Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Once Upon a Time • Amanda Cross • (ss)
• Once Upon a Time • Peter Massarelli • (ss)
• Once Upon a Time • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Once Upon a Time... • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Once Upon a Train • Stuart Palmer & Craig Rice • (nv)
• Once, Twice, Dead • R. T. Lawton • (ss)
• The Once-in-a-Lifetime Dress • Caryl Brahms • (ss)
• The One • Helen Nielsen • (nv)
• The One About the Green Detective • Jonathan Lethem • (ss)
• One After Another • M. Christian • (ss)
• The One and Only • Morris Hershman • (ss)
• The One and Only East • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• One Bad Apple • Mel D. Ames • (nv)
• One Bad Apple • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• One Bad Apple • Phil Lovesey • (ss)
• One Bag of Coconuts • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• One Beautiful Body • Gillian Roberts • (ss)
• The One Best Bet • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (nv)
• One Big Happy Family • Lionel Booker • (ss)
• One Big Pest • Mark Fewell • (ss)
• One Blonde, Well Dead • Joe R. Lansdale • (nv)
• One Can of Peaches • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• One Casualty War • Jack Petree • (ss)
• One Clue • Raymond Steiber • (vi)
• One Consideration with Another • William Bankier • (ss)
• One Crime Too Many • William T. Lowe • (ss)
• One Day at a Time • William Bankier • (ss)
• One Day at a Time • Darrell James • (ss)
• One Day in August • Dorothy Hunt Schofield • (ss)
• One Day of Fear • Philip Weck • (ss)
• One Dead Canary • David Delman • (ss)
• One Dead Ruptured Duck • Daniel Sontup • (ss)
• One Deadly Sin • Anthony Marsh • (ss)
• One Doll Too Many • F. J. Smith • (ss)
• One Down • Carroll Mayers • (ss)
• One Drop of Blood • Cornell Woolrich • (nv)
• One Eye Open • Jeremiah Healy • (ss)
• One Final Arrangement • Marcia Muller • (ss)
• One Foot in Hell! • Bill Ryder • (ss)
• One for the Monet • David Stuart Davies • (ss)
• One for the Road • Pat Dennis • (ss)
• One for the Road • Robert DiFrancesco • (ss)
• One for the Road • Gigi Vernon • (ss)
• One for Virgil Tibbs • John Ball • (ss)
• One Good One • Chuck Hogan • (ss)
• One Good Turn • Leon Griffiths • (ss)
• One Good Turn • J. A. Jance • (nv)
• One Gun, One Bullet • Thomas Calvert McClary • (ss)
• One Hand One Bounce • Mat Coward • (ss)
• One Hit Wonder • Gabrielle Kraft • (ss)
• One Hot Saturday • Blanche Boshinski • (ss)
• One Hour • Dashiell Hammett • (ss)
• One Hour to Doom • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• One Hundred Candles • Raymond Steiber • (ss)
• 100 Pesos (1965) • Ross Macdonald • (uw)
• One Husband Too Many! • Arnold English • (ss)
• One in Every Family • Betty Nathan • (ss)
• One Jump Ahead • Donald Olson • (ss)
• One Last Hit • Nick Andreychuk • (ss)
• One Last Picture • Sherita Saffer Campbell • (ss)
• One Life Too Many • Donald Olson • (ss)
• One Luckless Hour • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• One Man Invasion of Mexico • Jules Archer • (ar)
• One Man’s Ceiling • Tom Corcoran • (ss)
• One Man’s Family • Richard H. Hardwick • (ss)
• One Man’s Meat • William F. Smith • (pm)
• One Man’s Money, Another Man’s Trash • James A. Noble • (ss)
• One Man’s Opinion • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• One Man’s Poison • Curt Hamlin • (ss)
• The $1,000,000.00 Card • Lou Wedemar • (ss)
• One Mississippi • Joseph Raiche • (ss)
• One Moment of Madness • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• One Monday Afternoon • Allen M. Widem • (ss)
• One Month in 1907 • Frank M. Robinson • (ss)
• One More Circus • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• One More Clue • Craig Rice • (nv)
• One More Drink for the Runway • O. S. Flanagan • (ss)
• One More for the Road • Robert Knightly • (ss)
• One Morning They’ll Hang Him • Margery Allingham • (ss)
• One Murder in Maine • Judith Andrews Green • (ss)
• One Night • Jacklyn Butler • (ss)
• One Night at a Time • Dorothy Cannell • (nv)
• One Night at Dolores Park • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• One Night in Mabillion • Jeff Deischer • (ss)
• One Night of Death • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• One of a Kind • Eric Wright • (ss)
• One of Len’s Bridges • Stringfellow Forbes • (ss)
• One of Our Bears Is Missing • DeLoris Stanton Forbes • (nv)
• One of Our Leprechauns Is Missing • Bill Crider • (ss)
• One of the Boys • Kimberly Pauley • (ss)
• One of the Missing • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• One of the Oldest Con Games • Robert L. Fish • (ss)
• One of These Days... • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• One of Those Cases • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• One of Those Days • William Blinn • (ss)
• One of Those Days, One of Those Nights • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• One of Those Things • Ernest Savage • (ss)
• One of Us • Keith Miles • (ss)
• One of Us • Iain Rowan • (ss)
• One of Us • Tom Savage • (ss)
• One on a Desert Island • Donald E. Westlake • (ss)
• One Plus One Is What? • John M. Herbert • (ss)
• One Point Too Far • John Storm Roberts • (ss)
• One Rotten Apple • Carolyn Russell • (ss)
• One Shot • P. J. Parrish • (ss)
• One Shot Difference • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• One Shot—He’s Dead • Ann Blaine • (nv)
• One Small Step • Reginald Hill • (na)
• One Step Ahead • J. R. Skelton • (vi)
• One Strike Too Many • D. R. Meredith • (nv)
• The One That Didn’t Get Away • Marele Day • (ss)
• One Thing I Can’t Remember • Katherine Patrick • (ss)
• One Thing Leads to Another • Harold Q. Masur • (ss)
• One Thousand Dollars a Word • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• One Thousand Suspects • Norman A. Daniels • (ss)
• One Tiny Slip • Judith L. Post • (ss)
• One to Spare • Jason Andrew • (ss)
• One Toke Over the Line • Stephen F. Wilcox • (ss)
• One Too Many • Dorothy L. Sayers • (ss)
• One True Love • Laura Lippman • (ss)
• One Under the Eight • Catherine Aird • (ss)
• One Up Day • Tabatha Yeatts • (ss)
• One Way Out • Jason Starr • (ss)
• One Way Ticket • Al McGarry • (ss)
• One Way Ticket • John Tilsley • (ss)
• The One Who Did for Blagden Cole • Eric Ambler • (nv)
• A One-Day Job • Jan Grape • (ss)
• The One-Handed Murderer • Italo Calvino • (ss)
• A One-Man Dog • William Bankier • (ss)
• One-Man Posse • Max Brand • (nv)
• A One-Minute Hound • Donald A. Yates • (pm)
• The One-Penny Black • Ellery Queen • (ss)
• One-Shot • Lawrence Watt-Evans • (vi)
• One-Way Fare • Charles Beckman, Jr. • (ss)
• One-Way Street • Anthony Armstrong • (ss)
• One-Way Streets • Sherri C. Staat • (nv)
• One-Way Ticket • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• One’s a Heifer • Sinclair Ross • (ss)
• Online Mystery Fiction in 2005 and 2006 • Sarah Weinman • (ar)
• Only a Woman • Amel Benaboura • (ss)
• Only Business • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Only Clay • Lorraine Collins • (ss)
• The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday • Adrian McKinty • (ss)
• The Only Girl in His Life • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Only Good Judge • Carolyn Wheat • (nv)
• The Only Good Red • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• The Only Good Umpire • Reynolds Phillips • (ss)
• Only Heroes Die • Michael Bracken • (vi)
• Only If You Get Caught • William Bankier • (ss)
• Only in America • Lorraine Collins • (ss)
• Only in the Movies • Darrell James • (ss)
• Only Minutes Away • Phyllis Diller • (vi)
• Only Nights • Dan Crawford • (ss)
• The Only One of Its Kind • James Holding • (ss)
• Only One Way • Lola J. Schancer • (pm)
• Only One Way to Land • John Lutz • (nv)
• The Only Sure Way • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• The Only Survivor • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• Only the Beginning • William Bankier • (ss)
• Only the Beginning • Barbara A. Custer • (ss)
• Only the Dead Know Brooklyn • Thomas Wolfe • (ss)
• Only the Lonely • J. D. Carlson • (sl)
• The Only Tree in Tasco • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Only Trees Reach the Sky • Fred Breinersdorfer • (ss)
• The Only True Comedian • Ian Rankin • (ss)
• The Only True Unraveller • John Malcolm • (ss)
• Onnagata • Laura Joh Rowland • (nv)
• The oo y Trap • Geoffrey Bush • (ss)
• Oona Blake • Ed McBain • (ex)
• The Opal Necklace • Pauline C. Smith • (ss)
• The Opal of Carmalovitch • Max Pemberton • (ss)
• Open All Night • Billie Sue Mosiman • (ss)
• Open and Shut • John L. French • (ss)
• Open and Shut • John Lutz • (ss)
• Open and Shut • Benjamin M. Schutz • (ss)
• Open and Shut Case • Sarah Gilbert • (ss)
• An Open and Shut Case • Mae Woods • (ss)
• The Open Door • Mrs. Oliphant • (nv)
• The Open Door • Max Van Derveer • (ss)
• Open House • Jonathan Frain • (ss)
• Open House • Faye Kellerman • (nv)
• Open House • Walter Mosley • (ss)
• The Open Till • David Braly • (ss)
• The Open Window • Saki • (ss)
• The Opener of the Crypt • John W. Jakes • (ss)
• Opening Day • Jack Sine • (ss)
• An Opening Shot • Lawrence Block • (in)
• The Operation • Henry Slesar • (ss)
• Operation Christmas • Tim Heald • (ss)
• Operation Good Samaritan • Dan J. Marlowe • (nv)
• Operation Northwoods • James Grippando • (ss)
• Operation Stealing Saddam’s Money • Devin Friedman • (tc)
• Operation Trojan Horse • David Everson • (ss)
• Operation Vengeance • Joseph Calabro • (ar)
• The Operator • Jack Ritchie • (nv)
• Operator 5 • Michael Avallone • (pi)
• The Opinion • Harold Q. Masur • (ss)
• The Opponent • Edmund R. Shields • (ss)
• Opportunity • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Or All the Seas with Oysters • Avram Davidson • (ss)
• “Or You Can Drink the Wine...?” • P. C. Doherty • (nv)
• The Oracle of Amun • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (ss)
• Oracle of the Dead • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Oracle of the Dog • G. K. Chesterton • (nv)
• The Oracle of the Flag • Isak Romun • (ss)
• The Orange Murders • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• Orange Sofa • Esther J. Holt • (ss)
• The Orange Star • Gerald Tomlinson • (ss)
• The Orb of Zelba • Mary Streblow • (ss)
• The Orchard of Caged Birds • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Orchard Walls • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Orczy Must Go! • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Ordeal by Fire • Mary Monica Pulver • (ss)
• The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby • Stanley Ellin • (ss)
• The Ordinary Hairpins • E. C. Bentley • (ss)
• An Ordinary Man • William Campbell Gault • (ss)
• Ordo • Donald E. Westlake • (na)
• O’Reilly Sahib • Lawrence G. Blochman • (nv)
• The Orellis • Fred Breinersdorfer • (ss)