Eighteen stories that each have the common element of a young woman found dead on an apartment floor.

Contents:

• The Dead Past by Nancy Pickard
• La Bellezza Delle Bellezze by Bill Pronzini
• Open and Shut by John Lutz
• None of My Business, But... by Carolyn G. Hart
• Dead on Arrival by Joan Hess
• Invitation to Murder by Richard Laymon
• Darke Street by Gary Brandner
• Pretty Boy by Billie Sue Mosiman
• The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Merlin and the Hitman by Teri White
• Anytime I Want by Andrew Henry Vachss
• QWERTY by William J. Reynolds
• A Bunch of Mumbo Jumbo by Jan Grape
• The Body Beautiful by Judith Kelman
• Deadtrip by William F. Nolan
• Still Life with Gold Frame by Rex Miller
• Who What When Where Why by Barbara Paul
• Snow Angels by Loren D. Estleman