The mammoth book of comic crime / edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

My mother was a bank robber / Nicholas Blincoe -- Liz Peters, PI / Elizabeth Peters -- A double-barreled detective story / Mark Twain -- The Pomeranian poisoning / Peter Lovesey -- The man who shot Kennedy / Marc Blake -- Here comes Santa Claus / Bill Pronzini -- The strange tale of Hector's angel / Mike Phillips -- Chapter the last / Alex Atkinson -- The lion of Draksville / Julian Rathbone -- The absolute and utter impossibility of the facts in the case of the vanishing of Henning Vok / Jack Adrian -- The great detective / Peter Guttridge -- Smeltdown / Mike Ripley -- Taking care of Frank / Antony Mann -- And the buttocks gleamed by night / Mat Coward -- The last snow-flake in Texas / Liz Evans -- A sort of Miss Marple? / H.R.F. Keating -- The story-bag / Philip Gooden -- Slaughter in the Strand / Keith Miles -- The chicken / Jurgen Ehlers -- The postman only rings when he can be bothered / Peter Guttridge -- Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana / Ruth Dudley Edwards -- Tickled to death / Simon Brett -- The Dettweiler solution / Lawrence Block -- Big survivor / Peter T. Garratt -- Dr Bud, CA / Michael Z. Lewin -- Malice in Blunderland / Kevin Goldstein-Jackson -- Driving forces / Carol Anne Davis -- Hopper and Pink / Barry Fantoni -- Where do you find your ideas? / Martin Edwards -- Death by a thousand cuts / Rebecca Tope -- The trouble and strife / Catherine Aird -- Brotherly love / Mike Ripley -- An acquaintance with Mr. Collins / Sarah Caudwell -- Come again? / Donald E. Westlake -- Cry wolf / Hilary Bonner -- "It's clever, but is it art?" / M.J. Trow -- One for the Monet / David Stuart Davies -- Who killed Pyramus? / Amy Myers -- The Hampstead Vegetable Heist / Mat Coward -- The eleventh labour / David Wishart -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain -- Bampot Central / Christopher Brookmyre.