Miss Giddens applies for her first job as a governess. The wealthy bachelor interviewing her is unconcerned with her lack of experience. He values his freedom to travel…
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing…
A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides.
A painting falls off the wall in a rented room. The tenant, Nils, a doctorate student in medicine, looks through the little hole in the wall to what happens in his…
A London museum's warehouse burns down, leaving undamaged a statue that the museum curator, Mr. Grove, identifies as "Mid-European Primitive". Grove is mysteriously…
A group of heirs gather in a castle in Scotland for the opening of the will of their wealthy relative, an eccentric doctor called Sir Reginald, who has apparently died…
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to…