Edgar Wallace MysteriesSeason 41962 · 12 episodesEpisodes1The Set UpRecently released from prison, Arthur Payne meets a benevolent stranger on a train who says he may be able to help him. A few days later, a second stranger arrives at Payne's houseboat, and Payne reluctantly agrees to carry out a no-risk jewel theft for a fee. When the staged burglary turns to murder, Payne realises he's been set up and he goes on the run. All the evidence points towards Payne being the murderer, but one irrefutable fact troubles Inspector Jackson.2The £20,000 KissAn up-and-coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.3Incident at MidnightA team of gangsters hide out in a late-night pharmacy to await a drugs transaction, little realising one of their hostages is not all they seem.4On the RunModel prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burgulary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.5Return to SenderDino Steffano is charged with fraud and set to stand trial, rather than face imprisonment, he feels his best option is to nobble The Prosecuting Barrister.6RicochetSolicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him. But Brodie, anticipating this predictament, has a hidden agenda behind all this to get the last laugh at Phipps.7The DoubleA man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.8The RivalsA pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a ransom letter directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped.9To Have and to HoldA CID detective is lured into a plot by girl who first pretends to fall in love with him, then that she's been killed and is now actually a heretofore unknown twin sister, and ultimately a murderous betrayal.10Episode 1011Episode 1112Episode 12Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 5Season 6Season 7
