Introduction / Rick Kogan --
Preface / Libby Fischer Hellmann --
Blue note / Stuart M. Kaminsky --
0 death where is thy sting / Kevin Guilfoile --
Your sweet man / Libby Fischer Hellmann --
Good evenin', blues / Jack Fredrickson --
Publicity stunts / Sara Paretsky --
Guarding Lacey / Kris Nelscott --
Overproof / Ja Konrath --
Non compos mentis blues / Sean Chercover --
Scrap / Max Allan Collins --
Chasing the blues / Michael Black --
Blind man blues / Steven B. Mandel --
Weekend in the country / David J. Walker --
Shade of blue / Michael Allen Dymmoch --
My heroes have always been shortstops / D.C. Brod --
Code blue / Mary V. Welk --
Blue line / Ronald Levitsky --
Lower Wacker blues / Brian Pinkerton --
Lower Wacker Hilton / Barbara D'Amato.