Publications


        Barbara Paul

Jack Be Quick and Other Crime Stories Five Star, June 1999 ISBN 0-7862-1919-X

A collection of nine stories: "Okay, Diogenes, You Can Stop Looking -- We Found Him", "Scat" (novella), "French Asparagus", "The Favor", "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse", "Stet", "Ho Ho Ho", "Play Nice", "Jack Be Quick" (novella).

"The Secret President" The First Lady Murders ed. Nancy Pickard Pocket Books, February 1999 ISBN 0-671-01444-7

When Woodrow Wilson is felled by a stroke, the First Lady finds herself running the country during the time of his illness. And as if that weren't a big enough headache, Edith Wilson uncovers an attempt at murder that only she knows about.

"Putting an End to the Mystery" Nonfiction A Career in Crime ed. Helen Windrath Women's Press, 1999 ISBN 0-7043-4612-5 They Wrote the Book ed. Helen Windrath Spinsters Ink, 2000 ISBN 1-883523-35-4

An essay about writing dénouements.

"Clean Sweep" A New York State of Crime ed. Feroze Mohammed Worldwide, July 1999 ISBN 0-373-26317-1

Private investigator Curt Holland demonstrates his own twisty form of morality during the investigation of the murder of a sweepstakes winner. What he does is not quite legal, but not quite unethical either.

"Shakespeare Minus One" Future Crimes ed. Ed Gorman DAW, July 1999 ISBN 0-886-77854-9

Future entertainment: holographic productions of plays from which one or more parts can be dialed out so amateur thespians can take part. Twelfth Night in your living room and you can play any role you like. A young man invites five people to participate in a holoproduction of Hamlet. His purpose: to learn more about the death of his father.

Good King Sauerkraut Print-on-Demand Scrivenery Press, August 1999 ISBN 1-893818-01-2

Reprint of the third Marian Larch mystery. A robotics designer's carelessness causes the deaths of two co-workers. His attempts at evading responsibility backfire and he finds himself a murder suspect.

"The Reluctant Op" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine September/October 1999

A woman just released from prison is blackmailed by a detective agency owner into working for him; it's her contacts among the waterfront's criminal element that the agency owner wants. If she refuses, she goes back to prison. If her former cohorts find out she's switched sides, she's dead.

"Eleemosynary, My Dear Watson" Holmes for the Holidays II ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Jon Lellenberg Berkley, November 1999

A new case for Holmes and Watson -- this one involving a jewel theft, a kidnapping, an abandoned Salvation Army building, and Chinese Christmas carolers.

"Archimedes and the Doughnuts" Co-written with Gene DeWeese Crafty Cat Crimes Barnes & Noble, 2000 ISBN 0-7607-1582-3

A cat's fondness for sweets prevents a murder. A veterinarian treating a sick kitty suspects a bigger problem than just feline indigestion and goes looking for the source of the trouble.

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