Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

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from A Contribution to the Psychogenesis of Maniac-Depressive States • Melanie Klein • (ex)
from A Demon in My View • Ruth Rendell • (ex)
from A Handbook on Hanging • Charles Duff • (ar)
from A Lesson Before Dying • Ernest J. Gaines • (ex)
from A Midsummer Night’s Dream • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from A Philosophical Investigation • Philip Kerr • (ex)
from A Shropshire Lad • A. E. Housman • (pm)
from A Taste for Death • P. D. James • (ex)
From a View to a Kill • Ian Fleming • (nv)
from Adam Bede • George Eliot • (ex)
from American Appetites • Joyce Carol Oates • (ex)
from An American Dream • Norman Mailer • (ex)
From Another World • Clayton Rawson • (nv)
from Arden of Feversham • Anonymous • (ex)
from Autobiography from 1785 to 1803 • Thomas de Quincey • (ex)
from Beloved • Toni Morrison • (ex)
from Beyond Belief • Emlyn Williams • (ex)
From Beyond the Grave • Larry Dickson • (ss)
from Billy Bathgate • E. L. Doctorow • (ex)
from Billy Budd • Herman Melville • (ex)
from Bleak House • Charles Dickens • (ex)
From Bridget Mooney’s Scrapbook • P. M. Carlson • (ms)
from Brighton Rock • Graham Greene • (ex)
from Cain • George Gordon Byron, Lord • (ex)
from Caleb Williams • William Godwin • (ex)
from Chronicles of a Death Fortold • Gabriel García Márquez • (ex)
from Cider with Rosie • Laurie Lee • (ex)
from Citizens • Simon Schama • (ex)
from Civilization and its Discontents • Sigmund Freud • (ex)
From Coffin & Co. • Njami Simon • (ex)
From Coffin to Rolls-Royce • G. F. Lamb • (ss)
from Coke’s Institutes • Coke • (ms)
from Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevskii • (ex)
from Crime: An Encyclopedia • Oliver Cyriax • (ar)
from Crossfire • Jim Marrs • (ar)
from Daniel Deronda • George Eliot • (ex)
from Dead Certainties • Simon Schama • (ex)
from Death of an Expert Witness • P. D. James • (ex)
from Decline and Fall • Evelyn Waugh • (ex)
from Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists • Diana Cooper-Clarke • (ex)
from Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope • (ex)
from Don Juan • George Gordon Byron, Lord • (ex)
from Double Indemnity • James M. Cain • (ex)
from Dr. Glas • Hjalmar Söderberg • (ex)
from Edward II] • Christopher Marlowe • (ex)
From Fanaticism, Or for Reward • Harry Harrison • (ss)
From Flappers to Film Noir • Michael Carlson • (ar)
from Forty Years of Murder • Professor Keith Simpson • (ar)
from Fragments from My Diary • Maxim Gorky • (ex)
from Gaudete • Ted Hughes • (ex)
from Genesis 4: 1-16 • Anonymous • (ex)
from Genesis 9: 6 • Anonymous • (ex)
from Genesis IV • Anonymous • (ex)
From Genesis to Revelation • Peter Plate • (ss)
from Going On • Peter Reading • (ex)
from Great Shipwrecks and Castaways • Charles Neider • (ex)
from Hamlet • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from Hassan • James Elroy Flecker • (ex)
from Have His Carcase • Dorothy L. Sayers • (ex)
from History of the Conquest of Mexico • William H. Prescott • (ar)
from How We Die • Sherwin B. Nuland • (ex)
from II Samuel XI • Anonymous • (ex)
from In Cold Blood • Truman Capote • (ex)
from Inferno • Dante Alighieri • (ex)
from Innocent Blood • P. D. James • (ex)
from Into That Darkness • Gitta Sereny • (ar)
from Jonathan Wild the Great • Henry Fielding • (ex)
from Judges 3: 12-30 • Anonymous • (ex)
from Judges 4: 13-22 • Anonymous • (ex)
from Judges IV • Anonymous • (ex)
from Judith XXII • Anonymous • (ex)
from Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from Kenny’s Outlines of Criminal Law • Kenny • (ms)
from Killer Department • Robert Cullen • (ex)
from Killing for Company • Brian Masters • (ex)
from King John • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from King Lear • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope • (ex)
from Lawrence and the Arabs • Robert Graves • (ar)
from Les mots, Gallimard • Jean-Paul Sartre • (ex)
from Life After Life • Tony Parker • (ex)
from Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates • Charles Johnson • (ar)
from Lolita • Vladimir Nabokov • (ex)
from Lord of the Flies • William Golding • (ex)
from Loving Roger • Tim Parks • (ex)
from Macbeth • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from Maigret’s Memoirs • Georges Simenon • (ex)
from Malice Aforethought • Francis Iles • (ex)
from Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens • (ex)
from Mary Barton • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell • (ex)
from Mary Queen of Scots • Antonia Fraser • (ex)
from Middlemarch • George Eliot • (ex)
from Murder in the Cathedral • T. S. Eliot • (ex)
from Murder on Ward Four • Nick Davies • (ex)
from Murder Revisited • John Rowland • (ex)
From Night Songs • Penny Mickelbury • (ex)
from No Name • Wilkie Collins • (ex)
from Numbers 35: 9-19 • Anonymous • (ex)
from O Pioneers! • Willa Cather • (ex)
from Oedipus Rex • Sophocles • (ex)
from Oedipus the King • Sophocles • (pm)
from Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens • (ex)
from Othello • William Shakespeare • (ex)
from Othello, the Moor of Venice • William Shakespeare • (ex)
From Out of the Garden • Charlotte Armstrong • (ss)
from Pale Fire • Vladimir Nabokov • (ex)
from Paradise Lost • John Milton • (ex)
From Parts Unknown • Edward Wellen • (nv)
from Payment Deferred • C. S. Forester • (ex)
from Philisophy in the Bedroom • Marquis de Sade • (ex)
from Pleading Guilty • Scott Turow • (ex)
from Point Counter Point • Aldous Huxley • (ex)
from Postille a ‘Il nome della rosa’, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzongo Etas SPA] • Umberto Eco • (ex)
from Ramseeana, or A Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs • W. H. Sleeman • (ar)
from Red Dragon • Thomas Harris • (ex)
from Ripley’s Game • Patricia Highsmith • (ex)
from Rope • Patrick Hamilton • (ex)
from Roughing It • Mark Twain • (ex)
from Salome • Oscar Wilde • (ex)
from Sara Thornton, The Story of a Woman Who Killed • Jennifer Nadel • (ex)
from Selected Essays • T. S. Eliot • (ex)
from Selected Letters • Philip Larkin • (ex)
from Shot in the Heart • Mikal Gilmore • (ex)
from Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son • Gordon Burn • (ex)
from Sour Sweet • Timothy Mo • (ex)
from Station Island • Seamus Heaney • (ex)
from Story of the Eye • Georges Bataille • (ex)
from Tess of the D’Urbervilles • Thomas Hardy • (ex)
from The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays • Northrop Frye • (ex)
from The Anatomy of Melancholy • Robert Burton • (ar)
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X • Alex Haley & Malcolm X • (ex)
from The Bad Seed • William March • (ex)
From the Balcony • Christianna Brand • (ss)
from The Beast Must Die • Nicholas Blake • (ex)
from The Big Sleep • Raymond Chandler • (ex)
from The Bonfire of the Vanities • Tom Wolfe • (ex)
from The Book of Evidence • John Banville • (ex)
from The Cantos • Ezra Pound • (ex)
from The Case of the Perjured Parrot • Erle Stanley Gardner • (ex)
from The Cenci • Percy Bysshe Shelley • (pm)
from The Changeling • Thomas Middleton & William Rowley • (ex)
From The Conjure-Man Dies • Rudolph Fisher • (ex)
From the Cradle • Keith Wright • (ss)
from The Dain Curse • Dashiell Hammett • (ex)
from The Death Shift • Peter Elkind • (ex)
from The Deceivers • John Masters • (ex)
from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire • Edward Gibbon • (ex)
From the Desk of the Publisher • Stephen L. Smoke • (ed)
From the Diary of a New York Detective • Anonymous • (nf)
from The Diary of Jack the Ripper • Shirley Harrison • (ex)
From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes • Maurice Baring • (ss)
from The Discovery of Witchcraft • Reginald Scot • (ar)
from The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan • Jorge Luís Borges • (ex)
from The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster • (ex)
from The Earth • Émile Zola • (ex)
from The Executioner’s Song • Norman Mailer • (ex)
from The Face of the Third Reich • Joachim C. Fest • (ex)
from The Fairie Queen • Edmund Spenser • (pm)
From the Files of Inspector Craig • Raymond Smullyan • (pz)
from The Floating Opera • John Barth • (ex)
from The Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy • (ex)
from The French Lieutenant’s Woman • John Fowles • (ex)
from The French Revolution: a History • Thomas Carlyle • (ar)
from The Good Mother • Sue Miller • (ex)
from The Great Gatsby • F. Scott Fitzgerald • (ex)
from The Hollow Man • John Dickson Carr • (ex)
from The Hound of the Baskervilles • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ex)
from The Innocent • Ian McEwan • (ex)
from The Jewish War • Josephus • (ar)
from The Judge and His Hangman • Friedrich Dürrenmatt • (ex)
from The Letter • W. Somerset Maugham • (ex)
from The Mainspring of Murder • Philip Lindsay • (ex)
From The Man Who Cried I Am • John A. Williams • (ex)
from The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy • (ex)
from The Medea of Euripides • Euripides • (pm)
from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • Agatha Christie • (ex)
from The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens • (ex)
from The Naked Civil Servant • Quentin Crisp • (ex)
from The Newgate Calendar • Norman Birkett • (ar)
from The Oresteia • Tony Harrison • (ex)
from The Outsider • Albert Camus • (ex)
from The Partner • John Grisham • (ex)
from The Physician’s Tale • Geoffrey Chaucer • (ex)
from The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde • (ex)
from The Prelude • William Wordsworth • (ex)
from The Prince • Niccolò Machiavelli • (ex)
from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg • (ex)
from The Prussian Officer • D. H. Lawrence • (ex)
from The Psychograph • Denis Nilsen • (ex)
From the Publisher • Peter Kanter • (ms)
from The Reckoning • Charles Nicholl • (ex)
from The Ring and the Book • Robert Browning • (ex)
from The Riverside Villas Murder • Kingsley Amis • (ex)
from The Secret Agent • Joseph Conrad • (ex)
from The Secret History • Donna Tartt • (ex)
from The Silence of the Lambs • Thomas Harris • (ex)
from The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef • Charles A. Reich • (ex)
From The Spook Who Sat by the Door • Sam Greenlee • (ex)
from The Suicide Club • Robert Louis Stevenson • (ex)
from The Talented Mr. Ripley • Patricia Highsmith • (ex)

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