最毒妇人心

　　1930年代，小云、小红（周璇）姐妹被人骗到上海卖给琴师和妓院老鸨夫妇，小云被迫做了暗娼，小红年纪尚小，又天生有一副好嗓子，便随琴师去茶楼终日卖唱。姐妹两人住在贫民窟，在她们对面，住的分别是报贩老王和吹鼓手陈少平（赵丹）。因为闲来无事时陈少平常同小红对窗玩闹，两人渐生感情。　　小红卖唱时被流氓古成龙缠上，对方欲强霸她为妾，小红找陈少平商量对策，两人本想借助律师将正义伸张，不想律师双眼只认钱，无奈之下只得逃走，而这一过程中，老王对小云由怜生爱，可是小云却因自卑不敢正视。琴师偶知陈少平与小红下落，放风给古成龙，古成龙赶到小红住处时，屋里只有她和小云，两人生命危在旦夕。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　《悬案密码》系列的第三部：6年前，一只在海上漂流的瓶子在苏格兰被打捞上岸，然而里面的求救信却被视为不祥之物，直到一位调查人员无意中看出了信件开头用丹麦文写着：救命！随着卡尔和两名下属的破解，他们发现署名“保罗”的作者不仅确有其人，而且在写下瓶中信后便下落不明......　　为何少年的家人不曾追究他的行踪？难道他在多年前便已遭遇不测？正当调查陷入胶着，一起离奇车祸让原本天衣无缝的邪恶罪行露出破绽，串起所有线索的卡尔这才明白，自己面对的并不单是一桩陈年旧案，而是过去十几年来，许多破碎家庭的绝望呼救…

一名男子在郊区一间空荡荡的房子里醒来，没有记忆，手臂上沾着血迹。当他疯狂地洗掉血迹时，他发现那不是他的。他在房子周围发现了一些便利贴，上面写着:“不要呆在这个房间里。”“别出去。”“别下楼。”他感到困惑，试图追踪这些神秘的信息，最终发现了两件事。他与母亲和女儿的记忆有某种联系，还有住在这所郊区房子里的恶魔。当他越来越接近解开他为什么在那里的谜团时，恶魔变得越来越强大，考验着他的生存意志。