When journalist Nick Mason got a hot tip to investigate the frame-up of a man being executed for murder, he didn't know what he was in for. At the gas chamber, it was Vessi's last words that gave Mason the clue to a peculiar cover up at the...
Johnny Bianda is a man with a dream. He wants to own a boat off the coast of Florida and he only needs $186,000 to buy it. He steals the money from his firm, knowing that one day they'll notice and one day they'll kill him for it - after all, it...
Marius Lovelaine has decided to extend the olive-branch and visit his estranged sister at her island-set hotel. He rallies his family together, but wife Clothilde wants nothing to do with sister or island, and opts to visit her cousin instead....
Young schoolmaster-turned-author Colin Palgrave seeks inspiration for his second novel among the dunes and beaches of Saltacres, where he plans to spend his holiday. He encounters one rather forthright character straight away, and that in the...
While en route to visit relatives, Hermione Lestrange falls into company with three agreeable women who are spending their autumn holiday in a forest cabin. Out for a drive, the group discovers a battered bicycle by the side of the road, and...
Mrs. Bradley is at her devastating best, saurian perhaps but very human.
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Mike O'Hara is a young, handsome distance runner, working with his fellow athletes to catch his cousin, Gerry Gascoyne, in a cross-country game...
A man facing penury will do almost anything when a rich and attractive woman offers him fifty thousand dollars, just to make a telephone call. But when the telephone call is part of a fake kidnap plan to extract five hundred thousand dollars from...
Meeting failure in his search for wealth in the 1851 Australian gold rush, a dispirited Mr. Cole takes the next available ship back to England -- and falls in love with Eva Denison, a beautiful and accomplished young woman traveling with her...
Being poor is still a very far way from being dead, eh?
Dave Calvin, divorced, dishonest and greedy but charming,handsome and well built, with a charm that women would fall for, is appointed as manager of the bank in Pittsville when the...
American gambler Nick Cain (Raft) arrives at the town of San Paola, and befriends shoe-shine boy Toni. He discovers he has been framed for the murder of a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly to a village, leaving her to hide out....