Includes "Happy Christmas" / Robert Barnard: pages 47-58.
Contents
Thrown-away child / Thomas Adcock -- The puddle diver / Doug Allyn -- Happy Christmas / Robert Barnard -- As good as a rest / Lawrence Block -- The gallowglass / David Braly -- A certain kind of skill / B.M. Gill -- She didn't come home / Sue Grafton -- The spy's story / Edward D. Hoch -- Scalplock / Clark Howard -- Tom's thatch / Nell Lamburn -- The Night of Power / Josh Pachter -- Ace in the hole / Bill Pronzini -- Rain in Pinton County / Robert Sampson.