Avis Scott

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...

A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his...

Leonette is a beautiful, smart young woman who travels to London for her inheritance after her father dies. When she arrives, mysterious events...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's...

A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Edward Potter, a meek clerk at Scotland Yard hunts down an escaped criminal.