Edited by: Christine Matthews and Robert J. Randisi

V.I. Warshawski learns how far people will go to gain- or avoid- publicity in SARA PARETSKY's "Publicity Stunts"...When Lolly Holiday discovers her P.I. husband's secret stash of guns, she has a mystery of her own to solve in NANCY PICKARD's "The Private Life of a Private Eye"...MARCIA MULLER's P.I. Sharon McCone takes to the skies on the trail of two suspicious jet-setters in "If You Can't Take the Heat"...San Francisco's Chinese New Year celebration will bring a parade of trouble- unless private detective Jess Randolph can solve the mystery of a missing jade necklace in MARGARET LUCKE's "Dreaming of Dragons"...

Contents:

• Introduction by Christine Matthews
• Me, Louis, and the Skinhead by Shelley Singer
• Publicity Stunts by Sara Paretsky
• Dead Cat Bounce by Deborah Whittaker
• Dreaming of Dragons by Margaret Lucke
• Where She Went by Phyllis Knight
• Prosperity Restaurant by S.J. Rozan
• Billy the Goat by Catherine Dain
• The Private Life of a Private Eye by Nancy Pickard
• Christmas Rain by Donna Huston Murray
• A Matter of Taste by Ruthe Furie
• Eddie Haskell in a Short Skirt by Barbara Collins
• Diamonds Are For Never by Maxine O'Callaghan
• Freight by Deborah Morgan
• Funny How Deceiving Looks Can Be by Jan Grape
• If You Can't Take the Heat by Marcia Muller