Contents:

• Introduction · Maxim Jakubowski · in
• Friends [Jack Walsh] by Ed Gorman · nv *
• Members of the Jury by Lesley Grant-Adamson · ss New Welsh Review, 1989
• Holy Smoke by Barry Fantoni · ss *
• What to Tell Santos by Molly Brown · ss Woman’s Own May 21 ’90
• Red-Handed by Margaret Pemberton · ss *
• Rite of Seduction by Maxim Jakubowski · ss *
• The Volunteer by Mark Schorr · ss *
• Twisting the Blade by Paul Buck · ss *
• Small Club Lead, Dummy Plays Low by Margaret B. Maron · ss *
• Triptych by Richard A. Lupoff · nv Detective Story Magazine Feb ’90
• Softly, Softly Catchee Monkey by H. R. F. Keating · ss *
• I Didn’t Do It by Bill Pronzini · ss *
• Freedom by Susan Moody · ss *
• Otani Has a Haircut by James Melville · ss *
• Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill · ss The Armchair Detective Sum ’90
• David and Jonathan by M. J. Trow · ss *
• Hostage by Andrew Vachss · ss *
• Arik’s First Case by Alex Auswaks · ss *
• Wedding Bells [Lunghi Detective Agency] by Michael Z. Lewin · ss *
• The Big Day [as by Richard Marsten] · Ed McBain · ss Manhunt Sep ’55
• Citizen’s Arrest by Charles Willeford · ss AHMM Aug ’66
• On the Black Dahlia Case by David Goodis · ar Los Angeles Herald-Express Feb 6 ’47
• The Posthumous Adventures of Jim Thompson by Maxim Jakubowski · ar Cattolica Crime and Mystery Film Festival Programme Book Jun ’90