An audio original, the only compilation available of Kaminsky's short fiction features appearances by detectives Lew Fonesca, Abraham Lieberman, Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, and Toby Peters. The contents include "The Man Who Beat the System", "Snow Birds " (Edgar-nominated story), "Bitter Lemons", "Dead Cat On Gila Street", "Amnesia", "Punishment", "The Man Who Hated Books", "Busted Blossoms" and "The Final Toast."