Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Northwestward • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• A Nose for Murder • David Williams • (ss)
• A Nose for News • Richard Sale • (nv)
• A Nose for the King • Jack London • (ss)
• Nose Job • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Nosing Around for a Clue • Valerie Wolzien • (ss)
• Nostalgia • Maggie Ross • (ss)
• Not a Creature Was Stirring • Max Allan Collins • (ss)
• Not a Day to Die • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• Not a Laughing Matter • Evan Hunter • (ss)
• Not a Lick of Sense • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Not a Minute on the Day • Mat Coward • (ss)
• Not a Monster of a Chance • Denise Swanson • (ss)
• Not a Pretty Story • Cynthia Darnell • (ss)
• Not a Pretty Story • Lawrence Doorley • (nv)
• Not a Whipperwill Called • Carol Myers Martin • (ss)
• Not a Worry, Not a Care • Dan Crawford • (ss)
• Not All Brides Are Beautiful • Sharyn McCrumb • (ss)
• Not Alone in Her Grave • John F. Suter • (ss)
• Not Any Thing That Is His • David Williams • (ss)
• Not At All a Maha Murder • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• Not at All Like the Scorpion • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Not Enough Monkeys • Benjamin M. Schutz • (nv)
• Not for Love nor Money • Robin Scott Wilson • (ss)
• Not Guilty • Will Scott • (ss)
• Not in My Back Yard • Eric Hermanson • (ss)
• Not in My Family • Toni L. P. Kelner • (ss)
• Not in the Script • Carl Henry Rathjen • (ss)
• Not in the Stars • Catherine Dain • (ss)
• Not Just a Number • John Lutz • (ss)
• Not Just Any Tuesday • Chuck Bright • (ss)
• Not Long Now • Carol Anne Davis • (ss)
• Not Much Joy in Prison • Gary Lovisi • (ss)
• Not Much of a Detective • L. C. Mohr • (ss)
• Not Much of a Life • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Not Much of a Trade • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• Not My Son • Ruth M. McCarty • (ss)
• Not on the Menu • Ed Conrow • (ss)
• Not Provan • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• Not Quite Dead • Arthur Leslie • (nv)
• Not Safe After Dark • Peter Robinson • (ss)
• Not Shy • M. J. Rose • (ss)
• Not So Deep as a Grave • Richard H. Hardwick • (ss)
• The Not So Friendly Skies • Carol A. Cole • (ss)
• Not So Sudden Death • Henry Slesar • (ss)
• Not Suited for Murder • Stan Knowlton • (ss)
• Not the Type • Eve Fisher • (ss)
• Not This Time • Bailey Mapp • (ss)
• Not—Tonight—Danger • Brett Halliday • (ss)
• Not Too Smart • Shelley J. Moore • (ss)
• Not Wisely, But Too Well • Louise Cooper • (ss)
• Not Worth Flypaper • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• Not Your Everyday Poison • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• The Not-So-Big Sleep • Terry Black • (ss)
• The Note • Judith O’Neill • (ss)
• A Note from the Publisher • Misc. Material • (fw)
• A Note of Note • Simon Brett • (ss)
• Note on the Authors • Misc. Material • (bg)
• A Note on the Contributors • Misc. Material • (bg)
• A Note on the Text • Robert H. Hirst • (ms)
• Note on the Text • Misc. Material • (ms)
• Note on the Texts • Misc. Material • (bi)
• Notes • Misc. Material • (bg)
• Notes for a Murder Story • C. B. Gilford • (ss)
• The Notes of Morrow’s Horn • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• Notes on Contributors • Misc. Material • (bg)
• Notes on the Authors • Misc. Material • (bg)
• Notes on the Racecard • Dick Francis • (in)
• Notes on the Stories • Anna von Planta • (bi)
• Notes on the Text • Misc. Material • (bi)
• Nothing But Net • Jeffery Wilds Deaver • (nv)
• Nothing But the Best • Brian Lawrence • (ss)
• Nothing But the Truth • Patricia McGerr • (ss)
• Nothing Changes • Molly Brown • (ar)
• Nothing Comes Cheap • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Nothing Good Ever Came of a Bad Hair Day • Kris Neri • (ss)
• Nothing Good Ever Comes • Alice Slaikeu Lawhead • (rr)
• Nothing Like a Dame • Edward Marston • (ss)
• Nothing Might Happen! • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• Nothing New Under the Sun • Jerry Jacobson • (ss)
• Nothing Newsworthy • Jean Rabe • (ss)
• Nothing Now Can Ever Come to Any Good • Torene Svitil • (ss)
• Nothing of the Kind • Edward Wellen • (vi)
• Nothing Personal • Pat Cadigan • (na)
• Nothing Personal • Mel Washburn • (ss)
• Nothing Promised, No Regrets • T. P. Keating • (ss)
• Nothing Short of Highway Robbery • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Nothing That Meets the Eye • Patricia Highsmith • (ss)
• Nothing to Joke About • Browning Norton • (ss)
• Nothing to Lose • William Bankier • (ss)
• Nothing to Lose • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Nothing to Lose • Frances Fyfield • (ss)
• Nothing to Worry About • Day Keene • (ss)
• Nothing Up His Sleeve • Julian Symons • (ss)
• Nothing Ventured • Carolyn G. Hart • (ss)
• Nothing Ventured • J. M. Small • (ss)
• The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
• Notions • Margaret Millar • (ss)
• The Notorious Miss L. • Jacqueline Babbin • (ss)
• The Notorious Snowman • James Powell • (ss)
• Nouchi • Georges Simenon • (ss)
• A Novel Forgery • Rodrigues Ottolengui • (ss)
• Novel Verdicts • Jon L. Breen • (br)
• The Novels of Ellery Queen • Edward D. Hoch • (ar)
• November Nights: Once Upon a Darkling • Sherrie Brown & Gene KoKayKo • (nv)
• Now Bleed to Death! • J. A. Bloff • (ss)
• Now Fetch Me an Axe • Simon Clark • (nv)
• Now He Thinks He’s Dead • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Now I am Alone • C. B. Gilford • (ss)
• Now Is Forever • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • (nv)
• Now Pull the Trigger • Robert Hoskins • (ss)
• Now What? • Donald E. Westlake • (ss)
• Now You See Her • Jeffrey M. Wallmann • (ss)
• Now You See Her... • Robert L. Iles • (ss)
• Now You See It • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Now You See It • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Now You See It... Now You Don’t • Nan Hamilton • (ss)
• “Now, wha this tale o’ truth shall read...” • Rod Munro • (ss)
• Nowhere to be Found • Mat Coward • (ss)
• Nowhere to Run • Mark Timlin • (ss)
• Now’s the Time • John Harvey • (ss)
• A Noxious Drudge • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• Nuances Before Noon • Ruth Wildes Schuler • (ss)
• The Nude Over the Bar • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Nude with Snow Geese • Eve Fisher • (ss)
• Nudes Ascending a Staircase • Renée M. Charles • (nv)
• The Nuggy Bar • Simon Brett • (nv)
• Nuisance • Sean Farrell • (ss)
• Numb • Wayne A. Harold • (ss)
• The Number 12 Jinx • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• Number 13 • M. R. James • (ss)
• Number 19 • Naomi Hirahara • (ss)
• #8 • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• #2, with a Bullet • Jack Nimersheim • (ss)
• Numbers • Scott Mackay • (ss)
• Numbers Game • Patricia McGerr • (ss)
• Numbers Game • Richard Thompson • (ss)
• The Number’s Up • Cornell Woolrich • (ss)
• Nuntheless • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• The Nuremberg Ripper • William L. Fieldhouse • (nv)
• Nursery Crimes • Carolyn T. Crew • (pm)
• Nursery Sam • Ben Bova • (nv)
• The Nursing Home Horror • Joseph Payne Brennan • (nv)
• The Nymph and the Doctor • Alice M. Dodge • (na)
• O Little Hound of Bethlehem • Taylor McCafferty • (ss)
• O! Little Town of Bedlam • Toni Brill • (nv)
• O, Virginia • Stephen Gallagher • (ss)
• The O-Bon Cat • I. J. Parker • (nv)
• The Oak’s Long Shadow • Joan S. Richter • (ss)
• Oalámaóa • Gerald Kersh • (ss)
• Oasis • Hugh Lessig • (ss)
• The Oasis • Eddy Thomas • (ss)
• The Oath • Marilyn Wallace • (ss)
• Oatmeal • Dori MacDonald • (ss)
• The O’Bannon Blarney File • Joe Gores • (ss)
• Obeah, My Love • Barbara Collins • (ss)
• Obit for Obie • Fredric Brown • (na)
• The Obit Writer • Terry Kay • (ss)
• The Obituarists’ Outing • Tim Heald • (nv)
• Obituary • Thomas Dwyer • (ss)
• Obituary • Fletcher Flora • (ss)
• The Obituary Thefts • Diana Meyers • (ss)
• The Object Lesson • W. H. Guernon • (ss)
• Objects in Mirror • Kelly Simon • (ss)
• Oblique. Vengeance • K. G. McAbee • (ss)
• The Oblong Room • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Obo Mystery • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (ss)
• Obscurocious • Ray Aldridge • (ss)
• Observable Justice • Will Murray • (nv)
• Observations on Lorimer Street • Joseph Payne Brennan • (ss)
• Obstacle Course • Reynalda C. Mondragón • (pm)
• The Obvious Factor • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• The Occidental and Catfish Express • Ron Butler • (nv)
• Occult Compensation • Ralph McInerny • (ss)
• Occupant Box 253 • Marilyn Pribus • (ss)
• Occupational Hazard • Linda Bosson • (pm)
• Occupational Hazard • Michael Collins • (ss)
• The Occupational Rehabilitation of Cousin Henry • Tom Tolnay • (ss)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• October Hearts • Gene KoKayKo • (nv)
• The Octopus of Hongkong • Loring Brent • (nv)
• An Odd Coincidence • James Pattinson • (ss)
• The Odd Man • Ellery Queen • (ss)
• The Odds • Thomas H. Cook • (ss)
• The Odds • Herbert Resnicow • (ss)
• Odds Against • Dick Francis • (ex)
• The Odds Against Mack Meadows • James A. Noble • (ss)
• Odds Against McGill • F. W. Murray • (ss)
• The Odds Are Even • Mary Ruth Furman • (ss)
• Odds on a Gypsy • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Odds on Death • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Odds on Death • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Odds on the Eight-Ball • Robert Leslie Bellem • (nv)
• Oddsmaker • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• Ode to Jessica Fletcher • Anita J. Franke • (pm)
• An Ode to Julian Symmons on His 80th Birthday • Gavin Ewart • (pm)
• Ode to the O’s • Charlie Stella • (ss)
• Odie and the Zoo • Jeff Grubb • (ss)
• The Odour of Sanctity • Kate Ellis • (ss)
• The Odstock Curse • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Odyssey • Elmore Leonard • (rr)
• The Odyssey of Everyman • Robert Loy • (nv)
• The Odyssey of the Penelope Anne • Kenneth C. Goldman • (nv)
• Oedipus to Homer • Jack Fargo • (ss)
• The Oedipus Variation • Antony Mann • (ss)
• Of a Vanishment • F. R. Buckley • (ss)
• Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable • Barbara D’Amato • (ss)
• Of Death and Dogs • Clyde Haywood • (nv)
• Of Dogs and Men • Mark S. Joy • (ss)
• Of Mice, Men and Two Woman • Julian Rathbone • (ss)
• Of Pearls and Swine • Garrett Russell • (ss)
• Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• Of Scandals and Skeletons • Brenda Melton Burnham • (ss)
• Of Soaring Memory • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Of Strange Loops and Black Valentines • Jonathan Littell • (ar)
• Of That Juggernaut • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Of the Five Who Came... • Fletcher Flora • (nv)