Frederick Burtwell

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but ...

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course ...

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but ...

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.