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- What caused the death of the terrified Miss Stoner's sister? Will she die the same way? And what was "the speckled band" to which the sister alluded in her dying breath? Sherlock Holmes is warned not to investigate.
- Moving to the country, Sir John Appleby and his wife Judith have and visit the home of Colonel Raven. While there a body is discovered in nearby canal.
- Inspector Ranson runs the Department of Deadends looking into the murder of Mrs Blagrove. The only clue he as is a book of poems and knows the owner of this is the murderer.
- Investigating a murder in the art world, Inspector Alleyn finds himself falling hard for the independent-minded painter Agatha Troy. The problem is, she might be a murderess.
- When his wife, Belle Elmore, dies suddenly, Dr. Crippen is suspected of murder.
- Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn is called into investigate a mysterious death that has occurred during a ceremony at the secret cult 'Sign of the Sacred Flame'.
- Mystery writers Dagobert and Jane Brown decide to holiday in Cornwall to find some inspiration for their next novel and walk straight in to a murder of their own.
- Commissaire Bignon is looking into the murder of shady businessman Gall, at the King Hotel, Paris. Russian born, Gall's life is a mystery, dealing in both blackmail and intimidation to get his way.
- Archeologist and amateur sleuth Martin Cotterill is working on a dig in the small village of Panverne when he discovers a body recently dumped in his trench.
- Det. Chief Insp. Dover is fat, lazy and useless. Dame Alice Stote-Weedon asks Scotland Yard to help with a campaign poison pen letters they send Dover. When Mrs Tompkins is murdered, Dover is finally forced investigate.
- A publishing house ask Nigel Strangeways to look into a scandal involving General Thorseby's new book which is considered libelous but instead it's murder.
- The brilliant Indian sleuth Inspector Ghote arrives in England for the first time to investigate a crime, and finds sadly that it is far from being the fabled land he has always dreamed of.
- A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
- Ernest Jackson is sitting on death row for the murder of his wife. Jackson claims he is a patsy. Having run out of appeals he makes a last ditch plea for help from Police Chief Fellows. The Chief decides Jackson may be telling the truth.
- As good a place as any for a murder is an isolated anti-aircraft post in wartime. A group of browned-off soldiers, over-stretched nerves, a rigorous blackout - and an unpopular Sergeant-Major.
- This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people who would be glad to see Sir William Anstruther dead. The question is who? Roger Sheringham is determined to find out. Unhappily he has hardly started his investigations when a tragedy, in which an innocent woman dies, takes place.
- When his son is killed by an unidentified hit-and-run driver, Felix Lane writes in his diary that he intends to find the man responsible and kill him. But when the man actually is killed, is someone else the killer?
- Oscar Brodski is believed to have fallen to his death in front of an oncoming train. Passenger Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke believes it is murder rather than suicide.
- Albert Campion went to school with "Pig" Peters, and hated him. When he hears that Pig has died, he attends the funeral - but Pig appears to have died twice.
- Scotland Yard ask consultant Reggie Fortune to help them find a stash of gold artifacts stolen from Sir Henry Exton country house.
- Eve Gill hears that her neighbour Louise Fremton has committed suicide but everything tell her it's murder. Investigating she discovers the murderer has close business ties with her father.
- Regency thief-taker Jasper Shrig comes to the aid of Lord Julian Midmarsh as he attempts to avenge the murder of his father by Julius Openshaw. Shrig discovers Openshaw is now called Gaston de Ravenac and wants the boy dead.
- Eve Gill driving a lorry carrying smuggled rum. Following a smash she is helped into the Forsyth home. While there she spies Mrs Forsyth murder her husband with a lethal injection but fears she may be blamed.
- A man is found dead in a locked room with no way in or out - and the murder weapon, whatever it was, is also missing.
- Tyrant Sir Neville Loring discovers his older twin brother has died and his son David will inherit the land. David as now lost his memory but detective Jasper Shrig guesses the truth and helps him.
- Returning to Oxford very late at night, a drunken poet sees a corpse in a toyshop window - but, when the police arrive, not only has the corpse disappeared, the toyshop has, too.
- With his writer friend from America, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates a series of exceptionally gruesome murders in the Rue Morgue district of Paris.
- Racketeer Al Kresnick blackmails lawyer Bob Race into picking up a suitcase at the docks. Race escapes death but the suitcase is stolen. Suspicion now falls on his wife Eve and client Tony Fontaine but both have now vanished.
- The aggressively opinionated John Raggley is murdered in a pub. Father Brown determines that a mysterious customer - "the quick one" - holds the key to the mystery.
- Nick Mahoun travels to a Glasgow to audit an oil company prior to a takeover. What he discovers is widespread fraud and somebody willing to murder to keep it quiet.
- In the steamy heat of a fashionable Turkish baths, emotions can become heightened and lead to a fantastic and mysterious death.
- Advising government on the illegal "high" called Mecron, Rachel Borrowdaile comes to the aid of minister Henry Leggatt who is blackmailed by drug pushers who want old stock.
- Who killed Sigsbee Manderson, the hated millionaire? His beautiful young wife is suspected and amateur sleuth Philip Trent must prove her innocent.