Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

PALMER, STUART (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Snafu Murder [Hildegarde Withers], (ss) EQMM Nov 1945; also as “The Riddle of the Snafu Murder”.

PALMIERI, MARCO (chron.)

• * Best of All [Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of the Joker, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1990
  • Legends of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1997

PALUMBO, DENNIS (Joseph) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * The Smart Guys Marching Society, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996

PANGBORN, ARDEN X. (chron.)

• * The House of Doom, (ss) The Mysterious Wu Fang Feb 1936
  • High Adventure #47 1999

PANGBORN, EDGAR (1909-1976) (chron.)

• * Mrrrar!, (ss) EQMM Jul 1953
  • Mystery Cats 3, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1995
  • Feline Felonies, ed. Abigail Browning, Galahad Books 2001

PANZRAN, CARL; pseudonym of Albert F. Nussbaum, (1935-1996) (chron.)

• * Counselor at Law, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1981

PAPAZOGLOU, ORANIA (1951- ); see pseudonym Jane Haddam (chron.)

PARETSKY, JEREMY L. (chron.)

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• * Only a Woman, by Amel Benaboura, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996

PARETSKY, SARA (1947- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Acid Test, (nv) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * At the “Century of Progress” [“Murder at the ‘Century of Progress’”], (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999
  • Mysterious Pleasures, ed. Martin Edwards, London: Little, Brown 2003
• * At the Old Swimming Hole [V.I. Warshawski], (nv) Mean Streets, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1986
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • Lethal Ladies, Nancy Collins & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1996
  • Crime Story Collection, ed. John Turvey & Celia Turvey, Longman 1998
  • The Fifth Grave and Other Terrifying Tales of Homicide in the Heartland, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1998
• * Author’s Note, (pr)
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
• * The Case of the Pietro Andromache [V.I. Warshawski], (nv) AHMM Dec 1988; also as “The Pietro Andromache”.
  • Under the Gun, ed. Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi & Martin H. Greenberg, NAL 1990
  • Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1991
  • Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
  • The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, ed. Otto Penzler, Dove Books 1998
  • A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins 2004
• * Dealer’s Choice [Philip Marlowe], (ss) Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, Knopf 1988
  • New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton 1993
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000
• * Eye of a Woman, (in) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
• * Freud at Thirty Paces, (ss) 1st Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1992
  • The Armchair Detective Sum 1993
• * Grace Notes [V.I. Warshawski], (na) Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1996
  • Mystery’s Most Wanted, ed. Anon., St. Martin’s 1997
  • Sleuths of the Century, ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 2000
  • A Century of Noir, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, New American Library 2002
• * The Great Tetsuji, (ss) 3rd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin & Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994
• * Heartbreak House, (ss) Murder for Love, ed. Otto Penzler, Delacorte 1996
  • MHCMM Sum/Fll 1997
  • A Century of Great Suspense Stories, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley 2001
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
• * Introduction: A Walk on the Wild Side: Touring Chicago with V.I. Warshawski, (in) Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
• * Lily and the Sockeyes, (ss) The Third WomanSleuth Anthology, ed. Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1990
  • No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
• * The Maltese Cat [V.I. Warshawski], (nv) Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Bad Behavior, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Gulliver 1995
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
  • Most Wanted, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2002
• * The Man Who Loved Life, (ss) New Chicago Stories, City Stoop Press 1990
  • Reader, I Murdered Him, Too, ed. Helen Windrath, Women’s Press 1995
• * Memories of a Mad Housewife, (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * Murder at the “Century of Progress”, (ss) MHCMM Sum 1999; also as “At the "Century of Progress"”.
• * Photo Finish [V.I. Warshawski], (ss) MHCMM Sum 2000
  • A New Omnibus of Crime, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 2005
• * The Pietro Andromache [“The Case of the Pietro Andromache”; V.I. Warshawski], (nv) AHMM Dec 1988
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
• * Publicity Stunts, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
  • Crime After Crime, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, St. Martin’s 1999
• * Settled Score [V.I. Warshawski], (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
• * Skin Deep [V.I. Warshawski], (ss) The New Black Mask No.8, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ 1987
  • P.I. Files, ed. Loren D. Estleman & Martin H. Greenberg, Ivy 1990
  • Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • A Century of Mystery 1980-1989, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, MJF Books 1997
  • Women of Mystery III, ed. Kathleen Halligan, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * Strung Out [V.I. Warshawski], (nv) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
• * The Takamoku Joseki [V.I. Warshawski], (ss) AHMM Jan 1984
  • Women of Mystery, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Sisters in Crime 5, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1992
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • First Cases, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Dutton 1996
  • Win, Lose or Die, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Carroll & Graf 1996
  • The Orion Book of Murder, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006
• * A Taste of Life, (ss) Reader, I Murdered Him, ed. Alison Hennegan, St. Martin’s 1989
  • Opening Shots, ed. Lawrence Block, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
• * Three-Dot Po [V.I. Warshawski], (ss) The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press 1984
  • Windy City Blues, Delacorte 1995
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview with Sara Paretsky” by J. Alec West, (iv) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
• * “Trouble Is Her Business: Sara Paretsky” by Catherine M. Nelson, (iv) The Armchair Detective Sum 1991

PARGETER, EDITH (Mary) (1913-1995); see pseudonym Ellis Peters (books) (chron.)

• * The Duchess and the Doll, (ar) The Uncertain Element, ed. Kay Dick, London: Jarrolds 1950
  • The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1995

PARIS, JACK; pseudonym of Peter Sellers, (1956- ) (chron.)

• * Bush Fever, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990

PARISEAU, PERRY E. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ When in Rome..., (vi) AHMM Apr 1991

PARK, MAEVA (chron.)

• * Trouble on the Cable, (ss) AHMM Feb 1962
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

PARKELL, E. B. (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Gargoyle, (vi) AHMM Sep 1995
  ___ Sweet Revenge, (vi) AHMM Sep 1993

PARKER, BARBARA (J.) (1947- ) (chron.)

• * Machete, (ss) Miami Noir, ed. Les Standiford, Akashic Books 2006

PARKER, DOROTHY (1893-1967) (chron.)

• * The Waltz, (ss) (Senior) Scholastic Mar 23 1935
  • Lying Cheating & Stealing, ed. Sara Nicklès, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books 1997

PARKER, [Sir] (Horatio) GILBERT (1862-1932) (chron.)

• * The Flood [Pretty Pierre], (ss) Pierre and His People, Methuen 1892
  • Crime Where the Nights Are Long, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Toronto: Simon & Pierre 1999

PARKER, I. J. (chron.)

• * Akitada’s First Case [Sugawara Akitada], (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 1999
• * The Curio Dealer’s Wife, (ss) AHMM Nov 1997
• * Death and Cherry Blossoms [Sugawara Akitada], (nv) AHMM Jun 2002
• * Instruments of Murder, (ss) AHMM Oct 1997
• * The Kamo Horse [Sugawara, Akitada], (nv) AHMM Oct 2003
• * A Master of Go, (ss) AHMM Dec 1998
• * Moon Cakes, (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2007
• * The New Year’s Gift [Sugawara Akitada], (ss) AHMM Apr 2001
• * The O-Bon Cat [Sugawara Akitada], (nv) AHMM Feb 2003
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, ed. Linda Landrigan, Pegasus Books 2006
• * Rain at Rashomon, (ss) AHMM Jan 2000
• * The Tanabata Magpie, (nv) AHMM Sep 2005
• * Welcoming the Paddy God [Sugawara Akitada], (ss) AHMM Dec 2001

_____, [ref.]

• * Conversation with I.J. Parker, (iv) AHMM Oct 2003

PARKER, JAMES REID (1909-1984) (chron.)

• * The Most Outrageous Consequences, (ss) 1941
  • Legal Fictions, ed. Jay Wishingrad, Overlook 1992

PARKER, JOAN H. (chron.)

• * Galahad, Inc. (with Robert B. Parker), (ss) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006

PARKER, KAREN; also as Karen Skowron (chron.)

• * Camp Affair, (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• * Chet and Emily: A Strange Silence, (ss) AHMM Jul 1990
• * Summer Notes, (ss) AHMM May 1989
  • Murder on Main Street, ed. Cynthia Manson, New York: Barnes & Noble 1993
• * With the Best of Intentions, (ss) AHMM Jul 1989

PARKER, PERCY SPURLARK (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Belfrey’s Bats, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1983
• * The Confessor, (vi) The Strand Magazine #1 1998
• * The Cousin Noose, (ss) EQMM Dec 1998
• * Crossword for Murder, (ss) EQMM Dec 1996
• * Death Affair, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine May 1983
• * Death and the Point Spread, (ss) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• * A Favorable Murder, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004
• * Gift Horse, (ss) AHMM Nov 2004
• * The Hell Book [Bull Bensen], (ss) EQMM Apr 2003
• * It Could Be Murder, (nv) AHMM Jul/Aug 2006
• * The Kitty Cat Murders, (ss) Fedora: Private Eyes and Tough Guys, ed. Michael Bracken, Wildside Press 2001
• * The Knack, (vi) Espionage Magazine Dec 1984
• * Lady Luck, (ss) AHMM Mar 26 1980
• * The Last Laught, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Aug 1981
• * The Laundromat Affair, (ss) Espionage Magazine Apr 1986
• * Murder Boulevard [Trevor Oaks], (nv) Mystery Street, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2001
• * Night Call, (ss) Hardboiled #2 1985
• * The Pleasant Hills Murders, (ss) EQMM Jun 2001
• * Pulling Strings [Bull Bensen], (ss) EQMM Aug 2000
• * The Purse Murders, (ss) AHMM May 21 1980
• * Randy Sea: Private Eye, (ss) AHMM Nov 1982
• * Randy Sea: The Prime Suspect, (ss) AHMM Jan 1984
• * Recruitment, (ss) Hardboiled #5 1986
• * Seaman Jack’s, (vi) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986
• * Second Thought, (ss) EQMM Nov 2001
• * The Split, (ss) AHMM Dec 15 1980
• * Spy Biz, (ss) Espionage Magazine May 1987
• * Stacked Deck [Bull Bensen], (nv) AHMM Dec 2003
• * Thy Brother’s Keeper, (ss) AHMM May 1982
• * Uncle Harold, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 2004
• * The Vampire Man, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1980
• * Weren’t You Todd Jarvis?, (ss) EQMM May 2000
• * The Wino Murder [Bull Bensen], (ss) Mirror, Mirror, Fatal Mirror, ed. Hans Stefan Santesson 1973
  • AHMM Mar 31 1982; slightly revised.
• * Woman at the Window, (ss) EQMM Jun 2002
• * Word of Mouth, (ss) EQMM Jan 2000

PARKER, ROBERT (Bogardus) (1906-1955) (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, ed. Byron Preiss, ibooks 1999

PARKER, ROBERT B(rown) (1932- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Galahad, Inc. (with Joan H. Parker), (ss) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• * Harlem Nocturne, (ss) Murderers’ Row, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2001
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2002, ed. James Ellroy, Houghton Mifflin 2002
• * Introduction, (in)
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, ed. Robert B. Parker, Mariner Books 1997
• * Surrogate [Spenser], (ss) Lord John Press: Northridge, CA 1982
  • New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991

_____, [ref.]

• * “A Catcher in the Rye: Robert B. Parker’s P.I. Spencer” by Barry Donnelly, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1990
• * “An Interview with Robert B. Parker” by J. Alec West, (iv) Murderous Intent Spr 1999

PARKER, ROBIN KENDLE (chron.)

• * Pay Up Time, (vi) Murderous Intent Spr 1996

PARKER, T. JEFFERSON (1953- ) (chron.)

• * Easy Street, (nv) ASAP Press 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001

PARKER, TONY (chron.)

• * from Life After Life, (ex) 1990
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

PARKINSON, JIM (chron.)

• * Double Exposure, (ss) Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards, Countyvise 1998

PARKMAN, SYDNEY M(uller) (1895-?) (chron.)

• * The Cards, (ss)
  • A Century of Thrillers: Second Series, ed. Anon., Daily Express 1935

PARKS, TIM(othy Harold) (1954- ) (chron.)

• * from Loving Roger, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

PARMANTIE, PETER A. (chron.)

• * A Family Affair, (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Sum 1999
• * Full Circle [Joseph Angello], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Dec 2003
• * It’s All in the Delivery [Joseph Angello], (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Feb/Mar 2000