Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2007

Stories, Listed by Title

• Now What? • Donald E. Westlake • (ss)
• Now You See Her • Jeffrey M. Wallmann • (ss)
• Now You See Her... • Robert L. Iles • (ss)
• Now You See It • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Now You See It • Jeffry Scott • (ss)
• Now You See It... Now You Don’t • Nan Hamilton • (ss)
• “Now, wha this tale o’ truth shall read...” • Rod Munro • (ss)
• Nowarian Blues • Ramabai Espinet • (ss)
• Nowhere Man • Miguel Mejides • (ss)
• Nowhere to be Found • Mat Coward • (ss)
• Nowhere to Run • Mark Timlin • (ss)
• Now’s the Time • John Harvey • (ss)
• A Noxious Drudge • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• Nuances Before Noon • Ruth Wildes Schuler • (ss)
• The Nude Over the Bar • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Nude with Snow Geese • Eve Fisher • (ss)
• Nudes Ascending a Staircase • Renée M. Charles • (nv)
• The Nuggy Bar • Simon Brett • (nv)
• Nuisance • Sean Farrell • (ss)
• Numb • Wayne A. Harold • (ss)
• The Number 12 Jinx • Jon L. Breen • (ss)
• Number 13 • M. R. James • (ss)
• Number 19 • Naomi Hirahara • (ss)
• #8 • Jack Ritchie • (ss)
• No. 40 Basin Street • O’Neil De Noux • (nv)
• #2, with a Bullet • Jack Nimersheim • (ss)
• Numbers • Scott Mackay • (ss)
• Numbers Game • Patricia McGerr • (ss)
• Numbers Game • Richard Thompson • (ss)
• Numbers Up • Miles Marshall Lewis • (ss)
• The Number’s Up • Cornell Woolrich • (ss)
• Numbskulls • George Elliott Clarke • (ss)
• Numskulduggery • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• Nunc Dimittis • Roald Dahl • (nv)
• Nuntheless • John H. Dirckx • (nv)
• The Nuremberg Ripper • William L. Fieldhouse • (nv)
• Nursery Crimes • Carolyn T. Crew • (pm)
• Nursery Sam • Ben Bova • (nv)
• The Nursing Home Horror • Joseph Payne Brennan • (nv)
• The Nymph and the Doctor • Alice M. Dodge • (na)
• NYPDaughter • Triss Stein • (ss)
• O Death Where Is Thy Sting • Kevin Guilfoile • (ss)
• O Little Hound of Bethlehem • Taylor McCafferty • (ss)
• O! Little Town of Bedlam • Toni Brill • (nv)
• “O, Poisonous Weed!” • F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre • (ss)
• O, Virginia • Stephen Gallagher • (ss)
• The O-Bon Cat • I. J. Parker • (nv)
• The Oak’s Long Shadow • Joan S. Richter • (ss)
• Oalámaóa • Gerald Kersh • (ss)
• Oasis • Hugh Lessig • (ss)
• The Oasis • Eddy Thomas • (ss)
• The Oath • Marilyn Wallace • (ss)
• Oaths, Ohana, and Everything • Diana Hansen-Young • (ss)
• Oatmeal • Dori MacDonald • (ss)
• Oatmeal Cookies • Margaret Searles • (ss)
• The O’Bannon Blarney File • Joe Gores • (ss)
• Obeah, My Love • Barbara Collins • (ss)
• Obit for Obie • Fredric Brown • (na)
• The Obit Writer • Terry Kay • (ss)
• Obituaries in 2007 • Edward D. Hoch • (ob)
• The Obituarists’ Outing • Tim Heald • (nv)
• Obituary • Thomas Dwyer • (ss)
• Obituary • Fletcher Flora • (ss)
• The Obituary Thefts • Diana Meyers • (ss)
• The Object Lesson • W. H. Guernon • (ss)
• An Object of Scandal and Concern • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Objects in Mirror • Kelly Simon • (ss)
• Oblique. Vengeance • K. G. McAbee • (ss)
• The Oblong Room • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• The Obo Mystery • Eric Mayer & Mary Reed • (ss)
• Obscurocious • Ray Aldridge • (ss)
• Observable Justice • Will Murray • (nv)
• Observations on Lorimer Street • Joseph Payne Brennan • (ss)
• Obsessions • Christine Spindler & Karen Wiesner • (nv)
• Obstacle Course • Reynalda C. Mondragón • (pm)
• The Obvious Clew • Johnston McCulley • (na)
• The Obvious Factor • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• The Occidental and Catfish Express • Ron Butler • (nv)
• Occult Compensation • Ralph McInerny • (ss)
• Occupant Box 253 • Marilyn Pribus • (ss)
• Occupational Hazard • Linda Bosson • (pm)
• Occupational Hazard • Michael Collins • (ss)
• The Occupational Rehabilitation of Cousin Henry • Tom Tolnay • (ss)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• October Hearts • Gene KoKayKo • (nv)
• The Octopus of Hongkong • Loring Brent • (nv)
• An Odd Coincidence • James Pattinson • (ss)
• The Odd Man • Ellery Queen • (ss)
• The Odds • Thomas H. Cook • (ss)
• The Odds • Herbert Resnicow • (ss)
• Odds Against • Dick Francis • (ex)
• The Odds Against Mack Meadows • James A. Noble • (ss)
• Odds Against McGill • F. W. Murray • (ss)
• The Odds Are Even • Mary Ruth Furman • (ss)
• Odds on a Gypsy • Edward D. Hoch • (ss)
• Odds on Death • Brett Halliday • (na)
• Odds on Death • James M. Reasoner • (na)
• Odds on the Eight-Ball • Robert Leslie Bellem • (nv)
• Oddsmaker • Edward Wellen • (ss)
• Ode to Jessica Fletcher • Anita J. Franke • (pm)
• An Ode to Julian Symmons on His 80th Birthday • Gavin Ewart • (pm)
• Ode to the O’s • Charlie Stella • (ss)
• Odie and the Zoo • Jeff Grubb • (ss)
• The Odour of Sanctity • Kate Ellis • (ss)
• The Odstock Curse • Peter Lovesey • (ss)
• The Odyssey • Elmore Leonard • (rr)
• The Odyssey of Everyman • Robert Loy • (nv)
• The Odyssey of the Penelope Anne • Kenneth C. Goldman • (nv)
• Oedipus to Homer • Jack Fargo • (ss)
• The Oedipus Variation • Antony Mann • (ss)
• Of a Vanishment • F. R. Buckley • (ss)
• Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable • Barbara D’Amato • (ss)
• Of Death and Dogs • Clyde Haywood • (nv)
• Of Dogs and Men • Mark S. Joy • (ss)
• Of Mice, Men and Two Woman • Julian Rathbone • (ss)
• Of Pearls and Swine • Garrett Russell • (ss)
• Of Persephone, Poe, and the Whisperer • Tom Piccirilli • (ss)
• Of Scandals and Skeletons • Brenda Melton Burnham • (ss)
• Of Soaring Memory • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Of Strange Loops and Black Valentines • Jonathan Littell • (ar)
• Of That Juggernaut • J. Richard Reed • (ss)
• Of the Five Who Came... • Fletcher Flora • (nv)
• Of the Fog • Ed Gorman • (nv)
• Of Tooth and Claw • Manda Scott • (ss)
• Of Tryants and Sovereigns • Billie Sue Mosiman • (ss)
• Of Vice and Men • John Large • (pm)
• Of Wax and Watermarks • R. T. Lawton • (nv)
• Off and Running, or, Bob Swillet’s Luck (Bad) • Lawrence Doorley • (ss)
• Off the Face of the Earth • Clayton Rawson • (nv)
• Off the Interstate • Brendan DuBois • (ss)
• Off the Turnpike • Amy Lowell • (pm)
• Off the Wall • Neil Jillett • (ss)
• Off-Season • Jeremiah Healy • (na)
• Offenders • Mat Coward • (ss)
• An Officer and a Lady • Rex Stout • (ss)
• Officer Down • Stephen D. Rogers • (ss)
• Officers Weep • Daniel Orozco • (ss)
• Official Business • Editor • (cl)
• The Official Secrets Corporation • David Braly • (ss)
• The Ogopogo Affair • Mel D. Ames • (nv)
• Oh, Brother • Mark Leyner • (ss)
• Oh, Mona • Dan A. Sproul • (ss)
• Oh, To Be in England! • Carolyn Wheat • (ss)
• Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave • Parnell Hall • (nv)
• Oh, Who Hath Done This Deed? • Susan Moody • (ss)
• Oil and Water • William Bankier • (ss)
• Oil and Water • J. A. Jance • (ss)
• Oil and Water • Michael Z. Lewin • (ss)
• Oil of Dog • Ambrose Bierce • (ss)
• Ojai Once Again • Robert Twohy • (nv)
• Okay, Diogenes, You Can Stop Looking—We Found Him • Barbara Paul • (nv)
• Okayed for Browns • Mark Best • (ss)
• The Olcott Nostrum • Joseph Hansen • (nv)
• Old Anthony’s Ghost • F. A. M. Webster • (ss)
• Old Bag Dad • Keith Miles • (ss)
• The Old Barn on the Pond • Ursula Curtiss • (ss)
• Old Bones • Eileen Dewhurst • (ss)
• Old Bones • Jennifer DiCamillo & C. J. Winters • (ss)
• Old Bones • Barbara Hafen • (ss)
• Old Boys, Old Girls • Edward P. Jones • (nv)
• The Old Buddha’s Bed • Charles Gilson • (nv)
• Old Buddies • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• The Old Building • Vera Searles • (vi)
• Old Calamity Stages an Act • Joseph Fulling Fishman • (ss)
• Old Calamity Tries a Bluff • Joseph Fulling Fishman • (ss)
• Old Calamity’s Stick-up • Joseph Fulling Fishman • (ss)
• An Old Charge • Don Marquis • (ss)
• Old Charlie • Joe R. Lansdale • (ss)
• Old Con • Jas. R. Petrin • (ss)
• The Old Corbin House • Robert Halsted • (nv)
• The Old Couple • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• Old Dog Days • Toni L. P. Kelner • (ss)
• Old Dog, New Tricks • Robert Barnard • (ss)
• The Old Dons • Robert J. Randisi • (nv)
• Old Eyes • Nancy Pickard • (nv)
• An Old Fashioned Poisoning • John Baker • (ss)
• Old Flame • Taylor McCafferty • (ss)
• Old Foister, A Folk Tale The Man with Moon Hands • O’Neil De Noux • (ss)
• The Old Folks’ Home Murder • Alan Sewart • (ar)
• Old Friends • Dorothy Salisbury Davis • (ss)
• The Old Gray Cat • Joyce Harrington • (ss)
• Old Ground • Garry Disher • (ss)
• The Old Guard • Gary Lovisi • (ss)
• The Old Gun • Ken Bruen • (ss)
• Old Guy • Maitland LeRoy Osborne • (ss)
• Old Habits • Patricia Matthews • (ss)
• Old Habits Die Hard • William J. Pomidor • (ss)
• Old Heroes Never Die • Curt Ladnier • (ss)
• The Old Hidden Ball Trick • Robert Gray • (ss)
• Old Hokey • Robert A. Garron • (ss)
• An Old Husbands’ Tale • Susan Geason • (ss)
• Old Karl and the Angel • Richard E. Reeve • (ss)
• Old Killeen’s Promise • Thomas Walsh • (ss)
• The Old Lady Keeps Cool • Mary Amlaw • (ss)
• The Old Lag • R. Austin Freeman • (nv)
• The Old Lawyer’s Tale • Charles Duff • (ss)
• The Old Man • Daphne du Maurier • (ss)
• Old Man Emmons • Talmage Powell • (ss)
• The Old Man in the Window • Margery Allingham • (nv)
• Old Man Menace • Louis Joseph Vance • (ss)
• The Old Man of Chickamauga • D. L. Siluk • (ss)
• The Old Man Who Saw Newgrange • J. N. Williamson • (ss)
• Old Man Winter • Barbara A. Custer • (ss)
• Old Men Die Too Late • William Norman • (ss)
• Old Mr. Granada • Eudora Welty • (ss)
• Old Mr. Marblehall • Eudora Welty • (ss)
• An Old Offender • Charles Howard • (ss)
• Old People Listen Harder • Alec Ross • (ss)
• Old Pete • H. R. F. Keating • (ss)
• The Old Pine Lodge • Lisa René Smith • (ss)
• The Old Pine Tree Is No More • John F. Suter • (ss)
• Old Police Trails • Harry Van Demark • (ar)
• An Old Portrait • X. L. Woo • (ss)
• Old Pot’s Decision • Nick Carr • (ss)
• The Old Pro • H. A. DeRosso • (ss)
• The Old Pro • Louis Riley • (ss)
• The Old Purse • Isaac Asimov • (ss)
• Old Rattler • Sharyn McCrumb • (ss)