Roberta Woolley

A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.

A la Nouvelle-Orléans de 1937, une riche veuve, Violet Venable, propose de financer l'hôpital public Lyons View si l'un de ses praticiens, le docteur Cukrowicz, accepte de pratiquer une lobotomie sur sa nièce Catherine Holly. Celle-ci est internée depuis le décès mystérieux, durant un périple estival, de Sebastian Venable, poète et fils de Mrs Venable. La version que raconte Catherine du décès de Sebastian paraît tellement loufoque, que Violet la croit folle à lier. Avec l'aide du Dr Cukrowicz, Catherine va peu à peu recouvrer la mémoire jusqu'à révéler une vérité que certains auraient préféré rester enfouie...

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.