Rafferty, S. S., (John J. Hurley, 1930-2000)
--Things That Go Bump and Grind in the Night, September, 1976.
--Go Disco 'Tec, Chick! January 2, 1980. (novelette)
--The Hawk and High Society, August 13, 1980. (novelette)
--The Hawk and the Dome of Hell, September 16, 1981. (novelette)
--Tall Tommy and the Millionaire, September, 1982.
--Tall Tommy and the Millionaire, Winter, 1989. (reprint)
--Alectryon Slept, June, 1992. (reprint)

Ralston, Gilbert,
--A Very Cautious Boy, 1961.

Ramer, Edie,
--Retribution, September, 1990.
--Picking Daisies, June, 1991.
--A Pregnant Pause, October, 1992.
--Ripe for Death, September, 1993.

Randal, J.,
--Parrot Soup, July-August, 2000.

Raymond, Hope,
--Neighbors, July, 1989.

Reddall, D. H.,
--Seeing Red, October, 1990.
--Accounts Payable, June, 1991.
--Bad Blood, February, 1992.
--Backfire, September, 1992.
--Danger, Inc., June, 1993.
--Foursome, July, 1996.
--Bank Shot, June, 1997.
--Skin Game, January, 1999.
--Dead Weight, July-August, 2000.

Rees, Arthur J.,
--The Missing Passenger's Trunk, October, 1987. (reprint)

Reeve, Paul G.,
--Atossa, September, 1997.
--Chinese Puzzle, March, 2001. (novelette)

Reims, Gordon A.,
--A Summer Night's Visitor, August, 1987.

Reiss, Mike,
--Cro-Magnon, P.I., July-August, 1999. * Edgar
--Another Day in Paradise, July-August, 2000. *

Resnicow, Herbert,
--The Christmas Bear, January, 1990.
--Filial Gifts, April, 1990.
--The Moonstone Earrings, May, 1990.

Reynolds, William J.,
--The Two Ninety-Nine Alibi, February, 1986.
--Guilt Enough to Go Around, September, 1986.
--Hit and Run, December, 1987.
--An Afternoon in the Country, February, 1997.

Rice, Jane,
--The Misfits, February, 1989.

Richards, Tony,
--The Writing on the Wall, September, 1991.
--Hamadryad, December, 1991.

Richardson, D. L.,
--Hunter and the Widow, June, 1984. *
--Hunter and the Bayman Puzzle, August, 1986.
--Hunter and the Ice Man, October, 1987.
--Emerald Hookers and Gold Shields, March, 1991. * (novelette)
--Hunter and the Sanibel Trade, June, 1993. (novelette)
--G-Men and Old Loves, July, 1993.
--The Provenance of Death, June, 1994.

Riley, James W., (James Riley Weikart)
--Buried at Gettysburg, October, 2000.

Ripley, Ann, (Louise Eldridge)
--Woman in a Box, April, 1999.
--Skunked, October, 1999.

Ritchie, Jack, (1922-1983)
--Bullet-Proof, January, 1957.
--Bomb #14, August, 1957.
--Welcome to My Prison, October, 1957.
--Hospitality Most Serene, January, 1958.
--What Frightened You, Fred? May, 1958.
--#8, June, 1958.
--Where the Wheel Stops ..., October, 1958.
--Man on a Leash, December, 1958.
--22 Stories Up ... 22 Down, January, 1959.
--Frame-Up, April, 1959.
--The $5,000 Getaway, May, 1959.
--Such Things Happen at Night, July, 1959.
--Between 4 and 12, October, 1959.
--Painless Extraction, December, 1959.
--Falcons Fly Far, January, 1960.
--The Enormous $10, February, 1960.
--Fragrant Puzzle, March, 1960.
--Lily-White Town, May, 1960.
--When Buying a Fine Murder, June, 1960.
--The Fabulous Tunnel, September, 1960.
--Politics Is Simply Murder, November, 1960.
--The Crime Machine, January, 1961.
--You Can Trust Me, February, 1961.
--The Third Call, March, 1961.
--That Year's Victim, April, 1961.
--Play a Game of Cyanide, May, 1961. *
--For All the Rude People, June, 1961. *
--Under Dim Street Lights, July, 1961.
--Good-bye, Memory, August, 1961.
--The Traveling Arm, November, 1961.
--Punch Any Number, December, 1961.
--Holdout, March, 1962.
--Upside Down World, May, 1962.
--Where the Finger Points, October, 1962.
--The Eyes Have It, November, 1962.
--Traveler's Check, December, 1962.
--A Taste for Murder, January, 1963.
--Just Between Us, Dad, February, 1963.
--The Green Heart, March, 1963. * Cinema: A New Leaf, 1970. Also recent Off-Broadway Musical Adaptation
--The Operator, June, 1963. *
--Anyone for Murder? January, 1964.
--Silence Is Gold, April, 1964.
Ritchie, Jack, (continued)
--Sing a Song for Tony, April, 1965.
--Swing High, May 1965.
--A Piece of the World, June, 1965. *
--Memory Test, August, 1965.
--Package Deal, September, 1965. *
--Queasy Does It Not, October, 1965. *
--Copy Cat, January, 1966.
--Plan 19, April, 1966. *
--Twenty-Two Cents a Day, July, 1966. *
--Good-bye, Sweet Money, April, 1967.
--The Fifty-Cent Victims, May, 1967.
--The Push Button, June, 1967.
--With One Stone, July, 1967.
--The $15,000 Shack, August, 1967.
--The Best Driver in the Country, September, 1967. *
--By Child Undone, October, 1967. *
--Piggy Bank Killer, November, 1967.
--That Russian! May, 1968.
--The Killing Philosopher, June, 1968. *
--Dropout, January, 1969. *
--At Face Value, April, 1969.
--Pardon My Death Ray, October, 1969. *
--A Finger Here ... A Finger There, December, 1969.
Ritchie, Jack, (continued)
--The Havana Express, July, 1970.
--Take Another Look, August, 1971. *
--The Violet Business, September, 1971.
--Listen, PIgs, Listen, November, 1971.
--Home-Town Boy, December, 1971.
--In Open Hiding, March, 1972.
--Let Your Fingers Do the Walking, April, 1972.
--Tight Little Town, May, 1972.
--Rights and Wrongs, June, 1972.
--Finger Man, July, 1972. *
--The Value of Privacy, August, 1972.
--Four on an Alibi, April, 1973.
--But Don't Tell Your Mother, August, 1973.
--End of the Line, October, 1973.
--The Wastebasket, December, 1973.
--When the Sheriff Walked, December, 1974. *
--Too Solid Mildred, March, 1975.
--To the Barricades! April, 1975.
--Bedlam at the Budgie, May, 1975.
--The Angler, October, 1975. *
--Finger Exercise, March, 1976.
--Next in Line, April, 1976. *
--Kid Cardula, June, 1976. *
--My Compliments to the Cook, January, 1977.
--The Cardula Detective Agency, March, 1977. *
--An Odd Pair of Socks, May, 1977.
--The Canvas Caper, August, 1977.
--Variations on a Scheme, September, 1977. *
--Box in a Box, October, 1977. *
--Cardula to the Rescue, December, 1977.
--The Scent of Camellias, March, 1978.
--Cardula and the Kleptomaniac, April, 1978.
--Cardula's Revenge, November, 1978.
--The Return of Bridget, December, 1978.
--The Hanging Tree, January, 1979.
--Stakeout, April, 1979.
--You Could Get Killed, June, 1979.
Ritchie, Jack, (continued)
--The Last Journey, December 15, 1980.
--The Return of Cardula, February 3, 1982.
--Cardula and the Locked Rooms, March 31, 1982. *
--Ten Minutes from Now, January, 1986.
--Finger Man, Winter, 1989. (reprint)
--Variations on a Scheme, October, 1990. (reprint)
--The Angler, Mid-December, 1990. (reprint)
--The Killing Philosopher, June, 1991. (reprint)
--Pardon My Death Ray, Mid-December, 1991. (reprint)
--The Green Heart, December, 1997. (reprint)
--also see O'Connell, Steve
--also see O'Donnell, Steve

Ritchie, Steve,
--Post Mortem, May, 1987.
--You Can't Really Blame Them, November, 1996.

Roberts, Bethany,
--see Roberts, John Maddox, and Bethany Roberts

Roberts, John Maddox,
--Lotto, December, 1993.
--Mightier Than the Sword, Mid-December, 1993.
--Venus in Pearls, July-August, 2001.
--also see Roberts, John Maddox, and Bethany Roberts

Roberts, John Maddox, and Bethany Roberts,
--Powderburn, December, 1996.

Robinson, Brian,
--Missing the Sign, May, 1999. (author's first publication)
--Slave Without a Master, February, 2001.

Robinson, Gregor,
--The Haitian Murders, Mid-December, 1987.
--The Disappearance of Daphne, April, 1988.
--Voodoo Death, February, 1989.
--Metamorphosis, December, 1989.
--Pearls from Heaven, December, 1990.
--Guns at the Edge of the Empire, March, 1991.
--A Stranger Comes to the Village June, 1992.
--Flight from the Palm Court, June, 1994.

Rogers, Chris,
--My Finger's in the Light Socket and My Head's in the Oven, May, 1996.

Rolt, L. T. C.,
--The Mine, December, 1987. (reprint)

Romun, Isak,
--The Oracle of the Flag, December, 1987.
--Brittany, November, 1988.
--The Oriana Folio, June, 1989.
--The Pulcinella Pastiche, December, 1989.
--The Message, October, 1990. (reprint)
--The Colsum Painting, March, 1994.

Ross, Alec,
--Undercover, October, 1990.

Roth, Holly,
--The Pursuer, 1959.

Rowen, Ted,
--The Snake Bites Twice, July-August, 1997.

Rozan, S. J.,
--Body English, December, 1992.

Ruark, E. B.,
--Ante Bellum, July-August, 2002.

Runyon, Charles W.,
--A Good Head for Murder, November, 1974.

Runyon, Damon, (1880-1946)
--Butch Minds the Baby, September, 1982. (reprint, 1930)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, (1960- )
--The Young Shall See Visions, and the Old Dream Dreams, July, 1989.
--Little Miracles, June, 1992.
--Scars, 1995. *
--Updates, September, 2000.

Russell, Lee,
--The Man at the Back of the Bus, December, 1988.

Rzetelny, Harriet,
--Graveyard Blues, October, 1999. (author's first publication)
--Angel Dust, June, 2001.
--Amazing Grace, February, 2003. (novelette)