The collection includes three foreign detective stories whose authors are women. All the authors of the collection are characterized by inexhaustible imagination, sparkling humor, dynamism and intensity of action. Dan Roberts is the creative pseudonym of Hungarian doctors Eva Bucor and Gabriella Horvath. The cool detective story “Stake Your Life” is their debut in literature. The detective story “To Love But Keep Your Mind,” on the contrary, is written by the famous English writer Josephine Tay (1876–1952), the author of many detective and historical novels. A witty cartoon on “ black novel”, based on the “horror novel”, was created by the Polish writer Joanna Chmielewska. Her detective story “What the Dead Man Said,” in which absolutely incredible adventures happen to the heroine, has gone through more than one edition.