Famous investigator Harry Dickson is just back in London after some well-deserved holidays, and already Scotland Yard are seeking his help again, for there are very strange events afoot. A famous heiress and writer, Delphina Cruikshank, has vanished from a locked house. The corpse of an executed murderer has disappeared … while the doctor who was autopsying him was murdered. And Mysterion, Miss Cruikshank's new character, may not be entirely fictional! Italian scriptwriter Luana Vergari graduated from the Rome school of comics and, after the publication of her series Galope comme le vent , is making a name for herself in France. Doug Headline – aka Tristan Jean Manchette – is a Renaissance man: journalist, scriptwriter, writer, director, translator and publisher – he founded comics publishing company Zenda. An illustrator, teacher and artist, Onofrio Catachhio worked for Marvel, among others, and is the author of a biography of Jackson Pollock, Pollock Confidential .