This is a rather miscellaneous set of short stores. The lead story involves a lady doctor from Spain named Stretelli who asks a Scotland Yard inspector to look into the disappearance of her sister, who vanished after marrying a man who had had two earlier wves --and all three wives had supposedly run away from him, but had no been seen since. Dr. Stretelli thinks they were murdered. The case has al ikeness to Landru and Brides-in-the-Bath Smith. ( )