Contents: The wedding gig / Stephen King -- Murder-two / Joyce Carol Oates -- The crime of Miss Oyster Brown / Peter Lovesey -- Too many crooks / Donald E. Westlake -- Tired old man / Harlan Ellison -- The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- En famille / Ed Gorman -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- Another room / Joan Hess -- Trick or treat / Judith Garner -- Hight stakes / John Lutz -- August heat / W. F. Harvey -- Souls burning / Bill Pornzini -- Murder of the frankfurter man / Benjamin Appel -- First lead gasser / Tony Hillerman -- Goddbye, pops / Joe Gores -- How far it could go / Lawrence Block -- In a grove / John O'Hara.