Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Chronological List

PATTISON, ELIOT (1951- ) (stories)

• “Fighting Cheek: Eliot Pattison” by Barry Forshaw (iv) Crime Time #23 2001

PATTON, DOROTHY L. (stories)

• The Story That Won: The Rebel (vi) AHMM Nov 2000

PATTON, FIONA (1962- ) (stories)

• A Dying Life (ss) Mob Magic, ed. Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1998

PATTON, JIM (1953- ) (stories)

• Capital of the World (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Chinatown, N.W).

PATTON, SHERRI (stories)

• God Helps Those (ss) Gone Coastal, ed. Margaret Searles, Seven Sisters Publishing, Inc. 2006

PATTRICK, ROBERT R. (stories)

• Ponderings by the Politician (ss) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965 [Sherlock Holmes]
• A Sherlockian Zoo [with Adelaide P. Ewing] (ss) West by One and by One, ed. Anon. (Poul Anderson), The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County 1965 [Sherlock Holmes]

PAUL, BARBARA (Jeanne) (1931- ) (books) (stories)

• The Favor (ss) Mystery Monthly Jul 1976
• Appetites (ss) EQMM Aug 1987
• Desperate Remedies (ss) EQMM Aug 1987; also as “Appetites”.
• Archimedes and the Doughnuts [with Gene DeWeese] (ss) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• Scat (nv) Cat Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1991
• Making Lemonade (nv) Sisters in Crime 4, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley 1991
• Jack Be Quick (nv) Solved, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1991
• Who What When Where Why (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• Homebodies (nv) Malice Domestic 1, Elizabeth Peters, Pocket 1992
• Ho, Ho, Ho (ss) Santa Clues, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Signet 1993
• Close, But No Cigar (ss) Danger in D.C., ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine 1993
• Play Nice (ss) EQMM Mar 1994
• Spacecat (nv) Feline and Famous, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fell 1994
• Okay, Diogenes, You Can Stop Looking—We Found Him (nv) Murder Most Delicious, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet 1995
• The Secret (ss) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• Midnight Sun (nv) Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1995
• French Asparagus (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1996
• The Sleuth of Christmas Past (nv) Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1996 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997 [Enrico Caruso]
• Sic Transit Gloria (nv) EQMM Aug 1997
• Auld Lang What? (nv) Cat Crimes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman & Larry Segriff, Fine 1997
• Go to the Devil (ss) Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives, ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge 1998
• Stet (ss) Brought to Book, ed. Penny Sumner, London: Women’s Press 1998
• The Secret President (nv) The First Lady Murders, ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket 1999
• Jack Be Quick and Other Crime Stories (co) Five Star 1999
• Clean Sweep (nv) A New York State of Crime, ed. Anon., Worldwide Library 1999
• The Reluctant Op (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 1999
• Shakespeare Minus One (nv) Future Crimes, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW 1999
• Eleemosynary, My Dear Watson (nv) More Holmes for the Holidays, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg & Carol-Lynn Waugh, Berkley 1999 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Golden Retriever (ss) EQMM Dec 2001 [Callie Darrow]
• Introduction (in)

PAUL, J. A. (stories)

• The Time Between (ss) AHMM Mar 1990
• When God’s in Town (ss) AHMM Sep 1991
• The Mirror (nv) AHMM Jun 1994
• Casting the Witch (ss) AHMM Feb 1996
• Streetwise (ss) AHMM Jul/Aug 1997

PAUL, LINDA (stories)

• King José’s Hobby (pm) AHMM Jun 1993
• King José’s Hobby, Part II (pm) AHMM Jun 1995

PAUL, PERRY (stories)

• The Jane from Hell’s Kitchen (nv) Gun Molls Magazine Oct 1930
• The Madame Naturals (ss) Gun Molls Magazine Aug 1931

PAULE, ARNE (stories)

• The Dead Canary (ss)

PAULEY, KIMBERLY (stories)

• One of the Boys (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

PAULSON, SANDRA WOELFL (stories)

• The Story That Won: Forgettable (vi) AHMM Jan/Feb 2006

PAUSACKER, JENNY (1948- ) (books) (stories)

• Recipes for Crime [with Kerry Greenwood] (oc) McPhee Gribble 1995
• The Baroness’s Companion [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• The Boar’s Head Carol [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• The Famous Five Go Pop [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• The Fascinating Fantasy of a Feather to Fly With [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• Investigating the Detectives [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• Many a Slip [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• Puttin’ On the Ritz [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• A Sandwich for the Hero [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)
• Supper with Phryne Fisher [with Kerry Greenwood] (ar)
• The Willow Tree Murder [with Kerry Greenwood] (ss)

PAWEL, REBECCA (stories)

• The Story That Won: Bleeding Black (vi) AHMM Dec 2004
• The Kiss of Death (ss) A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, ed. Megan Abbott, Busted Flush Press 2007

PAWLOWSKI, DAN (stories)

• The Story That Won: Through the Rye (vi) AHMM Nov 2003

PAWSON, STUART (1940- ) (stories)

• Flower Power (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• Ultra Violent (ss) Murder Squad, ed. Malcolm Edwards, Flambard Press 2001
• Les’s Story (ss) I.D.: Crimes of Identity, ed. Martin Edwards, Comma Press 2006

PAYNE, EVELYN (Cameron) (1907-1977) (stories)

• The Woman Who Could Not Lie (ss) AHMM Jun 1971
• The Hamburger Mind (ss) AHMM Jul 1972

PAYNE, (Pierre Stephen) ROBERT (1911-1983) (stories)

• The Green Palms (nv) Story 1947

PAYNE, STEVE (stories)

• The Freezing Fiends (sl) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep 1996 [Secret Agent X]

PAYNE, WILL (1865-1954) (stories)

• The Detectives (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1899

PAZMINO, PETE (stories)

• Fishbowl (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #41 2003

PEACOCK, WILBUR SCOTT (1915-1979) (stories)

• Eye-Witness (ss) Dime Mystery Magazine Nov 1945

PEAKE, MERVYN (Laurence) (1911-1968) (stories)

• from Titus Groan (ex)

PEARCE, GERALD (1928-2003?) (stories)

• Gemini (nv) EQMM Mar 1993
• Homecoming (nv) EQMM Sep/Oct 1998
• Revenant (nv) EQMM Dec 2002

PEARCE, MICHAEL (1933- ) (stories)

• The Mamur Zapt and His House of Doves (nv) A Suit of Diamonds, ed. Anon., Collins 1990 [Mamur Zapt]
• The Mamur Zapt and the Kodaker’s Eye (ss) Crime Through Time, ed. Miriam Grace Monfredo & Sharan Newman, Berkley 1997 [Mamur Zapt]
• The Mamur Zapt and the Catherine Wheel (nv) Past Poisons, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Headline 1998 [Mamur Zapt]
• The Mamur Zapt and the Lemonade Seller (ss) The Strand Magazine #6 2001
• Made in Egypt (ss) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2002 [Mamur Zapt]
• The Prints of the Beast (ss) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2007

PEARSOL, JOHN G. (stories)

• A Lesson in Homicide (ss) Detective Tales Feb 1939

PEARSON, EDMUND (Lester) (1880-1937) (stories)

• Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Apr 2 1913 [Sherlock Holmes]

PEARSON, RIDLEY (1953- ) (stories)

• Close Shave (na) Murder Is My Racquet, ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press 2002
• Queeny (ss) Death Do Us Part, ed. Harlen Coben, Back Bay Books 2006

PEARSON, SCOTT (stories)

• Out of the Jacuzzi, into the Sauna (ss) Resort to Murder, ed. Anon., Nodin Press 2007

PECHEY, ARCHIBALD (stories)

• The Man Who Scared the Bank (ss) Pearson’s Magazine Dec 1928 [Daphne Wrayne]

PECK, DALE (1967- ) (stories)

• Bliss (ss) Zoetrope All-Story Sum 2000

PEDEN, MARGARET SAYERS (1927- ) (stories)

• The Judge’s Wife, by Isabel Allende (ss) The Stories of Eva Luna, Antheneum 1991

PEDERSON, JOHN R. (stories)

• Reluctant Killer (nv) Guilty Detective Story Magazine May 1959
• New Gun in Town (ss) Trapped Detective Story Magazine Feb 1960

PEDROSE, LAWRENCE WILLIAM (stories)

• Standing Orders (ss) Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories Apr/May 1927

PEEL, JOHN (Ronald) (1954- ) (stories)

• Toccata and Feud (ss) The Literary Review Spr 1999

PEIRCE, FRANK (stories)

• The Story That Won: So Much at Stake! (vi) AHMM Jul 1993
• The Story That Won: GITTHEMESSAGE?GOTIT! (vi) AHMM Dec 1994
• The Story That Won: Aliens (vi) AHMM Mar 2002

PEIRCE, HAYFORD (1942- ) (stories)

• Untitled (ss) AHMM Apr 1985
• The Stolen Grandfather (ss) AHMM Jul 1985 [Joe Canelli]
• A Coffin for a Banker (ss) EQMM Mar 1994 [Commissaire Alexandre Tama]
• Fire in the Islands (ss) EQMM Apr 1995 [Joe Canelli]
• The Missing House (nv) EQMM Jul 1995 [Joe Canelli]
• The Dead Dog (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1996 [Commissaire Alexandre Tama]
• The Fatted Goose (ss) EQMM Jan 1998 [Commissaire Alexandre Tama]
• A Matter of Face (ss) EQMM Feb 1998
• The Girl in the Picture (ss) EQMM Sep/Oct 1999 [Joe Canelli]

PEIRCE, J. F. (stories)

• Cassandra’s Castle; or, The Devious Disappearances (ss) EQMM May 1975
• Worse Things Can Happen (vi) AHMM Oct 1 1980
• The Theft That Wasn’t a Theft (ss) EQMM Dec 1 1980
• Ace in the Hole (ss) EQMM Oct 7 1981
• The 39-Cent Theft (ss) The Saint Magazine Jun 1984
• The Contract (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1984
• Smiley’s Faces (ss) Espionage Magazine Apr 1986; given as by J.F. Pierce in toc.
• The Spy Who Came in With a Cold (ss) Espionage Magazine Jun 1986
• The Story That Won: The Magic Circle (vi) AHMM Jun 1996
• The Story That Won: Out on a Limb (vi) AHMM Nov 1999
• The Story That Won: The Further Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (vi) AHMM Feb 2000
• The Story That Won: One Way (vi) AHMM Jul/Aug 2007

PELAN, JOHN C. (books) (stories)

• Shadows Over Baker Street [ed. with J. Michael Reaves] (oa) Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]
• The Mystery of the Worm (ss) Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. Michael Reaves & John Pelan, Ballantine Del Rey 2003 [Sherlock Holmes]
• Introduction [with J. Michael Reaves] (in)

PELECANOS, GEORGE (books) (stories)

• Night and the City (mr) Hardboiled #15 1993
• New on Film (mr) Hardboiled #16 1993, #17, #18, #19 1994, #20 1995, #21 1996
• When You’re Hungry (nv) Unusual Suspects, ed. James Grady, Vintage 1996
• Carioca Hungry (ss) New Mystery v4 #1 1996
• “In Praise of the Underappreciated: Pelecanos (HHC)” by J. Michael Blue (ar) Plots with Guns Jan/Feb 2001
• “The PWG Interviews: George Pelecanos” by Stacey Cochran (iv) Plots with Guns Mar/Apr 2004
• String Music (nv) Murder at the Foul Line, ed. Otto Penzler, Mysterious Press 2006
• DC Noir [ed.] (oa) Akashic Books 2006
• The Confidential Informant (ss) DC Noir, ed. George Pelecanos, Akashic Books 2006; (Park View, N.W.).
• Introduction (in)

PELECANOS, GEORGE P. (1957- ) (stories)

• The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us (ss) Measures of Poison, ed. Dennis McMillan, Dennis McMillan 2002
• Plastic Paddy (nv) Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, Heinemann 2003

PELEGRIMAS, MARCUS (stories)

• Eyes on the Road (nv) Mystery Street, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet 2001 [Lambert Rowland]
• The Right Tool for the Job (nv) Greatest Hits, Robert J. Randisi, Carroll & Graf 2005

PELEGRIMAS, MARTHAYN (1948- ); see pseudonym Christine Matthews (books) (stories)

• I’m Not That Kind of Girl (ss) Radio Void Aug 1989
• The Dirt Eaters (ss) Homicide Hosts Presents, ed. Helen Esper Olmsted, Write Way Publishing 1996
• I’m a Dirty Girl (ss) American Pulp, ed. Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Carroll & Graf 1997
• I Love Everything About You [with Robert J. Randisi] (ss) Till Death Do Us Part, ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley 1999
• A Pair of Queens (ss) Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2002
• Money-Back Guarantee [with Michael J. Randisi] (ss) Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin, ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press 2003

PELLAR, SIMON (stories)

• Tattoo Blue, by Eva Kacirkova (ss) New Mystery Win 1994

PELLRENE, DONNA A. (stories)

• Way to Go (pm) EQMM Feb 1990

PELUSO, R. M. (stories)

• La Bruha del Barrio (ss) Murder New York Style, ed. Randy Kandel, L & L Dreamspell 2007

PEMBERTON, MARGARET (1943- ) (stories)

• Red-Handed (ss) New Crimes 2, ed. Maxim Jakubowski, London: Robinson 1990

PEMBERTON, [Sir] MAX (1863-1950) (stories)

• The Opal of Carmalovitch (ss)

PENDLETON, DON(ald Eugene) (1927-1995) (stories)

• Willing to Kill (ss) The Great American Detective, ed. William Kittredge & Steven M. Krauzer, Mentor 1978 [Mack Bolan]

PENICK, ALAN (stories)

• The Mystery Crossword (pz) EQMM Dec 1993, Feb 1994

PENN, VINNIE (stories)

• Diary of a Superhero (ss) Danger City, ed. Jess Dukes, Mike Segretto & Jeffrey Dinsmore, Contemporary Press 2005

PENNCAVAGE, MICHAEL (stories)

• The Patsy (ss) Detective Mystery Stories #36 2003
• The Story That Won: Through the Glass, Darkly (vi) AHMM Oct 2003
• The Final Fling (ss) Hardboiled #32 2004

PENNINGTON, L. SHEPHERD (stories)

• Tomorrow’s Promise (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Dec 1997
• Maybe if I Scream (ss) Classic Pulp Fiction Stories Oct 1999

PENTECOST, HUGH; pseudonym of Judson Philips, (1903-1989) (books) (stories)

• Room Number 23 (ss) Flynn’s Detective Fiction Jun 20 1925
• The Fourth Degree (ss) EQMM May 1948 [Dr. John Smith]
• Murder in Manhattan (nv) The American Magazine Feb 1952
• The Dagger (na) The American Magazine Feb 1953; also as “The Last Full Measure”.
• The Last Full Measure (na) The American Magazine Feb 1953
• The Day the Children Vanished (nv) This Week 1958; also as “The Day the School Bus Vanished”.
• The Day the School Bus Vanished (nv) This Week 1958
• Jericho and the Skiing Clue (ss) EQMM Nov 1964 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Painting Clue (ss) EQMM Jul 1965 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Dying Clue (ss) EQMM Oct 1965 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Silent Witnesses (na) EQMM Nov 1965 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Nuisance Clue (ss) EQMM Aug 1966 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Dead Clue (ss) EQMM Dec 1971 [John Jericho]
• Jericho and the Two Ways to Die (ss) EQMM Sep 1972 [John Jericho]