On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave - 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.
Theresa was a quietly satisfied young teacher by day. But when the sun went down, her life was an endless, faceless whirl of bars and beds and men she'd never seen before and wouldn't see again. If she couldn't find love, she took chances on men who were better than no men at all. And learned, with each new night and each new nightmare, that finding her man was only the beginning.
Právnik William Halleck mal problémy s nadváhou, ale potom čo nešťastnou náhodou zrazil starú cigánku pri návrate domov do Fairview, začal ubúdať na váhe. Zo začiatku si toho moc nevšímal, ale chudnutie pokračovalo sa ďalej vo znepokojujúce miere a kliatba, ktorú nad ním starý cigán vyriekol, ho začala strašiť v snoch ...
Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.