Contents:

• Foreword by Keith Miles · fw
• Introduction by Martin Edwards · in
• Clothes by Ruth Rendell · ss
• Looking for David [Matt Scudder] by Lawrence Block · ss *
• Original Sin by Gillian Linscott · ss *
• The Good and Gentle Harvey Christmas [P Division] by Peter Turnbull · ss *
• On the Psychiatrist’s Couch by Reginald Hill · ss *
• Instruments by John Owen · ss *
• Diminished Responsibility by Martin Edwards · ss *
• Deus Ex Machina by June Thomson ss *
• Because It Was There by Peter Lovesey · ss *
• A Good Woman by Eileen Dewhurst · ss *
• The Bluebird by Alison White · ss *
• Best Behaviour by Simon Brett · ss *
• A Regular Correspondent by Joan Lock · ss *
• Nice People by Mat Coward · ss *
• Remembering Kazarian by Marjorie Eccles · ss *
• The Man Who Collected Ravens by Edward D. Hoch · ss *
• Rum Business [Patrick Grant] by Margaret Yorke · nv *
• Biographies of Contributors · Misc. · bg