Contents:

• Introduction · Robert J. Randisi · in
• The Bookie’s Daughter by Michael Allegretto · ss *
• Batman’s Helpers [Matt Scudder] by Lawrence Block · ss *
• Private Consultation [Nate Heller] by Max Allan Collins · nv *
• The Chair [Dan Fortune] by Michael Collins · ss *
• Naughty, Naughty by Wayne D. Dundee · na *
• Torch Number by James Ellroy · ss *
• Death of a Fatcat by Paul Engleman · ss *
• Cigarette Shop by Loren D. Estleman · ss *
• Someone to Turn Out the Lights [John Francis Cuddy] by Jeremiah Healy · ss *
• Someone Else [Fred Carver] John Lutz · ss *
• Final Resting Place [Sharon McCone] by Marcia Muller · ss *
• Bad to the Bone by W. R. Philbrick · ss *
• Stakeout [Nameless private eye] by Bill Pronzini · ss *
• Montezuma’s Other Revenge by Julie Smith · ss *
• Bypass for Murder by Dick Stodghill · ss *