Parker Pyne helps a middle-aged wife to recover the attention of her husband, a philandering business-man too interested in his pretty young secretary.
A man has a vision of a scarred man strangling his wife. At an engagement party, he discovers with horror that the future victim and her murderer are the two betrothed. How he can stop the impending and deadly marriage?
George Rowland hides a young girl on a train. She's escaping from her "uncle", an hulking brute who is very possibly a foreign spy. The girl gives to George an odd parcel and she disappears.
When three learned men (a doctor, a lawyer and a priest) debate a young woman's recent suicide, they are joined by a fourth man with intimate knowledge of the case.
Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is it really the right thing to do?
Dermot is falling in love for his best friend's wife but his uncle, a famous psychiatrist, tells to him that the highly nervous young woman is affected from homicidal mania. When the doctor is mysteriously killed, Dermot and the woman are the most likely suspects.
An unemployed girl is the spitting image of a Grand Duchess fearing to be assassinated by the anarchists. So, she accepts to impersonating her in a charity fête, risking her life for a very big sum of money.
A mousy clerk named Edward Robinson, completely dominated by his stern fiancée, buys a flamboyant sport car as an act of independence and he embarks himself in a romantic adventure when he hides a beautiful cat burglar and her loot, a priceless diamond collier.
