The book includes detective works by the famous English writer Josephine Tay (1897–1952). In the novels “The Singing Sands” and “Child of Time,” the investigation is led by Inspector Grant from Scotland Yard. He successfully uses both generally accepted police methods and his own, extremely heightened, intuition. In “The Case of the Kidnapping of Betty Kane,” the main character, lawyer Robert Blair, acts as an investigator and must find out whether a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, who returned home half-dressed and beaten. The color of the girl's eyes - a special shade of blue - alarms the lawyer: Blair has only seen eyes like these in criminals...