Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Title

• Ribbons Across 117th • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• The Riburi Hat • Carl Jacobi • (ss)
• Rich Man, Poor Man, “G” Man, Thief! • William Corcoran • (ss)
• Rich—or Dead • David A. Heller • (nv)
• The Richard Parker Coincidence • Nancy Pickard • (ss)
• Richard’s Children • Brendan DuBois • (nv)
• Richie’s Eyes • James C. Mitchell • (ss)
• The Richmond Enigma • John DeChancie • (ss)
• Rid Us of the Beast • Sean K. Twyford • (ss)
• The Riddle of Erskine Childers • Charles L. P. Silet • (ar)
• The Riddle of the 5:28 • Thomas W. Hanshew • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Brass Band • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Flea Circus • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Forty Costumes • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Forty Naughty Girls • Stuart Palmer • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Golden Monkeys • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Hanging Men • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Jack of Diamonds • Stuart Palmer • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Marble Blade • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Snafu Murder • Stuart Palmer • (ss)
• Riddle of the Tern • Jackson V. Scholz • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Tired Bullet • Stuart Palmer • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Visiting Angel • David Stuart Davies • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Whirling Lights • Stuart Palmer • (nv)
• The Riddle of the Woolsack • Kathy Lynn Emerson • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Yellow Canary • Stuart Palmer • (ss)
• The Riddle of the Young Protestor • Michael Mallory • (nv)
• Ride a Red Dragon • Mark Coggins • (nv)
• Ride a Red Horse • Dan Crawford • (nv)
• Ride a White Horse • Lawrence Block • (ss)
• Ride Along • James W. Hall • (ss)
• Ride the Lightning • John Lutz • (ss)
• Ride with the Wind • Rufus King • (ss)
• The Rider at the Gate • John Masefield • (pm)
• The Rider in the Dawn • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• Rider of the Skies • George Bruce • (ss)
• Riders in the Sky • Allen M. Steele • (nv)
• The Riders of the Plains • E. Pauline Johnson • (pm)
• The Riding Boy • Terry White • (ss)
• Riding by Moonlight • Duncan Richardson • (ss)
• Rien Ne Va Plus • Raymond Steiber • (ss)
• Riff • Ed Gorman • (ss)
• Rigged to Blow • John Ballem • (ss)
• Right and Wrong • Miss Manners • (ss)
• Right Arm Man • Denise Danks • (ss)
• The Right Bait • Carter Swart • (ss)
• Right Between the Eyes • Barbara Crossley • (ss)
• The Right Call • Alfred A. Blanchard • (ss)
• The Right Call • Brendan DuBois • (nv)
• The Right Horse • Roy B. Frentz • (vi)
• Right Is Right • Gabriel Cohen • (ss)
• The Right Kind of House • Henry Slesar • (ss)
• Right People, Right Places • Bill Crenshaw • (ss)
• The Right Perspective • Ursula Curtiss • (ss)
• The Right Physical Type • William Bankier • (ss)
• A Right Royal Attempt • Ian Morson • (ss)
• The Right Thing • Jerry Marcazzolo • (ss)
• The Right Thing • J. W. Whitehead • (ss)
• The Right Thing to Do • Wendi Lee • (ss)
• The Right Thing to Do • Henry T. Parry • (ss)
• The Right to Sing the Blues • John Lutz • (nv)
• The Right Tool for the Job • Marcus Pelegrimas • (nv)
• The Rightful King of England • Amy Myers • (ss)
• Rigor Beach • Emma Tennant • (ss)
• Rigor Mortis • Stewart Home • (ss)
• Rind Justice • Deborah Lee • (pm)
• The Ring • J. D. Carlson • (ss)
• The Ring • J. K. Thorpe • (ss)
• The Ring in the Sand • Eleanor Daly Boylan • (ss)
• The Ring Murder • Keith Ayling • (ss)
• Ring of Lovers • G. K. Chesterton • (ss)
• Ring of Truth • Elena Santangelo • (ss)
• Ring the Bell Slowly • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Ring with the Velvet Ropes • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Ringer • John Abbott • (ss)
• Ringing the Changes • Jeff Somers • (ss)
• The Ringmaster • Larry K. Wellman • (ss)
• Ringmaster’s Witness • Donna Diamond • (nv)
• Rink Rat No More • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Rio de Janeiro Paper • Reginald Hill • (ss)
• Rio Grande Gothic • David Morrell • (na)
• Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • (ss)
• Ripe for Death • Edie Ramer • (ss)
• The Ripper of Storyville • Edward D. Hoch • (nv)
• The Ripper Prince • James Powell • (ss)
• Ripples in the Stream • Brenda Melton Burnham • (ss)
• The Rise and Fall of Sarah Merrion • Anne Morice • (ss)
• The Rise and Fall of the Detective Pulp Magazine, Part I • Will Murray • (ar)
• The Rise and Fall of the Detective Pulp Magazine, Part II • Will Murray • (ar)
• The Rise of the Vampire • Grace Moore • (ar)
• Rise Up • Terence Faherty • (ss)
• Risico • Ian Fleming • (nv)
• The Rising Tide • D. A. McGuire • (ss)
• Rising Waters • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• Risk of Statistics • Bob Berger • (ss)
• The Risk Profession • Donald E. Westlake • (nv)
• Risk Taking • J. N. Williamson • (ss)
• Rite of Passage • Brian Harper • (nv)
• Rite of Seduction • Maxim Jakubowski • (ss)
• Rites of Autumn • Paul Depuydt • (ss)
• Rites of Spring • Lisa Goldstein • (ss)
• The Ritual of the Bones • John Connolly • (ss)
• The Rival • Helga Anderle • (ss)
• The Rival Poets • E. H. W. Meyerstein • (nv)
• The River • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The River Clyde Mystery • Forest Isaac Jones • (ss)
• The River Market Murders • Kevin Prufer • (ss)
• The River Mouth • Lia Matera • (ss)
• River of Death • Alistair MacLean • (ex)
• River of Ice • Anonymous • (pl)
• Riverboat Fighter • Brian Garfield • (ss)
• The Riverboat Gold Robbery • Bill Pronzini • (nv)
• The River’s Child • Joan S. Richter • (ss)
• Rnsom • John Biguenet • (vi)
• Ro Erg • Robert E. Weinberg • (ss)
• The Roaches in the Walls • James Chambers • (ss)
• The Road • Suzanne Jones • (ss)
• Road Bomb • James H. Cobb • (ss)
• Road Hazard • David Dean • (ss)
• The Road Home • Barbara A. Custer • (ss)
• The Road Home • Dashiell Hammett • (ss)
• Road Kill • Elsin Ann Perry • (ss)
• Road Kill • Zvi A. Sesling • (ss)
• Road Signs • Alan Ormsby • (ss)
• Road Test • Joan Bard Collins • (ss)
• The Road to Damascus • Michael Gilbert • (ss)
• The Road to Memphis • L. A. Wilson, Jr. • (ss)
• Road to Nowhere • Rebecca Hardy Black • (ss)
• The Road to Ste. Agathe • William Bankier • (ss)
• The Road to Stony Creek • Jane M. Lindskold • (nv)
• The Road to Vandricourt • Roger Ellis • (ss)
• The Road Trip • Ann Rule • (nv)
• Road Trip • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• Roadhouse Doll • H. H. Morris • (ss)
• Roadkill • Doug Allyn • (nv)
• Roadkill Poker • Bill Crenshaw • (nv)
• Roads • Philip Friedman • (ss)
• The Road’s End • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• Roads of Destiny • O. Henry • (nv)
• Roadside Attraction • Mark Agee • (ss)
• Roadside Roulette • Maureen Walsh • (ss)
• Rob Kantner • Wayne D. Dundee • (iv)
• The Robber of Wrightsville • Ellery Queen • (ss)
• Robbers of Virtue • Christopher Cook • (ar)
• Robber’s Roost • Max Allan Collins • (nv)
• Robber’s Roost • Loren D. Estleman • (ss)
• The Robbery • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The Robbery • Gregory Mcdonald • (ss)
• Robe to Mandalay • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Robert Hayer’s Dead • Simon Kernick • (ss)
• Robert Wilson’s Instruments of Darkness • Barry Forshaw • (ar)
• Robin Hood’s Race • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Robots of Dawn • Isaac Asimov • (n.)
• The Rock • Frederick Highland • (ss)
• Rock and a Hard Place • Michael Bracken • (ss)
• A Rock and a Hard Place • Nancy Pickard • (ss)
• Rock and Roll—And Kill • Robert Turner • (ss)
• Rock and Roll—and Murder • Harlan Ellison • (ss)
• Rock Creek Park • Edward C. Lynskey • (ss)
• The Rock in the Orange Grove • Mitch Alderman • (nv)
• Rock of Ages • Gillian Linscott • (nv)
• Rock-a-Bye-Baby • Cath Staincliffe • (ss)
• Rockabilly • F. Paul Wilson • (ss)
• Rocket Queen • Amelia G • (ss)
• The Rocking Chair • Christianna Brand • (ss)
• The Rocking-Chair • George Bellairs • (ss)
• The Rocking-Horse Spy • Ted Allbeury • (ss)
• Rocks are Hot • Louis Weadock • (ss)
• Rocky and the Phantom Lady • Dick Stodghill • (ss)
• Rocky Knew • Don Peyer • (pm)
• The Rod • N. S. Dennett • (ss)
• The Rod and the Staff • Donald Wandrei • (vi)
• Roderick Alleyn • Ngaio Marsh • (ar)
• Rodier’s Necklace • Linda Newbery • (ss)
• Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave • Gary Phillips • (nv)
• Roger Malvin’s Burial • Nathaniel Hawthorne • (ss)
• Roger, Mr. Whilkie! • Eric M. Heideman • (ss)
• Rogues’ Gallery • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Rogues in Rags • Barreaux • (gs)
• Rogue’s Run • Donald Olson • (ss)
• Roland the Milkman • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Role Model • Michael Collins • (nv)
• Role Model • Albert F. Nussbaum • (ss)
• The Roll-Call of the Reef • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• Rollin’ • Cerian Griffiths • (ss)
• The Rolling Rock • Geoffrey Hitchcock • (nv)
• Rolling Stones • Robert Olmstead • (ss)
• Rolling the Bones • Tom Savage • (ss)
• Roman Holiday • Talbot Mundy • (na)
• A Roman of No Importance • Elizabeth Foxwell • (ss)
• The Romance Beneath Conan Doyle’s Science • Owen Dudley Edwards • (ar)
• A Romance in the Rockies • K. K. Beck • (nv)
• The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Roman’s Holiday • Margaret B. Maron • (ss)
• The Romantic • Michael A. Pfleger • (pm)
• A Romantic Murder • David Pierce • (ss)
• The Romantic Young Lady • W. Somerset Maugham • (ss)
• The Romanticist • Isak Romun • (ss)
• The Romantics • John Lutz • (nv)
• The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths • (n.)
• Rome to Move • Mat Coward • (ss)
• Romeo and Joliet • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Ron Ellis: Rhythm ’n’ Blues on the Mersey • Eve Tan Gee • (iv)
• A Ron Goulart Mystery Checklist • Ron Goulart • (bi)
• A Ron Goulart Mystery Checklist • Misc. Material • (bi)
• Ronald, D————! • Peter Straub • (nv)
• The Ronnie • K. D. Wentworth • (ss)
• Roo Kill • Garrett Russell • (ss)
• Roofies • James R. Winter • (ss)
• Rooftop • Joe Frabasilio • (ss)
• Rooftop Game • John K. Transier • (vi)
• The Rookie’s Predicament • John F. McLaughlin • (ss)
• The Room • Catherine Laughlin • (ss)
• Room 107 • John R. Turner • (ss)
• Room 408 • P. J. Roberts • (ss)
• Room for a Fourth • Steve Hamilton • (ss)