[1] It won the Gold Dagger award of the Crime Writers' Association.

A new female barrister Marion Kerrison defends a man accused of murdering his aunt to get his hands of her jewels.

[2] It was adapted for a 1959 episode of the American television series Playhouse 90 that starred James Mason, Diana Wynyard, Margaret Leighton and Hugh Griffith.

[3] Another adaptation was as an episode of the British television series ITV Play of the Week under the title A Man Involved (1959).

A West German TV film directed by Peter Zadek had the title Die Dame in der schwarzen Robe (1960).