Better to forget / Susan Moody -- The frustration dream / Ellis Peters -- The Duke / Eric Wright -- The curious computer / Peter Lovesey -- The last resort / Margaret Yorke -- Exquisitely gowned: revising my first novel fifty years on / Eric Ambler -- Jemima Shore and the frightened girl / Antonia Fraser -- True Thomas / Reginald Hill -- Betrayal / Nancy Livingston -- Boss / Michael Z. Lewin -- Cryptic crime acrostic / Sarah Caudwell & Michael Z. Lewin -- The image of