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A young American sailor on shore-leave in the West Indies is tempted by a crazy bet. To win a new Cadillac, all he needs to do is to make his cigarette-lighter light ten times without any failures. In return, he has to stake one of his fingers. But what is the truth about Carlos, the high-rolling old man who has proposed the bet?

Cyril Bixby is a New York dentist. Once a month, for years, his wife goes to Baltimore by train to visit her aunt. She does not tell Bixby about her affair with the Colonel, a single man with a big house near Baltimore, who is the real reason for all these visits. One Christmas, Mrs Bixby gets a parting gift from the Colonel - a splendid mink coat. So that she can explain the coat to her husband, she devises a complicated scheme which depends on pawning the coat and then 'finding' the pawn ticket... but when she sends Bixby to collect on the pawn ticket, she gets a surprise.

After the death of Dr William Pearl, a philosophy teacher, his widow Mary gets a letter from him. William tells her his brain is being kept alive by a medical colleague, Dr John Landy, and William also advises Mary on how to lead her new life. Mary goes to visit William's brain - but she has her own ideas about what should happen next. For more, see Recap.

An enraged detective's wife, Mary Maloney, kills her husband Patrick by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled. The answer to the riddle lies under the detectives' noses - or, rather, it did...

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A young Londoner arrives in a strange city and finds a room for the night. Something about his landlady's guest book rings a bell - and she has a curious hobby.

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Art collector Sir Basil Turton has an East European wife called Natalia, who wears the trousers and has lovers. The butler, Jelks, disapproves of her. Then Lady Turton, while cavorting with her friend Major Haddock, gets her head stuck in a valuable work of art...

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An elderly couple, Edward and Louisa, find their life invaded by a stray cat. The cat's knowledgeable response to Louisa's piano playing, and the pattern of warts on its face, convince her that pussy is a reincarnation of Franz Liszt, the composer. Liszt, the cat, does not trouble to conceal his dislike for Edward, who is becoming dangerously jealous...

William Botibol, a passenger on a cruise ship, plans to win the sweepstake for predicting the distance the ship will travel in twenty-four hours - if the ship has to turn back to pick up a man overboard, then his own ticket should win. So long as someone sees him go over the side, there can be no real problem...

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