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The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
Jun 1961
The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
Jul 1961
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Feb 1953
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
Dec 1963
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
Dec 1961
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears
Oct 1954
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Oct 1965
Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir who's inherited millions. But Peter soon suspects something is not quite right with their story. He sets out to learn the truth before he's forced to sign a document that purportedly finalizes the transfer of the estate. This drama is based on Hugh Wheeler's novel Puzzle for Fiends.
Apr 1958
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Mar 1960
When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert.
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Apr 1959
Scotland Yard detectives investigate an insurance scam, where a "drowned" man proves to have been dead before he was thrown in the water.
Jun 1956
Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man.
May 1957
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Aug 1961
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
Dec 1955
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Feb 1962
Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
Dec 1959
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Jan 1963
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
Jun 1955
Storyline Roger Henderson, the young son of a wealthy British gentleman, lives in one of those grand British country estates surrounded by huge gardens. When a Rembrandt painting is stolen from the vault in the basement of the mansion, Roger and John Wilson (young son of the butler) discover a secret tunnel leading from the vault to another building on the estate. They then set out on a dangerous mission to bring the smugglers to justice.
Dec 1948