Contents:

• A Counter-Blast to Tobacco by Paul C. Doherty
• Wheel in the Sky by Edward D. Hoch
• Starstruck at San Simeon by Janet Laurence
• Death by Eros by Steven Saylor
• Damned Spot by Julian Rathbone
• Showmen by Peter Lovesey
• The Padder’s Lesson by Molly Brown
• To Dispose of an Abbot by Susanna Gregory
• The Mamur Zapt and the Catherine Wheel by Michael Pearce
• The Great Brogonye by David Howard
• The Unkindest Cut by Kate Ross
• Girl Talk by Marilyn Todd
• Invitation to a Poisoning by Peter Tremayne
• The Last High Queen by Anne Perry
• To Encourage the Others by Martin Edwards
• Psalm for a Dead Disciple by Edward Marston
• Handsel Monday by Catherine Aird
• An Academic Question by John Maddox Roberts
• Hellfire by Diana Gabaldon
• The Party May Yet Be Living... by Lindsey Davis