David Peters is visited in his run-down bedsit by Marie, a researcher for Severn Television, who is collecting material for a documentary about the singer Al Bowlly. David is the editor of the Al Bowlly Appreciation Society fanzine and Marie hopes to secure him as the programme advisor. David is enthusiastic about the offer but has other things on his mind; he has an appointment with an NHS psychiatrist the following day and his anxiety about the meeting, coupled with the novelty of entertaining his beautiful visitor, leads him to make an unwelcome pass at her...

Inspector Colman and Sargeant Astor The duo are faced with a wall of silence when a resident of the notorious Gantry Estate is found badly beaten.

Early in 1914, two men meet by chance in the wilds of German East Africa – one, Leopold von Ragastein is a German, the other, Sir Everard Dominey an Englishman.  Both men are roughly the same age, they share a similar background and each man looks almost identical to the other.

When Stephen decides to fly to Greece, it's for one reason only.  He's determined to rid himself of a secret fear - a fear so painful that he'll try anything to conquer it...

Richard Young experiments with a hallucinogenic drug that transports him back to fourteenth-century Cornwall, just before the onset of the Black Death. His initial encounter is so overwhelming that he knows he must repeat it, even though he suffers horrible after-effects.

Recently widowed George Carey has an irrational hatred for the old apple tree in his garden.

He decides it must be dug up - but it's a decision he's going to regret for the rest of his life - what's left of it...

Jim is keen to help his firm meet their sales targets. But nothing must interrupt the concentration of senior staff in their daily struggle with The Times crossword puzzle. Jim has a brainwave that involves a complicated scheme to complete the puzzle without actually working out the answers.

DI Frost is tough, rough and rude. He does things his way—and gets results. But when Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, including , robbery, an attack and a missing girl and a hit-and-run incident, he finds himself under pressure...

Elderly lady living alone in remote house, willing to take in paying guests.' Miss Pickering's newspaper advert seems innocuous, but she has an ulterior motive—as do the four gentlemen who reply.

Paul de Vries comes from one of Ceylon's oldest colonial families, but has been brought up in England where he now works in an architect's office.  His father died two years ago, but suddenly he receives letters from the dead man asking him to return to the land of his birth...