With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

A suicidal playwright, finding himself unable to do the deed on his own, attempts an unconventional method involving the confession of a dark secret from his past.

A prospective buyer goes to look round a French chateau (complete with chapel and tombs) but finds the place deserted - apart from a strange pack of dogs.

A man seeks out the truth behind the sudden withdrawal of a well-known painter from the art world three years before.

The story of a man's manipulative relationship with two women.

The members of a women's Lunch Club - an organisation rife with political infighting - are keen to impress a distinguished guest.

A man finds his life increasingly intertwined with those of his wife's previous two husbands.

Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.

The only pleasure in the life of a lonely widow is the dismal view from her third floor New York boarding house.

A renowned judge recalls a youthful adventure in Venice that began with an encounter with the beautiful Polixena Cador.

A romantic vision of the afterlife.

A couple are in agreement on the ethics of marriage but personal feelings, inevitably, intrude.