This sequel to Murders for the Fireside consists of 21 stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

Contents:

• Introduction by Maxim Jakubowski
• More Final Than Divorce by Robert Barnard
• Big Boy, Little Boy by Simon Brett
• Star by Molly Brown
• Lucky Dip by Liza Cody
• History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn’t Even Say Pardon by Mat Coward
• “The Monk’s Tale” by P.C. Doherty
• Stop Thief! by Elizabeth Ferrars
• Modus Operandi by Stephen Gallagher
• I Wonder if She’s Changed by Paula Gosling
• The Boxdale Inheritance [“Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers”] by P.D. James
• Softly, Softly Catchee Monkey by H.R.F. Keating
• Death of a Dead Man by Gillian Linscott
• The Wasp [“Where Is Thy Sting?”] by Peter Lovesey
• Digby’s First Case by Anne Perry
• The Frustration Dream by Ellis Peters
• Video, Nasty by Ian Rankin
• Some Sunny Day by Julian Rathbone
• Changeless Susan by Derek Raymond
• The Convolvulus Clock by Ruth Rendell
• Our Man Marlowe by Mike Ripley
• Sweetheart of the Rodeo [Nick Sharman] by Mark Timlin