A needle for the devil / Ruth Rendell -- The Hampstead vegetable heist / Mat Coward -- Mr. Idd / H.R.F. Keating -- The birdman of Bow Street / Joan Lock -- Someone got to Eddie / Ian Rankin -- Too many crooks / Donald E. Westlake -- The writing on the wall / Val McDermid -- Social work / William G. Tapply -- Six in the morning / Maxim Jakubowski -- The hand that feeds me / Michael Z. Lewin -- The butcher of St. Pierre / Susan Kelly -- The great tetsuji / Sara Paretsky -- Cryptic crime acrostic / Sarah Caudwell & Michael Z. Lewin -- The train / Stephen Murray -- Fancy / Bill James -- The crumple zone / John Malcolm -- Good investments / Celia Dale -- Chased delights, or, The missing minutes / Keith Heller -- The Christmas present / Bob Lock -- Something happened at the time / Madelaine Duke -- Night flight / James Melville -- Give us a clue / Joan Lock -- Second best man / David Williams -- Trumpets for Max Jericho / Robert Brack ; translated by William Adamson -- Cold and deep / Frances Fyfield.