This volume collects 22 stories from the author of the Anna Peters mystery series, many published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine or Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Included are: "Secrets," "Lions on the Lawn," "The Summer of the Strangler," "My Life in Crime," "Lying," "Blood in the Water," "My Famous Relative," "Perfection," "The Blind Woman," "A Meeting at the Café Visconti," "Pigskill," "The Archeologist's Revenge," "Star of the Silver Screen," "Ghost Writer," "Tabloid Press," "My Demon Lover," "The Man Kali Visited," "The View From Above," "To Beauty," "Ideas in My Head," "The Paradise Garden," and "The Helpful Stranger." Great reading from a master of the short-form mystery!