The Price of Love and Other Stories

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

“Going Back” was first published in Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories, Macmillan and McClelland & Stewart, © 2004 by Peter Robinson. “Cornelius Jubb” first appeared in Like a Charm, ed. Karin Slaughter, William Morrow, 2004. “The Magic of Your Touch” first appeared in Murder and All That Jazz, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet, 2004. “The Eastvale Ladies’ Poker Circle” first appeared in Dead Man’s Hand, ed. Otto Penzler, Harcourt, 2007. “The Ferryman’s Beautiful Daughter” first appeared in A Merry Band of Murderers, ed. Claudia Bishop and Don Bruns, Poisoned Pen Press, 2006. “Walking the Dog” first appeared in Toronto Noir, ed. Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore, Akashic Books, 2008. “Blue Christmas” was first published by Crippen & Landru in an edition of 353 copies for friends of the publishers, Christmas, 2005. “Shadows on the Water” first appeared in Men from Boys, ed. John Harvey, William Heinemann, 2003. “The Cherub Affair” first appeared in the Toronto Star, 2003. “The Price of Love” first appeared in The Blue Religion, ed. Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, 2008. “Birthday Dance” first appeared in Thou Shalt Not Kill, ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf, 2005. “Like a Virgin,” © 2009 by Eastvale Enterprises Inc.