"The list of Adrian messenger": A retired officer must uncover the identity of a mass murderer who is killing off the potential heirs to a family fortune. "For love or money": Unhappy with her three daughters' choices in men, an eccentric widow pays attorney $100,000 to pair them up with pre-chosen mates.

"Esther Waters is a young woman living in 1880. Brought up by a puritanical mother, she leaves to become a servant in an aristocratic household. There she falls in love with the footman, William Latch, who seduces and then abandons her. Pregnant and alone, she returns to London to find her mother dead. With no one but herself for comfort, she struggles to survive."--Container.

An adulterous couple conspires to kill her tyrannical husband. Soon after the murder, the lovers in crime receive an anonymous letter that says only: "Dear Mrs. Cabot: Congratulations on the success of your murder."

A man who is ready to have his missing wife declared legally dead and remarry finds himself in a predicament when his first wife turns up after five years of being gone!