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Cécile Ledru, the companion of a rich widow, Joséphine Crozier, calls the police when she finds her dead body at the estate of her nephew, where they were staying. Mrs. Crozier has apparently died of a heart attack but Maigret, the investigating police inspector is not convinced...
A killer hides out with his wartime buddy, unaware that his buddy is now a cop.
A detective searches for a killer and traces him to a wax museum.
Mobster Kip Caley is released from prison after serving ten years and proclaims he's "going straight." His old criminal cronies, however, intend to involve him in a hold-up after breaking his resolve to stay honest. Boss McLean gets him a greeters job at a hotel restaurant where he falls for a woman who works there. Her intention to help Kip by warning the police about the impending robbery put Kip's life on the line.
A trader in dry goods makes his home in the Polynesian Islands, where the natives are believers in both voodoo and taboo. Other competing traders set him up to marry Anna, a cursed princess. Once married, she and her new husband are to be killed in order to break the taboo.
Two men look exactly alike. One is the actual criminal and the other the innocent sap who gets nailed.
Detective Ben Shaley has been hired to guard The Blue Panther, a valuable painting on loan to a gallery. During the invitation-only preview, both the painting and the necklace of a society art patron are stolen. The gallery's owner, Drexel Courtney, is willing to pay $15,000 for the painting's safe return. Shaley's attempts to negotiate with the thieves becomes an ordeal beach each is trying to double-cross the other.
A Hollywood assistant director in a stop-over in Paris is attacked by criminals on the Montmarte.
In 19th century England, a celebrated thief who sold his "findings" to an antique dealer, decides he now wants to make a purchase (or steal) an item as a present. As he is somewhat of a madman, he kills the proprietor, and gets lost in the dementia of is own mind, that is, until the devil pays him a visit.
An athlete leaving the Soviet Union during the cold war for Olympic competition is informed that his elderly father is to be collateral for his return. But when he later discovers his father has died, he attempts to keep his death a secret so that he may defect.
In the mid 19th century, a retired police commissioner lives quietly in a mansion in the country. He gets a late night visit from the chief of police and an officer from Scotland Yard to consult on a burglary case. After dispensing his advice, the detective thanks him and starts to leave, taking special interest in wondering how civil servant can live so lavishly.
A mobster is tripped up by a simple law he overlooks.
Middle-aged Henry wants to divorce his London wife, Carol, and return home to America, but she intends to keep all of their savings. After striking up a romance with his young secretary, Henry sends out announcements saying Carol has unexpectedly died on an American trip. A friend of Carol's finds this suspicious and goes to Scotland Yard, forcing Henry and his secretary to hop a boat incognito and head across the Atlantic.
A neurotic woman becomes distressed when she sees her best friend becoming successful.
A 19th century nobleman is tortured with pain in his hand, the one he used to commit murder defending his family's honor.
A woman becomes the object of affection between two brothers in this romantic triangle story.
Pilot Dan Crowley is grounded by his doctor for his intense behavior. A delusional man who's constantly trying to prove himself, he believes the doctor's daughter should be his, even though she is happily engaged to his boss. When the couple and the doctor go for a hunting trip in the woods, Dan follows and, at night, begins firing on their cabin using a rifle with an infrared scope.
Convinced that she is cursed by an old family vendetta, a woman tries to convince her American fiance of the threat.
A professional arsonist, who has been helping landlords with non-profitable buildings collect from their insurance carriers, gets a special investigative task force assigned to him. When the son of the unit commander is killed after he unwittingly triggers a blaze that the arsonist has set, a father seeks the ultimate revenge.
A man arriving at an airport is abducted by two thugs and taken to a boarding house. There, he is forced to put his fingerprints on several items and is knocked unconscious. The kidnappers then leave him there with the gas stove turned on.
A middle-aged woman in pre-WWII Berlin leads a double life as a spy. When she falls in love with a German gentleman who shares her love of life, she decides to leave the service to marry him, but it's too late, as the Nazis are closing in on her.
After saving the chief engineer's life, Danny and Snow are hired as watch officers on a rusty steamer traveling the Indian Ocean. Reading a newspaper story about a stolen diamond being smuggled into Australia, the boiler room crew becomes convinced that Danny and Snow have the jewel. They stage a mutiny, even though the old ship is about to sink.
After carefully faking insanity, a sculptor is acquitted of his wife's murder, but he finds nature's justice cannot be circumvented.
Unbeknownst to him, a distraught and lonely widower is followed home from work by a tough looking pair of thugs. As he unwinds and turns to alcohol for solace, the two shady characters continue to follow him wherever he goes. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or are they planning to murder him?
A man who was wrongly convicted the first time is committing a real crime. He holds up a tax office and takes the money and gives it to his girlfriend and sends her off to Florida.
The story of accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden is dramatized.
Marking his fifth of six appearances on Suspense, Boris Karloff plays the starring role of Grigori Rasputin, the famed historical figure who reportedly gained a reputation as a holy man with healing and prophetical powers. What results from his reputation proves to be his downfall. In true Suspense tradition, Karloff plays the role much like his screen persona as an actor in creepy mystery movies.
A private detective, who was engaged to a woman named Constance, reopens her missing persons case when he gets a hot lead as to her whereabouts. The clue leads him and his new wife to a cottage in the country where Constance was last seen. Once there they discover a sculptor's portrait of her and as the investigation continues, he comes across a madman.
A serial killer is on the loose in 1946 London with five victims so far. Elderly Mrs. Thompson rents a room to a secretive young Tim Matthews and is convinced he's the murderer. She calls police after discovering a knife in his room. Meanwhile, Tim has taken a young woman he's obsessed with on a picnic in the country. Having been discharged from the Royal Air Force for physical reasons, he's insanely jealous of her former boyfriend, a strapping man who had served during the war.
In early 19th century France, a young woman, engaged to an army officer that she does not love, falls for a young lieutenant. Her father, a colonel, who had previously arranged the marriage, ends the arrangement and plans to send her to Paris to quell the disparity. The officer, feeling humiliated and betrayed, picks a fight with the young lieutenant and challenges him to a bizarre duel.
Lawrence Stevens, an American engineer, accompanies a shipment of lathes to an electrical factory in Vienna. A female reporter tells him about the huge black market for industrial machinery from the West. Corrupt businessmen are only too happy to sell products to the Communists and that his lathes are heading behind the iron Curtain to Poland.
A lonely widow lives on a farm where weird and baffling mysteries are occurring.
A militant editor's death is plotted and carried out by foreign agents.
A man becomes involved with a teenage gang.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the case of Colonel Jocelyn Dalcy, who was found stabbed to death while visiting at the home of Sir Reginald Lavington.
The story is based on an experience in the life of Elizabeth I.
An attaché working at the Russian embassy in Mexico is about to be called home for becoming too friendly with the freedom-loving locals. In exchange for asylum, he frantically tries to interest a newspaper and the Justice Department in papers showing a communist conspiracy involving some in the Mexican government. No one believes him because of the propaganda he tried to peddle them the year before.
A night club singer helps a gang plan a robbery, believing their promise not to harm the night watchman, her father.
A demented railroad signalman is tortured by fears that he is responsible for a series of train wrecks.
A highborn lady in the 19th century of Peru plots with her stableman to murder her uncle.
An American correspondent risks his life to secretly record a candid interview with an army deserter, exposing his evil plan to become dictator of a Mediterranean Island.
True story of the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz who became kingpin of the underworld, only to be knocked from his throne by blazing guns in a New Jersey tavern.
A drama of frustrated lovers caught in a web of crime and deceit.
Joan Hale first sees the Charleston performed at a society party on a visit to the South. During her stay, she and Charlie fall in love despite his engagement to the scheming Marie. Gunshots interrupt the dance and Marie is found upstairs--murdered. Though Charlie is the prime suspect, several others has ample motivation to pull the trigger.
A deadly vial of cholera is stolen from a doctor's medical bag.
When a gang leader tries to burn his bridges behind him the backfires get awfully, warm.
In the only episode of this live television anthology to be written by Rod Serling, a scientist plans his wife's untimely demise at a nuclear test site.
A tale of murder on Manila's waterfront and an island detective with one of the most puzzling cases of his career.
