In the Italian story, set in Rome, a university student who is involved in smuggling cigarettes shoots a man during a police raid.

Their plan is for a group of boys and girls, including Pierre, to go to a ruined château outside Paris where there is allegedly buried treasure.

The crime reporter of a daily newspaper takes a telephone call from Aubrey, a young man who says he has found the body of a woman on the heath and wants payment for his story.

The Italian episode was modified for censorship reasons, but it was later included in the 1962 anthology film Il fiore e la violenza.

The English-language episode is loosely based on the murder of 48 year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw by Herbert Leonard Mills, aged 19.

Wanting to commit the "perfect murder", on 3 August 1951 Mills lured Tattershaw to Sherwood Vale, where he struck her about the head, and strangled her.

When this had not happened by 9 August he rang the News of the World, told them he had found the body of a strangled woman, and demanded payment for his story.