Duke Marsden is an inveterate gambler who's about to lose his wife because of his habit. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there's one last thing he has to do first.
A seasoned writer who has suffered trauma sends audiotapes to his publisher. They introduce the writer himself as a murderer emerging from a love triangle. Are the tapes a confession or just a new way of delivering a summary?
A valuable statuette thrusts an elderly nun, a veteran criminal, a wavering novice, an ignorant thug, and a greedy pawn shop owner into a maelstrom of dangerous vice and inexorable virtue.
A disturbed man's other identity snares others in a perilous web. David is a successful, quiet young scientist - but on weekends he has an impeccable country cottage where as the confident William, he fantasizes as if actually entertaining ex-girlfriend Annabel, now happily married nearby. When his co-workers, one of whom has a crush on David, follow him up the coast, David's dream world by the sea for Annabel, morphs into a nightmare for all.
A perfect couple's content suburban world is interrupted by a telephone threat ("I'm going to kill you") against the cocksure husband. His past misdeeds unravel his new life, terrifying his unknowing wife.
Remembering nothing of what happened the day before, a talented, alcoholic ad man painfully reconstructs the events of what proves to have been a very bad day indeed.
After a lonely woman moves to a small town to live in the home of her recently deceased aunt, she finds one particular neighbor is especially willing to offer assistance.
A woman stands trial for her wealthy husband's murder. Her vengeful mother-in-law is convinced that she did it, but a family servant knows the key to what really happened.
A charming French maid elopes with a professional burglar (much to his mother's dismay) with hopes of turning him honest. However, the burglar's fence (Karl) has his own plans for his favorite thief.
At first, a childless young couple are thrilled to relocate for the husband's new executive job, and especially happy with their new home. Is the next-door neighbor boy's cruelty to them just a youngster rebelling against his blue-collar, strict father? The husband's empathy for the boy drives a dangerous wedge into their marriage.
A dissolute ex-hostess who's recently committed a murder and lost her job enters a marriage of convenience but soon finds herself rather rudely inconvenienced.
