Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Four Just Men • Edgar Wallace • (ex)
• The Four Just Men • Edgar Wallace • (n.)
• The Four Knights • Gerry Maddren • (ss)
• Four Knights Game • George C. Chesbro • (nv)
• Four Lawyers • Bruce Graham • (ss)
• Four Meetings • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Four Men of Crime • Walter F. Ripperger • (nv)
• The Four Nets of Angelo • Thomasina Weber • (ss)
• Four of a Kind • Robert Lopresti • (ss)
• The Four Principles of Erwin Stickles • Harry Muheim • (ss)
• The Four Roasters • Eve Fisher • (ss)
• The Four Seasons • Michael Innes • (ss)
• The Four Suspects • Agatha Christie • (ss)
• Four Views of Justice • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• The Four Wise Men • Peter Lovesey • (nv)
• Four Wishes • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds • Agatha Christie • (ss)
• Four-Day Rental • Hugh Lessig • (ss)
• Four-in-Hand • William Relling, Jr. • (ss)
• The Four-Leaf Clover • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• Foursome • D. H. Reddall • (ss)
• The Fourth Degree • Hugh Pentecost • (ss)
• Fourth Floor Front • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• The Fourth Friday • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• The Fourth Homonym • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• The Fourth Man • Clyde Haywood • (ss)
• The Fourth Night • P. J. Roberts • (ss)
• The Fourth Night • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Fourth of July Picnic • Rex Stout • (na)
• The Fourth Victim • Guy Belleranti • (ss)
• The Fourth Way • Neil A. Schofield • (ss)
• Fowl Play • Patricia Guiver • (ss)
• The Fox • Frederick Highland • (ss)
• Fox in the Briars • Kate Wilhelm • (na)
• Foxer • Brian Cleeve • (ss)
• Fragment of a Greek Tragedy • A. E. Housman • (pl)
• Fragment of an Agon • T. S. Eliot • (pl)
• A Frail Young Life • Renée Vink • (ss)
• The Frame • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• Frame Fourteen • Gerald Tomlinson • (ss)
• Frame Me in Oils • S. M. Tenneshaw • (ss)
• Framed • James H. Cobb • (ss)
• Framed • Sally Gunning • (ss)
• Framed • Nancy Springer • (ss)
• Framed for Murder • Harold Q. Masur • (nv)
• The Framing Game • Paul Bishop • (ss)
• France • Robert Lowell • (pm)
• Frances Fyfield: The English Are Not What They Seem • Eve Tan Gee • (iv)
• Francesca Da Rimini • George Henry Boker • (pl)
• Francis G. Powers: Modern Space Spy • Kurt Singer • (ar)
• Francoise • Ian Stuart • (ss)
• Frank a la Mowed • Katherine H. Brooks • (pm)
• Frank Hamm • Mary Gaitskill • (ex)
• Franken Kat • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• The Frankenstein Footage • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• Frankenstein Versus the Aztec Mummy • Esteban Miranda • (ss)
• Frankie and Johnny • Anonymous • (sg)
• Frankie and Johnny Were Lovers? • Paul Charles • (ss)
• The Franklin Fiasco • Beverle Graves Myers • (ss)
• Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Herd of Scarletts • O. S. Flanagan • (ss)
• Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen • Charles West, Jr. • (ss)
• Fraternity Hell Week • Henry Slesar • (ss)
• The Freak • P. J. Roberts • (ss)
• Freak Attraction • Peter Sellers • (nv)
• Freak Show • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• Freaky Deaky • Elmore Leonard • (ex)
• Fred Dannay and Manny Lee • Hillary Waugh • (ar)
• Fred Dannay and Me • Edward D. Hoch • (ar)
• Freddie Prinze Is My Guardian Angel • Liz Martínez • (ss)
• Frederic Dannay, BSI • Bill Vande Water • (ar)
• Frederick Zackel interviews Elmore Leonard • Frederick Zackel • (iv)
• The Free Agent • Darrell James • (ss)
• Free Durt • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Free Garbage Day • John Bruni • (ss)
• A Free Man • J. M. Small • (ss)
• Free Man in Paris • Lev Raphael • (ss)
• Free Parking • Faye Kellerman • (ss)
• Free Spirits • Duncan Richardson • (ss)
• Free the Old Ones • C. J. Henderson • (nv)
• Free to Run • Rea Gordon • (ss)
• Free, Has a Weapon • Gregor Robinson • (ss)
• Free-Lance Operation • Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• Freedom • Susan Moody • (ss)
• Freedom Fighter • Michael Collins • (ss)
• The Freedom Folk • Michael Gilbert • (nv)
• Freedom of Speech • William T. Lowe • (ss)
• Freedom of the Press • Barbara D’Amato • (ss)
• Freedom of the Press • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• Freeze Everybody • David Williams • (nv)
• The Freezing Fiends • Brant House • (sl)
• The Freezing Fiends • Steve Payne • (sl)
• Freight • Deborah Morgan • (nv)
• Fremont & Lougie • Darrell James • (ss)
• French Asparagus • Barbara Paul • (ss)
• The French Currier • R. T. Lawton • (ss)
• The French Umbrella • Donald Olson • (ss)
• The French Way • C. E. Stutz • (ss)
• Frenchie • Pat Jordan • (ss)
• Frenchie • D. A. McGuire • (nv)
• The Frenchman’s Gloves • Margery Allingham • (nv)
• Frenchmen Wear Gloves • Margery Allingham • (nv)
• Fresh Falling Snow • Scott Loring Sanders • (ss)
• Fresh Out of Prison • Donald E. Westlake • (ss)
• Fresh Paint • Julie Smith • (ss)
• Fresh Thuringer Today • Leo R. Ellis • (ss)
• Fresno Heat • JoAnne Lucas • (vi)
• Freud at Thirty Paces • Sara Paretsky • (ss)
• The Friar’s Tale • Cherith Baldry • (ss)
• The Friction Point • Gretchen Comba • (ss)
• The Friday Killings • Stephen Wasylyk • (nv)
• Friday Night • Graeme Gordon • (ss)
• Fridays Menu—Murder • Bud Kines • (ss)
• The Fried Crab Affair • Charlotte D’Aigle • (nv)
• Friend and Mentor • Steve Lindley • (ss)
• A Friend in Deed • Don Marshall • (ss)
• A Friend in Need • Hy Conrad • (ss)
• A Friend in Need • W. Somerset Maugham • (ss)
• A Friend in Need • Kathryn Skoyles • (ss)
• A Friend of Davy Jones’ • Dan Gordon • (ss)
• A Friend of Mario’s • Gerald Standley • (ss)
• A Friend of Mine • William L. DeAndrea • (nv)
• Friend of the Sheriff • Marlys Bradley Huffman • (ss)
• A Friend to Alexander • James Thurber • (ss)
• A Friend Who Understands • Donald Olson • (ss)
• The Friendly Creature • Rhys Davies • (ss)
• Friendly Fangs • Gunnison Steele • (ss)
• Friendly Fire • Readers • (lt)
• A Friendly Gesture • Iris Mason • (vi)
• A Friendly Place • Carol Anne O’Marie • (ss)
• A Friendly Rivalry • Patrick Scaffetti • (ss)
• Friendly Witnesses • Richard Deming • (ss)
• Friendly Yachtsman, 39 • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Friends • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• Friends • Glen Singer • (ss)
• Friends • Janwillem van de Wetering • (ss)
• The Friends of Hector Jouvet • James Powell • (ss)
• The Friends of Plonk • Kingsley Amis • (ss)
• Friends of the Garrick • Michael Z. Lewin • (ss)
• Friends of the Groom • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• Friends Say They’re Sorry • Bob Tippee • (ss)
• The Frightened Millionaire • Craig Rice • (na)
• The Frightened Witness • Roy A. Elliott • (ss)
• The Frightening Frammis • Jon Robin Baitz & Howard A. Rodman • (pl)
• The Frightening Frammis • Jim Thompson • (nv)
• The Frigid Flame • Richard Matheson • (na)
• Friscoville • O’Neil De Noux • (ss)
• The Frog • Reed Farrel Coleman • (ss)
• Frog Cycle • Ben Neihart • (ss)
• The Frog that Croaked in the Night • Margaret Chittenden • (ss)
• Frogman’s Frenzy • Harvey Trent • (ss)
• from “A Fratricide” • Franz Kafka • (ex)
• from “A Jury of Her Peers” • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ex)
• from “A Sober Word on the Detective Story” • Harrison R. Steeves • (ex)
• from “A Vendetta” • Guy de Maupassant • (ex)
• from “Adam and Eve” • Arthur Hugh Clough • (pm)
• from “Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel” • Raymond Chandler • (ex)
• from “Epilogue: to Will H. Low” • Lloyd Osbourne & Robert Louis Stevenson • (ex)
• from “George Smith, The Murder of Bessie Mundy, 1912” • Gordon Honeycombe • (ex)
• from “Greenheart” • Alan C. Jenkins • (pm)
• from “Her Second Husband Hears Her Story” • Thomas Hardy • (pm)
• from “His Brother’s Keeper” • W. W. Jacobs • (ex)
• from “Honolulu” • W. Somerset Maugham • (ex)
• from “How to Write a Detective Story” • G. K. Chesterton • (ex)
• from “Isabella, or The Pot of Basil” • John Keats • (pm)
• from “Mademoiselle de Scudéry” • E. T. A. Hoffmann • (ex)
• from “Metonymy, or The Husband’s Revenge” • Rachel de Queíroz • (ex)
• from “My Last Duchess” • Robert Browning • (pm)
• from “Of Cannibals” • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • (ar)
• from “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” • Thomas de Quincey • (ar)
• from “Only a Detective Story” • Joseph Wood Krutch • (ex)
• from “Paid on Both Sides” • W. H. Auden • (ex)
• from “Peter Grimes” • George Crabbe • (pm)
• from “Professions for Women” • Virginia Woolf • (ar)
• from “Remarks on the Plea of Insanity” • William Wood • (ms)
• from “Simenon and ‘Le Commissaire’” • Pierre Weisz • (ex)
• from “Sohrab and Rustum” • Matthew Arnold • (pm)
• from “Some Character-Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work” • Sigmund Freud • (ex)
• from “St. Martin’s Eve” • John Clare • (pm)
• from “Telling” • Elizabeth Bowen • (ex)
• from “The American Connection” • Varlem Shalamov • (ar)
• from “The Analysis of a Detective Story” • Charles Rycroft • (ex)
• from “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” • Oscar Wilde • (pm)
• from “The Blessington Method” • Stanley Ellin • (ss)
• from “The Caesars” • Thomas de Quincey • (ar)
• from “The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley” • Philip Van Doren Stren • (ex)
• from “The Criminal World” • Varlem Shalamov • (ar)
• from “The Dream of Eugene Aram” • Thomas Hood • (ex)
• from “The Execution of Tropmann” • Ivan Turgenev • (ex)
• from “The Foundling” • Heinrich von Kleist • (ex)
• from “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” • Matthew Arnold • (ar)
• from “The Garden of Smoke” • G. K. Chesterton • (ex)
• from “The Guilty Vicarage” • W. H. Auden • (ar)
• from “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole” • Thomas Burke • (ex)
• from “The Lonesome Vigilante” • John Steinbeck • (ex)
• from “The Man of God” • Leo Tolstoi • (ex)
• from “The Murder of the Mandarin” • Arnold Bennett • (ex)
• from “The Payoff” • Stanley Ellin • (ex)
• from “The Queen of Spades” • Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin • (ex)
• from “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” • Elizabeth Barrett Browning • (ex)
• from “The Salt of the Earth” • Rebecca West • (ex)
• from “The Simple Art of Murder” • Raymond Chandler • (ar)
• from “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” • Robert Louis Stevenson • (ex)
• from “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Edgar Allan Poe • (ex)
• (from “Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans”, in Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1967] • Bertolt Brecht • (ex)
• from “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?” • Edmund Wilson • (ex)
• from 10 Rillington Place • Ludovic Kennedy • (ex)
• from 2 Henry IV • William Shakespeare • (ex)
• from A Case of Lone Star • Kinky Friedman • (ex)