Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence–aka Michael Arlen’s literary hero The Falcon–arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor….

A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.

In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the…

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

Charlie’s visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much….

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley’s friend Dr. Sovac attends to…

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead…