A stockbroker is facing indictment for having swindled his employer out of $2 million. He tells how he himself was swindled out of the money.
A washed-up playwrite tries to convince a detective and his relatives that he killed his uncle to get money to help his sick sister. Nobody will believe him.
Adaptation
An actress retires to her childhood beach home where she encounters a ghost who wants to paint her picture. When completed, the picture looks like her grandmother — leading the woman and her elderly caretaker on one of Elspeth's patented voyages of self discovery.
A beautiful woman enjoys pitting men against each other for her amusement — sometimes to fight to the death. She finally meets a man who matches her cunning with a possessed dagger.
Adaptation
An actor is murdered every night on stage with poison, but this time it's for real. A police detective must sort out three suspects, three motives, and three possible scenarios.
A small spaceship is dispatched to locate and retrieve a magician who was marooned on a distant planet fifteen years before. When they get there, they find that the magician has god-like powers and he visits the Biblical plagues of Moses on them.
If only I had 250 cronnen! A chance meeting between a down-on-his-luck dreamer and a bandit and con man leads to riches for both of them. Did the riches come from their ingenuity or from being born under a lucky star the seventh son of a seventh son?
A salesman asks his wife to let him invest her money in a new, risky business venture. Shortly after refusing, she dies mysteriously. Soon, more of his rivals die unexpectedly. A detective investigates.
During World War I, Two French soldiers escape a German POW camp and flee across the German countryside, trying to escape to Holland.
A couple on their way to beautiful Runyonville, Ohio to visit her parents for Christmas have an accident on the highway. They walk through the snow to the deserted village of Taylortown whose sole resident is a little old woman who can be several places at once and who keeps disappearing.