Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Author

RUSSELL, GARRETT (chron.) (continued)

• * Of Pearls and Swine, (ss)
  • Bad to the Bones, ed. Kerry Greenwood, Holland Park, Queensland: CrimeWriters Queensland 2002
• * Punch Drunk, (ss)
  • Bad to the Bones, ed. Kerry Greenwood, Holland Park, Queensland: CrimeWriters Queensland 2002
• * Roo Kill, (ss)
  • Menace in the Mulga, ed. Peter Corris, Holland Park, Queensland: Crime Writers Queensland 2000

RUSSELL, J. S.; pseudonym; see under Russell, Jay (chron.)

RUSSELL, JAY (S.) (1961- ); pseudonym (chron.)

• * The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence [Marty Burns], (ss) Dark Detectives, ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer 1999

_____, [ref.]

• * The PWG Interview with Jay Russell, (iv) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001

RUSSELL, JEREMY (chron.)

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

RUSSELL, JOHN (1885-1956) (chron.)

• * The Burglar, (ss) 1913
  • The Mystery and the Detective, ed. Blanche Colton Williams, Appleton-Century 1938
• * The Knife, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 7 1925
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000

RUSSELL, LEE K. (chron.)

• * The Girl in the Orange Beret, (nv) AHMM Sep 1984
• * Ma Goose’s Crib Rhymes #1040: unearned income, (pm) EQMM Aug 1992
• * The Man at the Back of the Bus, (ss) AHMM Dec 1988
• * The Potted Purple Petunia, (ss) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Jul 1967
  • Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual Sum 1971

RUSSELL, MARK (chron.)

• * The Lesson, (nv) 1985
  • EQMM May 1988

RUSSELL, MARTIN (James) (1934- ) (chron.)

• * Bye-Bye, Shimmy, (nv) The Darker Side of Death, London: Collins 1985
  • EQMM Oct 1986
• * Diamond and Pearl, (ss) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990

RUSSELL, RAY(mond Robert) (1924-1999) (chron.)

• * Ding-Dong, the Lizard’s Dead, (nv) Murder in Los Angeles, Adams Round Table, Morrow 1987
  • Hollywood Kills, ed. Anon., Carroll & Graf 1993
• * The Murder of Conan Doyle, (ss) Playboy May 1955
  • The Game Is Afoot, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1994

RUSSELL, W(illiam) (1807-1877) (chron.)

• * Hunting Rogues, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008

RUSSO, DEBORAH (chron.)

• * Show Up, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1985

RUSSO, RICHARD PAUL (1954- ) (chron.)

• * Celebrate the Bullet, (nv) IASFM mid-Dec 1991
  • The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, ed. Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian, Robinson 2003

RUSSU, JULIA (chron.)

• * Motherly Love, (ss) Kracked Mirror Mysteries Sep 1995

RUTALE, PATRICIA (chron.)

• * Under Ice, (ss) EQMM Feb 2002

RUTHERFORD, R. C. (chron.)

• * Cold Blue Wind, (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #29 2002

RUTTER, ERIC (chron.)

• * The Voice at the Barbican Gate, (nv) AHMM Jan/Feb 2008

RUUD, WILLIAM (chron.)

• * The Very Last One, (ss) New Mystery Jul/Aug 1991

RYAN, ALAN (1943- ) (chron.)

• * Kiss the Vampire Goodbye, (nv) AHMM Jun 1985
  • Mystery for Halloween, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1991
• * The Witch, the Child, and the U.P.S. Fellow, (ss) AHMM Oct 1982
  • Fun and Games at the Whacks Museum and Other Horror Stories, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Simon & Schuster 1994

RYAN, MARK; pseudonym of Robert Silverberg, (1935- ) (chron.)

• * The Farmers Daughter, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1961
• * Motel Girl, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine May 1960
• * Never Trust a Stripper, (ss) Guilty Detective Story Magazine Jun 1961

RYAN, MARY C. (chron.)

• * Ellen Keegan’s Revenge, (nv) Murder At the Races, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
• * Jeremiah’s Lily, (ss) Murder Most Irish, ed. Ed Gorman, Larry Segriff & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• * Murder in Kilcurry, (ss) Murder Most Celtic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Cumberland House 2001

RYAN, MICHAEL G. (chron.)

• * The Tidal, (nv) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007

RYAN, MIKE (chron.)

• * The Jogger, (vi) Hardboiled #29/30 2003

RYAN, ROB (1951- ) (chron.)

• * Shit Happens, (ss) Fresh Blood 3, ed. Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski, London: Do-Not Press 1999

RYAN, WILL (chron.)

• * Anonymous Clyde, (pm) EQMM Mar/Apr 2005
• * C Seven H Fourteen O Two, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2006
• * Like, Clueless!, (pm) EQMM Nov 2005
• * Sonnet from the Pen of a Mug, (pm) EQMM Sep/Oct 2003
• * Sonnet Number 18.1, (pm) EQMM Jun, Jul 2005

RYCROFT, CHARLES (chron.)

• * from “The Analysis of a Detective Story”, (ex)
  • Picador Book of Crime Writing, ed. Michael Dibdin, Picador 1993

RYDER, BILL; pseudonym of Bud Ampolsk, (1923?- ) (chron.)

• * Death’s Loveless Caress, (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1959
• * Hell on Wheels!, (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Apr 1958
• * Hell’s Third Degree!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Oct 1957
• * Horror’s Handmaidens, (nv) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Oct 1962
• * Lust Claims a Bride, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jan 1961
• * One Foot in Hell!, (ss) Saturn Web Detective Story Magazine Jul 1959
• * Portrait of the She-Devil of Lust, (ss) Shock Mystery Tales Magazine Feb 1963
• * Shake-Down Bait!, (ss) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Aug 1957
• * She’ll Shriek for Death!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1959
• * The Violent Persuader!, (nv) Sure-Fire Detective Magazine Dec 1957

RYKENA, STEPHEN (chron.)

• * Cold-Blooded, (ss) World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2003; first published in the newspaper Stadtanzeiger, 2002.
• * Conscience, (ss) 2001; from Stadtanzeiger; Schaurige Funde, Verlag der Criminale.
  • The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Forge 2002

RYSTROM, EILEEN (chron.)

• * The Story That Won:
  ___ The Big Dog Laughed, (vi) AHMM Mar 1994

RZETELNY, HARRIET (chron.)

• * Amazing Grace, (ss) AHMM Feb 2003
• * Angel Dust, (ss) AHMM Jun 2001
• * Death of an Anarchist, (ss) AHMM Sep 2008
• * Graveyard Blues, (ss) AHMM Oct 1999
• * Proud Mary [Molly Lewin], (ss) AHMM Nov 2006

S., H. B. (chron.)

• * A Detective’s Story, (ss)
  • Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology, ed. LeRoy Lad Panek & Mary M. Bendel-Simso, McFarland 2008

SABASTIAN, INEZ (chron.)

• * Marked for Murder, (nv) Detective Story Magazine Nov 1946
  • Detective Story Annual 1948, ed. Daisy Bacon, Street & Smith 1948

SABATINI, RAFAEL (1875-1950) (books) (chron.)

• * Ambs-Ace, (ss) The Ladies’ World Aug 1 1912
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Dream, (ss) The Storyteller Aug 1912
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Duroc, (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Oct 2 1915
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Evidence of the Sword, (ss) The Royal Magazine Sep 1900
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Face of the Clock, (ss) The Realm Aug 1904
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * His Last Chance, (ss) American Illustrated Magazine Dec 1905
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Judge Foscaro’s Crime, (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1904
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Mask, (ss) Cassell’s Feb 1916
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Monsieur Delamort, (ss) The Cavalier Aug 1909
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Night of Kirk O’Field, (ss) 1917
  • Murder Most Scottish, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Bob Adey, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1999
• * The Pretender [Captain Peter Blood], (ss) The Ladies’ World Aug 1 1911
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Red Mask, (ss) The Ludgate Magazine Dec 1898
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Shrinkage, (ss) The London Magazine Oct 1914
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Spiritualist, (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Jul 1905
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * The Valet Mystery, (ss) The Storyteller Sep 1914
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006
• * Wirgman’s Theory, (ss) The London Magazine Jul 1906
  • The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries, Crippen & Landru 2006

SABERHAGEN, FRED(erick Thomas) (1930-2007) (chron.)

• * Adventure of the Metal Murderer [Berserker], (ss) Omni Jan 1980
  • Cyber-Killers, ed. Ric Alexander, Millennium 1997

SABIN, JAN CAROL (chron.)

• * Cold Sweet Drizzle, (ss) EQMM Nov 1991
• * Headhunter, (ss) EQMM Feb 1994
  • Murder on the Railways, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1996

SABO, LESLIE G. (chron.)

• * Death Girl, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1958
• * First Kill, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Oct 1958
• * Good Time Girl, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Aug 1957
• * Kill the Guy on Top, (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Dec 1958
• * The Lusting Ones, (ss) Two-Fisted Detective Stories Jan 1961
• * My Fee Is Lust!, (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1959

SACHS, MAURICE (chron.)

• * Murder Can’t Take It, (ss) Mammoth Detective May 1945
  • 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997

SACKLER, HARRIETTE I. (chron.)

• * Mother Love, (ss) Chesapeake Crimes II, ed. Donna Andrews & Maria Y. Lima, Quiet Storm Books 2005

SADE, MARQUIS de (1740-1814) (chron.)

• * from Philisophy in the Bedroom, (ex)
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995; tr. by Richard Seaver & Austryn Wainhouse

SADLEMYER, JIM (chron.)

• * Story That Won:
  ___ Penalty of Law, (vi) AHMM Sep 2005

SaFRANKO, MARK (Peter) (1950- ) (chron.)

• * Acts of Revenge, (ss) EQMM Mar 2003
• * The Man in Unit 24, (ss) Hawaii Review Fll/Win 1999
• * The Pursuit of the Nonexistent, (ss) EQMM May 2001

SAGARA, MICHELLE M. (1963- ) (chron.)

• * What She Won’t Remember, (nv) Alternate Outlaws, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1994

SAGIRS, ROBERT, Jr. (chron.)

• * The Hired Hand, (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Jul 1997

SAHU, CATHY (chron.)

• * The Book of the Servant, (ss) AHMM Nov 1997
• * Mean Mr. Mullins, (ss) AHMM Sep 1997

SAINSBURY, GEOFFREY (chron.)

_____, trans.

• * A Matter of Life and Death, by Georges Simenon [Insp. Jules Maigret], (na) EQMM Jan 1952
  • EQMM mid-Dec 1990
  • Murder at Christmas, ed. Cynthia Manson, Signet 1991
  • Merry Murder, ed. Cynthia Manson, Seafarer 1994
  • Murder Most Merry, ed. Abigail Browning, Gramercy 2002

ST. CLAIR, ELIZABETH; pseudonym of Susan Handler Cohen, (1938- ) (chron.)

• * The Real Thing, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1981

ST. MAUR, HENRI; pseudonym of James H. S. Moynahan (chron.)

• * Sing-Sing Gal, (ss) Private Detective Stories Mar 1939

SAKEY, MARCUS (chron.)

• * As Breathing, (ss) These Guns for Hire, ed. J. A. Konrath, Bleak House Books 2006
• * Gravity and Need, (ss) Killer Year: Stories to Die For, ed. Lee Child, St. Martin’s Minotaur 2008
• * No One, (ss) Thirteen Magazine Apr 2005
  • Chicago Blues, ed. Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books 2007

SAKI; pseudonym of H. H. Munro, (1870-1916) (chron.)

• * The Blind Spot, (ss) Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane 1914
  • The Faber Book of Murder, ed. Simon Rae, Faber & Faber 1995
  • 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * The Hounds of Fate, (ss) The Westminster Gazette May 13 1911
  • AHMM Oct 1982
• * The Interlopers, (ss) The Bystander Jan 17 1912
  • Masterpieces of Surprise, ed. James L. Monahan, Hart 1966
• * Laura, (ss) Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane 1914
  • The Pan Book of Revenge Stories, ed. W. H. Cozens, London: Pan Books 1971
  • Mysteries, ed. Anon., London: Bracken Books 1994
• * The Open Window, (ss) The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 1911
  • Masterpieces of Surprise, ed. James L. Monahan, Hart 1966
• * The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, (ss)
  • Sins of the Fathers, ed. Mark Bryant, Gollancz 1997
• * Sredni Vashtar, (ss) The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910
  • Dark Arrows, ed. Alberto Manguel, Penguin Canada 1985
  • Master’s Choice Volume II, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley 2000

SALAAM, KALAMU ya (chron.)

• * All I Could Was Cry, (ss) New Orleans Noir, ed. Julie Smith, Akashic Books 2007; (Lower Ninth Ward).

SALAZAR, SANDRA (chron.)

• * A Matter of Principle (with Wayne L. Tappon), (ss) AHMM Sep 1997

SALE, (Caroline) MEDORA (1943- ); also as Caroline Roe (chron.)

• * Angels, (ss) Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod, Mysterious Press 1991
• * Estelle Is Dead, (ss) Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime, ed. Sara Paretsky, Signet 2007
• * The Mouse in the Matress, (ss) Criminal Shorts, ed. Eric Wright & Howard Engel, Macmillan Canada 1992
  • Investigating Women, ed. David Skene-Melvin, Simon & Pierre 1995