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A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe!

A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed.

International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero.

Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna.

Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna.

Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna.

He butchered the English language. He sang as if he gargled with gravel. He dropped pearls of wisdom disguised as one-liners. And he had a nose that got everywhere ten minutes before he did.

Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed his experience in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs

Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed a career in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs throu

A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know.

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar.

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!