<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Frank J. Morlock has assembled here three new lurid plays of gruesome murder and deadly mayhem: </p><p><br></p><p>In THE POLICE AGENT (1889) by Xavier de Montepin & Jules Dornay, a double murder at the notorious Père Lachaise cemetery brings Aimée Joubert, a famous police agent once known as The Cat's Eye, out of retirement. But catching the murderer may involve looking closer to home than she might have wished...</p><p><br></p><p>THE MADWOMAN OF MELUN (1891), by the same authors, begins with an innocent man framed for murder being guillotined, driving a woman amongst the spectators to madness. What secret does she know, and who amongst her coterie of wealthy friends, may be the real murderer?</p><p><br></p><p>Finally, ZIZI (1914), by Jules Mary, is about two brothers, one good, the other evil, who are both in love with the eponymous Zizi, a circus tiger tamer. The evil brother will stop at nothing to possess the object of his desire. Can he be thwarted in time? </p>