Jack Almond, once a rising star in the foreign office, is found dead in a Malaysian opium den. Beside him is a pile o...

Knobby and Tom are a pair of best friends in Malaya. They both get married at the same time and when the wives become...

Mrs. Albert Forrester, the writer of high-brow but low-selling poetry and essays, writes a bestselling mystery novel....

A planter's wife shoots down a family friend, claiming that he tried to rape her. But someone very close to the dead ...

A young man is imprisoned for killing his wife. Was it an accident, as he claims, or was it murder?

While staying at a fat farm, Frank, Arrow, and Beatrice bond over their love of bridge. They become best friends and ...

A woman leaves Japan after learning of her husband's affair. On the voyage to England, she meets a planter dying of a...

Lord Mountdrago, the foreign minister, humiliates a political rival in parliament for fun after which the man begins ...

A young woman uses her potentially fatal heart condition as a means to lead a life of luxury and indulgence.

A middle-class girl and her working-class fellow are bound by true love in defiance of the wishes of the girl's paren...

Laura Clayton, a respectable American woman, marries an Italian playboy. At first, their marriage is blissful but aft...

A young up-and-coming businessman leaves for Tahiti to earn money and is never seen again. Two years later, his best ...

Still in proper mourning following the death of her husband, a colonial administrator, in the East, a young widow rev...