At the turn of the century in Glasgow, Scotland, an eminent physician is charged with poisoning his wife.
The rope is cut while a young trapeze artist is doing her act, and she is killed. The other members of the act suspect one another of the murder.
An ex-cavalry officer of the U.S. Army returns to his law practice after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He is convinced of Mary Surratt's guilt in the conspiracy, but friends persuade him to talk to Mary and possibly defend her.
A man is accused of murdering his wife on the basis of his unusual behavior on the day she died. He was seen scrubbing traces of blood off the porch and burning her clothes.
Attorney William Seward accepts the case of a man who murdered five members of the same family. In this case, Seward, who later became Lincoln's secretary of state, set a legal precedent in American courts.
An insanely jealous man suspects his wife of secretly meeting his business partner. He decides to murder his rival and works on an ingenious scheme.
After a man has been missing for seven years, his wife seeks to have the court declare him legally dead. Coincidentally her missing husband's business partner also wants the court to pass the official ruling.
A successful young junior partner in a law firm is accused by an Italian village of stealing valuables from townsfolk during military action in World War 2.
Her prison record comes back to threaten Felicity O'Brien's future when she is suspected of murder.