Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose [Stories]

Copyright © 1998 by Peter Lovesey

“Because It Was There” was first published in Whydunit (Severn House) 1997;

“Bertie and the Boat Race” in Crime Through Time (Berkley) 1996;

“Bertie and the Fire Brigade” in Royal Crimes (Signet) 1994;

“Disposing of Mrs Cronk” in Perfectly Criminal (Severn House) 1996;

“The Case of the Easter Bonnet” in the Bath Chronicle, 1995;

“The Mighty Hunter” in Midwinter Mysteries 5 (Little, Brown) 1995;

“Murder in Store” in Woman’s Own, 1985;

“Never a Cross Word” in You (Mail on Sunday) 1995;

“The Odstock Curse” in Murder for Halloween (Mysterious Press) 1994;

“A Parrot Is Forever” in Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket Books) 1996;

“Passion Killers” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1994;

“The Proof of the Pudding” in A Classic Christmas Crime (Pavilion) 1995;

“The Pushover” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 1995;

“Quiet Please — We’re Rolling” in No Alibi (Ringpull) 1995;

“Wayzgoose” in A Dead Giveaway (Warner Futura) 1995.