Joan Hickson

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon ...

Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent ...

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite ...

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he ...

When a ballerina’s career is ended after she’s injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young ...

Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, ...

Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an ...

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some ...

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in ...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social ...