- A jewel thief tries to mislead police who suspect that his theft of a valuable emerald is related to the serial murder of 11 policemen.
- Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man every dowager in London welcomes to her parties. He has taking ways, and the Calgurie Emerald is one of the things he takes. This daring theft brings unexpected complications, among them Jane Frensham (Dawn Addams), the daughter of the head of Scotland Yard, Sir Herbert Frensham (Sir Michael Hordern) and a maniacal killer loose in London. Revel sets a trap for the madman, with himself as bait, in a fog-shrouded stalk where one of them must die.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a polished jewel thief who steals valuable but hard-to-fence stones and turns them in for the insurance reward. With help from his cabbie accomplice, he is able to position himself at the high society engagement party of beautiful Jane Frensham (Dawn Addams), daughter of a retiring Scotland Yard superintendent. There he is able to steal the fabulous Calgurie Emerald from a society dowager, but it's his bad luck that the mysterious serial killer, The Terror, murders his eleventh policeman on the grounds at the same time as the theft. When the authorities incorrectly theorize that the jewel thief and the maniac are one and the same, Revel makes the decision to insinuate himself into the police hunt for the murderer in order to divert the Yard from the emerald. In the process, he becomes involved with the attractive Miss Fensham, engaged to another man.—duke1029@aol.com
- In 1890 London, Nicholas Revel, who travels easily among society's upper crust; MacStreet, who works for an insurance company largely doing appraisals; and Ernie Perker, a hansom cab driver secretly work together to commit thefts, usually of expensive jewels. Needing money to pay off debts, Nicky, the mastermind of the three, plans to steal the Calgurie Emerald right off the neck of its owner, wealthy Mrs. Chumley Orr, at a party she is hosting, the party when she is sure to wear it. Nicky's plan is despite or because Scotland Yard Superintendent Sir Herbert Frensham will be at the party, Nicky's rationale being that Frensham will be too preoccupied with the rash of yet unsolved murders of police constables by someone calling himself "The Terror". The ultimate plan is for Ernie, who will "find" the emerald in the back of his cab, to return it for the several thousand pound insurance money. Creating a diversion at the party, Nicky is able successfully to carry out the theft. Because of the resulting circumstances of evidence of the theft being found at the scene of the latest murder, Nicky senses an opportunity to direct suspicion away from himself and toward whoever The Terror is. In the process of that secondary plan, Nicky befriends the Superintendent's daughter, Jane Frensham, as her fiancé, Sir Christopher Lenhurst, a military man, is necessarily detained for a few weeks and as she, intrigued by Nicky's musings, wants to play amateur detective with him to nab The Terror. That friendship has unintended consequences as the Superintendent's assistant, Connor, begins to believe that Good Samaritan Nicky isn't all he appears to be--and could indeed be the thief/murderer.—Huggo
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