Rob Kantner
crime and mystery fiction
The Ben Perkins titles
Alphabetical listing:
- The Back Door Man
- C is for Cookie
- Cinnamon Twist
- Concrete Hero
- Dirty Work
- Down Home Blues
- Duck Work
- Dynamite Park
- The Eye Went By
- Final Fling
- Fly Away Home
- The Forever Trip
- Goin’ Vegas
- The Go-To Man
- The Harder They Hit
- Hell’s Only Half Full
- Left for Dead
- Libby’s Luck
- The Long Slow Dive
- Made in Detroit
- The Man Who Called From Tomorrow
- My Best Fred MacMurray
- My Brother’s Life
- My Brother’s Wife
- The Other Women
- Perfect Pitch
- The Quick and the Dead
- The Rat Line
- The Red, White, and Blues
- Riddle Run
- Sleeping Dog Lies
- Something Simple
- Sticky Fingers
- Tall Boys
- The Thousand Yard Stare
- Threads
- Trouble Is What I Do
- Unfinished Business
- The Woman Who Slipped Through the Cracks
In publication order:
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September 1982
- Also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1990
- Anthologized in First Cases, (Robert J. Randisi, ed.); Dutton 1996
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September 1982
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 1983
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1983
- Short Story
- The Eyes Have It; ed. Robert J. Randisi; Mysterious Press, 1984
- Also published in Japanese
- Short Story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1984
"The Woman Who Slipped Through the Cracks"
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July 1984
- Novella
- Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, December 1984
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 1985
- Anthologized in: Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense; Linda Landrigan, ed. (Pegasus Books 2006)
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July 1985
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September 1985
- Anthologized in: P.I. Files; ed. Martin H. Greenberg; Ivy
- Novel
- Bantam Books, September 1986
- Also published in German and Japanese
- Shamus award 1986
- Short story
- Mean Streets (Robert J. Randisi, Ed.); Mysterious Press, 1986
- Shamus award 1986
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 1986
"The Man Who Called From Tomorrow"
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September 1986
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1986
- Anthologized in: Tales from Alfred Hitchcock's’s Mystery Magazine; ed. Cathleen Jordan and Cynthia Manson; Morrow Junior Books
- Novel
- Bantam Books, 1987
- Also published in German and Japanese
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 1987
- Novel
- Bantam Books, 1988
- Also published in German and Japanese
- Shamus award 1989
- Short story
- An Eye for Justice; ed. Robert J. Randisi; Mysterious Press, 1988
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 1988
- Novel
- Bantam Books, 1989
- Also published in Japanese
- Shamus award 1990
- Novel
- Bantam Books 1990
- Also published in Japanese
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 1990
- Anthologized in: Murder on Main Street; ed. Cynthia Manson; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993
- Novel
- Bantam Books, 1991
- Also published in Japanese
- Novel
- HarperCollins, 1992
- Short story
- Deadly Allies (ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace) Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
- Novel
- HarperCollins, 1993
- Novel
- HarperCollins, 1994
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1999
- Anthologized in: The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories; ed. Ed Gorman; Forge, 2000
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2000
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2000
- Anthology - 18 Ben Perkins stories
- PointBlank, 2005
- Short story
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2006
- Published under the title "The Other Woman"
- Novel
- Hard Woods Press, January 2008
- Excerpt here
- Short story
- RobKantner.com, October 2008
- Short story
- RobKantner.com, November 2008
- Anthologized in: Best American Mystery Stories 2009, Jeffrey Archer, ed. (Lippincott, 2009)
- Short story
- RobKantner.com, December 2008
- Excerpt here
- Short story
- RobKantner.com, July 2009