An author, at work on the third chapter of his eighth novel, is interrupted by an encyclopaedia salesman.

A suicidal playwright, finding himself unable to do the deed on his own, attempts an unconventional method involving the confession of a dark secret from his past.

When Clovis overhears a middle-aged man bemoaning the lack of excitment in his life, he decides to help out. And then some.

An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.

Two reclusive, retired ship's Captains decide to celebrate Christmas for the first time in years.

A penniless man is bet that he can't survive for a month - starting and ending with nothing but an implausible, but real, £1,000,000 note. Trading Places, Brewster's Millions. . . . .

Bertie Steffink takes action against his disapproving relatives.