Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he’s called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it’s not to…

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

After being hired to find an ex-con’s former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them,…

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead…

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear…

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

A lawyer tries to clear his wife’s lover of murder charges.

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was…