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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...

"A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over a forgotten homicide. A Yuletide heist gone horribly wrong. When there's as much murder as magic in the air and the facts seem to point to the impossible, it's up to the detective's tra...

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.

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

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 ...

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...

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

When their cargo plane crashes in the Sahara, the passengers must overcome their hostilities as well as those of the desert before they can be saved.

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...