Spinning / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- The summer people / Brendan DuBois -- Afraid of the dark / Nancy Pickard -- For all the saints / Gillian Linscott -- Let's get lost / Lawrence Block -- Under suspicion / Clark Howard -- Childhood / S.J. Rozan -- Art & craft / Donald E. Westlake -- The allotment / Peter Crowther -- Twelve of the little buggers / Mat Coward -- Missing in action / Peter Robinson -- The Haggard Society / Edward D. Hoch -- Scorpion's kiss / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Noble causes / Bob Mendes -- The sleeping detective / Gary Phillips -- A night in the Manchester store / Stanley Cohen -- What Mr. McGregor saw / Dorothy Cannell -- Delta double-deal / Noreen Ayres -- Three nil / Mat Coward -- The man in the civil suit / Jan Burke -- Black and white memories / Robert J. Randisi -- Nothing to lose / Robert Barnard -- Widower's walk / Joseph Hansen -- Character flaw / Christine Matthews -- Golden Gate Bridge--A view from below / Jürgen Ehlers -- Boo / Richard Laymon -- Veterans / John LUtz -- The abbey ghosts / Jan Burke -- The country of the blind / Doug Allyn -- Happiness / Joyce Carol Oates -- The confession / Ian Rankin -- The perfectionist / Peter Lovesey -- A wall too high / Edward D. Hoch -- The silence / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- The big bite / Bill Pronzini -- The gathering of the klan / Les Roberts -- When the black shadows die / Clark Howard -- Rebirth (Cain and Abel) / Miguel Agustí -- Helena and the babies / Denise Mina -- Old soldiers / Brendan DuBois -- The victim / Ed McBain -- The poet of pulp / Pete Hamill.