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A domineering wife and mother unobtrusively and inexplicably vanishes.

Speculation about the outcome of the closest Derby race in years intensifies when Lola Pevensey claims to have dreamt the winner.

Clovis is sceptical that the Baroness' hunting story will be as unusual as promised.

An aspiring groom is given the task of designing an advertising campaign for the most disgusting cereal ever created.

Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.

A sweet-voiced but lonely bird finds refuge with an isolated statue.

An absent-minded old lady forgets where she left her niece.

Reginald slid a carnation into his buttonhole and surveyed the result with approval. The Other said youth should suggest innocence, but never act on the suggestion. When I'd been quarrelling with...

A dramatic confrontation between two sworn enemies in a generation-old land dispute.

Arlington Stringham makes a joke in the Houses of Parliament - but fails to consider the consequences.

The prison Chaplain entered the condemned's cell for the last time, and shifted uneasily in his seat. The condemned continued to tell his story, and the Chaplain's interest in the story visibly...

Mrs. Durmot invites the politician Latimer Springfield round, with the aim of taking his mind off the upcoming elections, a mission her niec