Originally published in 1998 by Crippen & Landru as a collection of 13 stories. An expanded version was published in 2004 by Pan-Macmillan (UK) and McClelland & Stewart (Canada) that contains 20 short works, including a previously unpublished novella.

Contents: (green text = new to this edition)

1. Summer Rain—An Inspector Banks Story
2. Fan Mail
3. Innocence
4. Murder in Utopia
5. Not Safe After Dark
6. Just My Luck
7. Anna Said—An Inspector Banks Story
8. Missing in Action
9. Memory Lane
10. Carrion
11. April in Paris
12. The Good Partner—An Inspector Banks Story
13. Some Land in Florida
14. The Wrong Hands
15. The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage
16. Lawn Sale
17. Gone to the Dawgs
18. In Flanders Fields
19. The Duke’s Wife
20. Going Back—An Inspector Banks Novella

“Innocence” was later turned into the Ellis Award-winning novel Innocent Graves.