The Clock

A young writer inadvertently finds himself involved in a Communist plot to counterfeit American banknotes.

An ex-convict is out to 'get' the district attorney and gets spooked instead.

An unscrupulous wife who helped murder her husband engineers one double-cross too many.

How desperate can a man become when he expects to be paroled near the end of his 20-year prison term and suddenly learns that the warden and the parole board have denied his plea?

A destitute man is given a book by Balzac that contains the theory that any man who has not had a meal in eight days is a potential killer. A man is murdered and the destitute man is brought to trial.

Gossip columnist Walter Halloran stoops to murder in order to score a journalistic and domestic scoop.

A garage mechanic is the prime suspect in the murder of his boss.

Professor Alan Harlan establishes radio communication with Mars and finds himself talking with a woman. He wonders: should he divulge the secrets of Atomic fission to her?