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This compilation first published in Longman Fiction 1998

This edition first published 1999

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The story “Three is a Lucky Number” © Margery Allingham is reproduced by

permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of P. & M.Youngman Carter Ltd.

The story “Full Circle” by Sue Grafton is reprinted with the permission of Abner

Stein, London. The story “How’s Your Mother?” © Simon Brett 1980 is from A Box of

Tricks, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. The story “At the Old Swimming Hole”

© 1986 Sara Paretsky was first published in Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye

Writers of America Anthology, edited by Robert J. Randisi, published by Mysterious

Press. All rights reserved. First published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton Limited.

The Patricia Highsmith story “Slowly, Slowly in the Wind” was first published in

Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine 1976. Copyright © 1993 Diogenes Verlag AG,

Zurich. The Patricia Highsmith story “Woodrow Wilsons Neck Tie” was first

published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 1972. Copyright © 1993 Diogenes

Verlag AG, Zurich. The story “The Absence of Emily” by Jack Ritchie is reprinted

with kind permission of the Larry Sterring & Jack Byrne Literary Agency, Milwaukee,

United States of America. The story “The Inside Story” © 1993 Colin Dexter. This

abridgement and simplification © Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1997.

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