Warburton Gamble – MRQE

A Study in Scarlet

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy’s widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes’ uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.

Child of Manhattan

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby’s sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.

Tonight Is Ours

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.

As You Desire Me

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter’s estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn’t remember but leaves with Tony to Salter’s dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria’s memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno’s estate is desperately searching for the truth.

Tonight or Never

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Fast Life

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral’s barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.

The Paliser Case

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.

The Silver King

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When British gentleman Wilfred Denver weds the beautiful Nellie, he earns the undying hatred of Nellie’s former sweetheart, Geoffrey Ware. After several years of cozy matrimonial contentment, Denver finds himself heavily in debt.

The Unforseen

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair’s apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell…..