Please Stand by for Murder

The Antique Engagement Ring

1914

George Darrel presents Helen Gray, his fiancée, with a very valuable engagement ring of antique design, which is an heir...

Roulette

1924

Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the c...

The Haunted Bedroom

1919

Betsy Thorne (Bennett) travels to investigate a missing man where she overhears a conversation between the sheriff and a...

The Alibi

1916

To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but befo...

The Man Hunt

1916

The Twelfth Regiment is to leave for the front in the morning at seven, and Captain Steadwell, who has been missing for...

A Price for Folly

Noble born but dissolute M. Jean de Segni receives word from his lawyers that his profligate ways, including keeping mer...

Heavy Villains

Retired businessman F.G. Lawrence favors Philip Preston for a son-in-law; Mrs. Lawrence prefers Reggie, the Dainty Dude....

Coronets and Hearts

Leaving England, in search of an American wife, young Cyril, son of the Earl of Creston, on reaching America meets Lilly...

A Modern Atalanta

Fresh from her college matriculation. Ruth Grantland returns to her country home. She is courted by two of the village b...

Following the Star

Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De...

A Marriage of Convenience

1918

Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West Point and becomes a...

The Hero of Submarine D-2

1916

Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent political power in Washing...

For the Honor of the Crew

Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colleges until they both...

The Ruling Power

Mr. Williams, a stern father and man of wealth, disinherits his son Hugh, for marrying Rose, a seamstress. Twenty years...

Tempted by Necessity

Jim is tasked with taking the daily deposit to the bank. On his way, he happens to overhear an intense argument between...

Wanted, a Sister

In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as...

The Light of St. Bernard

Marie, a self-dependent girl, compromises herself by associating with Petro Maquin. She asks him to keep his promise to...

Written in the Sand

Love is awakened in the heart of Peter Hansen when he sees his name written within the outlines of a heart on the sands...

The Little Minister

1913

To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years...

Love Without Question

1920

Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discove...