Different in form, but united by a common mood of the works. One way or another, the cause or consequence of everything that happens in them is a woman and the best aspect of human life - love. From the incredible events described with slight irony by Carter Brown in The Lost Nymph, the reader will move on to the cruel, oval world of violence and profit from Patrick Quentin's The Pursuer, then plunge headlong into the mysterious mystical story told by Boileau-Narcejac in Cold sweat" and, finally, will be able to meet the famous lawyer Perry Mason, who is leading the next "Case of the Curious Newlywed", brought to us by Erle Stanley Gardner.