Not really a fan of short stories but spotted a book in the library recently by one of my favourite crime writers Peter Lovesey,entitled Murder on the Short List .
Fantistic Fiction has this to say
This is Peter Lovesey's "Short List" of his best ever short stories, including the Crime Writers' Association's best short story of 2007, "Needle Match", and featuring some of his most popular detectives - Bertie, Prince of Wales, Sergeant Cribb and Rosemary and Thyme. Surprises are guaranteed, as elephants appear in a London side street; a gang of geriatrics goes on a hearing aid heist and an underworld boss searches for a harp. Join the author in a brush with Adolf Hitler and take a walk on Beachy Head, the UK's favourite suicide spot.
If you like crime etc it was very good and there were some very amusing stories with a twist in the tail .Ideal bedtime reading where you could read one and put it aside instead of hanging on until the small hours because it was unputdownable as I often tend to do :).