Sydney Fairbrother

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.