Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2006

Stories, Listed by Author

ROOS, AUDREY (Kelley) (1912-1982); see pseudonym Kelley Roos (chron.)

ROOS, KELLEY; pseudonym of Audrey Roos & William Roos (chron.)

• * Death Is a Trouper [Haila & Jeff Troy], (na) The American Magazine Dec 1946
  • EQMM May 5 1980
• * Two Over Par [Haila & Jeff Troy], (ss) EQMM Jan 1950
  • Crime-Craft, Mystery Writers of America, London: Corgi 1957
  • Detective Duos, ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press 1997

ROOS, WILLIAM (1911-1987); see pseudonym Kelley Roos (chron.)

ROQUEVERT, GERMAINE (chron.)

• * Best Friend, (ss) EQMM May 1982
• * The Key to Albert’s Closet, (ss) EQMM Apr 1987

RORDAN, ART (chron.)

• * Night of the Slasher!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961

RORKE, PAUL (chron.)

• * Uncanonized Bones, (ss) Mystery Stories #13 1938

ROSAIRE, FORREST (1902-1977) (chron.)

• * The Poisoned Bowl [as by J.J. des Ormeaux], (ss) Clues Detective Stories Apr 1939
  • The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2006

ROSAN, SHIRA (1950- ); see pseudonym S. J. Rozan (chron.)

ROSBOROUGH, LEONARD B. (chron.)

• * It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog, (ss) Mammoth Detective May 1947
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

ROSE, CAROLYN J. (chron.)

• * Appointment with Emil, (ss) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
• * Editorial Decision, (ss) Dogwood Tales 1996
  • Murderous Intent Sum 1999
• * Hostage Situation, (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1999
• * Silent Treatment, (ss) Murderous Intent Sum 1997
• * Time and Punishment, (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1998
• * Two Hearts as One, (pm) EQMM Jun 1991
• * Winter Getaway, (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1999

ROSE, CELINE (chron.)

• * Mariotti, (vi) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 2002

ROSE, HOWARD T. (chron.)

• * Abuse of Process, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, ed. Michael Hemmingson, Carroll & Graf 2001

ROSE, J. W. (chron.)

• * The Genteel Killers, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jan 1960

ROSE, LLOYD; pseudonym of Sarah Tonyn (chron.)

• * 100 Years of Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes], (ar) Baker Street Miscellanea Win 1989
  • Murder in Baker Street, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower, Carroll & Graf 2001

ROSE, M. J.; pseudonym of Melissa J. Shapiro, (1963- ) (chron.)

• * Not Shy, (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• * The Portal (with John T. Lescroart), (ss) Thriller, ed. James Patterson, MIRA Books 2006

ROSE, MALCOLM (1953- ) (chron.)

• * The Drowning, (ss) The Young Oxford Book of Mystery Stories, ed. Dennis Hamley, Oxford University Press 2003

ROSE, WILLIE (chron.)

• * Eye of the Beholder, (ss) AHMM mid-Sep 1982
• * Mysterious Cipher, (pz) AHMM Jul/Aug, Nov, Dec 2004, Jun, Jul/Aug, Sep, Oct 2005, Jan/Feb, Mar 2006
• * The Mysterious Cipher, (pz) AHMM Apr, Jun, Jul/Aug, Oct, Nov 2006, Jan/Feb, Mar, May 2007

ROSEBERG, RICHARD (chron.)

• * I Could Kill You, (ss) EQMM Oct 1983

ROSE-BOND, SHERRY (chron.)

• * Report from 221B Baker Street (with Scott Bond), (ar) The Armchair Detective Win, Spr, Sum, Fll 1990, Win, Spr, Fll 1991

ROSEN, DeANNE L. (chron.)

• * Halloween Fire, (ss) Hardboiled #8 1987

ROSEN, MARION (Louise) (1941- ) (chron.)

• * Angel of Mercy, (ss) Murder by 13, ed. Priscilla English, Lisa Seidman & Mae Woods, Crown Valley Press 1997

ROSEN, MILT (chron.)

• * The Empress of the Sea, (ss) EQMM Sep 1991
• * The Eyewitness, (ss) EQMM May 1992

ROSEN, R(ichard) D(ean) (1949- ) (chron.)

• * Mamzer, (nv) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006

ROSENBERG, NANCY TAYLOR (chron.)

• * A Place for Nathan, (ss) The Best of the Best, ed. Elaine Koster & Joseph Pittman, Signet 1998

ROSENBLUM, MARY (1952- ); see pseudonym Mary Freeman (chron.)

ROSENKRANTZ, BARON PALLE (Adam Vilhelm) (1867-1941) (chron.)

• * A Sensible Course of Action, (ss) 1909
  • The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, ed. Patricia Cross, Oxford University Press 2000; tr. by Michael Neyer

ROSENMAN, JOHN B. (chron.)

• * In Man’s Image, (ss) Treachery and Treason, ed. Laura Anne Gilman & Jennifer Heddle, Roc 2000

ROSENQUEST, JAMES (chron.)

• * Brotherhood of Evil!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961
• * Dreadnight, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• * Her Kind Die Bloody!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959
• * Kid in a Coffin, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jan 1960

ROSENTHAL, GLORIA (chron.)

• * Making Her Mark, (pm) EQMM Jul 1991
• * Mother Goose Nursery Crimes:
  ___ I - Hey Diddle Diddle, (pm) EQMM Jan 1993
  ___ II, (pm) EQMM Aug 1993
  ___ III: Sing a Song of Sixpence, (pm) EQMM Oct 1993
  ___ IV: Georgie Porgie, (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1993
  ___ V: Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, (pm) EQMM Mar 1994
  ___ VI: Humpty Dumpty, (pm) EQMM mid-Dec 1994
• * Probable Cause, (pm) EQMM Aug 1991
• * What Did It, (pm) EQMM Sep 1991

ROSMUS, CINDY (chron.)

• * Cut Buddies, (ss) Hardboiled #19 1994
• * Il Pagliaccio Morto, (ss) Hardboiled #17 1994
• * The ’Sidge’, (ss) Hardboiled #27/28 2001
• * Yellow Mama, (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

ROSS, ADRIENNE (chron.)

• * Grasping for More, (ss)
  • Ticket to Trouble, ed. Ron Serdiuk, CrimeWriters Queensland 2006
• * The Troubled Tobacconist, (ss)
  • Bad to the Bones, ed. Kerry Greenwood, Holland Park, Queensland: CrimeWriters Queensland 2002

ROSS, ALEC (chron.)

• * The Curse of Istvan Kodaly, (ss) AHMM Oct 1982
  • Murder Takes a Holiday, ed. Cynthia Manson, Barnes & Noble 1992
• * Old People Listen Harder, (ss) AHMM Mar 1983
• * Undercover, (ss) AHMM Oct 1990

ROSS, DAN; pseudonym of W. E. D. Ross, (1912-1995) (chron.)

• * Mr. Wong and the Fatal Phobia [Mr. Wong], (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Aug 1966
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual #2 1972
• * Mr. Wong Disagrees [Mr. Wong], (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Oct 1967
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual Sum 1971

ROSS, FRED E. (chron.)

• * The Unbowed Head, (ss) Story 1947
  • The Tough Ones, ed. Whit Burnett & Hallie Burnett, Popular Library Eagle 1954

ROSS, KATE (1956-1998) (chron.)

• * The Lullaby Cheat, (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997
• * The Unkindest Cut, (nv) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998

ROSS, MAGGIE (chron.)

• * Nostalgia, (ss) Mystery for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1990

ROSS, MARTIN; pseudonym of Violet Florence Martin, (1862-1915) (chron.)

• * Holy Island (with E. OE. Somerville), (ss)
  • Best Smuggling Stories, ed. John Welcome, Faber & Faber 1967

ROSS, [Sir] RONALD (1857-1932) (chron.)

• * The Vivisector Vivisected, (ss) Strange Assembly, ed. John Gawsworth, London: Unicorn Press 1932
  • Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries, ed. Anon. (John Gawsworth), London: Associated Newspapers 1935

ROSS, (James) SINCLAIR (1908-1996) (chron.)

• * One’s a Heifer, (ss) The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1968
  • Hard Boiled Love, ed. Kerry J. Schooley & Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press 2003

ROSS, STEPHEN (chron.)

• * Collective Noun for Blackmailers, (ss) EQMM Jun 2006

ROSS, W(illiam) E(dward) D(aniel) (1912-1995); see pseudonym Dan Ross (chron.)

ROSSITER, JOHN (1916- ) (chron.)

• * “Yes, Sir: No, Sir”, (ss) John Creasey’s Crime Collection, ed. Herbert Harris 1978
  • Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection, ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, Garland 1983

ROSSNER, ROBERT (1932- ) (chron.)

• * Angel of Evil, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Sep 1961

ROSSOFF, ALEXIS (chron.)

• * Satan’s Masquerade, (nv) Secret Agent X Dec 1935
  • Action Adventure Stories #36 1998

ROSTA, HELEN J. (chron.)

• * Feathers, (ss) Great Canadian Murder and Mystery Stories, ed. Don Bailey & Daile Unruh, Quarry 1991

ROTH, KURTIS (chron.)

• * Beware of Cat, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Eight [Rick Winslow], (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000
• * Revealing Russian Blue, or The Flaming Switcheroo, (ss) Crafty Cat Crimes, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 2000

ROTH, PHILIP (Milton) (1933- ) (chron.)

• * Eli, the Fanatic, (nv)
  • Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories, ed. Fred R. Shapiro & Jane Garry, Oxford University Press 1998

ROTHE, MARIAN (chron.)

• * Taxes, (pm) EQMM Oct 1993

ROTHENBERG, REBECCA S. (chron.)

• * Locoweed, (na) EQMM Mar 1994

ROTHWELL, ANDREW (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * from Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola [1867], (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995

ROTHWELL, BARBARA YATES (chron.)

• * Whatever Happened to Love?, (ss) Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994

ROUÉCHÉ, BERTON (1911-1994) (chron.)

• * The Key, (ss) New Yorker 1964
  • EQMM Jan 1989
• * The Lug Wrench, (ss) New Yorker Jun 7 1969
  • EQMM Jan 1989
• * Mrs. Arnold, (vi) Family Circle 1978
  • EQMM Mar 1990
• * Mrs. Arnold Contest Results, (ss) EQMM Nov 1990
• * Phone Call, (ss) New Yorker 1965
  • EQMM Sep 1989
• * The Prognosis for This Patient Is Horrible, (ss) New Yorker Jan 25 1982
  • EQMM Sep 1989
• * The Raspberry Patch, (ss) Evergreen Review Sep 1968
  • Ellery Queen’s Eleven Deadly Sins, ed. Eleanor Sullivan, Walker 1991

ROURKE, TIM (chron.)

• * All in a Day’s Work (with Mike Shayne, narr.) [as by Brett Halliday; Michael Shayne], (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1984

ROUSSEAU, VICTOR; pseudonym of Victor Rousseau Emanuel, (1879-1960) (chron.)

• * Madame Murder [as by John Grange; Jim Anthony], (na) Super-Detective Dec 1940

ROVIN, JEFF(rey Daniel) (1951- ) (chron.)

• * A Knight at the Opera [Batman], (nv) The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993

ROWAN, IAIN (chron.)

• * The Chain, (ss) EQMM Dec 2003
• * Fake, (ss) AHMM Jan/Feb 2004
• * Game On, (ss) Shred of Evidence Nov 2004
• * One of Us, (ss) AHMM Apr 2005
• * Piggy Eyes, (ss) Shred of Evidence May 2005
• * Professional Opinion, (ss) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2002
• * Two Nights’ Work, (ss) AHMM Nov 2003

ROWE, DANIEL (chron.)

• * The Dispeptic Diogenes, (vi) Hardboiled #9 1988
• * Lord of the Shadows, (ss) Hardboiled Apr 2000

ROWE, JENNIFER (June) (1948- ) (books) (chron.)

• * Introduction, (in)
  • Love Lies Bleeding, ed. Jennifer Rowe, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1994
• * Ladies’ Day [*Verity “Birdy” Birdwood], (ss) Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1990
• * Mystery Man, (nv) Malice Domestic 7, Sharyn McCrumb, Avon 1998
• * White Christmas, (ss) More Crimes for a Summer Christmas, ed. Stephen Knight, North Sydney, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1991

ROWE, PENELOPE (chron.)

• * The Merrys, (ss) Murder at Home, ed. Stephen Knight, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1993

ROWE, ROSEMARY; [i.e., Rosemary Rowe Aitken] (chron.)

• * Caveat Emptor [Libertus], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2003
  • The Best British Mysteries 2005, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Allison & Busby 2005
• * A Payment to the Gods [Libertus the Pavement-Maker], (ss) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001
  • The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf 2001

ROWEN, TED (chron.)

• * The Snake Bites Twice, (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1997

ROWLAND, JOHN (Herbert Shelley) (1907-1976?) (chron.)

• * from Murder Revisited, (ex) 1961
  • The Reason Why, ed. Ruth Rendell, Crown 1996

ROWLAND, LAURA JOH (1954- ) (chron.)

• * The Iron Fan [Sano], (ss) Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1999
• * Mizu-Age, (ss) Crime Through Time II, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1998
• * Onnagata, (nv) More Murder, They Wrote, ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books 1999

ROWLANDS, BETTY (1923- ) (chron.)

• * Here Comes a Chopper, (ss) EQMM May 1992
• * The Inheritance, (ss) EQMM Mar 1993
• * The Killer Instinct, (ss) EQMM Mar 1992