A man wakes up in a London hospital suffering from complete mental blackout. He has no idea who he is or how he came to end up in this condition...
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The summer holidays over, the boys at an old public school return for the start a new term, which for most will consist of abject misery and abuse meted out to them by their seniors...
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When a renowned physicist named Radcliffe mysteriously disappears, security operative Harry Palmer is taken off routine surveillance and assigned to a counterintelligence department headed by Major Dalby...
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On Petrie's Island, a small island off the coast of Ireland, Dr Lawrence Phillips is undertaking research into an innovative cure for cancer when he unwittingly creates a new form of life...
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Within hours of being released from prison, small-time mobster Charlie Croker is visited by the wife of a former associate, Roger Beckermann, who has recently been murdered by the Italian Mafia...
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In ancient Greece, Aristo, the benevolent King of Thessaly, is overthrown by his rival, Pelias, but a prophesy foretells that one day Aristo's son Jason will return to reclaim the throne...
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Billy Casper is a solitary teenager living in a glum Yorkshire mining town. Bullied at school and abused at home by his older brother Jud, he rebels through small acts of juvenile delinquency that strain his relationship with his mother...
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Mrs Cragg is a middle-aged charlady who supplements her income as an office cleaner by keeping house for a retired army man, Colonel Whitforth...
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In the early years of the First World War, Oxford-educated archaeologist T.E. Lawrence finds himself in Cairo, a deskbound lieutenant in the British Army...
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Seven men, from very different walks of life, are surprised when they receive a book containing half of a five pound note and an invitation to a luncheon...
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Christmas, 1183. King Henry II of England summons his estranged wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three sons, Richard, John and Geoffrey, to Chinon Castle to resolve the matter of his inheritance...
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Deep in the jungles of South-East Asia in 1942, Sergeant Mitchem leads a seven-man patrol on a mission to draw the Japanese troops away from the main Allied contingent by creating a sonic diversion...
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Travelling salesmen Eric and Ernie arrive in the South American town of Parazuellia, hoping to find a ready buyer for their range of realistic toy soldiers...
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Dame Beatrice Appleby is at a loss when she has to give up her charity work. Just what will she do with her time now? Her maid, Lily, tries to cheer her up by giving her a valuable mink coat which she fished from the balcony of a neighbouring couple, the Spanagers...
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Jeff Farrell, an American artist, is holidaying in the south of France when he strikes up a friendship with provincial bar owner Eve Beynat and her stepdaughter Annette...
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12th Century Europe is being scourged by many plagues, the most fearsome of which is the Red Death. When Prince Prospero learns that this plague has reached the villages surrounding his castle, he orders his men to burn them to the ground...
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Austria in the 1880s. The crown prince Rudolph is a constant thorn in the side of his father, the Emperor Franz Joseph. He allies himself with political agitators in the hope of reforming his country and spends more time with his mistresses than he does with his wife Stephanie...
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Under the terms of her father's will, heiress Epifania Parerga can only marry a man who manages to turn £500 into £15,000 within three months...
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In the 1920s, the British industrialist Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage is desperate to win back the half of his automobile factory which his father lost in a poker game to the young American Chester Schofield...
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In the 1920s, the world-renowned archaeologist Sir Basil Walden leads an expedition to Egypt to locate the lost tomb of the boy pharaoh Kah-to-Bey...
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Whilst collecting money for a charity, Miss Marple and her friend Mr Stringer pay a call on the reclusive Mr Enderby. They are amazed when the old man suddenly appears at the top of his staircase and drops dead at their feet...
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