Butchers and Other Stories of Crime

‘Arabella’s Answer’ was first published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1984;

‘The Bathroom’ in Winter’s Crimes 5, Macmillan, 1973;

‘Belly Dance’ in Winter’s Crimes 15, Macmillan 1983;

‘Butchers’ in Winter’s Crimes 14, Macmillan, 1982;

‘Did You Tell Daddy?’ in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1984;

‘Fall-Out’ in Company, 1983;

‘How Mr. Smith Traced His Ancestors’ in The Mystery Guild Anthology, Book Club Associates, 1980;

‘The Locked Room’ in Winter’s Crimes 10, Macmillan, 1978;

‘The Secret Lover’ in Winter’s Crimes 17, Macmillan, 1985;

‘The Virgin and the Bull’ in John Creasey’s Crime Collection, Gollancz, 1983;

‘Vandals’ in Woman’s Own, 1984;

‘Woman and Home’ (as ‘Taking Possession’) in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1982.

‘The Corder Figure’, ‘Private Gorman’s Luck’, ‘The Staring Man’ and ‘Trace of Spice’ were first published in this collection.