Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.
Roseanne McNulty 50 yıldır yaşadığı ve yakın zamanda yıkılacak olan Roscommon, İrlanda’daki akıl hastanesinde çıkmak zorundadır. Hastanenin psikiyatri Dr. William Grene , McNulty’i incelemek için çağrılır. Roseanne’in gizemli ritüelleri, tikleri ve İncil’e olan bağlılığından etkilenir. Yıllardır Roseanne’in elinde bulunan bu İncil, içerisinde çizimler ve günlük tadında mesajlar barındırır. Grene, Roseanne’in geçmişine indiğinde onu genç ve çekici bir kadın olarak görürüz. Genç Roseanne’in halasının kafesinde çalışmak için Sligo’ya taşındığını ve orada bir savaş pilotuna aşık olduğunu öğreniriz. Ancak kasabanın rahibi de Roseanne’e aşık olur