Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Problem of the Phantom Parlor • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Pilgrims Windmill • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Pink Post Office • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Poisoned Pool • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Potting Shed • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Protected Farmhouse • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Purple Maculas • James C. Iraldi • (nv)
• The Problem of the Revival Tent • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Scarecrow Congress • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Sealed Bottle • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Secret Passage • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Shepherd’s Ring • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Snowbound Cabin • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Stolen Rubens • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
• The Problem of the Thor Bridge • Arthur Conan Doyle • (nv)
• The Problem of the Thunder Room • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Tin Goose • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Traveler’s Tale • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Two Birthmarks • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Unfinished Painting • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Unfound Door • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Vanishing Salesman • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Voting Booth • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Whispering House • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Problem of the Yellow Wallpaper • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Problem Plumbing • Lance Zarimba • (ss)
• The Problem Solver and the Spy • Christopher Anvil • (ss)
• The Problem with the Pigs • George C. Chesbro • (ss)
• A Problem-Solving Breed • Melanie Lawrence • (ss)
• Problems Solved • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Procedure • Adrian Magson • (ss)
• Process of Elimination • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• A Process of Rehabilitation • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• The Prodigal • J. A. Jance • (ss)
• Prodigal Grandson • Elizabeth Byrd • (ss)
• Prodigal Son • Mike Graham • (ss)
• The Prodigal Son • Ralph McInerny • (ss)
• Prodigal Son • Lewis Shiner • (ss)
• Prodigy Shamus • Mack Reynolds • (ss)
• The Professional • Guy Belleranti • (pm)
• The Professional • Sean Doolittle • (ss)
• The Professional • Ruth Rendell • (ss)
• Professional Courtesy • Herschel Cozine • (ss)
• Professional Killer • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Professional Man • David Goodis • (nv)
• Professional Opinion • Iain Rowan • (ss)
• A Professional Recall • Rex Stout • (ss)
• Professional Riposte • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• Professional Touch • Bob Tippee • (ss)
• The Professional Touch • Eustace Ware • (ss)
• Professionals • Keith N. Brooke • (ss)
• The Professionals • Brian Clemens • (ss)
• The Professor and The Valley of Fear • B. M. Castner • (ss)
• Professor Kaa’s Doorway • Peter O’Donnell • (ss)
• Professor Kreller’s Secret • Ingram Meyer • (ss)
• Professor Pownall’s Oversight • H. Russell Wakefield • (ss)
• Professor Wilkins Chances the Yard • Robert Eustace & Edgar Jepson • (ss)
• The Professor, the Rat, and the Empty Store • John Hulme • (ss)
• Profile of Phyllis Whitney and Lillian Jackson Braun • Lisa D. Williamson • (bg)
• Profile: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine • Paul Taublieb • (ar)
• Profit Without Honor • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• The Profiteer • Anne Perry • (ss)
• The Profiteers • H. C. Bailey • (nv)
• The Prognosis for This Patient Is Horrible • Berton Rouéché • (ss)
• Programmed for Murder • James Melville • (ss)
• Project Mushroom • Julie Smith • (ss)
• Project-GLD • Wilma Bednarz & J. Primeau • (ss)
• The Projected Death of Tickety-Boo • John Mortimer • (ss)
• Prom Night • D. J. Bart • (ss)
• Promise • John Harvey • (ss)
• A Promise Made • David K. Harford • (ss)
• The Promise Squad • Brendan DuBois • (nv)
• The Promised Land • Sharan Newman • (ss)
• Promises Made and Broken • Christine Matthews • (nv)
• Promises To Keep • Marti Rae • (ss)
• Promo Kill • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• The Promotion • Larry D. Sweazy • (ss)
• Promotion Notion • Dixie J. Whitted • (pm)
• The Proof • John Cecil Moore • (ss)
• The Proof Is in the Patch • Jane Isenberg • (na)
• Proof Negative • Morris Hershman • (ss)
• Proof of Guilt • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• The Proof of the Pudding • Rhys Bowen • (nv)
• The Proof of the Pudding • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• A Proper Burial • Barbara Collins • (ss)
• A Proper Environment • James McKimmey • (ss)
• The Property of a Lady • Ian Fleming • (nv)
• Prophets Who Cannot Sing • Michelle Knowlden • (nv)
• Proportionate Response • Jeremiah Healy • (na)
• The Proposal • John M. Floyd • (ss)
• The Proposition • Amanda Cross • (ss)
• A Proposition He Could Not Refuse • Jane Beckman • (ss)
• Pros and Cons • Donna Moore • (ss)
• Prose Bowl • Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• The Prosecutor of DuPrey • David Vaughn • (ss)
• Prospectus on Death • John Lutz • (ss)
• Prosperity Restaurant • S. J. Rozan • (nv)
• Protection • Erle Stanley Gardner • (ss)
• The Protection Racket • Dick Francis • (ss)
• Protective Custody • Norman Struber • (ss)
• The Protector • Fred Schiller • (ss)
• ProtectVision • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• Proud Mary • Harriet Rzetelny • (ss)
• Provenance • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Provenance • Liz Holliday • (nv)
• The Provenance of Death • D. L. Richardson • (nv)
• The Proverbial Murder • John Dickson Carr • (nv)
• Providence Will Provide • Thelma C. Sokoloff • (ss)
• The Providers • Virginia Long • (ss)
• Proving It • Andrew H. Vachss • (ss)
• Provocation • Celia Fremlin • (ss)
• The Prowler • Patrick Scaffetti • (ss)
• Proxime Accessit • Reginald Hill • (ss)
• Prussian Snowdrops • Marion Arnott • (nv)
• Prying Eyes • Michael A. Black • (ss)
• The Prying Investigations of Edwin M. Lillibridge • Robert M. Price • (ss)
• Psalm for a Dead Disciple • Edward Marston • (nv)
• Pseudo Identity • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• The Psychic • Tim Myers • (ss)
• Psycho Killer • Ed Chase • (ss)
• Psycho Santa’s Got a Brand-New Bag • Deborah Adams • (ss)
• Psycho Sherlock Meets Watson’s Ghost • Linda K. Wright • (ar)
• Psychofemmes • Melissa Mia Hall • (nv)
• The Psychologist • Margery Allingham • (ss)
• Psychopath • Edward A. Dieckmann • (nv)
• Psychopath • Carol Ann Duffy • (pm)
• The Psychopath • Gilbert Schechtman • (ss)
• The Public Defender • Richard M. Horowitz • (ss)
• Public Enemies • Clayton Maxwell • (cs)
• Public Nudity • Jeff Crow • (ss)
• Public Servant • Max Allan Collins • (ss)
• A Public Service • Janet Fox • (vi)
• A Public Service • David Williams • (nv)
• Public Trouble • Kent Nelson • (ss)
• Publication History • Misc. Material • (bi)
• Publicity • Margery Allingham • (nv)
• Publicity for the Corpse • Charles S. Montanye • (nv)
• Publicity Stunts • Sara Paretsky • (ss)
• A Publisher’s Dream • Phil Lovesey • (ss)
• Publisher’s Preface • Anonymous • (pr)
• Publisher’s Preface • Misc. Material • (pr)
• Puddle • Arthur Porges • (ss)
• The Puddle Diver • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• Pudgygate • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • (ss)
• The Pueblo Tomb • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Puerto Rican Blues • Clark Howard • (ss)
• Puff the Magic Dragon • Michael W. Masters • (nv)
• The Pulcinella Pastiche • Isak Romun • (ss)
• Pulling Strings • Percy Spurlark Parker • (ss)
• Pulling the Wool • Michael Boback • (ss)
• The Pullman Car Murder • Harry Adler • (n.)
• The Pullman Case • John M. Floyd • (ss)
• Pulp Art Covers • Misc. Material • (ar)
• The Pulp Artist’s Wife • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Pulp Connection • Bill Pronzini • (ss)
• Pulp Fiction • Nancy Sweetland • (ss)
• Pulp Pioneer of the Private Eye (Carroll John Daly) • William F. Nolan • (ar)
• The Pulpbook Detective’s Wife • Dana M. Anderson • (ss)
• The Pulque Vendor • Hal Ellson • (ss)
• The Pun Detective & the Danny Boy Killer • Jon L. Breen • (vi)
• Punch Drunk • Garrett Russell • (ss)
• The Punchboards • Henry T. Parry • (ss)
• Puncture Point • Peter Turnbull • (ss)
• Punishment • Stuart M. Kaminsky • (ss)
• Punishment for a Gypsy • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Punishment to Fit the Crime • Robert L. Fish • (ss)
• Punishment to Fit the Crime • Michael Hervey • (ss)
• Punk • Ken Bruen • (ss)
• The Puppet • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • (ss)
• A Puppydog’s Tale • B. Newton • (nv)
• Puppyland • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• The Purchester Instrument • M. P. Shiel • (ss)
• The Pure Essence • John Whitworth • (pm)
• A Pure Kind of Life • William T. Lowe • (nv)
• Pure Magic • John F. Dobbyn • (ss)
• Pure Products • Daniel Buckman • (ss)
• Pure Rotten • John Lutz • (ss)
• The Purification of Rodney Spelvin • P. G. Wodehouse • (nv)
• The Purist • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• The Purity of the Turf • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Purloined Butter • John Sladek • (vi)
• Purloined Letter • Richard Connolly • (qz)
• The Purloined Letter • Edgar Allan Poe • (nv)
• The Purloined Parvati and Other Artefacts • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• The Purloined Purple Pearl • Dorothy Cannell • (nv)
• The Purloined Treasures • Cliona O’Ceallaigh & Eleanor Sullivan • (ss)
• Purpa Traitor • John M. Floyd • (pm)
• The Purple Death • William Le Queux • (ss)
• The Purple Death • Scott Morgan • (na)
• The Purple Emperor • Robert W. Chambers • (nv)
• The Purple Is Everything • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • (ss)
• The Purple Jewel • G. K. Chesterton • (nv)
• The Purple Line • John Rhode • (ss)
• The Purple Shirts • C. K. M. Scanlon • (na)
• The Purple Shroud • Joyce Harrington • (ss)
• The Purple Wig • G. K. Chesterton • (nv)
• Purrz, Baby • Vicki Hendricks • (ss)
• The Purse Murders • Percy Spurlark Parker • (ss)
• The Pursuit of the Nonexistent • Mark SaFranko • (ss)
• Pusan Nights • Martin Limón • (ss)
• Push Comes to Shove • Nathan Walpow • (ss)
• Pushed or Was Fell • Jay Brandon • (ss)
• The Pushover • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• Pussy Galore • Liz Evans • (ss)
• Put Out the Light; or, The Napoleon of Science • P. M. Carlson • (nv)
• Put Yourself in My Place • Clark Howard • (ss)
• Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife • Cynthia Ozick • (ss)
• Puttin’ On the Ritz • Kerry Greenwood & Jenny Pausacker • (ss)
• Putting Crime Over • Hulbert Footner • (ss)
• Putting It on the Line • Robert Twohy • (nv)
• Putting It Right • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Putting On the Brakes • Dorothy Belle Pollack • (pm)