The Edgar Wallace Mysteries

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.