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A hard-up young man receives a timely invitation to visit a mysterious, wealthy cousin at his country retreat - a bizzare menagerie of birds, reptiles and a man-eating black puma.
A man and his dog fight for survival during a bitterly cold Arctic trek.
A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.
A potentially explosive letter has been stolen. The police know who has it - but where he has it remains a mystery.
So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan.
Confined to a room in an exclusive club during an important dinner, Father Brown notices some unusual sounding footsteps.
Rosie and her Mum have a day at the beach.
They live in the world's safest place, but are seized with an irrational fear. The locals begin to take drastic precautions to protect themselves.
Over the course of the summer, John and the Pilgrims became friends.
Two men at a fishing spot see Joe and Teddy Emmanual and their sister Carrie ...
A man tells a friend about a disturbing recurring dream.
When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give.
A young Lady employs Holmes to negotiate with London's most notorious blackmailer.
Holmes investigates the disappearance of the top player in the Cambridge University Rugby team on the eve of a match against Oxford.
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
