A collection of nine previously unpublished stories from early in Wolfe's writing career.

Contents:

• The Case of the Vanishing Ghost
• The Grave Secret
• The Dead Man
• Mountains Like Mice
• The Green Wall Said
• Screen Test
• Volksweapon
• The Largest Luger
• The Last Casualty of Cambrai
• Orbital Thoughts (a collection of quotations from Wolfe that appeared in the pages of the Orbit series, selected by Rosemary Wolfe)