Contains stories featuring Muller's Sharon McCone, Pronzini's Quincannon, Douglas's Midnight Louie, and Healy's John Francis Cuddy.

Contents:

• The Mystery in 1992 (Introduction) by Jon L. Breen
• Someday I'll Plant More Walnut Trees by Lawrence Block
• The Winfield Trade by Jeremiah Healy
• Liar's Dice by Bill Pronzini
• Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell
• Lazy Susan by Nancy Pickard
• A Hotel in Bucharest by Robert Barnard
• The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown by Peter Lovesey
• Secrets by June Thomson
• Whatever Has To Be Done by Jan Grape
• Stop, Thief! by Barbara D'Amato
• While She Was Out by Edward Bryant
• True Faces by Pat Cadigan
• The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner by Charlotte MacLeod
• Cat Got Your Tongue by Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins
• The Last to Know by Joan Hess
• The Man Who Loved Noir by Loren D. Estleman
• Johnny Halloween by Norman Partridge
• The Maltese Double Cross by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Benny's Space by Marcia Muller
• Settled Score by Sara Paretsky
• The Theft of the Barking Dog by Edward D. Hoch
• A Predatory Woman by Sharyn McCrumb
• Wedding Bells by Michael Z. Lewin
• Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill
• The Wind from Midnight by Ed Gorman