Contains two, complete, previously published short story collections, plus one new short story.

A good hanging. Playback -- The Dean curse -- Being Frank -- Concrete evidence -- Seeing things -- A good hanging -- Tit for tat -- Not Provan -- Sunday -- Auld lang syne -- The Gentlemen's Club -- Monstrous trumpet -- Beggars banquet. Introduction -- Trip trap -- Someone got to Eddie -- A deep hole -- Natural selection -- Facing the music -- Principles of accounts -- The only true comedian -- Herbert in motion -- Glimmer -- Unlucky in love, unlucky at cards -- Video, nasty -- Talk show -- Castle dangerous -- The wider scheme -- Unknown pleasures -- In the frame -- The confession -- The hanged man -- Window of opportunity -- The serpent's back -- No sanity clause -- Death is not the end -- Atonement.