The career of a cheerful ne’er-do-well playboy of the thirties.
A baby is born as the war ends, and the narrator ponders its future.
In the days of Charles II, Lady Skelton befriends a highwayman and takes to crime.
A soldier whose wife is enamoured of a petty crook absents himself to settle matters.
Episodes in the life of the violin virtuoso Paganini.
A man, obsessed with the fact that his father was the public hangman, becomes a murderer himself.
A correspondent in Iran foils an assassination plot.
In the 1850s along the pioneering tracks, the west’s first towns were being built.
A soldier returns from the Far East after the war and he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
In 1862, an English governess arrives in Bangkok to teach the 67 children of the king.
Adventures of Vidocq, a 19th-century rogue who became Paris chief of police.
A clerk and his family become rich, then poor, through listening to a speculator.
The career in the London theatre of Irish impresario George Howard in the early part of the twentieth century.
A pilot with brain damage after bailing out is torn between this world and the next, but an operation puts things to rights.
An ex-convict revenges himself on the former friends who shopped him.
An understudy finally achieves stardom thanks to his daughter’s schemes.
The boffins who invented radar find themselves in a little war action of their own.
Stories of life among British officers in a German POW camp, especially of a Czech who has stolen the papers of a dead Britisher.
Scotland Yard calls in novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple to help track down a gang of diamond robbers.
A psychotic woman is discovered to have poisoned three husbands.
A scheming woman plays with the lives of three men.
During World War II, a girl believed drowned returns from the front to find her husband remarried.
The Royds spend a weekend at their country cottage and get involved with poachers.
A boy meets an escaped convict on the Romney Marshes, with strange consequences for both of them.
In Tanganyika, an educated native helps white men to counter the force of witch doctors and persuade tribes to leave an infected area.