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The Wilkins put up a fence, which causes the next door neighbor to fall from a seaside cliff, presumably dying, although his body is not found Samantha Wilkins is a shrew who owns a large

The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger

A convict at a state prison work camp plans a clever escape with the help of the aging, alcoholic fellow prisoner whos in charge of making coffins and burying the camps deceased

After an adopted son drowns, a strange woman arrives claiming to be the boys birth mother and proceeds to blackmail the adoptive mother

An inquest rules a wifes death as accidental, but when the widower returns to work, it seems someone is tricking him, including a letter accusing him of murder and one of his wifes letters appearing, revealing she had a lover Incr

A beautiful young newlywed is wary of her much older husbands business trip leaving her alone in their beach house A group of beach boys and a neighboring screenwriter provide her some

An unfaithful wife taunts her husband that shes ditching him for a real man As the drunken couple argue on the stern of a yacht, the normally timid husband shoves her overboard to drown The society party goers on the boat support

A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia

An oily hero quickly makes himself unwelcome even harder to dispose of, until he crashes his hosts car mashes a neighbors wife The unemployed stranger saved the life of a young boy,

Duke Marsden is a compulsive gambler and is about to lose his wife because of it She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else shes gone

Joe Brisson tries to make a political payoff to Baines in a parking lot, but spots an observer, private detective Foyle Foyle says he was hired by Joes wife Lisa Joe visits his

A man in London tries to help a counter espionage Agent But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information

After locating the killer of his wife, a man hires his 41st detective to set up a meeting so he can kill the male suspect

When Capt Ernest Fisher learns that Milton Potter has been released from prison after serving his 15 year sentence, he tells his subordinates about this very strange case Potter was a bookkeeper for a bank He did his work well and

When a young boy reports a mob beating to the police, and his father does not encourage him, he is adversely affected for the rest of his life

Jamie and Ben McMahon have brought a civilized attitude to a rough and tumble mining town Although both strongmen in their own rights, they preach brotherly love and turning the other cheek One day, in walks the Little Man, a stran

An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husbands body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain

A crime boss gives a new employee an assignment to kill another man, but the intended victim tempts him with another offer

Colin Brackner is an elderly actor who invites playwright Adam Longsworth and his wife over to dinner During dinner Colin talks about a long lost love The tale deeply affects both Adam

Harry Pope is lying in bed and discovers that there is a sleeping snake on his stomach

Charlotte Hope arrives in the Wellington household to act as a governess of their children Shes a somewhat brash, opinionated person who boldly announces she uses the Schartz Metterklume method for teaching children The parents ar

A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending

A businessman desperate for a change in his fortunes tests the power of a gypsy womans monkey paw charm which is said to grant its holder three wishes His son suffers the consequences

Dave Snowden elopes with wealthy Bonnie Daniels, and Mr Spencer sees them break into the abandoned old estate where Bonnie lived until age six Mr Spencer informs Bonnies mother, Mrs Daniels, who finds Snowden struggling to op

When a man purchases a wig and a beard, he winds up getting a whole new personality, which also leads to a new girlfriend along with a lot of serious problems that have the very real potential to drive him to madness unless he doe

When an embezzling engineer is demoted and his brother takes over his former position, he makes plans to kill him

A beautiful, simple minded blonde changes her mind, after conspiring with her boyfriend to kill her rich, loving husband

A bitter man continues to live in a dark old mansion with his controlling sister, whom he believes killed his wife, while openly planning her murder

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people

A self conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrats wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wifes spectral presence

A Phoenix secretary embezzles 40,000 from her employers client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother

Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U boat that sank their ship

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies

In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers shes living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory