September 17, 1922 · 103 years old
Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years late…

An anthology of four short horror stories about people who visit Dr. Diabolo's fairground haunted-house attraction show.

An advertising executive sets out to find a woman for a new advertising campaign. His only clue to the woman is a photograph, and the search leads him into bewildering political ploys and mayhem.

Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

A British Agent, posing as an executive of a toy company, tangles with East European spies in various European locales.

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.