Jane Mercer

Dans la région de Prague, Sir Karell Borotyn est retrouvé mort dans son château, le corps vidé de son sang et le cou marqué d'une morsure. Son ami le baron Otto et son médecin attribuent la mort à un vampire, accréditant la croyance locale selon laquelle le Comte Mora et sa fille Luna, morts depuis longtemps, errent dans la campagne les nuits de pleine lune. Cependant l'inspecteur Neumann, assisté du professeur Zelen, tente d'élucider le mystère...

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love.

Une princesse s'enfuit d'un mariage arrangé. Elle navigue vers la Nouvelle-Orléans et est sauvée des pirates.

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.