Dean Harens

A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.

緊迫する東西情勢の中、キューバにソ連製のミサイルが運び込まれるという情報がもたらされた。米仏の情報機関は、これを探るため局員を現地に派遣する。そして、浮かび上がったトパーズという謎の組織を追って、局員はその正体を探るが…。キューバ危機を背景にしたスパイ・スリラー。

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.