Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Editors' Introduction (The Dragon Done It) • (2008) • essay by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick
• 2 • The Long and Short of It • [John Justin Mallory] • short fiction by Mike Resnick
• 3 • Dead Wolf in a Hat • [The String City Mysteries • 2] • (2005) • short fiction by Graham Edwards
• 4 • This Town Ain't Big Enough • [Victory Nelson, Investigator] • (1995) • novelette by Tanya Huff
• 5 • The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds • (1984) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 6 • The Whistling Room • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 7 • Doppelgangster • (2004) • short story by Laura Resnick
• 8 • Claus of Death • (2006) • short story by Michael M. Jones
• 9 • McNamara's Fish • [Max Kearny] • (1963) • short story by Ron Goulart
• 10 • Gunsel and Gretel • (2001) • novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 11 • Alimentary, My Dear Watson • (1995) • short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 12 • Fox Tails • [Yamada Monogatari] • (2005) • short fiction by Richard Parks (variant of Foxtails)
• 13 • A Case of Identity • [Lord Darcy] • (1964) • novella by Randall Garrett
• 14 • The Case of the Skinflint's Specters • (1993) • short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• 15 • The Black Bird • (2003) • short story by David Barr Kirtley
• 16 • The Enchanted Bunny • (1990) • novella by David Drake
• 17 • The Adventure of the Pearly Gates • (1995) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 18 • The Seventh Chapter • [Videssos] • (1997) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 19 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 20 • The Witch's Murder • [Heirs of Alexandria] • short story by Eric Flint and Dave Freer