Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.
After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.