John Everard is a cold, ruthless businessman. When he returns home from a business trip he discovers that his Spanish wife Juanita and baby son Tommy have disappeared, his house has been burgled, and his firm's payroll stolen. Moreover, it was his wife who was seen driving the th...
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Redways Preparatory School, two miles east of the little village of Wainsford, is a reasonably successful school, although the headmaster's treatment of both staff and boys is too formal and unbending to make it an entirely happy one. The Head, his assistant masters, and their wo...
When a series of brutal murders are committed, Toby finds the dead body of a girl in a field. She's been shot in the back with the type of revolver that was used to murder a shopkeeper in Forest Row nearby. The police are called in, but Toby begins his own investigation, taking i...
On a lonely island in a Scottish loch, Donald Grant and his self-willed wife Kay are staying with his aunt and uncle and their daughter Janet. Three desperate men, looking for a hideout, have also come to the island: Bull, Fred and Joe are gunmen on the run from a robbery and fil...
"Nobody had a good word for Aunt Charlotte, not even her niece, Elizabeth. When the rich, old lady arranged a trip to London, Elizabeth's friends thought it would be a joke to hoax people into believing that Aunt Charlotte had disappeared. Fake telegrams were sent, telephone call...
"When John Cluster, a local farmer, is found with a poultry-knife protruding from his back, the villagers of Cheswick have something new to gossip about. All the evidence points to Miss Emily Mytton, whose house is the unfortunate scene of the crime. But as the last member of the...
A gang of London warehouse thieves kill a policeman during a raid. The murder is seen by three people, none of whom is anxious to come forward as a witness. David Wight, a young journalist on TOPICAL TRUTHS, becomes involved in the case, which is being handled by his godfather, D...
Andrew White, the proprietor of a country garage, sees four of his mechanics run over a woman while they are on an unauthorized ride in a customer's car. Thinking there had been no witnesses, they fail to report the accident. White then blackmails the men. Soon desperate, they pl...