Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Nightcap • Tim Myers • (ss)
• A Nightcap of Hemlock • Francis M. Nevins, Jr. • (nv)
• Nightfire • Eleanor Taylor Bland • (ss)
• Nighthawks • John Lutz • (ss)
• Nightmare • Dick Francis • (ss)
• Nightmare Alley • William Lindsay Gresham • (n.)
• The Nightmare and the Dream • Myrle Machan • (ss)
• Nightmare Child • Ed Gorman • (ex)
• Nightmare in Nowhere • Chassie West • (na)
• Nightmare in the Street • Derek Raymond • (ss)
• Nightmare in Wax • Simon Clark • (ss)
• Nightmare of the Alien and the Bad Dream of the Unknown • Héctor Daniel Gómez Nieves • (ss)
• Nightmare on North Hill • Dick Stodghill • (nv)
• Nightmare Town • Dashiell Hammett • (nv)
• Nightmares Just Shouldn’t Recur Like This • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Nightmares’ Tails • John F. Suter • (ss)
• Night’s Black Agents • Peter Tremayne • (nv)
• Nightshade • Robert L. Hecker • (ss)
• Nightshade from The Adventures of Sam Spade • Dashiell Hammett • (ex)
• The Nightside, Needless to Say • Simon R. Green • (ss)
• The Nighttime Is the Right Time • Bill Crider • (ss)
• Niiice • Christine Matthews • (ss)
• Nil by Mouth, Inspector Ghote • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• Nil Desperandum • Darren Subarton • (ss)
• The Nile Cat • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Nimble Burglar • O’Neil De Noux • (ss)
• Nimble Fingers • W. Ryerson Johnson • (ss)
• The Nine Eels of Madame Wu • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Nine Lives to Live • Sharyn McCrumb • (ss)
• The Nine Mile Walk • Harry Kemelman • (ss)
• The Nine O’Clock Woman • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• Nine Parts Devil • Max Brand • (nv)
• Nine Points for Murder • Nancy Pickard • (ss)
• Nine Points of the Law • E. W. Hornung • (ss)
• Nine Sons • Wendy Hornsby • (ss)
• Nine Strokes of the Bell • John F. Suter • (ss)
• Nine, Ten... and Out • John F. Dobbyn • (nv)
• Nine-Finger Jack • Anthony Boucher • (ss)
• The Nine-O’Clock Gun • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Nine-to-Five Man • Stanley Ellin • (ss)
• A Nineteenth Century Debacle • George W. Locke • (ss)
• Ninety Days • Mel Washburn • (ss)
• Ninety-eight Point Six • Jeffery Wilds Deaver • (nv)
• Ninety-Nine Clop Clop • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Ninja: Hardboiled Comics for the Eighties • Charles Hoffman • (ar)
• The Ninth Prince Sits and Talks • Ann F. Woodward • (ss)
• NIPD Blue • Colin Bateman • (ss)
• No • Stella Duffy • (ss)
• No Alibi • John P. Foran • (ss)
• No Apparent Malice • Terry Mullins • (ss)
• No Bail for the Judge • Henry Cecil • (ex)
• No Better Than Anyone Else • Molly Brown • (ss)
• No Better Than Her Father • Linda Grant • (nv)
• No Blood for a Vampire • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• No Can Do • Molly MacRae • (ss)
• No Charge • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• No Client of Mine • William Campbell Gault • (ss)
• No Comebacks • Frederick Forsyth • (ss)
• No Comment • John W. Jakes • (ss)
• No Connection • Suzanne Jones • (ss)
• No Connection • Susan Moody • (nv)
• No Cookies for Santa • Louise Hendricksen • (na)
• No Cradle of Pine • John F. Suter • (ss)
• No Crib for His Bed • Joe Gores • (ss)
• No Crime in the Mountains • Raymond Chandler • (na)
• No Debts Unpaid • Russell James • (ss)
• No Deception • Julian Symons • (ss)
• No Disclosure • S. K. O’Toole • (ss)
• No Drowning Mark • Martin Simpson • (ss)
• No Excuse for the Dead • Leonard Finley Hilts • (ss)
• No Flies on Frank • Danuta Reah • (ss)
• No Flowers for Henry • Carl Hughes • (ss)
• No Free Man • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• No Gaol for the Budgie • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• No Ghosts Need Apply? • Barbara Roden • (ar)
• No Gift From the Magi • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• No Good Deed • Dorothy Cannell • (ss)
• No Good Deed Goes Un Punished • Kate Hawthorne • (ss)
• No Good from a Corpse • Leigh Brackett • (ex)
• No Good from a Corpse • Leigh Brackett • (n.)
• No Hard Feelings • Donald Olson • (ss)
• No Hard Feelings • Larry Segriff • (ss)
• No Harm in Alfie • W. Sherwood Hartman • (ss)
• No Heroics • David Cox • (ss)
• No Jury Will Ever Hang You • Thomas Adcock • (ss)
• No Killer Has Wings • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• No Kind of Lady • Tim Curran • (ss)
• No Lie • Robert Lee Hall • (ss)
• No Love Lost • J. N. Williamson • (nv)
• No Lover of Cats • Elizabeth W. Burgamy • (ss)
• No man takes the farm • John Masefield • (pm)
• No Man to Trifle With • K. G. McAbee • (ss)
• No Man’s Air • Scott Morgan • (na)
• No Man’s Land • Elizabeth Foxwell • (ss)
• No Minimum for Murder • Julius Long • (ss)
• No More Excuses • Guy Belleranti • (vi)
• No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks • Michael Christie • (ss)
• No More Yoga of the Night Club • Iain Sinclair • (ss)
• No Neutral Ground • Sarah Shankman • (nv)
• No New Thing Under the Sun • Len Jellema • (ss)
• No Night by Myself • Mat Coward • (ss)
• No Noose Is Good Noose • Marie E. Truitt • (pm)
• No Obstruction to Justice • Henry T. Parry • (ss)
• No Olive Branch • Ardath F. Mayhar • (ss)
• No One Can Hear You Scream • Michael Jecks • (ss)
• No One Ever Listens • Stephanie Kay Bendel • (ss)
• No One Likes to Be Played for a Sucker • Michael Collins • (ss)
• No Pain, No Gain • B. J. Kantz • (ss)
• No Parachutes • Karen Moline • (ss)
• No Parking • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• No Passion to Kill • C. B. Gilford • (ss)
• No Photographs • Justin D’Ath • (ss)
• No Picnic • Mitch Alderman • (nv)
• No Place LIke Home • K. D. Wentworth • (ss)
• No Place to Hide • Hugh B. Cave • (ss)
• No Questions Asked • Martin Tashner • (ss)
• No Radio • Mickey Friedman • (ss)
• No Regulars Here • Rosie O. Neel • (vi)
• No Remorse • Jocelyn Hawes • (ss)
• No Rest for the Wicked • Ric Hasse • (ss)
• No Room at the Inn • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• No Safety • Susan Dunlap • (ss)
• No Safety in Numbers • Helen Thilenius • (pm)
• No Sanity Claus • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• No Sanity Clause • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• No Second Sunset • M. J. Ware • (ss)
• No Simple Solution • Jan Grape • (nv)
• No Smoke • Michael Eaton • (nv)
• No Special Hurry • James Colbert • (ex)
• No Star Is Lost • Leigh Brackett • (ss)
• No Strings • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• No Strings • Judith Kelman • (nv)
• No Strings Attached • Joe Canzius • (ss)
• No Strings Attached • Henry H. Guild • (ss)
• No Tears for Bonfiglio • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• No Tears for Foster • Fletcher Flora • (nv)
• No Thing • Mike Lupica • (ss)
• No Time at All • B. A. Silverman • (ss)
• No Time for Senior’s • Sidney Offit • (ss)
• No Use Turning a Deaf Ear to Murder • Julian Symons • (ss)
• No Vacation for Murder • Ronald Miller • (ss)
• No Victim, No Crime • Laura Lukon • (ss)
• No Videotaping During the Murder • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• No Vivaldi • Edward Clinton • (ss)
• No Way Out • Michael Collins • (ss)
• No Way Out • Dennis Lynds • (ss)
• No Weeds for the Widow • William Campbell Gault • (ss)
• No Welcome • Geoffrey Morgan • (ss)
• No Whitewash for the Doctor • James Holding • (ss)
• No Wick for the Rested • Monica Quill • (ss)
• No Wreath for Maxie • James Barnett • (ss)
• No, I’m Not Jane Marple, But Since You Ask... • Margaret B. Maron • (ss)
• No, Not Like Yesterday • Craig Rice • (nv)
• No, Thank You, John • Michelle Knowlden • (ss)
• The No-Brainer • S. L. Franklin • (ss)
• No-name • R. H. Stewart • (ss)
• No. 5 • Derek Muk • (ss)
• No. 79 • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• Nobbling the Favourite • Nat Gould • (ss)
• The Noble Bachelor • Arthur Conan Doyle • (ss)
• Noble Causes • Bob Mendes • (ss)
• Noblesse Oblige • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• Nobody Cares • Michael Giorgio • (ss)
• Nobody Frames Big Sam • Michael Collins • (ss)
• Nobody Knows, Natalie • Katherine H. Brooks • (pm)
• Nobody Likes Aunt Agnes • Mignon F. Ballard • (vi)
• Nobody Listens to Cartwright • Thomasina Weber • (ss)
• Nobody Loves a Cop • Dennis Wiegand • (ss)
• Nobody Loves a Fat Man • Joseph Commings • (ss)
• Nobody Steals a Gravestone • William T. Lowe • (ss)
• Nobody Tells Me Anything • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• Nobody Wins • Charles Ardai • (nv)
• Nobody, That’s Who • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Nobody’s All Bad • W. R. Burnett • (ss)
• Nobody’s Baby • D. Page Traynor • (ss)
• Nobody’s Business • David Knadler • (ss)
• Nobody’s Fool • Helene O’Shea • (ss)
• Nobody’s Ring • Terence Faherty • (nv)
• Nobody’s Told You, Have They? • Ian Stuart • (ss)
• Nocturnal Drill • Allison Franz • (pm)
• Nocturne • John Connolly • (ss)
• Nocturne • Jeffery Wilds Deaver • (nv)
• Nocturne for Murder • Terry White • (ss)
• Nocturne Macabre • Rupert Black • (ss)
• Nodons’ Dog • Nell Lamburn • (ss)
• Noe and Ark • Eleanor Michael • (ss)
• Noel, Noel • Barry Perowne • (ss)
• Noir • Paul Duncan • (ar)
• Noir and Day • T. P. Keating • (ss)
• The Noir Boudoir • Lynne Barrett • (ss)
• Noir for the 90’s • Marion Long • (bg)
• A Noir Gallery • Aaron Armstrong • (il)
• Noir Lite • Margaret Chittenden • (ss)
• Noir Neige • K. J. Erickson • (ss)
• Noise Control • Herbert Cohen • (ss)
• A Noise in the Night • Ford Charlton • (vi)
• Non Sung Smoke • Sue Grafton • (ss)
• Non-Interference • Janwillem van de Wetering • (nv)
• Non-Lethals • Marlys Millhiser • (ss)
• Non-Skid Jacks: The D.C.-Saigon Connection • Rex Miller • (ss)
• None But the Lethal Heart • William Campbell Gault • (ss)
• None for the Little Boy • Robert Edmond Alter • (ss)
• None of My Business, But... • Carolyn G. Hart • (ss)
• None of Us Is Perfect • Ian Stuart • (ss)
• None So Blind • David Delman • (ss)
• Noon Street Nemesis • Raymond Chandler • (ex)
• Nooses Give • Dana Stabenow • (ss)
• Noplace Else to Go • Barbara Owens • (ss)
• Nor Iron Bars • John D. MacDonald • (ss)
• Nordic Blue • Barry N. Malzberg • (ss)
• Norman and the Killer • Joyce Carol Oates • (nv)
• Norris Farmer’s Secret • William Bankier • (ss)
• A North London Life of Crime • Alan Entwistle • (ss)
• North Sea Nightmare • George Bruce • (nv)
• The North Star • John Williams • (ss)
• North West 33rd Court • Dan A. Sproul • (ss)
• The Northern Law • William D. Trausch • (ss)
• Northrup’s Little Game • Nicholas Carter • (ss)