In this novel Paul Verdayne is fascinated by a mysterious beauty staying in his Swiss hotel. In a setting of tuber-roses and tiger skins, the lady initiates him into the arts of love. This is one of Virago's trio of turn-of-the-century erotic novels, with The Sheik and The Way of an Eagle .

A collection of eight chilling stories by the author of 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now', introduced by Sally Beauman

* One of the most famous novels of the 20th century * A dark tale of the feminine unconscious

Philip Ashley is orphaned at an early age and raised by his bachelor uncle Ambrose, who falls in love and marries while travelling in Italy and dies there in suspicious circumstances. When Ambrose's widow turns up in England, Philip is drawn to her, but might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death.

* a penetrating psychological study with all the haunting power of Rebecca