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The story of Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spainches Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiro...

Eighteenth-century London. Blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding, "The Blind Beak," had instigated the Bow Street Runners to combat the hordes of criminals so rife throughout the city. Criminals such as Nick Rathburn, who fights his way out of Newgate Gaol. Then, by a twist of fate...

Mr. Drummer's daughter is kidnapped and her father turns to Dr. Morelle and Miss Frayle to help secure his daughter's release.

Two London playwrights, are seeking characters for a play. But when they travel to Wales for inspiration they find more than they bargained for. They arrive in Llanberis and are forced to stay at 'The Crooked Inn'. Then, as they face some disparate characters, and The Crooked Inn...

A pretty girl and a drunken producer are involved in a dramatic motor accident on the road from Lyons to Paris - a fruitful source for blackmail. The first sinister consequence occurs at a party where, among the actresses and producers, Dr. Morelle is present with his secretary, ...

"Mrs. Lorrimer telephones Doctor Morelle claiming that she's in imminent mortal danger. In the morning her orange drink was poisoned, then she'd found a deadly snake in her bed and now toxic gas is emanating from the chimney and into the room! But is she really in danger? Is she ...

A group of passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.

Radium is not a substance that can be quietly stolen, and no questions asked-especially in this age of atomic warfare. Inspector Faithfull and his mercurial sergeant, Somers, expected action when they were given the task of catching the thieves, but nothing so bewildering as the ...

This second book of Ernest Dudley's stories about his London-based private eye character, Nat Craig, finds Craig's clients making up a pretty varied collection. Young, wealthy women getting themselves blackmailed; wealthier men or women who have the jitters over the safety of the...

Noted psychiatrist-detective, Dr. Morelle, and his Secretary, Miss Frayle, set out to probe a murder, begins when beautiful Thelma Grayson called at Dr. Morelle's house in Harley Street, and vividly describes how, the night before, she had deliberately shot the notorious Ray Merc...

In Dr. Morelle elucidates, Dr. Morelle expounds on seven puzzling cases in his inimitable manner. For The Case of the Man Who Was Too Clever, the doctor and his assistant Miss Frayle investigate the murder of an actress, whose dying screams are the clue to her death.

Nat Craig, London's foremost private investigator, believes in hitting first and pulling no punches, which makes for exciting episodes, including murder, blackmail and robbery, from his casebook. The indomitable Craig ruthlessly tracks down the evil-doer, and each case contains a...

Mr. Walker, the Cockney rag and bone man, is always bumping into other people's troubles. After the murder of old Cartwright in the jeweller's shop, he becomes involved in adventures with his friend Inspector Wedge of Scotland Yard, with the arrest of a crooked police officer, an...

Paula Webb visits Doctor Morelle with a startling confession. Believing that her former lover, nightclub owner Max Powers, had caused her sister's death, she shot him dead. A convincing story: Doctor Morelle and Miss Frayle were present outside the club when the police discovered...

Mouse-like Mitsi Linden arrives in Paris only to encounter tragedy and disaster - until Larry Curtis takes her life, and her heart, in the palm of his hand. Larry transforms Mitsi into a glamorous Parisian star, and launches her on London, where she faces the dazzling world of Ma...

There are few cases of Dr. Morelle, the famous criminal investigator, where his secretary Miss Frayle doesn't come to the forefront of the picture. Indeed, eminent friends of the Doctor's have said that Miss Frayle was in some respects the most important part of the Doctor's crim...

Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle. The sardonic detective's cases include: an hotelier killed with a brass candlestick; a Baroness poisoned with cyanide; a diamond robbery, and the shooting of zoologist Professor Raymond. The doctor, in his in...