Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I'll escape in a week.' For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise known as 'The Thinking Machine', nothing is impossible. Logic is his passion. One hour later he finds himself locked up in Chisholm prison and has to use all his mental resources to find the solution to the problem.
The Black Cat' seeks revenge on its cruel master; a young wife has the life drained out of her by her insensitive artist husband in 'The Oval Portrait'; and the beating heart of a dead man exposes the killer to the police in The 'Tell-Tale Heart'. Informational Sections: ??A Short History of the 'Whodunit' ??Two Kings of Hollywood Horror
Emma Wood, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father's house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds her imagination has led her into danger.
Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful romantic comedy. Claudio is in love with Hero but is scared to tell her. His friend, Don Pedro, succeeds in making her fall in love with him at a masked ball. But Don Pedro's brother Don John organises a plot to make Claudio think that Hero is unfaithful. Meanwhile Benedick and Beatrice continue a war of words and claim they will never marry. Don Pedro decides it would be amusing to make these two unlikely lovers fall in love...
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knights tell a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales ends with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are enerous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
