A collection of crime fiction short stories featuring Mme. Rosika Storey and her resourceful assistant Bella Brickley. Mme. Storey unravels complex cases with thorough investigation and an understanding of human nature. These short stories are written through Bella Brickleys point-of-view. She is Madame Storey, like Sherlock has fantastic powers of deduction and understanding of psychology, and her secretary is like Watson though she doest have a degree in medicine. Also Ms. Brickley adds a realistic persons fear to very dangerous situations. The short stories in this collection are: "The Almost Perfect Murder", "Murder in Masquerade", "The Death Notice", "Taken for a Ride", "It Never Got Into The Papers".