Publications by date
| Title | Published In | Date | Details |
| C is for Cookie | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | September 1982 | Also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1990 First Cases (anthology), Dutton 1996 |
| Cinnamon Twist | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | December 1982 | |
| Long Slow Dive, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | February 1983 | |
| Libby's Luck | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | June 1983 | |
| Radar Screen, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | November 1983 | |
| Loose Limbs | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | December 1983 | |
| Rat Line, The | Anthology / The Eyes Have It (Mysterious Press) | 1984 | |
| Killing Time | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | February 1984 | |
| Last Day, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | May 1984 | |
| Goin' Vegas | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | June 1984 | |
| Woman Who Slipped Through the Cracks | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | July 1984 | |
| Working Relationship, A | Woman's World | October 1984 | |
| Place to Rest, A | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | November 1984 | |
| Dynamite Park | Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine | December 1984 | |
| Pallbearers, The | Woman's World | 1985 | |
| My Brother's Wife | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | February 1985 | |
| Rendering, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | April 1985 | |
| Perfect Pitch | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | July 1985 | |
| Forever Trip, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | September 1985 | Anthologized in P.I. Files (Ivy Books, 1990 |
| Back Door Man, The | Bantam Books | 1986 | Winner of the Shamus Award 1986 |
| Fly Away Home | Anthology / Mean Streets (Mysterious Press) | 1986 | Winner of the Shamus Award 1986 |
| Threads | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | May 1986 | |
| Man Who Called from Tomorrow | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | September 1986 | |
| Eye Went By | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | December 1986 | Anthologized in Tales from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (Morrow Junior Books), 1988 |
| Harder They Hit, The | Bantam Books | 1987 | |
| My Brother's Life | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | March 1987 | |
| Dirty Work | Bantam | 1988 | Shamus Award Winner, 1989 |
| Left for Dead | Anthology / An Eye for Justice (Mysterious Press) | 1988 | |
| Duck Work | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | February 1988 | Shamus Award Winner, 1990 |
| Hell's Only Half Full | Bantam Books | 1989 | |
| Made in Detroit | Bantam Books | 1990 | |
| Tall Boys | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | March 1990 | Anthologized in Murder on Main Street (Barnes & Noble, 1993) |
| Thousand Yard Stare, The | Bantam Books | 1991 | |
| Quick and the Dead, The | HarperCollins | 1992 | |
| Unfinished Business | Anthology / Deadly Allies (Doubleday) | 1992 | |
| How High the Dog Jumps | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | November 1992 | |
| Red, White, and Blues, The | HarperCollins | 1993 | |
| Concrete Hero | HarperCollins | 1994 | |
| Something Simple | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | June 1999 | Anthologized in The World's finest Mystery and Crime Stories (Forge, 2000) |
| Customer, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | October 1999 | |
| Something Simple (World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories) | Anthology | 2000 | |
| Sleeping Dog Lies | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | February 2000 | |
| My Best Fred MacMurray | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | October 2000 | |
| Speed Up the Ducks | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | November 2002 | |
| How Wendy Tudhope was Saved from Sure and Certain Death | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | April 2003 | |
| Sex and Violins | Trouble Is What I Do (Hard Woods Press) | 2004 | |
| How Wendy Tudhope was Saved from Sure and Certain Death | Anthology | 2004 | |
| Trouble Is What I Do: 18 Ben Perkins Crime Tales | Anthology / Wildside Press | 2005 | |
| Crooked Lake | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | July 2005 | |
| Other Woman, The | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | June 2006 | |
| Dead Last | Anthology / These Guns for Hire (Bleak House) | 2006 | |
| Final Fling | Hard Woods Press (re-issue; hardcover and ebook) | 2008 | |
| Down Home Blues (Best American Mystery Stories) | Anthology | 2009 | |
| Big Trouble Town | Anthology | 2024 | |
| Trouble Is What I Do: 18 Ben Perkins Crime Tales | Anthology / Hard Woods Press (ebook) | 2025 | |
| Final Fling | Hard Woods Press (re-issue; hardcover and ebook) | 2025 |