Edgar Wallace Mystery 'Theatre|Thriller'

Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.

Following the vicious murder of a young girl, suspicion falls on a half witted youth living in his aunt's boarding house. After a second murder Inspector Allen exposes the real killer.

When to women are brutally murdered, the local townsfolk quickly assume a strangely behaving young man is the culprit, but a policeman thinks otherwise.

A blackmailer is found dead in a locked room and all the suspects have unbreakable alibis.

An unscrupulous businessman frames a rival for murder, then is himself found murdered in a locked room.

A valuable diamond is purchased by a man-about-town who then disappears and his cheque bounces. His solicitor hires a private investigator who seeks to track down the man and his female companion but the fugitive turns up dead.

Marjorie Stedman (Hazel Court) investigates the disappearance of a man whom had fraudulently obtained a high-price diamond.

When a convict escapes from prison, to be re-united with his girlfriend and his stolen £20,000 he left with her for safe keeping, he is in for a series of surprises and then a trip to the seaside and a police chase follows.

An escaped convict discovers his girlfriend has married the detective who arrested him.

When Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she asks stepsister Dora for shelter. Dora takes Audrey to a party hosted hosted by Lacey, her boyfriend. Lacey complains about his neighbor, the mysterious Mr. Malpas, who makes strange noises all night and is never seen. Next day, Audrey gets a job offer from Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.

After a visit from a mysterious stranger from his past, enigmatic millionaire John Trasmore is found dead - shot at close range locked in his own strongroom, with the only key on a table in the middle of the room.

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.

A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot. A detective starts investigating the case, to find out who is responsible.

A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot.

The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewelry which had led to murder.

The Police investigate a theft of emerald jewelry which had led to a murder.

A murderous jewelry heist attracts an ex-partner of the killer, a master criminal who's never been caught. His personal nemesis,a retired detective, joins Scotland Yard to crack the case, in turn recruiting the thief's estranged wife.

When a hotel becomes the scene of a murder and robbery, investigators take to the streets in pursuit of the suspect.

When a hired server is killed after a party for an artist and his fiancée, and soon after, the girl's hot tempered, disapproving old uncle is murdered too, the police look for a connexion. The clues available include a small, brightly painted key to the old man's safe, and some wigs found in an abandoned apartment near a crime site.

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.

A rich man's secretary/fiancée is harassed by an assistant, who's sacked. Dangerous accidents start occurring and the assistant is suspected, but he's suddenly murdered just as he plans to meet with a Scotland Yard inspector.

A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.

A cracked safe seems like routine to the police, until the owner of the business is found dead the next morning and they find that a lot more money was in the safe than he had said. Where did he get it and why was it there?

A petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some bullion that the owner hasn't declared to the authorities.

Wally Sanders, a horseracing jockey, loses a race and crashes his car to claim an insurance. Jim Matthews, a shrewd and energetic insurance investgator, follows up the company's suspicion of foul play and stumbles deep into a web of corruption concering fixed horse races.