
Stories of a Madman is a collection of short stories with each story taking place in a different hotel room at the same hotel on the same night: Christmas Eve. Each story shares the theme of 'Crime Story with a supernatural twist'.
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Stories of a Madman is a collection of short stories with each story taking place in a different hotel room at the same hotel on the same night: Christmas Eve. Each story shares the theme of 'Crime Story with a supernatural twist'.
2019-12-19
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7.3A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
3.8Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
5.3Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
6.6A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
6.7After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
7.0A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
6.5Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
5.9A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
5.9A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
6.1A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
6.7A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
6.7Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
6.2Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
6.6While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
4.3A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.
6.6A crooked police detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep the stolen money.
5.3A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
6.2Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
6.5The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
7.1A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.