An anthology of 40 small-town crime stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Edited and with an introduction by Cynthia Manson.

Contents:

• How's Your Mother by Simon Brett (EQMM 10/83)
• The Dividing Fence by Jeffry Scott (EQMM 03/88)
• Good Neighbors by Sharon Mitchell (AHMM 06/89)
• Bridey's Caller by Judith O'Neill (AHMM 05/88)
• Natural Causes by Dorothy Salisbury Davis (EQMM 12/83)
• Still Life with Orioles by James Powell (EQMM 12/88)
• Something's Happening at the Halliwells' by Jeffrey Bush (AHMM 06/89)
• The Dettweiler Solution by Lawrence Block (AHMM 09/76)
• August is a Good Time for Killing by Joyce Harrington (AHMM 04/77)
• Dead Standstill by Rex Miller (AHMM 04/90)
• Tall Boys by Ben Kantner (AHMM 03/90)
• The Spring That Ellie Died by Stephen Wasylyk (AHMM 04/83)
• So Long, Lana Turner by William T. Lowe (AHMM 02/91)
• To Kill a Kavanaugh by Brenda Melton Burnham (AHMM 10/92)
• The Maggody Files: D.W.I. by Joan Hess (AHMM 03/92)
• Early Summer by Jas. R. Petrin (AHMM 12/86)
• Accidentally Yours by Donald Olson (EQMM 07/85)
• A Soul to Tell by Jeremiah Healy (AHMM 12/90)
• Just an Unofficial Investigation by E.N. Welch (AHMM 02/87)
• The Sounds of Sunday Morning by Augusta Hancock (AHMM 09/87)
• The Young Shall See Visions, and the Old Dream Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (AHMM 07/89)
• Best of Luck! by Vickie Dubois (AHMM 12/87)
• My First Murder by Steve Barancik (AHMM 01/89)
• Death of an Otter by Joseph Hansen (AHMM 10/87)
• Dark Places by James McKimmey (AHMM 07/83)
• Summer Notes by Karen Parker (AHMM 05/89)
• A Matter of Thin Air by Lawrence Treat (AHMM 02/83)
• A Man Around the House by Virginia Long (AHMM 06/89)
• A Day at the Lake by Ed Poole (AHMM Win 89)
• Miz Sammy's Honor by Florence V. Mayberry (EQMM 06/92)
• First Week in September by Jean Leslie (AHMM 09/67)
• The Witch of Wilton Falls by Gloria Ericson (AHMM 05/67)
• The Perfect Victim by William Bankier (EQMM 03/92)
• Mercy's Killing by Barbara Owens (EQMM 01/92)
• A Friend in Deed by Don Marshall (AHMM 03/92)
• When God's in Town by J.A. Paul (AHMM 09/91)
• Mrs. Mouse by Stanley Ellin (EQMM 10/83)
• Just the Lady We're Looking For by Donald E. Westlake (EQMM 09/64)
• The Hedge Between ("Meredith's Murder") by Charlotte Armstrong (Conflict Fall 53)
• Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary by George Baxt (EQMM 03/83)