AustLit

A man who is the exact double of an expert forger is recruited by treasury agents as part of an elaborate scheme to break a criminal organisation that is laundering counterfeit money.

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A British secret agent is reactivated and sent to Poland to investigate the crashing of a Moscow-bound plane allegedly carrying American classified documents.

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The police are called in to investigate a murder on a film set.

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'Into a perfectly normal, well-to-do, middle class house burst two strangers, political assassins who plan to murder a traitor from their side of the world as he returns to his home opposite their temporary hideout. The two, captain and sergeant, make their plans and the captive family is powerless to do anything. Father and captain argue, humanitarian against ruthless killer, the east of the Iron Curtain against the west. With the maddening leisureliness proper to such a situation, we wait until the plot fails and both killers are dead. Then comes the twist, which could not be disclosed were this a film or a play for the stage. This is not London but Moscow; without knowing it, we have all along been on the wrong side of world politics.

'Whether this proves anything or not, it is at least liberally humane; political assassins are deplorable but heroic whatever they serve, and ordinary people, pretty much the same everywhere, naturally dislike bloodshed. As a thesis, this may not be startling; as a surprise ending to a thriller, it has a splendid effectiveness.'

Source:

'Skilful Exercise in Suspense', The Times, 5 December 1960, p.16.

Condensed from the radio serial of the same name, the narrative concerns Christopher Knight, a man who is falsely accused of murder and who subsequently sets out to investigate the crime himself.

Further Reference:

'A Mask For Alexis'. Times, 22 September 1959, p.13.

Radio serial.

'David Beckett’s problems were much of his own making. Reckless, impatient, attractive to women, but surprisingly naïve, he finds himself agreeing to take a gang of criminals and a stolen load of gold bullion from England to Tangiers aboard his ocean-going yacht.'

Source: Grace Gibson Productions.

A mystery thriller set in Hollywood. Bill North finds himself with a corpse to deal with and a frame for murder around his neck.

Essentially a film version of China Smith television series (1953-1954), for which Lindsay Hardy also wrote, about an Irish conman and adventurer operating in Singapore (series one) and then Hong Kong and Macao (in series two). This film used the same production studio, sets, and cast members as China Smith, but re-named the characters.

Like China Smith, Mike Callahan is an Irish soldier of fortune who, in this film, thwarts the attempts of an international gang to kidnap an eminent nuclear physicist for ransom.