Miles Malleson

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She ...

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world’s astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the ...

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British ...

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on ...

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of ...

London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, ...

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she ...

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their ...

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to ...

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to ...

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described ...

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone ...

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, ...

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be ...

Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable ...

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and ...

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving ...

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed ...

Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune ...

Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend — whom he knows as “Ernest” — is actually named Jack ...

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. ...

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also ...

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her ...

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring ...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal ...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent ...