Edgar Wallace Series from 1959 until 1972
In Marseille, a prisoner named Corey is released early for good behaviour. A warder tips him off about a prestigious jewellery shop he could rob in Paris. He goes to the house of Rico, an associate of his with whom his former girlfriend now lives, where he robs Rico of his money and gun. Then he goes to a billiard hall, where two of Rico's men find him. After killing one and taking his gun, Corey buys a large car and, hiding the guns in the boot, starts for Paris. On the way, he stops at a roadside grill to eat.
A number of packaged disembodied heads have been in random areas of the English countryside. In each package is a letter to the police from the killer, who dubs himself "The Executioner." Each victim is seemingly unrelated to one another. When a Scotland Yard employee is killed, Detective Mike Brixan (Heinz Drache) of Special Branch is called in to investigate. The only clue is that a black, four-door sedan has been seen at the scene of the crime, and that the typewriter that the letters have been written on have two offset letters.
During a guided tour of Garre Castle, a man is killed by an arrow after sneaking away from the rest of the group. Shortly thereafter, Mr Howett and his adopted daughter, Valerie, move into Lady's Manor, next door to the castle. Valerie is looking for her mother she has not seen in 20 years. John Wood, a friend of Valerie's brother John Bellamy, who was killed in the war, is also there.
In this film, a series of murders of wealthy men leads investigators to a group of blind men with a mysterious leader.
In London treibt ein Mädchenmörder ein ziemlich geschmackloses Unwesen, indem er alle seine Opfer mit gelben Narzissen dekoriert. Inspektor Jack Tarling hat bei seinen Nachforschungen bald Grund genug, in diesem Zusammenhang einen über Leichen gehenden Rauschgiftschmuggelring der Taten zu verdächtigen. Drei tote junge Frauen und jede dekoriert mit einem Strauß gelber Narzissen. Oberinspektor Whiteside und die Londoner Bevölkerung glauben an einen wahnsinnigen Serienmörder. Jack Tarling, Sicherheitsbeauftragter einer Fluggesellschaft und der geheimnisvolle Chinese Ling Chu haben den Verdacht, dass etwas anderes hinter den Morden steckt. (BR)
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
Sowohl Scotland Yard als auch die kriminelle Gemeinschaft Londons versuchen, die Identität des "Zinkers" herauszufinden. Dieser mysteriöse Hehler zwingt Kriminelle, ihm ihre Waren für einen Spottpreis zu verkaufen. Wenn jemand sich dagegen wehrt, "verpfeift" er sie bei der Polizei. Diejenigen, die sich ihm widersetzen, werden gnadenlos getötet, bevorzugt mit dem Gift der Schwarzen Mamba. Inspector Elford von Scotland Yard ermittelt, und er hat zahlreiche Verdächtige. Die Spur führt zum seltsamen Mr. Sutton, dem Besitzer eines zoologischen Ladens, der auch Raubtiere und giftige Schlangen führt. Während seiner Ermittlungen trifft Elford auf Frau Mulford, eine ältere Dame, die versucht, ehemaligen Strafgefangenen zu helfen, sowie auf Beryl, ihre Nichte, die Kriminalgeschichten schreibt und als Gerichtsreporterin arbeitet. Inspector Elford entdeckt eine Ähnlichkeit zwischen dem Setzmaschinenstil, der auch von Sutton verwendet wird, und den Briefen, die der Zinker geschrieben hat. Um Sutton zum Geständnis zu bringen, wird er von Frau Mulford in Zusammenarbeit mit der Polizei dazu gebracht, zu glauben, dass er vergifteten Tee trinkt.
The ruins of Fossoway Abbey are supposed to conceal the legendary treasure of the Chelford family, sought by Harry Chelford, last of his line, with fanatical zeal. Due to a hereditary disease, he is liable to fall victim to insanity at any time. His fiancee, Leslie Gine, is more attracted to Dick Alford, Harry's cousin and steward at Chelford Manor. Meanwhile, her brother Arthur, a London lawyer is being blackmailed by his chief clerk Gilder, who wants Leslie for himself. Gilder has purchased some bills of exchange on which Arthur forged the signature of Lord Chelford to pay for his own gambling debts. There is also the 'Black Abbot', a mysterious figure who is seen moving about in the old ruin and supposedly guards the treasure. Inspector Puddler of Scotland Yard and his assistant Horatio are called in when a man is found stabbed to death and they try to solve the mystery. Among the suspects is the butler Fortuna who Puddler recognizes as a former inmate of Dartmoor prison. Mary Wenner, who used to be secretary of Lord Chelford (and an aspirant to become his wife), joins forces with Gilder to find the treasure. They manage to discover some scroll cases containing maps of the abbey but are driven off by the Black Abbot. They later return to find the maps gone. Wenner is shot and killed by Arthur Gine, who himself is later killed in a confrontation with Gilder. Leslie Gine calls off the wedding with Lord Chelford. Lord Chelford, plagued by his deteriorating sanity completely loses his grip on reality when he encounters his mother (whom he believes to be dead) in the grounds of the manor. Lord Chelford shoots his mother and the Black Abbot, takes Leslie as a hostage and hides with her in the tunnels beneath the abbey after also killing Gilder. It turns out there have been two Black Abbots: one was the butler working as an agent for Gilder, the other was Alford, working with the family doctor Loxon to care for the insane Lady Chelford whom they had kept hidden from her
After the rich Lord Lebanon has been strangled, a group of different characters assembles at Mark's Priory, his lonely manor in the north of Scotland, to attend the reading of his will. However, as lawyer Frank Tanner explains—in reading a "second-to-last-will"—to the potential heirs, they will first have to stay together at the manor for six days and six nights. Thinking that Lebanon has died of heart failure they all agree. It turns out to be a dangerous requirement as the manor is cut off from the outside world by a storm and one by one the visitors are murdered—strangled with an Indian scarf. In the end, of all the guests, family and staff only Tanner, Isla Harris and Bonwit the butler survive. The last will is read and it is revealed that Lord Lebanon has in fact left all his money to the man he considered to be the greatest of the century: Edgar Wallace.<ref name="Filmportal"></ref><ref name="Magnum" />
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
When an armoured car is robbed, in a daring daylight raid on Tower Bridge, one of the gang hides the money in Barberini's Circus. The police also investigate people being murdered by throwing knives. Gregor (Christopher Lee), is a facially scarred lion tamer, one of the many suspects in the case investigated by Scotland Yard's detective Elliot (Leo Genn). His examination of all the clues leads to a final denouement in front of the assembled suspects during a knife-throwing act.
Schreckliches geschieht auf Schloß Castlewood. Lady Perkins unterhält dort ein Heim für Mädchen, die vom rechten Weg abgewichen sind. Offenbar hat sie jedoch die Kontrolle über das Geschehen völlig verloren: Das Team von Scotland Yard versucht, die Morde an mehreren jungen Mädchen, die unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben gekommen sind, aufzuklären. Inspektor Hopkins tappt zunächst im Dunkeln. Es geschehen weitere Abscheulichkeiten: Todesschreie werden von Orgelklängen übertönt.
A Scotland Yard inspector is called to investigate a series of unsolved robberies. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) arrives at the country manor of a respectable English family. He discovers Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt), the mistress of the house, has turned to crime in order to bolster the family's flagging fortunes. With assistance from an order of bogus nuns, stolen goods end up in the warehouse of Hamlyn (Robert Morley), purportedly a respectable businessman.
Ein unheimlicher Mönch befördert mit gezielten Hieben diverse Herren ins Jenseits, im Mädcheninternat fallen Schülerinnen Giftgasattacken zum Opfer. Inspektor Higgins tappt im Dunkeln, bis er ein mögliches Mordmotiv findet: Schülerin Ann wird bald volljährig und erbt ein beträchtliches Vermögen.
Prof. Walter Forrester (Ángel Menéndez) is a United Kingdom scientist working in the Akasava jungle in South America. His assistant finds a mysterious stone but it is stolen and Forrester vanishes, leaving him as the sole suspect. However, after a Scotland Yard detective is murdered while entering Forrester's office in London, the Scotland Yard chief Sir Philipp (Siegfried Schürenberg) hands the case to Jane Morgan (Soledad Miranda), an attractive agent, while given its international priority, Secret Intelligence Service will be on the case. Now, on a secret mission and with double identity as the young stripper wife of the British consul Irving Lambert (Alberto Dalbés), Morgan arrives in South America. Meanwhile, she meets Rex Forrester (Fred Williams (actor)), professor's nephew who is also concerned of his fate and arrives in the country for further investigation.
While in a boat making out with a college professor, a young woman sees a man with a knife stabbing another woman in the woods on the nearby shore. The professor convinces his mistress to keep silent about what she saw, especially after it turns out that the dead victim was one of her classmates.
A serial killer is on the loose, murdering certain women around the city. While travelling on a train on his honeymoon, Mario (Antonio Sabato) sees his wife brutally attacked aboard the train and after the killer gets away, the police accuse Mario of attacking his newlywed wife. Police decides to hide the fact that Giulia (Uschi Glas), Mario's wife is alive in order to protect her from the killer. Mario sets out to prove his innocence by attempting to solve the "Puzzle of the Silver Half Moons", which leads him to the hotel where he met his wife, a man name Frank Saunders, Christian Church's tour, a group of hippies and Frank's ex-mistress. The film contains some very violent murders, some shown from the point of view of the knife-wielding, black-gloved killer, as he stabs a woman in her bed, bashes in the head of a prostitute, strangles a female artist with a telephone cord, drowns a mental patient in her bathtub and even uses a power drill on one unfortunate victim. Mario must catch the real killer in order to prove his own innocence.
