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After her mother’s death leaves her nearly penniless, Olive Agar accepts an invitation to stay with cousins in Siena. Seeking work and a more adventurous life, she leaves England with limited savings and hopes that Italy will offer a future.

Wealthy shipwreck survivor Elbert Pakenham makes his fellow survivors beneficiaries of his will. When heirs begin dying mysteriously and Pakenham disappears, Inspector Hugh Collier investigates a possible scheme to concentrate the fortune in fewer hands.

Violet Hunter vanishes near a sanatorium and is later found buried in her friend Linda’s garden. While police assemble a murder case against Linda, private investigator Hermann Glide examines jealousy, suspicious medical experiments, and the scant clues surrounding the death.

A Christmas masquerade ends in murder during a game of hide-and-seek in a darkened country house. Suspicion falls on a blind war veteran, while Inspector Collier and Hermann Glide investigate the victim’s blackmailing past and the secrets haunting the guests.

Poisoning disrupts the seemingly peaceful village of Dennyford when Bertha Armour is murdered and another death follows. Her brother Mark becomes the chief suspect, prompting Hermann Glide and Inspector Collier to investigate the secrets of a deeply troubled family.

A recluse’s murder and a dying stranger’s reference to a kneeling woman bring Inspector Collier into a tangled investigation. Further deaths by poisoned chocolates raise questions about the connection between the victims, while a schoolboy offers enthusiastic assistance.

Harriet Hall is murdered at her isolated cottage just before her young niece arrives. Inspector Collier investigates why the neighboring Deene family seemed beholden to her, navigating local police incompetence as an apparently straightforward case grows increasingly strange.

While visiting an Italian hotel, Roger Fordyce believes he sees a woman’s body in a water tank, though the owner dismisses it. The consequences draw Roger back from England into an investigation with an unlikely group of amateur sleuths.

During the war in Italy, Alda Olivier shelters a wounded English paratrooper in an abandoned tomb near her villa. With hostile forces and personal enemies closing in, their precarious refuge becomes entangled in jealousy, violence, and murder.

Artists’ model Althea Greville is found murdered at Morosini’s art school during England’s wartime blackout. As Inspector Hugh Collier investigates, further victims follow, forcing him to unravel the connections behind a killer exploiting the cover of darkness.

Romanov jewels disappear after an English governess escapes Russia and dies in England. Years later, a waiter’s fatal disclosure sets off a hunt for a famous emerald, drawing Inspector Hugh Collier into a dangerous case of hidden treasure and competing interests.

A filmmaker visits a Somerset manor to investigate a family’s legends of witchcraft and haunting for his next production. After he leaves, two murders bring Inspector Hugh Collier to Little Baring, where family secrets and unsettling folklore complicate the investigation.