Shucks, I don't know - Half-pint Homicide?

DS: Boy, that was close...

'The Long Night'?

...closer...closer...

One last 2008 clue:
"The home was full of sounds late at night. People talking in locked rooms. Arguments. Once he thought he heard Cousin William sobbing"

(I think he needed a tumbler of cognac!")

Happy New Year.

Why am I thinking "Death Is A Lonely Business"?

Well, I'm back on board here.
I now know whence cometh this quote as far as the collection, but, having seen the contents of stories and not owning this collection, I fear I haven't read this one.

It Burns Me Up?

In the neighborhood, wrong address...

"Mom and dad mingled with the bright swarm, flames about which social moths beat their sophisticated wings."

Johnny - Cousin William - Ellie - Grandma - and good old Uncle ******

Four-way Funeral?

Uh! Am I the only one who has this story!?

We need to pass the "Name the RB story" to some well-deserved boarder... You have 'til midnight and then it gets serious.

(Come on, Sundance, the trail is starting to thin and meander!)

The Trunk Lady?

"E-U-R-E-K-A-!" is a good word.

Over to you, DS! Whew.

Quite a story. Since it is in A Memory for a Murder, it was a bit more "out there!" One of Mr. B's really early ones - 1944, Detective Tales:

http://www.iupui.edu/~crbs/Bradbury/Bradburyjpegs/memory_murder.jpg

A Spirited and Healthy 2009 for all here and elsewhere!

Mr B did not like these stories.

"Follow them," whispered Mr Fields. "Study their life patterns. Quick!"