Claude Stroud

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.

A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.

After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.

Two young brothers secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics disrupt the quiet town of Gatesville and its unsuspecting residents.

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.