Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

ROBERTS, LES (books) (chron.) (continued)

• * Little Cat Feet, (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
  • Cat Crimes I, II, III, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, MJF Books 1998
  • Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * The Pig Man [Saxon], (ss) Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday 1994
  • First Cases, Volume 3, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1999
  • Most Wanted, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2002
  • Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * The Scent of Spiced Oranges, (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
  • Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories, Five Star 2002
• * Willing to Work, (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
  • Scent of Spiced Oranges and Other Stories, Five Star 2002

ROBERTS, LILLIAN M. (1959- ) (chron.)

• * Manor Beast, (ss) Canine Crimes, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1998
• * Rest Stop, (ss) Murder on Route 66, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 1999
• * The Reunion, (ss) Canine Christmas, ed. Jeffrey Marks, Ballantine 1999

ROBERTS, P. J. (chron.)

• * Austrailian Halloween, (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2000
• * The Bunyip, (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2000
• * Conan Doyle, (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Feb 2000
• * The Day of the Dryad [Part 1], (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2002
• * The Day of the Dryad [Part 2], (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2002
• * The Dead are Walking, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 2001
• * The Dream, (ss) EOD #2 1991
  • Detective Mystery Stories Dec 1999
• * A Dream of Jekyll & Hyde, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2002
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2002
• * The Egrigor, (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Aug 1999
• * The Flame Beast, (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1998
• * The Fourth Night, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories May 1999
• * The Freak, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Mar 2000
• * The Ghost of the Living, (ss) EOD #8 1992
  • Detective Mystery Stories Jul 2000
• * The Glen Hartwell Horrow, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jan 2001
• * The Green Bus, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 1999
• * Haunted Mountain, (nv) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jun 2002
• * Kangaroo Range, (nv) Detective Mystery Stories Dec 1998
• * The Kleptomaniac, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Apr 2002
• * Lucifer, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Feb 2001
• * Red Rattler to Spencer St., (ss) Masque Noir Sep 1998
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Sep 2001
• * Room 408, (ss) Pulsar! Fll 1989
  • Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Mar 2001
• * The Scream in the Night, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Nov 2000
• * The Wrong Person, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories Apr 1999

ROBERTS, PEGGY; [i.e., Margaret A. Roberts] (1957- ) (chron.)

• * Mercy, (vi) MHCMM Sum 2000

ROBERTS, R(ichard) ELLIS (1879-1953) (chron.)

• * The Narrow Way, (ss) The Other End, London: Palmer 1923
  • Churchyard Shadows: Tales of Clerical Crime, Mystery and Suspense, ed. Kevin Carolan, Hodder & Stoughton 1999

ROBERTS, RALPH (chron.)

• * The Colonel and the Alien, (ss) Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
• * The Greatest Detective of All Time [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Mystery Writers Word Puzzle, (pz) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1983

ROBERTS, S(ydney) C(astle) (1887-1966) (chron.)

• * The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) 1945
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

ROBERTS, SIDNEY (chron.)

• * Night for Slaughter, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1958

ROBERTS, TOM (chron.)

• * Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Raoul F. Whitfield Appearing in Black Mask (with E. R. Hagemann & Peter Ruber), (bi)
  • Jo Gar’s Casebook, Raoul Whitfield, Black Mask Press/Crippen & Landru 2002

ROBERTSON, CHARLTON (chron.)

• * Dark Visitors, (ss) Mystery Stories #21 1940
• * The Toast of Death, (ss) Mystery Stories #20 1939

ROBERTSON, COLIN (1906-1980) (chron.)

• * You Can’t Rely on People, (ss) Argosy (UK) Mar 1973
  • John Creasey’s Mystery Bedside Book, 1975, ed. Herbert Harris, Hodder Stoughton 1974

ROBERTSON, LINDA (chron.)

• * Mrs. Hudson Reminisces [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) My Sherlock Holmes, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2003; (Mrs. Hudson).
• * The Mystery of Dr. Thorvald Sigerson [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, ed. Michael Kurland, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2004

ROBERTSON, LYLE (chron.)

• * Night Noises, (vi) Detective Book Magazine Sum 1943
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

ROBERTSON, MORGAN (Andrew) (1861-1915) (chron.)

• * Hangman’s Knot, (ss) High-Seas Adventures Dec 1934
  • High Adventure #78 2004
• * Steel and Flame, (ss) High-Seas Adventures Dec 1934
  • High Adventure #78 2004

ROBERTS-PAUL, MASON (chron.)

• * Halloween on Shady Glen Road, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

ROBINSON, ARTHUR (books) (chron.)

• * A Checklist of the Sheringham and Moresby Mysteries in Anthony Berkeley Cox (with Tony Medawar), (bi)
  • The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham’s Casebook, Anthony Berkeley, Crippen & Landru 2004
• * The Master of the Final Twist (with Tony Medawar), (in)
  • The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham’s Casebook, Anthony Berkeley, Crippen & Landru 2004

ROBINSON, B(ertram) FLETCHER (1871-1907) (chron.)

• * Fogbound (with J. Malcolm Fraser), (ss) The London Magazine Aug 1903
  • 12 Tales of Murder, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1998

ROBINSON, BRIAN (chron.)

• * Missing the Sign, (nv) AHMM May 1999
• * Slave Without a Master, (nv) AHMM Feb 2001

ROBINSON, FRANK M(alcolm) (1926- ) (chron.)

• * Heartstopper, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2000
• * One Month in 1907, (ss) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994
• * The Phantom of the Barbary Coast [Sherlock Holmes], (nv) Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995

ROBINSON, GREGOR (chron.)

• * Coup D’Etat, (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
• * The Disappearance of Daphne, (ss) AHMM Apr 1988
• * Flight from the Palm Court, (ss) AHMM Jun 1994
• * Free, Has a Weapon, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
• * Guns at the Edge of the Empire, (ss) AHMM Mar 1991
• * The Haitian Murders, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1987
• * A Knowledge of Poisons, (ss) B&A 1992
  • AHMM Aug 1994
• * Metamorphosis, (ss) AHMM Dec 1989
• * Partners, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
• * Pearls and Colored Stones, (ss) EQMM Aug 1994
• * Pearls from Heaven, (ss) AHMM Dec 1990
• * A Stranger Comes to the Village, (ss) AHMM Jun 1992
• * Voodoo Death, (ss) AHMM Feb 1989
  • The Haunted Hour, ed. Cynthia Manson & Constance Scarborough, Berkley Prime Crime 1995

ROBINSON, JEFFREY (1945- ) (chron.)

_____, [ref.]

• * “Jeffrey Robinson” by Brian Ritterspak, (iv) Crime Time v2 #5 1999

ROBINSON, KENT (chron.)

• * His in the End, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #42 2003
• * Play a New Game, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #45 2004

ROBINSON, KIM STANLEY (1952- ) (chron.)

• * Mercurial, (nv) Universe 15, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1985
  • Future Crimes, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 2003

ROBINSON, (Esme Stuart) LENNOX (1886-1958) (chron.)

• * A Pair of Muddy Shoes, (ss) Eight Short Stories, Unwin 1919
  • Crime for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1991

ROBINSON, LILLIAN S. (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Afterword, (aw)
  • The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, Mark Twain, Oxford University Press 1996
• * For Further Reading, (ms)
  • The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories, Mark Twain, Oxford University Press 1996

ROBINSON, LYNDA S(uzanne) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * The Abolitionist, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2005
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Death of a Place-Seeker, (nv) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
• * Disease-Demon [Lord Meren], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * Heretic’s Dagger [Lord Meren], (nv) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002

ROBINSON, PETER (1950- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Anna Said... [Insp. Alan Banks], (ss) Cold Blood IV, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1992
  • First Cases, Volume 2, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 1997
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * April in Paris, (nv) Love and Death, ed. Carolyn Hart, Berkley Prime Crime 2001
• * Birthday Dance, (ss) Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf 2005
• * Blue Christmas [Insp. Alan Banks], (ss) Crippen & Landru 2005
  • The Best British Mysteries IV, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2006
• * Carrion, (ss) No Alibi, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Ringpull Press 1995
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Cherub Affair, (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
  • World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fifth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2004
• * The Duke’s Wife, (ss) Much Ado About Murder, ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime 2002
  • The Best British Mysteries, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2003
• * Fan Mail, (ss) Cold Blood II, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1989
  • EQMM Nov 1996
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
  • The Best of Cold Blood, ed. Peter Sellers & John North, Mosaic Press 1998
  • Opening Shots, ed. Lawrence Block, Nashville, TN: Cumberland House 2000
• * Gone to the Dawgs, (ss) The Mighty Johns, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• * The Good Partner [Insp. Alan Banks], (ss) EQMM Mar 1994
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * In Flanders Fields [Frank Bascombe Special Constable], (nv) Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998, , Crippen & Landru 1999
  • EQMM May 1999
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, ed. Ed McBain, Houghton Mifflin 1999
• * Innocence, (ss) Cold Blood III, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1990
  • The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories - 1992, ed. Edward D. Hoch, Walker 1992
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
  • Arthur Ellis Awards, ed. Peter Sellers, Canada: Quarry Press 1999
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Just My Luck, (ss) Bouchercon XXII Souvenir Programme Book 1992
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Lawn Sale, (ss) Cold Blood V, ed. Peter Sellers, Mosaic 1994
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * The Magic of Your Touch, (ss) Murder... and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2004
• * Memory Lane, (ss) Blue Lightning, ed. John Harvey, Slow Dancer Press 1998
• * Missing in Action [Frank Bascombe Special Constable], (nv) EQMM Nov 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman, Forge 2001
• * Murder in Utopia, (ss) Crime Through Time III, ed. Sharan Newman, Berkley 2000
• * Not Safe After Dark, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Shadow on the Water, (ss) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * Some Land in Florida, (nv) EQMM Dec 1996
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
• * Summer Rain [Insp. Alan Banks], (ss) EQMM Dec 1994
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000
• * The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, (ss) Malice Domestic 6, Anne Perry, Pocket 1997
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
  • Best American Mystery Stories 1998, ed. Sue Grafton, Houghton Mifflin 1998
• * The Wrong Hands, (ss) EQMM Apr 1998
  • Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories, Crippen & Landru 1998
  • Crème de La Crime, ed. Janet Hutchings, Carroll & Graf 2000
  • Speaking of Greed, ed. Lawrence Block, Cumberland House 2001

_____, [ref.]

• * Books and Short Stories by Peter Robinson: A Checklist, (bi)

ROBINSON, PHILIP (1969- ) (chron.)

• * Angel, (ss) Mysterious Erotic Tales, ed. Anon., O’Mara 1996

ROBINSON, ROXANA (chron.)

• * The Face-Lift, (ss) Atlantic Monthly 2000
  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, ed. Lawrence Block, Houghton Mifflin 2001

ROBINSON, SPIDER (1948- ) (chron.)

• * God Is an Iron, (nv) Omni May 1979
  • Crossing the Line: Canadian Mysteries with a Fantastic Twist, ed. Robert J. Sawyer & David Skene-Melvin, Pottersfield Press 1998

ROBSON, RUTHANN (chron.)

• * The Death of the Subject, (ss) Out For More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1996
• * The Pool, (ss) Out For Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women, ed. Victoria A. Brownworth & Judith M. Redding, Chicago: Third Side Press 1995

ROBY, KINLEY (chron.)

• * The Tonto Plateau, (ss) EQMM Aug 2004

ROBY, MARY LINN (1930- ) (chron.)

• * See and Tell, (ss) AHMM Apr 1967
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Sampler: Fall 1967, ed. G. F. Foster, Davis 1967

ROCHE, PAUL (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, (pm)
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

ROCHE, THOMAS S. (books) (chron.)

• * All Cats Are Grey, (ss) Crime Spree, ed. Sandy DeLuca and Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press 2001
• * Bank Job, (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003
• * Dirty Pool, (ss) Flesh & Blood, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2001