Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

OURSLER, WILL(iam Charles) (1913-1985) (chron.)

• * Last Deal, (ss) Black Book Detective May 1949

OVENDEN, ALLISON (chron.)

• * Macbeth Revisited, (ss)
  • Menace in the Mulga, ed. Peter Corris, Holland Park, Queensland: Crime Writers Queensland 2000

OVERHOLSER, STEPHEN (1944- ) (chron.)

• * A Slight Error, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #2 1972

OVERN, BUD (chron.)

• * Barnstorming [as by George L. Eaton; Bill Barnes], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 1995
• * Shape of Things to Come [as by George L. Eaton; Bill Barnes], (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 1995

OVID; [i.e., Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 BC-17 AD) (chron.)

• * An Uncle’s Advice [from Metamorphoses], (pm) 1958
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996; tr. by Horace Gregory

OWEN, JOHN (c1928-1995) (chron.)

• * Instruments, (ss) Whydunit, ed. Martin Edwards, Severn House 1997
• * Movie Crazy, (ss) Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards, Countyvise 1998

OWEN, M. G.; pseudonym (chron.)

• * The Snows of Saint Stephen, (ss) Royal Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1999

OWEN, PATRICK (chron.)

• * Spitfire Spy, (ss) Mystery Stories #23 1941
• * Wings in the Shadow, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

OWEN, WILFRED (1893-1918) (chron.)

• * The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, (pm)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

OWENS, AGNES (1926- ) (chron.)

• * Change of Face, (ss) Lean Tales, Cape 1985
  • Something Wicked, ed. Susie Maguire & Amanda Hargreaves, Polygon 1999

OWENS, BARBARA; [i.e., Barbara Owens Weiman] (chron.)

• * All in the Eyes, (ss) EQMM Oct 1993
• * Bad Habits, (ss) EQMM Dec 1994
• * Best Friends, (ss) EQMM Aug 1992
• * The Cloud Beneath the Eaves, (ss) EQMM Jan 1978
  • Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners, ed. Anon., Robert Hale 1992
  • Simply the Best Mysteries, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Dead Ringers, (ss) EQMM Mar 1992
• * Do or Die, (ss) EQMM Feb 1998
• * Dying for Love, (ss) EQMM Jul 1995
• * Footprints, (ss) EQMM Jan 1994
• * The Fruit Cellar, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1997
• * Hard Times, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996
• * How Things Are, (ss) EQMM Dec 1997
• * In a Quiet Neighborhood, (ss) EQMM Jan 1997
• * In My House, (ss) EQMM Feb 2002
• * The Killing of Bull Kirkshaw, (ss) EQMM May 1990
• * A Marty Kind of Guy, (ss) EQMM Sep 1990
• * Mercy’s Killing, (ss) EQMM Jan 1992
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * The Music in His Veins, (ss) EQMM Jan 1 1981
• * Noplace Else to Go, (ss) EQMM Mar 1985
• * On Lookout, (ss) EQMM Mar 1993
• * Personal Debts, (ss) EQMM May 1995
• * A Quiet Pool, (ss) EQMM Jun 2001
• * Silent Witness, (ss) EQMM Nov 1982
• * Teeny Ann, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1992
• * Ties That Bind, (ss) EQMM May 1994
• * Who Killed Wee Winky?, (ss) EQMM Jul 1993
  • Mystery Cats 3, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1995
  • Feline Felonies, ed. Abigail Browning, Galahad Books 2001

OWENS, DAVID (chron.)

• * Evinrude, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Dead Ahead, (vi) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004

OWENS, JOHN J. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Bones of Contention, (vi) AHMM Oct 2006

OWENS, MICHAEL (chron.)

• * The Billboard Killing, (ss) AHMM Sep 1991

OWENS, MIKE (chron.)

• * The Alley, (ss) AHMM Feb 2002
• * The Car in the Woods, (ss) AHMM Apr 1999
• * McGuffy’s House, (ss) AHMM Jun 1997
• * Roses, Rhododendrons, and Ruth, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994

OXENHAM, JOHN; pseudonym of William Dunkerley, (1852-1941) (chron.)

• * Mystery of the Underground, (nv) To-Day Feb 27-Apr 10 1897
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996

OZICK, CYNTHIA (1928- ) (chron.)

• * Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife, (ss) 1982
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992

PACHECO, TOM (chron.)

• * The Cheating Wife, (vi) The Strand Magazine #2 1999
• * Day of Reckoning, (vi) Hardboiled #27/28 2001

PACHTER, JOSH (1951- ); see pseudonym Chas. J. Thorpe (chron.)

• * Annika Andersson (with Stanley Cohen), (ss) EQMM Feb 1993
• * Assignment: Vienna, (nv) Espionage Magazine Nov 1985, Feb 1986
• * Asu, (ss) EQMM Apr 1986
• * The Beer Drinkers, (ss) EQMM Dec 1984
• * Better Safe Than Sorry (with Michael Avallone), (vi) Hardboiled #8 1987
• * Chain Reaction, (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1987
• * The Defenestration of Prague, (nv) Espionage Magazine Jun, Aug 1986
• * The Dilmun Exchange, (ss) EQMM Jul 1984
• * Eighty Million Noses, (ss) Hardboiled #7 1987
• * The Exchange, (ss) EQMM Jun 1986
• * The Germon Cologne Mystery (with Jon L. Breen), (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005; Ellery Queen parody.
• * The Groucho Marx Murders, (ss) Hardboiled #4 1986
• * The Ivory Beast, (nv) Gathering Sum 1991
  • New Mystery v2 #1 1994
• * The Leo’s Den Affair (with Francis M. Nevins, Jr.) [*Dick Tracy], (ss) Dick Tracy: The Secret Files, Max Allan Collins & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor 1990
• * Message from Lowanda, (ss) Espionage Magazine Aug 1985
• * The Night of Power, (ss) EQMM Sep 1986
  • Murder Intercontinental, ed. Cynthia Manson & Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1996
• * The Qatar Causeway, (nv) AHMM Jan 1986
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * The Seven-Year Bitch (with Dan J. Marlowe), (ss) Hardboiled #11 1990
• * Sheikh’s Beach, (ss) Detective Story Magazine Sep 1988
• * The Spy and the Suicide Club (with Edward D. Hoch) [*Jeffrey Rand], (ss) EQMM Jan 1985
• * Stork Trek (with Edward Wellen), (nv) AHMM Jul 1985
• * The Tortoise & Hare, (ss) Espionage Magazine Apr 1986
• * Tree of Life, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1985
• * Won’t You Come Out Tonight? [Kevin Pulaski], (ss) EQMM Mar/Apr 2004

_____, trans.

• * Bloody Hot, by René Appel, (ss) EQMM Aug 2006; originally published in Dutch in Elsevier, 2004.
• * The Red Mercedes, by Theo Capel, (ss) EQMM Jun 2004; first published as “De Rode Auto” in the Dutch edition of Playboy, 1985.

PACK, JANET (chron.)

• * Guardian of Souls, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Impressions, (ss) Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000
• * Money Well Spent, (ss) Mob Magic, ed. Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1998
• * The Secret Staff, (ss) White House Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002

PACKARD, FRANK (Lucius) (1877-1942) (chron.)

• * The Builder, (ss) On the Iron at Big Cloud, New York: Crowell 1911
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994
• * Shanley’s Luck, (ss) The Popular Magazine Dec 15 1910
  • Crime in a Cold-Climate, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1994

PACKER, VIN; pseudonym of Marijane Meaker, (1927- ) (chron.)

• * Hot Snow, (ss) Justice Jan 1956
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Hardboiled #29/30 2003

PADGETT, (Mary) ABIGAIL (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Just Stunning (with Douglas Dennis), (nv) Malice Domestic 8, Margret Maron, Avon 1999

PAGE, GERALD W(ilburn) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Clear and Present Armadillo, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1998
• * Song of the Armadillo, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1983

PAGE, JERRY (chron.)

• * The Beast That Owned a Table, (pm) Pulp Vault #7 1990

PAGE, KATHERINE HALL (1947- ) (chron.)

• * The Body in the Redwoods, (nv) Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997
• * The Would-Be Widower, (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001

PAGE, NORVELL W(ooten) (1904-1961); see pseudonym N. Wooten Poge (chron.)

• * Clue of Courage, (ss) Strange Detective Stories Jan 1934
  • Pulp Review Mar 1994
• * Gallows Ghost, (nv) Ten Detective Aces Sep 1933
  • Pulp Review Sep 1992
• * Slaves of the Crime Master [as by Grant Stockbridge; Richard Wentworth (The Spider)], (n.) The Spider Apr 1935
  • High Adventure #24 1995
• * The Trail of the Snake, (ss) The Masked Rider Western Magazine Feb 1935
  • Action Adventure Stories #51 1999

PAIN, BARRY (Eric Odell) (1864-1928) (chron.)

• * A Considerable Murder, (ss) The Black Cap, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson 1927
  • The Mystery and the Detective, ed. Blanche Colton Williams, Appleton-Century 1938
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Green Light, (ss) Phil May’s Annual Win 1897
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994

PAINTON, FREDERICK C. (1896?-1945) (chron.)

• * The Conquest of America, (n.) Battle Stories Oct 1929 (+4)
  • High Adventure #82 2005

PAIRO, PRESTON, III (1958- ) (chron.)

• * The Magic Search, (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1985

PALKINHORN, HARRY (chron.)

• * Consumimur Igni, (ss)
  • Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border, ed. Leobardo Saravia Quiroz, San Diego State University Press 1996

PALMER, BILL (chron.)

• * Murder, They Said, (ar) New Mystery v2 #1, Win 1994
• * Murder... They Tell Me, (ar) New Mystery v3 #1 1994; reviews of audio-books.

_____, reviews:

• * The Game’s Afoot (with Karen Palmer), (gr) New Mystery v5 #2 1997

PALMER, DANIEL (chron.)

• * Disfigured (with Michael Palmer), (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

PALMER, FRANK (1933-2000) (chron.)

• * Character Witness [Supt. Philip Todd], (ss) City of Crime, ed. David Belbin, Five Leaves Publications 1997

PALMER, JESSICA (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Full Moon Rising, (ss) London Noir, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent’s Tail 1994
• * Just Desserts, (ss) Constable New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1993
• * Lex Talionis, (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
• * Redemption, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992

PALMER, KAREN (chron.)

_____, reviews:

• * The Game’s Afoot (with Bill Palmer), (gr) New Mystery v5 #2 1997

PALMER, LIZ (chron.)

• * Up the Pole, (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997

PALMER, MICHAEL (Stephen) (1942- ) (chron.)

• * Disfigured (with Daniel Palmer), (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

PALMER, (Charles) STUART (Hunter) (1905-1968) (books) (chron.)

• * The Adventure of the Marked Man [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) EQMM Jul 1944
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994
• * Cure for a Headache, (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1961
  • Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3 1960
• * Green Ice [Hildegarde Withers], (ss) The Chicago Tribune Apr 13 1941
  • Scientific Detective Annual 1944
• * Hildegarde Withers Is Back [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) EQMM Apr 1968
  • More Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1994
  • The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• * Once Upon a Train (with Craig Rice) [Hildegarde Withers; John J. Malone], (nv) EQMM Oct 1950
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997
• * The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Jun 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Brass Band [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Mar 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Nov 1933
  • The Fourth Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1959
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Flea Circus [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Dec 1933
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Forty Costumes [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Jan 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Forty Naughty Girls [Hildegarde Withers], (ss) Mystery Jul 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Hanging Men [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Sep 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Jack of Diamonds [Hildegarde Withers], (ss)
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
  • AHMM May 2007
• * The Riddle of the Marble Blade [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Nov 1934
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Snafu Murder [“Snafu Murder”; Hildegarde Withers], (ss) EQMM Nov 1945
  • The Second Book of Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1958
• * The Riddle of the Tired Bullet [Hildegarde Withers], (ss) EQMM Mar 1948
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Whirling Lights [Hildegarde Withers], (nv) Mystery Jan 1935
  • Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * The Riddle of the Yellow Canary [Hildegarde Withers], (ss) Mystery Apr 1934
  • Classic Detective Stories, ed. Anon., London: MQ Publications, Ltd. 1999