The Blue Lamp The Blue Lamp The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as veteran PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as hardened criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do). The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series "Dixon of Dock Green", where Jack Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film). The screenplay was written
The Lamp of God The Lamp of God The Lamp of God is a novella that was written in 1935 by Ellery Queen. It was originally published in "Detective Story Magazine" in 1935 and first published in book form as part of "The New Adventures of Ellery Queen" in 1940. It is included here separately because of its stand-alone publication as #23 in the Dell Ten-Cent Editions in 1951. Ellery Queen is asked by a lawyer friend to help protect the interests of a pretty young heiress. They meet her, along with an unpleasant physician who is a friend of her family, as she