The First Lady of the detective novel presents a virtuoso collection of short stories - ranging from criminal classics to eerie tales of the occult.

Stories like :

* The Witness for the Prosecution

where an innocent man faces the gallows - sent there by his own wife...

* The Red Signal

where an omen from "the other side" unmasks an insane killer...

* S.O.S.

where a 'haunted' house conceals an evil that is wholly human...

and nine more stories from the master-pen of the Queen of Crime.