A local pub owner's daughter is found dead in the area of the town docks - her clothes ripped off and her body mutilated. The police are unable to find any definite leads, but the townspeople have other ideas...
A disturbed young man lives with his dysfunctional family in an isolated house in the country. While out collecting moths in the dark he causes a car to run off the road: rescuing the injured female passenger, he takes her back to his room.
Paul Langley has racked up a number of unsuccessful escape attempts from prison, but now his wife is pregnant and frightened he makes one last effort to reach her.
John Arkwright is convicted of fraud but has no intention of serving his five-year sentence. His wife Rita sees Chandler who, for £1,500, agrees to get Arkwright out of Brentville prison.
Setting out to view a small house that is up for sale, a young couple find it in an uncared-for condition. Trying the key, they are surprised when the door is opened by a strange woman
It is night-time, and the lights at a large greyhound racing stadium start to go out as the last of the crowd leave. Crouched in the shadows of the car park are two youths, and they're up to no good.
Audrey Bedford finds herself involved in strange happenings on her release from prison. Her step-sister Dora, who at first is anxious to avoid her, suddenly becomes friendly and so does her boyfriend.
William Jefferson, an accountant serving a sentence for embezzlement, dies in a prison hospital just before the authorities can tell him of the death of his only son.
What do a wealthy foreigner in fear of his life and a young man who has confessed to a shooting have in common? Supt. Meredith investigates - and he doesn't like what he finds.
A prison escapee's plans of getting his hands on £20,000 go awry when he discovers his girlfriend has married the ex-DI who arrested him in the first place.
Two men are searching for James Tynewood, a young tearaway: one is a police inspector, while the other is his solicitor. But Tynewood has mysteriously disappeared...
Wealthy company director Harry Strickland is found dead and his safe has been burgled. Only a small amount of money was taken, however, which puzzles the police.
The locked door of a vault, with the key lying on a table beside a dead man, presents Superintendent Carver with a baffling case of murder, for he must find how the murderer managed to lock the door and replace the key on the table!
Bill Lawrence, a young lawyer, turns detective when one of his clients, Nina Stewart, becomes caught up in a murder and a burglary.
Lew Daney, chief suspect in a jewel robbery and an ensuing murder, vanishes leaving no trace. Hot on his trail are two men - an ex-policeman and Daney's ex-partner in crime.
The murder of wealthy money-lender Harvey Lane was perhaps no great loss to his business associates, but to Superintendent Meredith of Scotland Yard it was a case of murder.
An attempt is made on the life of Frank Weyman. Two suspects emerge - one is his estranged wife and the other is his employee.
A burglary is discovered at the offices of a photographic company, and the owner seems anxious to hush up the theft. His secretary, however, believes something to be terribly wrong.
An insurance investigator tackles a vicious gambling ring.
Superintendent Wills investigates the theft of some mysterious oriental tablets. When a body is dragged from the Thames, the victim's violent demise is attributed to someone with martial arts skills.
Venetia Beauty Preparations is a symbol of success in the thriving cosmetics industry. Housed in a modern luxurious factory with a large staff, everything points to prosperity - or so it seems!
Kersten, a professional killer, is brought in from the Continent by a jealous husband, Donald Edwards, to kill his wife Helene.
Two men visit the apartment of Emil Louba, a rich gambler, on the night of his death - each with a strong motive for murder!
In return for clearing his once shady record, Mike Stafford agrees to help Scotland Yard smash a big blackmail racket that has already caused three brutal deaths.
The crook Charles Valentine is aware that he is being followed by agent Number Six, but Six's identity is a closely guarded secret within Scotland Yard.
When Jack Burgess, a small-time estate agent, gets persistent calls from a mysterious Mrs Jackson to buy an expensive property, he decides to learn more about the deal.
Kidnapping an old lady, a gang of thieves take from her the key of a jewellery shop. While two of them rob the shop's safe, what starts as a £20,000 jewellery theft soon turns to murder!
A police officer in the dock awaits a life-changing verdict and reflects on the situation that brought him to be arrested.
After finding the body of his employer lying in a pool of blood, Craig, a private detective, is knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant.
Fashion model Carol Haisten learns that her sister drew £7,000 from the bank the day before she died from an overdose of sleeping pills. That money is now missing.
A benevolent act on a train leads to something much more sinister for an ex-convict in search of gainful employment. Can the cost of earning £100 too high for Arthur Payne?
A registered drug addict and ex-surgeon recognises a man named Muller whom he knew as an active Nazi in Vienna before the war.
Count Arnim, his beautiful wife and their English maidservant have formed themselves into a highly efficient organisation for extorting money by blackmail.
When the mild-mannered Stewart makes a break from Norwich prison with only a month more of his sentence to serve, the Governor is puzzled.
Dino Steffano, a handsome, self-made property investment tycoon who has just pulled off a quarter of a million pound swindle, is arrested as he is about to leave the country.
Yvonne Phipps returns home alone and disturbs an intruder hiding in the bushes. Seeing her terrified by the ordeal, her husband teaches her how to use a gun in case the intruder returns.
John Cleeve is suffering from what his doctor calls 'homicidal hallucinations'. He can remember nothing of his past - apart from the obsessive memory that he has killed a business partner.
Millionaire Swedish industrialist Rolf Neilson is horrified when his only daughter, Christina, is kidnapped from the London hotel where she is staying with him.
Sent to protect a woman frightened by telephone death threats, Sergeant Fraser goes against all codes of police conduct and falls in love with his victim.
Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril.
Returning from a party the adopted daughter of Colonel Paxton and her boyfriend are surprised by an intruder. The colonel, however, instantly recognises him as a war comrade.
Alan Roper is a smart young man on the fringes of big time crime. With his partner-in-crime, Lea, and his girlfriend Pat, he's planning his biggest job yet - the robbery of a betting shop owned by a man he hates.
Sir Harold Crossley is a famous criminal lawyer with more than a touch of genius, but when his brilliant defence of murder suspect Martin Somers results in his acquittal, he meets his opposition.
Joe Armstrong, a big-time racketeer, is deported back to Great Britain from America to find himself facing a murder rap for a killing he had committed twenty years before.
Alva Collins is the attractive wife of a captain in a civil airline. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate.
Jack Heath, a young, wealthy and successful company director, along with his ex-model wife, return home late one night to find that their house has been broken into.
Cell-mates Vince Howard and John Bell have served their sentence and now, with remission for good behaviour, they are due for release within a week. With only a few more days of his sentence to serve, John is found to be in possession of a knife.
A home-swap couple fall victim to a scam and end up losing all their valuable antiques and furniture. That, however, is not the end of their troubles.
Philip Teasdale, an eminent heart surgeon, is having his attractive artist wife watched by a private detective - not for purposes of divorce, but for a particulary nasty form of revenge.
Michael Blake has always had his eye on the main chance. A suave, ex-public school type, he seems oddly out of place in the company of small-time racketeers.
Robert Hilary is a public figure, a businessman and a politician. Happily married, Hilary still lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him.
Ben Arkwright, a co-director in the firm of Arkwright and Gallen, is having an affair with Anna, the strongly willed wife of Ricky Gallen, Ben's partner.
Police believed the murder of Norma Brent to be an open-and-shut case; her lover - a penniless scrap merchant - was discovered holding the ends of the strangulation cord over her lifeless body.
It all began as a hoax, a stunt, a trick on the part of two cynical young journalists to spite society and thwart the Establishment. The idea was to expose the frailty of circumstantial evidence, and they planned to fake a murder. But the plan went disastrously wrong.