The Price of Love (short story collection)

The Price of Love (2009) is the second collection of short stories by Peter Robinson; stories previously published in crime anthologies and magazines. They include an Inspector Banks novella and three Inspector Banks short stories. Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson is the writer of the multi award-winning Inspector Banks series of novels. Eleven stories, subtitled Eleven ways to pay with your life.

The stories are set in Yorkshire, London, Canada (often Toronto) or the United States. Several involve miscarriages of justice: either an innocent person convicted or no-one convicted. Those from anthologies often involve a theme specified by the editor, which is given below if stated by Robinson in the Afternotes to the collection. The year of original publication is given in brackets.

Two stories in Not Safe After Dark set in wartime (1940s) Yorkshire involved Frank Bascombe a "special constable in the war". And Cornelius Jubb was intended as the third; it refers to "Constable Bascombe", although he could not use the full name "Frank Bascombe" in the collection for copyright reasons; see Afterward to collection .