Contents:

• Editor's Note
• The Story about Caruso by Joan Aiken : ss
• The Bitter Bite by John Aiken : ss
• Suicide, or Murder? by Jane Aiken Hodge : ss
• Sunk by David Craig : nv
• Coming South by Celia Dale : ss, as Eleven Years After, EQMM mid-Jul 1982
• The Mistaken Smile by Audrey Erskine Lindop : ss
• The Gift by Dick Francis : ss
• The Thaw by Reginald Hill : nv
• The Victim by P.D. James : nv ; EQMM Feb 1984
• The Bathroom [later "A Bride in the Bath"] by Peter Lovesey : ss
• A Green Boy [Gaius Celerius] by Anthony Price : nv
• Plagiarism by Jacqueline Wilson : ss

12 stories edited by Virginia Whitaker.