That probably influenced which were my personal favorites. Mark Terry's Murder at the Heartbreak Hotel is the one involving Elvis impersonators and has a number of laugh out loud lines with a nice bit of detection. Angela Zeman's edgier Lah Tee Dah offered a fascinating study of a group we urbanites take for granted - street performers. Steve Hockensmith's Fred Menace, Commie for Hire is the fun romp you might expect from the title. And Mat Coward's Slap is as can't watch/can't not watch fascinating as the tell-all talk programs its hero has made a second career from. Actually, running down the table of contents, I really enjoyed almost all the stories simply because the overall quality of the writing was so high. A couple of them simply didn't work for me - for example as someone who doesn't watch a lot of TV or movies, I had difficulty connecting with a story written in the form of a script - but more as a matter of taste than because I thought the stories themselves were bad.

Definitely a worthwhile anthology to pick up, as much for the unexpected variety as for the high quality of the writing. There's going to be something in there for everyone to enjoy, with a number of the stories quite memorable. Recommended.