"One of Today's Best American Mystery Series," writes the Chicago Sun-Times about Jeremiah Healy's books featuring private detective John Francis Cuddy. One of the most popular and admired of current crime writers, Healy has been honored by his fellow writers by eleven Shamus nominations (five for short stories, all of which appear in this volume), and his second novel, The Staked Goat, won the Shamus for Best Private Eye Novel.

The Concise Cuddy contains seventeen short stories about John Francis Cuddy with settings ranging from rural Maine, to Boston's mean streets, to a highway on the way to Florida, and characters who may be homeless or living in penthouses, and cases that run the gamut from brutal murder to a missing parakeet. To all these cases Cuddy brings the skills of a private eye and the humanity of a concerned human being.

Contents:

• Introduction · in
• Till Tuesday · ss AHMM Apr ’88
• Someone to Turn Out the Lights · ss Justice for Hire, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1990
• One Eye Open · ss EQMM Jul ’89
• The Three Musketeers · ss EQMM Apr ’90
• Battered Spouse · ss The Armchair Detective Fll ’90
• Bertie’s Mom · ss EQMM Sep ’89
• A Soul to Tell · ss AHMM Dec ’90
• Double-Con · ss EQMM Mar ’94
• Crossed Wires · nv EQMM Mar ’92
• The Bagged Man · nv EQMM Feb ’93
• Georgie-Boy · nv EQMM Jul ’92
• The Winfield Trade · ss Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine, 1992
• Summary Judgment · nv Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
• Yellow Snow · ss Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday, 1994
• Deputy Down · ss EQMM May ’96
• St. Nick · nv AHMM Apr ’95
• Spin-a-Rama · ss AHMM Nov ’93