The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.

A sacked clerk rises to become Mayor and weds the daughter of the councillor who fired him.

A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of killing her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the truth, that the murder was the result of a jewel robbery gone wrong.

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.