The Blazing Caravan

Friar Tuck turns into a murderer in this Scotland Yard story. Alexander Gauge is the portly salesman Mr Buxton.

When he encounters Arthur Cox looking please with himself as he won 30 thousand pounds in the pools. An idea comes to his head.

Gauge kills Cox after he had been celebrating in the pub and then burns his body in a caravan. Let people assume that Gauge had died.

Gauge then takes Cox's identity, collects the cheque, plan to turn it into bearer bonds and then plans to hop it abroad.

Narrator Edgar Lustgarten calls it an almost perfect crime.

It is a tight thriller with some hoary narration. Lustgarten admits that one of the reason Gauge was caught was outside his control.

Cox had not ticked the box in his pools coupon to shun publicity. A man came forward with an agreement that Cox would share any pool winnings.

Most noticeable for being set in an outer London caravan park. Ken Hughes directs once more, and Alexander Gauge makes a portly if fleshy villain.