins, Jr. • (ss)
• Flink • David Braly • (nv)
• The Flitterbat Lancers • Arthur Morrison • (nv)
• Floater • William Beechcroft • (ss)
• Floater • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• The Floating Coffins • G. T. Fleming-Roberts • (nv)
• The Floating Phantom • Robert Sidney Bowen • (ss)
• A Flock of Swords • Charles A. Gramlich • (vi)
• The Flood • Gilbert Parker • (ss)
• Flood • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Flood on the Goodwins • Arthur D. Divine • (ss)
• Flophouse Court • Hapsburg Liebe • (ss)
• Flora Africana • DeLoris Stanton Forbes • (ss)
• The Florentine Dante • Fergus Hume • (ss)
• Florida Juice • Stephen W. Herring • (ss)
• Florida Primitive • Janet O’Daniel • (nv)
• Flotsam and Jetsam • John Lutz • (nv)
• The Flow • Robert Twohy • (ss)
• The Flower Diet • James Powell • (nv)
• A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing • Charlotte Carter • (ss)
• The Flower of Dibensit • Dan Crawford • (nv)
• The Flower of Kiltymore • Brian Friel • (ss)
• Flower Power • Stuart Pawson • (ss)
• The Flowerprint Murder • Janwillem van de Wetering • (ss)
• Flowers • Brice Patrick Gorman • (ss)
• Flowers for an Angel • Nigel Morland • (ss)
• Flowers for Bill O’Reilly • Max Allan Collins • (nv)
• Flowers for Jennifer • Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi • (vi)
• Flowers for Mr. Vecchi • Larry Allan • (vi)
• Flowers For Pretty Boy • Marvin Lachman • (ss)
• Flowers of the Dead • Patricia Moyes • (ss)
• Flowers on a Grave • Agatha Gandy • (ss)
• Flowers on a Grave • Walter F. Ripperger • (nv)
• The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring • Julian Symons • (ss)
• Fluffy • Theodore Sturgeon • (ss)
• The Fluke Cannon • R. L. Mégroz • (ss)
• The Flung-Back Lid • Peter Godfrey • (ss)
• The Flushing of Al Capone • Eliot Ness • (ar)
• Flushing Scarlett • Clayton Emery • (ss)
• Fly Away Home • James Holding • (ss)
• Fly Away Home • Rob Kantner • (ss)
• Fly in the Ointment • Charles Green • (ss)
• A Fly on the Wall • Elliott Capon • (ss)
• Fly Paper • Dashiell Hammett • (nv)
• Fly, Said the Spy • Elizabeth Ferrars • (ss)
• The Flying Cat • M. P. Shiel • (ss)
• Flying Fast • Piet Teigeler • (ss)
• The Flying Fiend • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Flying Man • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Flying Pig • Malachi Whitaker • (ss)
• Flying Pigs • Judith Cutler • (ss)
• The Flying Stars • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
• The Flying Tank • Ralph Oppenheim • (nv)
• Flying Without a Parachute • R. T. Lawton • (ss)
• Flyover Country • Barbara Collins & Max Allan Collins • (nv)
• The Flypaper • Elizabeth Taylor • (ss)
• Flypaper from The Big Knockover • Dashiell Hammett • (ex)
• Flyting, Fighting • Clayton Emery • (ss)
• Focus on Death • Robert Leslie Bellem • (ss)
• Fog • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)