Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

A Peter Lovesey Checklist

Wobble to Death, Macmillan 1970; Dodd, Mead 1970 (Sergeant Cribb)

The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, Macmillan 1971; Dodd, Mead 1971 (Sergeant Cribb)

Abracadaver, Macmillan 1972; Dodd, Mead 1972 (Sergeant Cribb)

Mad Hatter’s Holiday, Macmillan 1973; Dodd, Mead 1973 (Sergeant Cribb)

Invitation to a Dynamite Party, Macmillan 1974; as The Tick of Death, Dodd, Mead 1974 (Sergeant Cribb)

A Case of Spirits, Macmillan 1975; Dodd, Mead 1975 (Sergeant Cribb)

Swing, Swing Together, Macmillan 1976; Dodd, Mead 1976 (Sergeant Cribb)

Waxwork, Macmillan 1978; Pantheon 1978 (Sergeant Cribb)

The False Inspector Dew, Macmillan 1982; Pantheon 1982

Keystone, Macmillan 1983; Pantheon 1983

Rough Cider, Macmillan 1986; Mysterious Press 1987

Bertie and the Tinman, Bodley Head 1987; Mysterious Press 1988 (Bertie)

On the Edge, Century Hutchinson 1989; Mysterious Press 1989

Bertie and the Seven Bodies, Century Hutchinson 1990; Mysterious Press 1990

The Last Detective, Scribners 1991; Doubleday 1991 (Peter Diamond)

Diamond Solitaire, Little, Brown 1993; Mysterious Press 1993 (Peter Diamond)

Bertie and the Crime of Passion, Little, Brown 1993; Mysterious Press 1993 (Bertie)

The Summons, Little, Brown 1995; Mysterious Press 1995 (Peter Diamond)

Bloodhounds, Little, Brown 1996; Mysterious Press 1996 (Peter Diamond)

Upon a Dark Night, Little, Brown 1997; Mysterious Press 1998 (Peter Diamond)

The Vault, Little, Brown 1999; Soho Press 2000 (Peter Diamond)

The Reaper, Little, Brown 2000; Soho Press 2000 (Peter Diamond)

The House Sitter, Little, Brown 2003; Soho Press 2003 (Peter Diamond)

The Circle, Time Warner 2005; Soho Press 2005 (Hen Mallin)

The Secret Hangman, Sphere 2007; Soho Press 2007 (Peter Diamond)

The Headhunters, Sphere 2008; Soho Press 2008 (Hen Mallin)

Skeleton Hill, Sphere 2009; Soho Press 2009 (Peter Diamond)

Stagestruck, Sphere 2011; Soho Press 2011 (Peter Diamond)

Cop to Corpse, Sphere 2012; Soho Press 2012 (Peter Diamond)

The Tooth Tattoo, Sphere 2013; Soho Press 2013 (Peter Diamond)

The Stone Wife, Sphere 2014; Soho Press 2014 (Peter Diamond)

Down Among the Dead Men, Sphere 2015; Soho Press 2016 (Peter Diamond)

Another One Goes Tonight, Sphere 2016; Soho Press 2016 (Peter Diamond)

Beau Death, Sphere 2017; Soho Press 2017 (Peter Diamond)

Killing With Confetti, Sphere 2019; Soho Press 2019 (Peter Diamond)

The Finisher, Sphere 2020; Soho Press 2020 (Peter Diamond)

Diamond and the Eye, Sphere, 2021; Soho Press, 2021 (Peter Diamond)

I: Collections

Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985; Mysterious Press 1987

The Staring Man and Other Stories, a signed limited edition containing four stories from Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Eurographica, Helsinki 1989

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories, Little, Brown 1994; Crippen & Landru 2019

Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, Crippen & Landru 1998; Little, Brown 1998

The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001; Allison & Busby 2002

Murder on the Short List, Crippen & Landru 2008; Severn House 2009

Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories, Soho Press 2022; Sphere 2022

II: Collaborations

‘Plotting the Perfect Murder,’ Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, Nancy Pickard and Donald E. Westlake, edited by Jack Hitt, Harper’s Magazine, September 1988

The Rigby File, edited by Tim Heald, Hodder & Stoughton 1989

The Perfect Murder, Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, Donald E. Westlake, edited by Jack Hitt, HarperCollins 1991

The Ideas Experiment, Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin, Peter Lovesey, PawPaw Press 2006

The Sinking Admiral, edited by Simon Brett and written by members of the Detection Club, HarperCollins 2016

III: Edited Anthologies

The Black Cabinet: Stories Based on True Crimes, unlocked by Peter Lovesey, Xanadu 1989

3rd Culprit: A Crime Writers’ Annual, edited by Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin and Peter Lovesey, Chatto & Windus 1994

The Verdict of Us All: Stories by the Detection Club for H.R.F. Keating, edited by Peter Lovesey; Crippen & Landru 2005; Allison & Busby 2006

IV: Tribute

Motives for Murder: A Celebration of Peter Lovesey on his 80th Birthday by Members of the Detection Club, edited by Martin Edwards, foreword by Len Deighton; Crippen & Landru 2016; Sphere 2016

V: Short Stories

By date of first publication in Britain and USA; some were retitled by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and both titles are listed

‘The Bathroom,’ Winter’s Crimes 5, Macmillan 1973; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime and Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Locked Room,’ Winter’s Crimes 10, Macmillan 1978; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘Behind the Locked Door’ (retitled from ‘The Locked Room’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1979

‘How Mr Smith Traced His Ancestors,’ Mystery Guild Anthology, Book Club Associates 1980; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘A Man with a Fortune’ (retitled from ‘How Mr Smith Traced His Ancestors’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 3 November 1980

‘A Bride in the Bath,’ (retitled from ‘The Bathroom’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 21 August 1981

‘Butchers,’ Winter’s Crimes 14, Macmillan 1982; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-July 1982, as ‘The Butchers’; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime and in The Staring Man and Other Stories

‘Taking Possession,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 1982; collected as ‘Woman and Home’ in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime and The Staring Man and Other Stories

‘Belly Dance,’ Winter’s Crimes 15, Macmillan 1983; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘Keeping Fit’ (retitled from ‘Belly Dance’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1983

‘The Virgin and the Bull,’ John Creasey’s Mystery Crime Collection, Gollancz 1983; collected in Butchers and other Stories of Crime

‘Fall-Out,’ Company Magazine, May 1983;Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 1984; collected in Butchers and other Stories of Crime

‘The Virgoan and the Taurean’ (retitled from ‘The Virgin and the Bull’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1983

‘Did You Tell Daddy?’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1984; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘Arabella’s Answer,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1984; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘Vandals,’ Woman’s Own, 20 December 1984; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1985; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Secret Lover,’ Winter’s Crimes 17, Macmillan 1985; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1988; collected in Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Corder Figure,’ Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 1986; also collected in The Staring Man and Other Stories

‘Private Gorman’s Luck,’ Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1985

‘The Staring Man,’ Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, October 1985; also collected in The Staring Man and Other Stories

‘Trace of Spice,’ Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985

‘Woman and Home’ (retitled from ‘Taking Possession’), Butchers and Other Stories of Crime, Macmillan 1985

‘Murder in Store,’ Woman’s Own, 21 December 1985; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Curl Up and Dye,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1986; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Photographer Slain,’ Observer, 30 November 1986 (contest story)

‘Peer’s Grisly Find: Butler Dead in Bath,’ Observer, 7 December 1986 (contest story); printed as a separate pamphlet in 2001 as ‘The Butler Didn’t Do It,’ to accompany Crippen & Landru’s limited edition of The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Brighton Line Murder,’ Observer, 14 December 1986 (contest story); reprinted as a pamphlet to accompany Motives for Murder, Crippen & Landru 2016

‘The Poisoned Mince Pie,’ Observer, 21 December 1986 (contest story)

‘The Royal Plot,’ Observer, 28 December 1986 (contest story); reprinted as a pamphlet by Crippen & Landru, 2008

‘The Curious Computer,’ New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Carroll & Graf, 1987); collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Friendly Yachtsman, 39,’ Woman’s Own, 18 July 1987; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1988; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Pomeranian Poisoning,’ Winter’s Crimes 19, Macmillan 1987; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Zenobia Hatt Prize’ (retitled from ‘The Pomeranian Poisoning’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, August 1988

‘Where is Thy Sting?’ Winter’s Crimes 20, Macmillan 1988; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Wasp,’ (retitled from ‘Where is Thy Sting?’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 1988

‘Oracle of the Dead,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-December 1988; Best, 3 March 1989; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘A Case of Butterflies,’ Winter’s Crimes 21, Macmillan 1989; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1989; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Munich Posture,’ chapter in collaborative story The Rigby File, Hodder & Stoughton 1989

‘Youdunnit,’ New Crimes, Robinson 1989; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-December 1989 and September/October 2001; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Haunted Crescent,’ Mistletoe Mysteries, Mysterious Press 1989; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Shock Visit,’ Winter’s Crimes 22, Macmillan 1990; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Valuation’ (retitled from ‘Shock Visit’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1990

‘The Lady in the Trunk,’ A Classic English Crime, Pavilion 1990; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Ginger’s Waterloo,’ Cat Crimes, Donald L. Fine 1991; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Being of Sound Mind,’ Winter’s Crimes 23, Macmillan 1990; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 1991; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Christmas Present,’ Woman’s Own, 24 December 1990; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown,’ Midwinter Mysteries 1, Scribners 1991; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1991; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Supper with Miss Shivers’ (retitled from ‘The Christmas Present’), Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-December 1991; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories and The Usual Santas, Soho Press 2020

‘The Man Who Ate People,’ The Man Who..., Macmillan 1992; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, October 1992; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘You May See a Strangler,’ Midwinter Mysteries 2, Little, Brown 1992; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-December 1993; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Murder by Christmas Tree,’ Observer, 20 December 1992 (contest story); printed as a separate pamphlet to accompany Crippen & Landru’s limited edition of Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Pass the Parcel,’ Midwinter Mysteries 3, Little, Brown 1993; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, mid-December 1994; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Murder in the Library,’ Bath Evening Chronicle, 6 October 1993 (contest story)

‘The Model Con,’ Woman’s Realm Summer Special 1994; collected in The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

‘Bertie and the Fire Brigade,’ Royal Crimes, Signet 1994; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Odstock Curse,’ Murder for Halloween, Mysterious Press 1994; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Passion Killers,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 1994; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Case of the Easter Bonnet,’ Bath Chronicle, 17 April 1995; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1997; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Never a Cross Word,’ Mail on Sunday, 11 June 1995; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1997; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Mighty Hunter,’ Midwinter Mysteries 5, Little, Brown 1995; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 1996; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Proof of the Pudding,’ A Classic English Crime, Pavilion 1995; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Pushover,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 1995; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Quiet, Please — We’re Rolling,’ No Alibi, Ringpull 1995; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1996; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Wayzgoose,’ A Dead Giveaway, Warner Futura 1995; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1997; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Disposing of Mrs Cronk,’ Perfectly Criminal, Severn House 1996; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1997; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘A Parrot is Forever,’ Malice Domestic 5, Pocket Books 1996; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Bertie and the Boat Race,’ Crime Through Time, Berkley 1996; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘The Corbett Correspondence’ (with Keith Miles as Agent No.5 & Agent No.6), Malice Domestic 6, Pocket Books 1997

‘Because It Was There,’ Whydunnit? (Perfectly Criminal 2), Severn House 1997; collected in Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose

‘Ape,’ Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, summer 1998; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Showmen,’ Past Poisons, Headline 1998; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and other Stories of Crime

‘A Monologue for Mystery Lovers,’ (verse) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1999; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Four Wise Men,’ More Holmes for the Holidays, Berkley 1999; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Perfectionist,’ The Strand Magazine, April — July 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Word of a Lady,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and other Stories of Crime

‘The Sedgemoor Strangler,’ Criminal Records, Orion 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Interior, With Corpse,’ Scenes of the Crime, Severn House 2000; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, August 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Dr. Death,’ Crime Through Time III, Berkley 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Problem of Stateroom 10,’ Murder Through the Ages, Headline 2000; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and other Stories of Crime

‘The Amorous Corpse,’ Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes, Robinson 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Kiss of Death,’ published as Christmas pamphlet, Crippen & Landru 2000; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Away With the Fairies,’ Malice Domestic 10, Avon 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘Star Struck,’ Death by Horoscope, Carroll & Graf 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Usual Table,’ The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, Mysterious Press 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Butler Didn’t Do It’ (retitled from ‘Peer’s Grisly Find: Butler Dead in Bath’), pamphlet, Crippen & Landru 2001

‘Murdering Max,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2001; collected in The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime

‘The Stalker,’ The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime, Crippen & Landru 2001

‘Window of Opportunity,’ Sunday Express, 6 April 2003; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2004; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘The Man Who Jumped for England,’ Mysterious Pleasures, Little, Brown 2003; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2005; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘The Field,’ Green for Danger, Do Not Press 2003; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2004; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Second Strings,’ The Strand Magazine, June — September 2004. Collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Razor Bill,’ Sherlock, issue 60, 2004; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Bullets,’ The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits, Constable & Robinson 2004; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2005; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘The Case of the Dead Wait’ (in three parts), Daily Mail, 24, 27, 28 December 2004; complete in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2007; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Needle Match,’ Murder is My Racquet, Mysterious Press 2005; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Say That Again,’ The Ideas Experiment, PawPaw Press 2006; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2007; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘A Blow on the Head,’ ID Crimes of Identity, Comma Press 2006; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July 2008; collected in Murder on the Short List.

‘Popping Round to the Post,’ The Verdict of Us All, Allison & Busby 2006; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2007; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Bertie and the Christmas Tree,’ The Strand Magazine, October — December 2007; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘Agony Column,’ Red Herrings, May 2008; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November/December 2018; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Best Suit,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2008; collected in Murder on the Short List

‘The Homicidal Hat,’ pamphlet for Malice Domestic XX, Crippen & Landru 2008; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Deadliest Tale of All,’ On a Raven’s Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe, Harper’s 2009; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘Ghosted,’ Original Sins, Severn House 2010; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘Angela’s Alterations,’ Deadly Pleasures, Severn House 2013; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘A Three Pie Problem,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2013; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘Reader, I Buried Them,’ Guilty Parties, Severn House 2014; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2018; collected in Reader, I Buried them and Other Stories

‘Remaindered,’ Bibliomysteries, Mysterious Bookshop 2014; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Tale of Three Tubs: George Joseph Smith and the Brides in the Bath,’ Truly Criminal, The History Press 2015; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘Sweet and Low,’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September — October 2016; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘Lady Luck,’ Mystery Tour: A Crime Writers’ Association Anthology, Orenda Books 2017; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2020; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘The Bitter Truth,’ Deadly Anniversaries, Hanover Square Press 2020; collected in Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories

‘And the Band Played On,’ Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories, Soho Press, Sphere 2022

‘Formidophobia,’ Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories, Soho Press, Sphere 2022

‘Gaslighting,’ Reader I Buried Them and Other Stories, Soho Press, Sphere 2022