Nancy Price

A dying girl's last desperate words, "speckled band," are the only clue to a mystery embroiled in murder and sinister corruption. Attending the inquest is Dr. Watson, who calls upon Sherlock Holmes to help unravel the mystery and uncover the killer. The duo spends a night in the room where the girl died and discovers a sinister secret that could lead to their own violent deaths.

Of the many films (English and American) bearing the title Carnival, only one was based on the Compton MacKenzie novel of the same name. This 1946 melodrama stars Sally Gray as a 19th century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer (Bernard Miles). Sally soon longs for the bright lights of the big city, and for the arms of her artist lover (Michael Wilding). (allmovie.com)

Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion. (imdb)

This World War II romance, set in Grosvenor Square, a.k.a. Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Lady Patricia Fairfax loves Major David Bruce. There arrives patriot GI Sergeant John Patterson to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Lady Patricia and Sergeant Patterson clash and fall for each other. What will Major Bruce have to say or do about this? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.