A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
