E.J. Holding

Tom Thumb

A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.

Hotel Reserve

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

On the Night of the Fire

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Incident in Shanghai

An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.

House Broken

Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.

Murder by Rope

Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.

Love at Sea

A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.