‘Points’ by Lawrence Block. First published in Enough Rope (William Morrow, New York, 2002). © Lawrence Block. Reprinted by permission of the author.
‘The Resurrection of Bobo Jones’ by Bill Moody. First published in B flat, Bebop, Scat: Jazz Short Stories & Poems, edited by Chris Parker (Quartet Books, London, 1986). Reprinted by permission of the author.
A version of ‘Like an Arrangement’ by Bill James appears in the novel The Girl With the Long Back (Constable, London, 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.