When a rare, misprinted edition of a sixteenth-century Bible is stolen from Vercaster Cathedral, and a talented London actress is discoverdd missing, Augustus Maltravers thinks that the two incidents are related...
When wealthy Charles Carrington, proud owner of an unpublished Sherlock Holmes story and husband to a younger, adulterous wife, is murdered, amateur detective Augustus Maltravers must turn to Holmes himself to solve the crime...
As playwright Augustus Maltravers watches his girlfriend Tess portray a heartbroken Desdemona in a clifftop ampitheater, real tragedy is played out a few miles away as aging sculptor Martha Shaw lies dying beneath her own granite statue...
LET SLEEPING MURDER LIE Icon of the sixties record and TV scene Jenni Hilton had vanished following the suicide of universally despised recording mogul Barry Kershaw. Now she wants to manage a carefully controlled comeback. An interview with The C...
A Pretty Place For Murder In the picture-postcard English village of Medmelton, the air remains thick with enchantment of centuries past. Here, women have strange eyes -- one brown, one green--and superstition and magic still rule. When a famou...
Twin Hicks "Noah's Ark", is a unique prospective of the traditional story. It captures the unwavering message of God's mercy and grace for humanity, and Noah's uncompromising faith. Although the world had become increasingly wicked, Noah found favor ...
An orphan with a tragic background resorts to petty theft in order to survive. She is found guilty in a juvenile court who arrange for her to be fostered out to a remote farm in the Lake District. Life still has its ups and downs but the girl learns ...
Ages 15 and up. Joe the most popular boy in school goes in search of Susan to request she tutor him in math. He finds her on the school bench, with pills in her hand, she writes her suicide note. To help her he must face all his own fears, overc...
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