This featured many changes to the novel's plot, including the complete absence of Arthur Crook. In 1943 it was very loosely adapted into the British film They Met in the Dark directed by Carl Lamac and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard, Tom Walls. the NPS Investigative Services Branch (ISB) and/or the US Park Police. To add to the confusion Miss Verity has herself now vanished, with Crook concerned that she has fallen into the hands of the murderer. Please scroll through this roster of cold cases, which include missing persons.
A married couple stands to inherit 30,000 British pounds when the wifes aunt riding with them dies, but while in Mexico their car with her body inside is stolen. With Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Lorre, George Peppard, Mary Scott. It soon proves to be not the corpse of the missing young woman, but the cottage's previous owner. The Diplomatic Corpse: Directed by Paul Henreid. Newspaper publicity at last draws the police into the case, and with Crook's advice they find a body hidden in the well of the cottage. The determined Verity perseveres in trying to solve the mystery, assisted at first in an offhand way by Crook. He suggests that she is now in grave danger from the murderer and persuades her to move to a large, busy hotel in Brighton where she will be safer. Only Arthur Crook, a dishevelled lawyer she encounter, is ready to believe her. Terrified, in the morning she hurries into the nearest market town to report the crime, only to find the police dubious about her claims - particularly when they return to the cottage with her and find no body.
Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a. It’s picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Shortly afterwards she discovers a body of a young woman, strangled to death, on the bed. The Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author, Jean-Luc Bannalec’s fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. On arriving there in the darkness in the middle of the storm, she is shocked to find evidence that there is somebody else in the house. Laura Verity, tired of life, decides to rent a very isolated cottage in the countryside.