Joan Hickson

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper ...

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, ...

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech ...

Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new ...

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody’s much interested in problem child, Kate. ...

Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. ...

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the ...

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon ...

Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent ...

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite ...

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he ...

When a ballerina’s career is ended after she’s injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young ...

Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, ...

Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an ...

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some ...

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in ...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social ...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector ...

A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but ...

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit ...

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British ...

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train – but where is the body?

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But ...

Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship ...

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.