Not After Midnight and Other Stories

Mary Farren is the happiest woman. She is young, beautiful, and desired. She lives in a rich house, is married to the man she loves, and expects a child from him. Her life seems cloudless.

But one morning this young lady wakes up in her bed, sees her husband off to work, exchanges banal phrases with servants, and then goes to the gun room. There she cleans and loads a revolver, puts the barrel to her temple, and pulls the trigger.

Suicide without any visible reason. Why? For what? It’s unclear… A professional detective—Mr. Black—takes on the task of answering these questions, obsessed with the idea that every person keeps dark secrets deep inside. And to bring them out, you only need to dig deeper...