Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Bay Side of Neptune Street • Leslie Alan Horvitz • (nv)
• Bay Wolf • Neil Gaiman • (pm)
• The Baytown Follies • William Bankier • (ss)
• Baytown’s Gain • William Bankier • (ss)
• Baytown’s Loss • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Bayville Killing • Audrey Peterson • (ss)
• Baz • Julian Rathbone • (ss)
• Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends • Linda Wagner • (ss)
• Be Lucky • Mat Coward • (ss)
• Be My Guest • Rachel Ingalls • (na)
• Be Your Own Best Friend • Alyson Hornsby & Wendy Hornsby • (ss)
• The Beach Butler • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Beach Sights • Bruce Blackadar • (ss)
• The Beach-Chair Detective • Cheryl Solimini • (br)
• Beach-Head • Katherine H. Brooks • (pm)
• The Beaches of Paraguay • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• The Beacon • Talmage Powell • (ss)
• Beanball • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• The Bear Cottage • John Lutz • (ss)
• A Bear Hunt • William Faulkner • (ss)
• The Bearded Lady • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• The Bearded Lady • Ross Macdonald • (na)
• Bearded Wonders • Tim Heald • (ss)
• Beards Grow Slowly • Hugh B. Cave • (nv)
• Bearhug • Steven W. Avery • (ss)
• Bearing Gifts • Nicole Swengley • (ss)
• Bearing Witness • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Bears Watching • John C. Boland • (ss)
• Beast at the Door • Donald Olson • (ss)
• The Beast from the Western Steppes • Martin Limón • (ss)
• The Beast in the Woods • Ed Gorman • (ss)
• The Beast of Bubble City • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• The Beast of Guangming Peak • Michael Mallory • (nv)
• The Beast That Owned a Table • Jerry Page • (pm)
• The Beast with Five Fingers • William F. Harvey • (nv)
• The Beast Within • Margaret B. Maron • (ss)
• The Beast-Gods of Atlantis • John Peter Drummond • (na)
• Beasts in Buildings, Turning ’Round • J. N. Williamson • (nv)
• The Beat Goes On • Ray Banks • (ss)
• Beat Routine • Stan Washburn • (ss)
• Beat Your Neighbor Out of Doors • Jiro Akagawa • (nv)
• The Beat-Up Sister • John Ross Macdonald • (nv)
• The Beating • Terry Nudds • (ss)
• Beating on the Border • Robert W. Tinsley • (ss)
• Beating the High Cost of Living • Ron Brown • (vi)
• Beau Jest • Brynn Bonner • (ss)
• Beaubien • Deborah Morgan • (nv)
• Beaudry Rose • Gayle McGary • (ss)
• Beautiful • Jeffery Wilds Deaver • (ss)
• Beautiful But Dead • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Beautiful But Dead • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• A Beautiful Dame With Money • Talmage Powell • (ss)
• Beauty • Ed Gorman • (ss)
• Beauty Be Damned! • Talmage Powell • (nv)
• Beauty Is Only Skin Deep • Gallagher Gray • (nv)
• The Beauty King • Margery Allingham • (nv)
• The Beauty Mask • Arthur B. Reeve • (ss)
• Beauty More Stealthy • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (nv)
• Beauty with Cruelty • David Bowker • (nv)
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death • Ray Nayler • (ss)
• Because It Was There • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Because the Constable Blundered • Francis M. Nevins, Jr. • (ss)
• Because We’re Friends • Irving Shulman • (ss)
• Because You’re a Cop • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Bech Noir • John Updike • (nv)
• The Beckoning Eye • Ron Butler • (ss)
• Becoming • Jake MacDonald • (ss)
• Becoming Men • Douglas Clegg • (ss)
• The Bed and Breakfast Burglar • Jill Giencke • (ss)
• Bed of Roses • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Bed One • Paul V. Fornatar • (ss)
• Bedbug • Ed McBain • (ss)
• Bedbugs • Eric Wright • (ss)
• The Bedell Virgin • Ann Quinton • (ss)
• Bedeviled • Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• The Bedford Street Legacy • Annette Meyers • (ss)
• The Bedlam Bam • Lillian de la Torre • (ss)
• The Bedlam File • Brett Halliday • (na)
• The Bedlam File • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Bedroom Set • Richard Grant • (ss)
• Bedtime for Pookie • Gary Lovisi • (ss)
• Bee Line • Tom Condarcure • (ss)
• Bee Sting • Robert Wallace • (ss)
• The Beer Bust • Sean McMartin • (ss)
• The Beer Drinkers • Josh Pachter • (ss)
• Beer Wine Snacks • Fred Snyder • (ss)
• The Bees • Dan Chaon • (ss)
• The Beetle • Richard Marsh • (n.)
• Before Insulin • J. J. Connington • (ss)
• Before My Eyes • Ruthe Furie • (ss)
• Before She Kills • Fredric Brown • (nv)
• Before Something Happens • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Before the Adventures • Lenore Carroll • (ss)
• Before the Cock Crows • Brian Battison • (nv)
• Before the Law • Franz Kafka • (vi)
• Before the Party • W. Somerset Maugham • (nv)
• Before We Begin • Lawrence Block • (pr)
• Before You Leap • John Lutz • (nv)
• Beginner’s Luck • Gary Phillips • (ss)
• The Beginning • Richard E. Reeve • (vi)
• Behavior Therapy • Robert Petyo • (ss)
• The Beheading • Evan Hunter • (nv)
• Behind Bars • Jeanette Weiss • (pm)
• Behind Enemy Lines • John Helfers & Carol Rondou • (ss)
• Behind Murder’s Eight-Ball • Don James • (ss)
• Behind the Locked Door • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter I • Hugh Walpole • (rr)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter II • Agatha Christie • (rr)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter III • Dorothy L. Sayers • (rr)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter IV, In the Aspidistra • Anthony Berkeley • (rr)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter V • E. C. Bentley • (rr)
• Behind the Screen, Chapter VI, Mr. Parsons on the Case • Ronald A. Knox • (rr)
• Behind the Wall • Stanley Middleton • (ss)
• Behind the Wheel • Ron Ellis • (ss)
• Behold a Pale Horse • Richard E. Givan • (ss)
• Behold, Kra K’l! The Bohemian Demon of Gardenia Street • Richard F. McGonegal • (ss)
• Being a People Person • Candia McWilliam • (ss)
• Being Conscious • Dan Damkoehler • (ss)
• Being Frank • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• Being of Sound Mind • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Beka Street Irregulars • James Melville • (ss)
• Belated Revenge • Christine Matthews • (ss)
• Belfrey’s Bats • Percy Spurlark Parker • (ss)
• Belgrade, 1926 • Eric Ambler • (ex)
• Believing in Santa • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Belinda and the Secret Weapon • Alan R. Gordon • (ss)
• Bell • Cynthia Hendershot • (ss)
• The Bell Tower • D. A. McGuire • (ss)
• Bell, Book, and Suburbia • M. H. Clark & Jeanne Leiter • (ss)
• Bell, Crook, and Vandal • Dan Crawford • (ss)
• The Bell-Tower • Herman Melville • (ss)
• Belladonna • Barbara Wilson • (ss)
• Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy • Bill Crider • (ss)
• The Belle of the Ball Is Dead • Donald Olson • (ss)
• La Bellezza Delle Bellezze • Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• The Bellman Portrait • Robert Edward Eckels • (ss)
• Bellringers’ Overtime • Roz Kaveney • (na)
• Bells • Gary Arpin • (ss)
• The Bell’s Toll • Charlotte Richards • (vi)
• Belly Laugh, or The Joker’s Trick or Treat • Joe R. Lansdale • (nv)
• Bellyboard Bump-Off! • Robert Leslie Bellem • (cs)
• The Beloved Object • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• The Belson Sisters—Didn’t They Die? • Layne Littlepage • (ss)
• Belter’s Mugging • Andrea Badenoch • (ss)
• Ben Blower’s Story • Charles F. Hoffman • (ss)
• A Bend in Time • Margaret Lewis • (ss)
• The Bend of the Road • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• Beneath Black Bayou • Ronald Kelly • (ss)
• Beneath the Lilacs • Nevada Barr • (ss)
• Beneath the Sighs • Walter Satterthwait • (ss)
• Beneath Which Hour? • Peter Valentine Timlett • (ss)
• Benedict and Bianca • Alison White • (ss)
• Beneficent Diversions from the Crackdkins Diet • Donnell Alexander • (ss)
• A Beneficial Walk • Ursula Curtiss • (ss)
• Benefit of Clergy • Keith Taylor • (ss)
• The Benefit of the Doubt • Jack London • (nv)
• Benjamin’s Trap • Richard W. Moquist • (ss)
• Benning’s School for Boys • Richard A. Lupoff • (nv)
• Benny’s Space • Marcia Muller • (ss)
• A Bequest for Mr. Nugent • James Powell • (ss)
• Ber-Bulu • Dashiell Hammett • (ss)
• Bereaved • J. A. Konrath • (ss)
• Berenice • Edgar Allan Poe • (ss)
• Bermuda Short • Anne Stephenson • (ss)
• Bertie and the Boat Race • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Bertie and the Fire Brigade • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Bertie’s Mom • Jeremiah Healy • (ss)
• The Beryl Coronet • Arthur Conan Doyle • (nv)
• The Berzin Lecture • Anthony Price • (ss)
• The Best • Chris Rippen • (ss)
• Best Behaviour • Simon Brett • (ss)
• The Best Defense • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• Best Eaten Cold • Laura Wilson • (ss)
• The Best Friend • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• Best Friend • Germaine Roquevert • (ss)
• Best Friends • Barbara Owens • (ss)
• The Best in Online Mystery Fiction in 2004 • Sarah Weinman • (ar)
• Best in the Business • Tom Sweeney • (ss)
• The Best Laid Plans • Marshall Weighell • (ss)
• The Best Laid Plans... • Ben Luckhardt • (ss)
• Best Man • Thomas Walsh • (nv)
• The Best Man in Town • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• Best Man Wins • Frederick Williams • (ss)
• The Best Meal • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Best of All • Marco Palmieri • (nv)
• The Best of Birtles • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Best of Everything • Stanley Ellin • (nv)
• Best of Luck! • Vickie Dubois • (ss)
• The Best of the Rest • Otto Penzler • (in)
• The Best Policy • Ferenc Molnár • (ss)
• The Best Qualifications • Barbara McCarty • (ss)
• The Best Revenge • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• Best Served Cold • Dean James • (nv)
• The Best Sort of Husband • Susan B. Kelly • (ss)
• The Best Things in Life Are Someone Else’s • Darren Subarton • (ss)
• The Best Time for Planting • Ina Coelen • (ss)
• The Best TV Eyes of the Seventies • Robert J. Randisi • (ar)
• The Best-Friend Murder • Donald E. Westlake • (nv)
• Bestsellers Guaranteed • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• The Bet • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• The Bet • Flip Jarrett • (ss)
• Bet on Red • Jeff Abbott • (nv)
• Bet Your Own Man • C. J. Henderson • (ss)
• Betamax • Ken Hollings • (ss)
• Betrayal • J. D. Carlson • (ss)
• Betrayal • K. L. Jones • (vi)
• Betrayal • Nancy Livingston • (ss)
• Betrayed • John D. MacDonald • (nv)
• The Betrayers • Stanley Ellin • (ss)
• Betsy’s Butterfly • Joyce Harrington • (ss)
• Betsy’s Dictionary • Billie Lee Powers • (ss)
• Better a Cat • Charlotte MacLeod • (ss)
• A Better Chess Player • Kenneth Gavrell • (ss)
• Better Dead Than Wed • Gar Anthony Haywood • (ss)
• Better Hands • Dale Clark • (ss)
• Better Late Than Never • Christopher Maynard • (ss)
• Better Luck Next Time • Brad Zellar • (ss)
• Better Safe Than Sorry • Michael Avallone & Josh Pachter • (vi)