Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

RICE, CRAIG (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * The Man Who Swallowed a Horse [“The Dead Mr. Duck”; John J. Malone], (ss) Verdict Aug 1953
  • More Great Tales of Crime & Detection, ed. Peter Haining, Chartwell Books 1994
  • The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• * Murder Marches On [John J. Malone], (ss) Manhunt Dec 1953; also as “The Dead Undertaker”.
• * No, Not Like Yesterday [John J. Malone], (nv) The Saint Detective Magazine Nov 1956
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * Once Upon a Train (with Stuart Palmer) [*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
• * One More Clue [John J. Malone], (nv) Manhunt Apr 1958
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * Quiet Day in the County Jail, (ss) Manhunt Jul 1953
  • More Ms. Murder, ed. Marie Smith, London: Xanadu 1991
• * Say It with Flowers [John J. Malone], (nv) Manhunt Sep 1957
  • American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * Shot in the Dark [John J. Malone], (nv) Manhunt Aug 1955
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * They’re Trying to Kill Me [John J. Malone], (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine Feb 1959
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002
• * Wry Highball [John J. Malone], (ss) EQMM Mar 1959
  • Murder by the Glass, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1994
  • Murder, Mystery and Malone, Crippen & Landru 2002

RICE, JAMES (1843-1882) (chron.)

• * The Case of Mr. Lucraft (with Walter Besant), (nv) The Case of Mr. Lucraft and Other Stories, Sampson Low 1876
  • Murder on the Menu, ed. Peter Haining, New York: Carroll & Graf 1992

RICE, JANE (Dixon) (1913-2003) (chron.)

• * The Crossroads, (nv) AHMM Aug 1985
• * The Last Straw, (ss) AHMM Mar 1985
• * The Misfits, (nv) AHMM Feb 1989
• * The Mystery of the Lion Window, (nv) AHMM Oct 1984

RICE, KANE (chron.)

• * He Wanted a Gun, (ss) Suspense Stories #3 1954

RICH, KIM (chron.)

• * Terminal, (nv) The Mysterious North, ed. Dana Stabenow, Signet 2002

RICHARDS, CHARLOTTE (chron.)

• * The Bell’s Toll, (vi) About Mysteries; Intrigued by an iron dinner bell hanging from a lightning-blased tree, mystery writer Charlie Hanaman’s inquiries led him to a story about the toll of the bell — .
• * The Story That Won:
  ___ A Chair-itable Theft, (vi) AHMM Sep 1994

RICHARDS, JAY (chron.)

• * Black Fins of Terror!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• * Dark Hunger!, (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Oct 1960
• * Death in a Plastic Bag, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960
• * Night of the Ripper!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• * Real Mean Kids, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959
• * Run from Her, Killer, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1960
  • Hardboiled #31 2004
• * Thanks for Killing Me, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960

RICHARDS, KEL(vin Barry) (1946- ) (chron.)

• * The Amateur Hangman, (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991

RICHARDS, PHIL (chron.)

• * Death Grip, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Apr 1982

RICHARDS, TONY (1956- ) (chron.)

• * Hamadryad, (ss) AHMM Dec 1991
• * The Writing on the Wall, (ss) AHMM Sep 1991

RICHARDSON, D. L. (1951?-1994) (chron.)

• * Emerald Hookers and Gold Shields, (nv) AHMM Mar 1991
  • Women of Mystery II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Carroll & Graf 1994
• * G-Men and Old Loves, (ss) AHMM Jul 1993
• * Hunter and the Bayman Puzzle, (ss) AHMM Aug 1986
• * Hunter and the Ice Man, (ss) AHMM Oct 1987
• * Hunter and the Sanibel Trade, (nv) AHMM Jun 1993
• * Hunter and the Widow, (ss) AHMM Jun 1984
  • Death in Dixie, ed. Billie Sue Mosiman & Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press 1997
• * The Provenance of Death, (nv) AHMM Jun 1994

RICHARDSON, DUNCAN (chron.)

• * Free Spirits, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006
• * Riding by Moonlight, (ss)
  • Bad to the Bones, ed. Kerry Greenwood, Holland Park, Queensland: CrimeWriters Queensland 2002
• * Shooting Through, (ss)
  • Menace in the Mulga, ed. Peter Corris, Holland Park, Queensland: Crime Writers Queensland 2000

RICHARDSON, IAN (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “Interview: Ian Richardson” by Andrew F. Gulli, (iv) The Strand Magazine #10 2003

RICHARDSON, ROBERT (Oliver) (1940- ) (chron.)

• * The Crime Writers’ Association, (ar) 2nd Culprit, ed. Liza Cody & Michael Z. Lewin, Chatto & Windus 1993
• * The Ghost of Christmas Past, (nv) EQMM Jan 1995
  • Christmas Crimes, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1996
• * The Woman of Goodwill [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Crime Yellow, ed. Maxim Jakuwbowski, Gollancz 1994; first published, in an abridged form, in the Independent, Christmas 1993.

RICHMAN, PHYLLIS (C.) (1939- ) (chron.)

• * Catering to Crime, (ar) MHCMM Spr 1997

RICHMOND, BRIAN (chron.)

• * Edwin the Confessor, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2005
• * The Good Kid, (ss) AHMM May 2004

RICHMOND, HARRY (chron.)

• * The Master Mind, (ss) Suspense Stories #2 1954

RICHMOND, ISABEL (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ Les Sentinels, (vi) AHMM Apr 1996

RICHMOND, KENNETH (chron.)

• * A Light on t’Fell, (ss) Mystery Stories #24 1941

RICHTER, JOAN S. (chron.)

• * Assignment in Prague, (ss) EQMM May 2001
• * The Dance of the Apsara, (nv) Death Dance, ed. Trevanian, Cumberland House 2002
• * The Gambling Master of Shanghai, (ss) Murder in Vegas, ed. Michael Connelly, Tor 2005
• * The House That Jill Built, (ss) EQMM May 20 1981
• * The Last Rendezvous, (nv) EQMM Mar 1995
• * A Legacy of Questions, (ss) EQMM Aug 1998
• * Love and Death in Africa, (ss) EQMM Jan 2005
• * The Oak’s Long Shadow, (ss) EQMM Aug 1995
• * Recipe Secrets, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998
• * The River’s Child, (ss) EQMM Jun 1999

RICHTER, STACEY (chron.)

• * The First Men, (ss) Michigan Quarterly Review 1998

RICKARDS, JOHN (chron.)

• * Wish, (ss)
  • Dublin Noir, ed. Ken Bruen, Akashic Books 2006

RIDDELL, MRS. J. H. [i.e., Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan Riddell] (1832-1906) (chron.)

• * The Banshee’s Warning [“Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning”], (ss) London Society Christmas 1867
  • Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990
• * Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning, (ss) London Society Christmas 1867; also as “The Banshee’s Warning”.
• * A Terrible Vengeance, (nv) Princess Sunshine and Other Stories, London: Ward & Downey 1889
  • Revenge, ed. Kate Saunders, Faber & Faber 1991

RIDENOUR, MARC V. (chron.)

• * Keeping the System Honest, (ar) Hardboiled #17 1994

RIEDER, INES (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * 7.62, by Pieke Biermann, (ss) Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte 1996

RIFFENBURGH, ANNE (chron.)

• * Leap of Faith, (ss) Murder on Sunset Boulevard, ed. Rochelle Krich, Michael Mallory & Lisa Seidman, Top Publications 2002

RIFFLE, ANNETTE (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction (with Joseph Pittman), (in)
  • And the Dying Is Easy, ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, Signet 2001

RIFKIN, SHEPARD (1918- ) (chron.)

• * There Are Worse Places, (ss) Story 1947
  • The Tough Ones, ed. Whit Burnett & Hallie Burnett, Popular Library Eagle 1954

RIHA, JOHN (chron.)

• * The Chaplain’s Kachina, (ss) EQMM Apr 2000

RILEY, CINDY (chron.)

• * Mystery Buff, (pm) EQMM Dec 1991

RILEY, DAVID B. (chron.)

• * Lords, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 1999
• * Mister Rex, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Aug 2000
• * Unfinished Business, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

RILEY, JAMES W.; pseudonym of Jim Weikart (chron.)

• * Buried at Gettysburg, (ss) AHMM Oct 2000

RILEY, JOHN (chron.)

• * Break Time, (ss) Hardboiled #33 2005

RILEY, LOUIS (chron.)

• * The Old Pro, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1967
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #2 1972

RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS (1876-1958) (chron.)

• * The Dog in the Orchard, (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1940
  • EQMM Mar 1948
  • Ellery Queen’s Anthology Volume 1, ed. Ellery Queen, London: May Fair 1959
  • Canine Crimes II, ed. Cynthia Manson, Berkley 1997
• * The Lipstick, (nv) Cosmopolitan Jul 1942
  • AHMM Aug 1995
  • Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, ed. Tony Hillerman & Rosemary Herbert, Oxford 1996
  • American Crime Stories, ed. John Escott, Oxford Bookworms 2001
• * Murder and the South Wind, (nv) Good Housekeeping Jun 1945
  • Orange Pulp, ed. Maurice J. O’Sullivan & Steve Glassman, University Press of Florida 2000
• * The Splinter, (ss) EQMM Sep 1955
  • Twelve American Detective Stories, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Oxford University Press 1997
• * The Treasure Hunt [Letitia (Tish) Carberry], (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 1926
  • 101 Years’ Entertainment, ed. Ellery Queen, New York: Modern Library 194?

RINELLI, V. (chron.)

• * Carlos Captures the Smugglers (with Irma Schmidt), (ss)
  • Teen-age Spy Stories, ed. A. L. Furman, Lantern Press 1967

RINTARO, NORIZUKI; pseudonym (chron.)

• * An Urban Legend Puzzle, (nv) EQMM Jan 2004; first published in Japanese in 2001.; tr. by Beth Cary

RINTELS, DAVID W. (chron.)

• * Clarence Darrow [from Clarence Darrow: A One-Man Play], (ex) Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1975
  • EQMM Oct 1983

RIORDAN, RICK; [i.e., Richard Russell Riordan, Jr.] (1964- ) (chron.)

• * A Good Day’s Work [Tres Navarre], (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• * The Prized Gentleman, (ss) EQMM Jul 2001
• * A Small Silver Gun [Tres Navarre], (ss) MHCMM Sum 1998
• * Ticket to Midland [Tres Navarre], (nv) Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2000

RIPLEY, ANN (1926- ) (chron.)

• * Skunked, (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• * Time in the Lap Lane, (ss) EQMM Nov 1999
• * Woman in a Box, (ss) AHMM Apr 1999

RIPLEY, MIKE; [i.e., Michael David Ripley] (1952- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Angel Eyes, (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999
• * Brotherly Love [Angel], (ss) Royal Crimes, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1994
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002
• * Calling Cards, (ss) Winter’s Crimes 24, ed. Maria Rejt, London: Macmillan 1992
  • Winter’s Crimes 24, Volume 2, ed. Maria Rejt, Chivers Press 1993
  • Fresh Blood, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1996
• * Foreword, (fw)
  • Fresh Blood, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1996
  • Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
  • Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999
• * The Great Detectives: Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion, (ar) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• * Lord Peter and the Butterboy, (ss) Encounters with Lord Peter, ed. Christopher Dean, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 1991
  • New Crimes 3, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1991
• * MacEvoy’s Revenge, (ss) Fresh Blood 2, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1997
• * New Year’s Eve, (ss) Constable New Crimes 1, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Constable 1992
• * Our Man Marlowe, (ss) 1991
  • More Murders for the Fireside, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Pan 1994
• * Smeltdown, (nv) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990
  • The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Robinson 2002
• * The Trouble with Trains, (ss) Midwinter Mysteries 1, ed. Hilary Hale, London: Scribners 1991

RIPPEN, CHRIS (1940- ) (chron.)

• * Barefoot, (ss) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003; first published in Mord und Steinschlag, Kriminalstorys (Murder and Rockfall, Criminal Stories), ed. Jürgen Ehlers & Jürgen Alberts, Leda-Verlag, 2002.
• * The Best, (ss) 2003; first published in Nachtboot, House De Geus, Breda.
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004; tr. by Emmy Muller
• * Ferry Noir, (ss) Murder on Deck!, ed. Rosemary Herbert, Oxford University Press 1998; tr. by Emmy Muller
• * Under My Skin, (ss) Death Cruise, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 1999

RIPPERGER, WALTER F. (chron.)

• * The Affair of the Three Turtles, (ss) Double Detective Mar 1938
  • Mystery Stories #18 1939
• * The Cardboard Clue, (nv) Mystery Stories #13 1938
• * Flowers on a Grave, (nv) Double Detective Nov 1937
  • Mystery Stories #11 1937
• * Four Men of Crime, (nv) Mystery Stories #9 1937
• * House of a Thousand Deaths, (nv) Ten Detective Aces Apr 1934
  • Pulp Review Sep 1994
• * Murder on Maracaibo Street, (ss) Clues Nov 1937; also as “Murder on the Maracaibo Road”.
• * Murder on the Maracaibo Road [“Murder on Maracaibo Street”], (ss) Clues Nov 1937
  • Mystery Stories #23 1941
• * Murder Will, (ss) Mystery Stories #5 1936
• * The Stolen Cross, (ss) Mystery Stories #4 1936

RITCHIE, JACK; pseudonym of John George Reitci, (1922-1983) (chron.)

• * 22 Stories Up—22 Down, (ss) AHMM Jan 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. Anon., H.S.D. Publications 1959
• * The $5,000 Getaway, (ss) AHMM May 1959
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1959, ed. William Manners, H.S.D. Publications 1959
  • Speaking of Greed, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001
• * The Absence of Emily, (ss) EQMM Jan 28 1981
  • The New Edgar Winners, Mystery Writers of America, New York: Wynwood Press 1990
  • Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners, ed. Anon., Robert Hale 1992
  • Crime Story Collection, ed. John Turvey & Celia Turvey, Longman 1998
  • Simply the Best Mysteries, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 1998
  • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, ed. Tony Hillerman, Houghton Mifflin 2000
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000