In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a book store, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback & Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. There are no heroes, and its often hard to tell who is the greater villain. Peter Sellers stories have appeared in every major mystery magazine including Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne Mysteries and numerous crime anthologies. He received the Derrick Murdoch Award in 1992 and is a four-time finalist for the Crime Writers of Canadas Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story. He was the winner of the 2001 Ellery Queen Readers Award and Crime Writers of Canadas Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story in 2020.