Transcribed from the dust jacket of 1943 Riverside Press edition

Trio is the story of the crucial decisive moment in the lives of three people. Pauline Maury is a professor of French in a Western university; both clever and beautiful, author of a fine critical work on the 'decadent' French poets, she is apparently at the threshold of her crowning success. Janet Logan is Pauline's assistant, admirer, intellectual disciple, bound to her teacher by stronger bonds than those of friendship. Utterly outside their world, impinging on it by chance, is Ray MacKenzie, occasional student living in his dark room.

These are the trio. The conflict among them is one of love and hate and violence; a conflict whose final resolution is implicit in the opening scene. Dorothy Baker has achieved in their story the simplicity of great art.