Coronation year / Michael Gilbert Appointment with the governor / John Ball The locked-room cipher / Edward D. Hoch The cow and the jackrabbit / Janwillem van de Wetering Connoisseur / Bill Pronzini The lily pond / Rachael Cosgrove Payes Past tense / Elizabeth Gresham A dark blue perfume / Ruth Rendell The Arabella plot / Lawrence Treat The last party / Dorothy Salisbury Davis Who killed Father Christmas? / Patricia Moyes Widow / Joe L. Henseley Almost perfect / R.A. Lafferty The legend of Dirty Dick / Robert Bloch Revelation / Rosemary Gatenby The accomplice / John D. MacDonald Mama and the bastard / Florence Mayberry