Det. Chief Insp. Dover is fat, lazy and useless. Dame Alice Stote-Weedon asks Scotland Yard to help with a campaign poison pen letters they send Dover. When Mrs Tompkins is murdered, Dover is finally forced investigate.
Inspector Ranson runs the Department of Deadends looking into the murder of Mrs Blagrove. The only clue he as is a book of poems and knows the owner of this is the murderer.
When his son is killed by an unidentified hit-and-run driver, Felix Lane writes in his diary that he intends to find the man responsible and kill him. But when the man actually is killed, is someone else the killer?
This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people who would be glad to see Sir William Anstruther dead. The question is who? Roger Sheringham is determined to find out. Unhappily he has hardly started his investigations when a tragedy, in which an innocent woman dies, takes place.
Advising government on the illegal "high" called Mecron, Rachel Borrowdaile comes to the aid of minister Henry Leggatt who is blackmailed by drug pushers who want old stock.
Regency thief-taker Jasper Shrig comes to the aid of Lord Julian Midmarsh as he attempts to avenge the murder of his father by Julius Openshaw. Shrig discovers Openshaw is now called Gaston de Ravenac and wants the boy dead.
Albert Campion went to school with "Pig" Peters, and hated him. When he hears that Pig has died, he attends the funeral - but Pig appears to have died twice.
Eve Gill hears that her neighbour Louise Fremton has committed suicide but everything tell her it's murder. Investigating she discovers the murderer has close business ties with her father.
Investigating a murder in the art world, Inspector Alleyn finds himself falling hard for the independent-minded painter Agatha Troy. The problem is, she might be a murderess.
Commissaire Bignon is looking into the murder of shady businessman Gall, at the King Hotel, Paris. Russian born, Gall's life is a mystery, dealing in both blackmail and intimidation to get his way.
With his writer friend from America, the Chevalier Auguste Dupin investigates a series of exceptionally gruesome murders in the Rue Morgue district of Paris.
