Unwittingly 'picked up' by a 'respectable-looking girl', a judge finds himself put in an impossible situation in which an unscrupulous blackmailer threatens his career and personal life in an attempt to steer the course of a trial to an acquittal.

Four college kids set fire to a supposedly empty condominium block. But when they see the young girl at a window desperately banging on the glass, clawing to get out, they realise their mistake. Although they don't all agree, the group leave the girl to her certain death, little realising that someone is there, watching their every move.

Roz is a single mother, a physiotherapist, a sister, and a friend. She's also desperate. Her business has gone under, she's crippled by debt, and she's just had to explain to her son George why someone's taken all the furniture away. Then she meets Scott Elias - wealthy, powerful, and very married - who makes her an offer: for one night with her, he'll pay enough to bring her back from the edge. Roz knows it's time for action - she has two weeks to...

"Volpone" is part of the "New Mermaid" series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women, but when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit they look like trouble.

Connie and her GP husband Devan have led a charmed life since they married in their twenties. Forty years on they are the couple their whole village envies. Life isn't quite so rosy just now with Devan struggling to adjust to early retirement, but Connie hopes that getting away for a few weeks through her job as a European tour manager will help. But on one of her favourite tours, to Lake Como, it is clear one of her guests is falling for her. She...

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has left behind the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance.