Margaret Johnston

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.

Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.

Joe Lampton pensó que había realmente hecho bien al casarse con la hija del jefe en la ciudad del molino del norte. Sin embargo, descubre que está siendo marginado en el trabajo y su vida privada manipulada por su padre. Aún así, hace caso omiso de una oferta de un puesto de trabajo en Londres y se mantiene lejos de una atractiva presentadora de televisión, Norah. Cuando se entera de que su esposa está teniendo una aventura, reconsidera ambos casos.

Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.

Norman Taylor es profesor de Psicología en la pequeña y prestigiosa universidad británica de Hempnell. Allí vive plácidamente con su esposa Tansy, disfrutando de una acomodada posición y de un notable prestigio académico: sus alumnos lo adoran y sus compañeros lo admiran (y envidian). Un fin de semana, Norman descubre que su mujer realiza pequeños rituales mágicos y confecciona amuletos con los que pretende proteger su hogar y la carrera de su marido frente a las asechanzas externas. Racionalista y escéptico, Norman la obliga a a abandonar esas actividades y a rechazar cualquier tipo de superstición. Sin embargo, a partir de ese momento, la tranquilidad desaparece y sus vidas llegan a adquirir tintes trágicos.

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.

From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend Patricia. While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana and then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished days in London, he made love to his boss Anne but her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was not in his plans

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.