Mamah Borthwick Cheney, who left her husband and children to live with architect Frank Lloyd Wright at his Wisconsin home, Taliesin, is murdered in 1914, along with her two children and four others, by a servant, Julian Carlton, who sets the house on fire and attacks them with an axe.

Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old maths genius who struggles with social situations, discovers that his father killed the neighbour’s dog, Wellington, and that his mother is alive, not dead as his father claimed.

Professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their guide Hans descend into an Icelandic volcano and discover a vast underground world with a sea, prehistoric creatures and giant humans.

Joe Chip and his colleagues, who think they survived a bomb blast on the Moon, discover that they are actually in “half-life,” a state of suspended consciousness.

Blanche DuBois is taken away to a mental institution by a doctor and a nurse.

At Nina Riva’s famous end-of-summer party in 1983, the four Riva siblings face their famous singer father Mick, who abandoned them, and their own secrets.

D’Artagnan and the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis capture the treacherous spy Milady de Winter after she poisons Constance Bonacieux, d’Artagnan’s love.

Marguerite Blakeney learns that her foppish husband, Sir Percy, is the Scarlet Pimpernel, the hero who rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine.

Rudolf Rassendyll, an Englishman who looks exactly like King Rudolf V of Ruritania, rescues the real king from Black Michael’s castle of Zenda.

David Balfour, kidnapped by his miserly uncle Ebenezer and shipwrecked in Scotland, survives a flight across the Highlands with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.