Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Title

• 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 Devil • Peter Tremayne • (nv)
• 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. • (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)
• Filmsong • Pasha Malla • (ss)
• 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 Catch • Brendan DuBois • (nv)
• 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 Me • Anthony Neil Smith • (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 Charity • Catherine Dain • (na)
• 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)
• Finger Man • Raymond Chandler • (na)
• 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 in the Steppe: An Evil Night • Anton Chekhov • (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 Calvary • Robert Knightly • (ss)
• The First Case • Anonymous • (ss)
• First Class All the Way • James Holding • (ss)
• The First Colonial Murder • Theodore Mathieson • (ss)
• The First Comic Detective • James Stanford Bradshaw • (ar)
• First Cousin, Twice Removed • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• 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)
• The First Husband • Joyce Carol Oates • (nv)
• 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)