خلاصه داستان : به مدت 16 سال خانم بنتلی در آوریل در یک ویلای مرتفع کوه در دریاچه کومو می گذرد. امسال ، سال 1937 ، پدر هنرمند جامعه لندن او به تازگی درگذشت و تنها فرد دیگر ...

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

خلاصه داستان : اونوف نویسنده معروفی است که مدت زیادی است کتاب جدیدی منتشر نکرده و به یک گوشه نشین تبدیل شده است. وقتی پلیس یک شب طوفانی او را می گیرد...

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.