Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Pale Blue Nightgown • Louis Golding • (ss)
• The Pale Dice-Thrower • William C. Morrow • (ss)
• Paleta Man • Laurie R. King • (ss)
• Palimpsest • Laura Anne Gilman • (nv)
• The Palladian Bridge • Dale V. Hill • (ss)
• Pamfret and Peace • Rex Stout • (ss)
• The Panama Hen • Gesine Schulz • (ss)
• Pandora’s Defense • Gilbert M. Stack • (nv)
• Pandora’s Luck • Gilbert M. Stack • (nv)
• Pandora’s Socks • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Panther, Panther in the Night • Paul W. Fairman • (nv)
• Papa Mozart in France • Verbena Pastor • (ss)
• Paper Boxes • James S. Dorr • (ss)
• Paper Casualty • Len Deighton • (ss)
• Paper Tiger • Morris Hershman • (vi)
• Paper Trail • Joan Hess • (ss)
• The Paperback Revolution • Charles Shibuk • (br)
• The Paperboy • Audrey Del Bene • (vi)
• The Paperhanger • William Gay • (ss)
• Paperweight • Ben Town • (ss)
• Paperwork • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Paquette’s Birthday • Herb Henson • (ss)
• Par for the Course • Robert DiFrancesco • (ss)
• Par for the Curse • Eli Farkas • (ss)
• The Parable of the Old Man and the Young • Wilfred Owen • (pm)
• The Parade • Jas. R. Petrin • (nv)
• Paradise • Ralph McInerny • (ss)
• Paradise • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• The Paradise Lake Monster • Wayne D. Dundee • (nv)
• The Paradise of Bachelors • Herman Melville • (ss)
• The Paradise of Thieves • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
• The Paradox of Lord Peter Wimsey • June Thomson • (ar)
• Paranoia • Stephen W. Frey • (ss)
• Paranoia • Albert F. Nussbaum • (ss)
• The Paranoid Club • A. J. Vogl • (ss)
• A Parcel of Deerstalkers • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Pardon • James Grippando • (ss)
• Pardon Me...It’s Murder!: E.X. Ferrars • B. J. Rahn • (iv)
• Pardon My Death Ray • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• The Pardoner’s Tale • Robert Silverberg • (ss)
• Pardon’s Secret • Sherrard Gray • (nv)
• Pards • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• Parental Discretion • Stephen Wasylyk • (ss)
• Paris Adventure • Leslie Charteris • (ss)
• Paris Green • Henry T. Parry • (ss)
• Paris Masque • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Park Life • Carol Anne Davis • (ss)
• Park Rites • Dan Bennett • (ss)
• Parker • Alan Austin • (ss)
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• The Parker Shotgun • Sue Grafton • (nv)
• Parking Space Vigilantes • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• The Parking-Lot Dream • William Bankier • (ss)
• A Parliament of Peacocks • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Parlor Tricks You Can Play on Yourself • Heidi Cyr • (ss)
• Parlor, Bedroom, and Death • Ken Lewis • (ss)
• Parole of the Dead • William O’Sullivan • (na)
• Parris Green • Carole Nelson Douglas • (nv)
• A Parrot Is Forever • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Parrot Soup • J. Randal • (ss)
• Parrots in My Garden • Dorothy B. Davis • (ss)
• Parsimony Doesn’t Pay • Dorothy Belle Pollack • (pm)
• Part Eight: The Long Sunset • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Five: 1925, Established Writer Quits? • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Four: 1924, Fiction Factory Slowdown • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part I: The Early Years • Mike Ashley • (ar)
• Part II: The 1880s • Mike Ashley • (ar)
• Part III: The 1890s • Mike Ashley • (ar)
• A Part in the Picture • Carleton Carpenter • (ss)
• Part Light • Bonnie Hearn Hill • (ss)
• A Part of History • Michael Collins • (ss)
• Part of the Game • Audrey Wendland • (ss)
• Part One: A Rough Start • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Seven: 1930-1941, Rich and Famous • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Six: 1926-1930, Ad Man and Novelist • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Three: 1923, The Sixteen-Story Year • Vince Emery • (es)
• Part Time • Debbie Hodgkinson • (ss)
• Part Two: 1922, New Writer • Vince Emery • (es)
• The Parthian Shot • Dashiell Hammett • (ss)
• Parties Unknown by the Jury; or, The Valour of My Tongue • P. M. Carlson • (ss)
• Parting Gift • Larry Segriff • (ss)
• Parting Shot • Terry Courtney • (ss)
• Partlow’s Owl • Gary Alexander • (ss)
• Partner in Crime • Emily Neff • (ss)
• The Partner Track • William Bernhardt • (nv)
• Partner-in-Crime • Joy Hewitt Mann • (pm)
• Partners • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• Partners • Lana Fox • (vi)
• Partners • Gregor Robinson • (ss)
• Partners at the Pump • Judith L. Post • (ss)
• Partners in Crime • Norman E. Stafford • (ar)
• The Partnership • David Morrell • (ss)
• The Partnership • Bruce Obee • (nv)
• The Party • William F. Nolan • (ss)
• Party Animal • Morris Hershman • (ss)
• Party Animal • Donald E. Westlake • (ss)
• Party Line • Julian Symons • (ss)
• The Party May Yet Be Living... • Lindsey Davis • (ss)
• The Party of the Second Part • Ted Allbeury • (ss)
• Pas De Deux • Anderz Telemark • (ss)
• Paso Doble • Jean Fiedler • (ss)
• Pass the Parcel • Lucy Ellmann • (ss)
• Pass the Parcel • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Pass the Poison • Barbara Crossley • (ss)
• Pass the Word • Mary Monica Pulver • (ss)
• The Passenger • John C. Boland • (ss)
• The Passenger • Julie E. Czerneda • (ss)
• The Passenger • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Passing Feet • Geoffrey Hitchcock • (ss)
• Passing for Love • Bill Crenshaw • (ss)
• The Passing of an Aura • Betty Rowlands • (ss)
• The Passing of Mr. Toad • Jeffry Scott • (nv)
• Passing of the Third Floor Back • Jerome K. Jerome • (nv)
• Passing Over • Elizabeth Mulrey • (ss)
• The Passing Shadow • Peter Tremayne • (nv)
• A Passing Stranger • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Passing Time • Michel Butor • (ex)
• Passion Flower • Jo Bannister • (ss)
• A Passion for the Cook • Elizabeth Daniels Squire • (ss)
• Passion Killers • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Passion of Lizzie B. • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Passion Plot! • David Kasanof • (ss)
• The Passionate Phantom • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Passline • S. J. Rozan • (ss)
• Passport in Order • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• The Past Almost Recaptured • Ron Goulart • (ss)
• Past Forgetting • Bruce Scates • (ss)
• Past Life • John C. Boland • (ss)
• The Past Man • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• Past Sins • John L. French • (ss)
• Past Tense • Wendy Stricker • (pm)
• The Past-Life Alien Abduction Workshop Murder • Tracy Albert Knight • (ss)
• Pastorale • James M. Cain • (ss)
• Pastries • Stringfellow Forbes • (ss)
• The Pasture Lands • Jessie Rollins • (ss)
• The Pasture Mystery • John Tigges • (ss)
• Patchwork • Janet O’Daniel • (ss)
• Paternity • Sarah Clark • (nv)
• The Paternity Thing • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Path of Bones • Mary Freeman • (nv)
• The Path to the Shroud • Robert Barnard • (nv)
• Patience at Griffith Gulch • Janet LaPierre • (nv)
• The Patient at Peacocks Hall • Margery Allingham • (na)
• The Patient Aunt • Robert Sampson • (ss)
• The Patient Bloodhound • James Thurber • (vi)
• The Patient Cup • Avram Davidson • (ss)
• The Patient Waiter • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Patients • Seymour Shubin • (ss)
• A Patriot • John Galsworthy • (vi)
• Patriot’s Death Battalion • Emile C. Tepperman • (n.)
• Patriots’ Death March • Emile C. Tepperman • (na)
• Patrol of the Mad • Robert J. Hogan • (n.)
• Patrol of the Silent Death • Scott Morgan • (na)
• The Patsy • Michael Penncavage • (ss)
• The Pattern • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Pattern • Alex Saxon • (ss)
• Pattern for Murder • Frances Lockridge & Richard Lockridge • (ss)
• Pattern of Behavior • Paul Bishop • (na)
• The Pattern of His Death • Isak Romun • (ss)
• Patterns • Dan J. Marlowe • (ss)
• Paul Broderick’s Man • Thomas Walsh • (ss)
• Paul Revere’s Bell • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Paul Vargas: A Mystery • Hugh Conway • (nv)
• Paul Will Know • Michael Avallone • (ss)
• Paula Manning • Barbara A. Custer • (ss)
• Pauline’s Passion & Punishment [as Anonymous] • Louisa May Alcott • (nv)
• Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • (nv)
• The Paw • Thomas Burke • (ss)
• Paw-trait of a Murderer • John Helfers • (ss)
• Pawn Sacrifice • Chaz Brenchley • (ss)
• Pawn to King’s Four • Stephen Leacock • (ss)
• The Pawnshop Murder • Shizuko Natsuki • (ss)
• Pay Phone • Michael Z. Lewin • (ss)
• Pay Up Time • Robin Kendle Parker • (vi)
• Pay-Off Girl • James M. Cain • (ss)
• Payback • Charles Ardai • (nv)
• The Payback • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• Payback • Len Jellema • (ss)
• Payback • Shirley McCann • (ss)
• Payback • Robert E. Skinner • (ss)
• Payback Time • Morris Hershman • (ss)
• Payday • Martin Limón • (ss)
• Paying for It • David Belbin • (nv)
• Paying for Rain • Jaine Fenn • (ss)
• Paying Joe Back • Richard Laymon • (ss)
• Paying the Bill • Anthony Neil Smith • (ss)
• Payment in Kind • Carol Gursky • (ss)
• Payment Received • Robert L. McGrath • (ss)
• A Payment to the Gods • Rosemary Rowe • (ss)
• Payoff • Steve Brewer • (ss)
• The Payoff • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• The Payoff • Hal White • (ss)
• Payoff for Goldie • Robert Sidney Bowen • (ss)
• Payoff in Blood • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Payoff in Blood • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Pazuzu’s Children • Jeffrey Thomas • (ss)
• PC Crawford’s First Pinch • Ted Willis • (nv)
• Peace Corpse • Charlotte D’aigle • (nv)
• Peace Games • Mel Waldman • (ss)
• Peace Offering • Barbara A. Custer • (ss)
• Peace on Coolidge Drive • Cathryn Grant • (ss)
• Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Most Men • John Whitbourn • (ss)
• Peace to Her Bitter Bones • J. Birney Dibble • (nv)
• Peace, Quiet & Calamity • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Peaceable Kingdom • Jon Cohen • (ss)
• Peacekeeper • Alan Heathcock • (ss)
• The Peacemakers • Hal Charles • (vi)
• Peach • R. Paul Gannon • (ss)
• Peach Jam • Gladys Mitchell • (ss)
• A Peach of a Shot • Daniel Stashower • (ss)
• The Peach Pit Angel • Edward C. Lynskey • (ss)
• Peacock House • Eden Phillpotts • (nv)
• The Peacock’s Feather • Celia Fremlin • (ss)
• Peanut and Shadow • Amanda Cross • (ss)
• A Pearl at Pampatar • T. S. Stribling • (ss)
• Pearl from Ipanema • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Pearl McGuire’s Plaything • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Pearler • Cheryl Rogers • (ss)
• Pearls and Colored Stones • Gregor Robinson • (ss)
• Pearls for a Life • Norman de la Rue • (ss)