Crime

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the ...

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman’s young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she ...

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious ...

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by ...

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the ...

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat ...

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as ...

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into ...

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order ...

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought ...

A lawyer tries to clear his wife’s lover of murder charges.

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger’s young daughter, now fully ...

After being hired to find an ex-con’s former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. On his way back to ...

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in ...

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man’s old ...

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an ...

A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence–aka Michael Arlen’s literary hero The Falcon–arrives in Hollywood for some rest and ...

The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.

When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake ...

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn’t know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his ...