A young man finds a very special school It teaches him how to take advantage of people He begins to put the lessons into operation
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940 Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way
A drunken, abusive tavern keepers adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count and unwillingly swaps identities with him
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise Father Brown has two goals to catch the thief and to save his soul
A distant poor relative of the Duke DAscoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half remembered recurring dream turns into reality
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lovers house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him