When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way.
Craig believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping--and that the motives are personal, not financial. Shaking off the police, he heads to the town of Hepton to begin his search.
Enlisting the help of a local crime reporter, Craig tracks down a disgruntled ex-employee named George Neecham.
While Craig's desperation mounts, Sue becomes increasingly comfortable with her kidnappers--especially with a young man named Frankie.
Detectives trace Craig to Hepton, but he has moved on to the abandoned factory where his daughter is being held.
Craig confronts his daughter's captor, but Sue--very much her father's daughter--does the unexpected.
interesting drama enfolding of dodgy goings on in the navy, where all is not as it seems when an officer is witnessed being a bit sleazy in a casino, but later denies to the person who saw him that he was even there.
Then the guy who insisted that he did see him, gets bumped off, and our hero (Lamb) sets about proving that Officer Cabal really was where he was seen and that the navy are covering up something they shouldn't. Actually he is meddling in something he should really have left alone, but he isn't to know that, and this is what makes the story: what happens as a result of his meddling.
On the commute home one evening, Antony Skipling picks up a cassette tape left behind by a strange man. What he hears on it will change his life forever.
Convinced there is a plot to kill him, Skipling goes to the police, who dismiss him as a crank. He then turns to a counseling service and reconnects with Susie, a female "befriender" that the service assigned to him years ago.
Skipling suspects that his ex-wife and the new man in her life have planned his murder. He confides in Susie, the only person who sympathizes--and whose friendship turns more intimate by the day.
With time running out, Skipling becomes increasingly desperate. And on the morning of February 28, while waiting on the platform for his train, he encounters the man he believes has come to kill him.
A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.
Peter Curtis (Ian McShane) has just been released from prison in England, his crime was manslaughter --- Now Curtis is parked on a English country road when a driver appears out of nowhere and hits and kills his dog --- The man stops and Curtis in a rage attacks him thus he dies from a heart attack --- Before dying he mutters a few words --- A stranger approaches Curtis later in the story and asks what those final words were that the dying man had muttered --- And the puzzle begins about the words that Curtis finally remembers is "high tide" and why is there so much interest --- The direction is first rate with some beautiful coastal scenery and paced very nicely this mystery unfolds with numerous characters showing up here and there
With Tom Foreman serving life for murder, jewellery that he hid before his arrest makes his beautiful wife Val an even more attractive proposition for a string of men.
A series of brutal murders take place in the Chelsea area. A local reporter and three students making a film are the only links to the victims. The killer wears a mask identical to one of the costumes used in their film. The killer also selects victims with initials of Chelsea's former literary residents.