Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

PHILLIPS, EDWARD O(ppenshaw) (1931- ) (chron.)

• * Horse Show, (ss) Quarry 40th Anniversary Issue 1991
  • Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992

PHILLIPS, GARY (Douglas) (1955- ) (books) (chron.)

• * ’53 Buick, (nv) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2000
• * The Accomplice, (nv) Creature Cozies, ed. Jill Morgan, Berkley Prime Crime 2005
• * Beginner’s Luck, (ss) Shades of Black, ed. Eleanor Taylor Bland, Prime Crime 2004
• * Boom, Boom, (ss) New Mystery v6 #1 1998
• * Branded [Ivan Monk], (ss) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001
• * Chatter, (ss)
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005
• * Dead Man’s Shadow, (ss) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• * Disco Zombies, (ss) The Cocaine Chronicles, ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon, Akashic Books 2005
• * Hollywood Spring and Axle, (ss) The Mighty Johns, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• * House of Tears, (ss) Murdaland #1 2007
• * The Measure, (ss) The Blue and the Gray Undercover, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * The Raiders, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• * Roger Crumbler Considered His Shave, (nv) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Neal Pollack, Akashic Books 2007
• * The Sleeping Detective [Ivan Monk], (nv) Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Stone Cold Killah, (nv) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• * The Man for the Job, (ss)
  • Dublin Noir, ed. Ken Bruen, Akashic Books 2006

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• * The PWG Interview with Gary Phillips, (iv) Plots with Guns Sep/Oct 2001

PHILLIPS, JAMES ATLEE (1915-1991) (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview with James Altee Phillips” by Francis M. Nevins, Jr., (iv) Espionage Magazine Nov 1985

PHILLIPS, JOHN; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * Too Many Killers, (ss) Private Detective Stories Mar 1939

PHILLIPS, JOHN RANDOLPH (chron.)

• * Curtains for Kelly, (ss) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 25 1938
  • 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

PHILLIPS, LOUIS B. (chron.)

• * The Body Snatchers, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1990
• * Dial N for Nonsense, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1990, Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1991
• * Hitchcock’s Saboteur, (ar) The Armchair Detective Sum 1991

PHILLIPS, MARTI (chron.)

• * Wildfire!, (nv) Southern Nights, ed. Anon., Southern Star Publishing 2001

PHILLIPS, MEREDITH (Bowen) (1943- ) (chron.)

• * The Uneasy Chair, (ed) The Armchair Detective Fll 1990

PHILLIPS, MIKE; [i.e., Michael A. Phillips] (1946- ); see pseudonym Joe Canzius (chron.)

• * Personal Woman [Samson Dean], (nv) Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. Paula L. Woods, Doubleday 1995
• * The Strange Tale of Hector’s Angel, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002

PHILLIPS, REYNOLDS (chron.)

• * A Grave Mistake, (ss) EQMM Nov 1989
• * The Only Good Umpire, (ss) AHMM Dec 1990

PHILLIPS, ROG; pseudonym of Roger Philip Graham, (1909-1965) (chron.)

• * The Egg Head, (ss) AHMM Aug 1961
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1962 (b), ed. Lisa Belknap, Davis 1962

PHILLIPS, SCOTT (1961- ) (chron.)

• * Chow Killers, (ss)
  • Plots with Guns: A Noir Anthology, ed. Anthony Neil Smith, Dennis McMillan 2005
• * The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones, (ss) Los Angeles Noir, ed. Neal Pollack, Akashic Books 2007
• * Sockdolager, (ss) Measures of Poison, ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan 2002
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2003, ed. Michael Connelly, Houghton Mifflin 2003

PHILLIPS, TONY; house pseudonym (chron.)

• * This Dame Is Vicious!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957

PHILLPOTTS, EDEN (1862-1960) (chron.)

• * Grey Lady Drive, (ss)
  • Great British Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century, ed. Anon., The Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library 1990
• * The Iron Pineapple, (ss) Peacock House and Other Mystery Stories, London: Hutchinson 1926
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994
• * Peacock House, (nv) Peacock House and Other Mystery Stories, London: Hutchinson 1926
  • Great Tales of Terror, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1991
• * Prince Charlie’s Dirk, (na) The London Magazine 1926
  • Vintage Detective Stories, ed. Mike Higgs, London: Galley Press 1987

PHIPPS, HELENE JUAREZ (chron.)

• * A Margarita Without Salt, (ss) EQMM Aug 1986
• * Running Lovers, (ss) EQMM Jul 1985

PHYSICK, EDWARD HAROLD (1878-1972); see pseudonym E. H. Visiak (chron.)

PI, TONY (chron.)

• * Dynamics of a Hanging, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2005

PICCIARELLI, PATRICK (1946- ) (chron.)

• * The Debt, (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

PICCIRILLI, TOM; [i.e., Thomas Edward Piccirilli] (1965- ) (chron.)

• * At One Stride Comes the Dark, (ss) Crimewave #3 2000
• * Diamond Mozzarella, (ss) Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000
• * Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer, (ss) Cat Crimes Through Time, ed. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, Carroll & Graf 1999
• * Ribbons Across 117th, (ss) Hardboiled #22 1996
• * The Serpent Was More Subtle, (ss) Future Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW 1999
• * Water Wears the Stones, (ss) The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies, Marietta Publishing 1997
  • Crimewave #2 1999

PICIULLO, LOU (chron.)

• * Loner Donor, (pm) EQMM Sep 1991
• * What Goes Around, (pm) EQMM Jul 1991

PICKARD, NANCY (J.) (1945- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Afraid All the Time, (ss) Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1989
  • Afraid All the Time, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1992
  • Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
  • Crimes of Passion, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1994
  • Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1997
  • A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, ed. Elizabeth George, HarperCollins 2004
• * Afraid of the Dark, (nv) The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark, Pocket 2000
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * The Book of Truth [Marie Lightfoot], (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006
• * The Dead Past, (ss) Mystery Scene Oct 1989
  • Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1992
  • Dark Crimes 2, ed. Ed Gorman, Carroll & Graf 1993
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Dr. Couch Saves a Bird, (ss) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• * Dr. Couch Saves a Cat, (ss) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
  • Felonious Felines, ed. Carol & Ed Gorman, Five Star 2000
• * Dr. Couch Saves a President, (ss) White House Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cumberland House 2002
• * Dust Devil, (ss) The Armchair Detective Win 1991
  • The Eyes Still Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1996
  • Vengeance Is Hers, ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins, Signet 1997
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Every Wednesday (A Novel Idea for a Short Story), (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
• * Fat Cat, (ss) Cat Crimes III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
  • A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
• * The First Ladies’ Secret, (ss) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• * I, Witness, (ss) AHMM Dec 1987
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Home Sweet Homicide, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Walker 1991
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Women on the Edge, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine 1992
  • The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
  • Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• * It Had to Be You, (nv) Marilyn: Shades of Blonde, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1997
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * It’s in a Cat’s Nature to Kill, (ss) Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Joy Ride, (ss) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006
• * Lady Finch-Waller Regrets, (ss) Funny Bones, ed. Joan Hess, Signet 1997
• * Lazy Susan, (ss) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
  • American Crime Stories, ed. John Escott, Oxford Bookworms 2001
• * Love’s Cottage, (ss) The Plot Thickens, ed. Mary Higgens Clark, Pocket 1997
• * Lucky Devil, (ss) Malice Domestic 10, Nevada Barr, Avon 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002
• * Malicious Donesticus, (in) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
• * A Man Around the House, (ss) EQMM Dec 2 1981
  • Tales of Obsession, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1994
• * Nine Points for Murder, (ss) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999
• * Old Eyes, (nv) EQMM Apr 2002
• * Out of Africa, (nv) Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder, ed. Nancy Pickard, Berkley 1999
• * The Potluck Supper Murders, (ss) Murder, They Wrote, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Elizabeth Foxwell, Boulevard Books 1997
• * The Private Life of a Private Eye, (ss) Lethal Ladies II, Christine Matthews & Robert J. Randisi, Berkley 1998
• * The Richard Parker Coincidence, (ss) EQMM Dec 2006
• * A Rock and a Hard Place, (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
  • Crime After Crime, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, St. Martin’s 1999
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * The Scar, (ss) A Woman’s Eye, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1991
• * Sex and Violence, (ss) Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime 1992
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1993, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1993
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Show and Tell, (in)
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Sign of the Times, (ss) Malice Domestic 3, Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1994
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fourth Annual Edition, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1995
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Speak No Evil, (ss) For Crime Out Loud, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Niagara Falls, NY: Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd. 1995
  • EQMM Mar 1997
  • Cutting Edge, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • Unholy Orders, ed. Serita Stevens, Columbine 2000
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Storm Warnings, (ss) Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1990
  • Afraid All the Time, Pulphouse/Mystery Scene Press 1992
  • The Best of Sisters in Crime, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Reader’s Digest 1998
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Tea for Two, (ss) Love and Death, ed. Carolyn Hart, Berkley Prime Crime 2001
• * There Is No Crime on Easter Island, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2005
  • The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2007
• * Valentine’s Night, (nv) Crimes of the Heart, ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley 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
  • Storm Warnings, International Polygonics, Ltd. 2002
• * Verdict, (ss) Diagnosis Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket 1999
• * Why Housekeeping and Writers Don’t Mix, (aw) Deadly Housewives, ed. Christine Matthews, Avon 2006

PICKENS, CATHY (chron.)

• * Uncommon Law, (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994

PICKER, LENNY (chron.)

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• * Booked & Printed, (br) AHMM Jan/Feb, Jul/Aug 2004

PICKTHALL, MARJORIE L(owry) C(hristie) (?-1922) (chron.)

• * Luck, (ss) The Pall Mall Magazine 1913
  • Secret Tales of the Arctic Trails, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1997

PIERCE, DAVID (1960- ) (chron.)

• * Dr. Woorley’s Black Bag, (ss) EQMM Oct 1989
• * For Better or Else, (ss) EQMM Mar 1991
• * How to Murder Your Spouse, (ss) AHMM Apr 1988
• * The Key Ring, (ss) EQMM mid-Dec 1989
• * Like Father, or Else, (vi) EQMM Nov 1988
• * The Median Life, (ss) AHMM Jun 1988
• * Mel’s Rent-All, (ss) AHMM Aug 1987
• * A Romantic Murder, (ss) AHMM Jul 1988
• * Rosie’s Last Stand, (ss) EQMM Aug 1989
• * Somewhere Else, (ss) EQMM Aug 1988

PIERCE, DAVID M. (1932- ); see pseudonym "Milton" (chron.)

• * P.I. to the Stars, (ss) EQMM Apr 1996
• * Plane Common Sense, (ss) The Armchair Detective Spr 1993

PIERCE, FRANK; pseudonym of Frank B. Bryning, (1907- ) (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Taken!, (vi) AHMM May 2006

PIKE, B. A. (chron.)

• * Agatha’s Stories, (ar) The Armchair Detective Win 1991
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Darings of the Red Rose, Margery Allingham, Crippen & Landru 1995
  • The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing, Helen McCloy, Crippen & Landru 2003

PIKE, EARL C. (chron.)

• * The Magician’s Wife, (ss) Whiskey Island Sum/Fll 1997

PIKE, SUE (books) (chron.)

• * Boarding School Reach, (ss) Bloody Words: the anthology, ed. Caro Soles & Cheryl Freedman, Baskerville Books 2003
• * Final Jeopardy, (ss) EQMM Dec 2000
• * Flashback, (ss) EQMM Aug 2005
• * Still Waters, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• * A Temporary Crown, (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005
  • Best American Mystery Stories 2006, ed. Scott Turow, Houghton Mifflin 2006
  • The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 2007
• * Widow’s Weeds, (ss) Cottage Country Killers, ed. Vicki Cameron & Linda Wiken, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House 1997
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999

PILKINGTON, MARK (chron.)

• * She’ll Ride a White Horse, (ss) London Noir, ed. Cathi Unsworth, Akashic Books 2006; (Dalston).