Charles Crichton – MRQE

Against the Wind

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.

The Battle of the Sexes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideasand a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.

For Those in Peril

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air – Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.

Hunted

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

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

A Fish Called Wanda

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

A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.

The Man in the Sky

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company’s new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers – Ministry official Crabtree and buyer’s representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm’s entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

Law and Disorder

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.

The Third Secret

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.

The Boy Who Stole a Million

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

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

Floods of Fear

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

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.