Paula Hudson has a stolen mink coat she tells police she purchased on a recommendation, and when they retrace her steps to find out how she obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment building when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women
Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Camerons allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant
Mr Princeys daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster A murderess in the family That wont do Its up to Mr Princey to frame someone else for her crime
Richard Paine decides to steal money from his boss that he has owed him for months, and it turns into an unnecessary and ironic murder
Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher on the task of murder
Professor Rankins buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife
When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house and gripped with a nameless fear Then an escaped mental patient breaks in
A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship to his father suspects his stepmother of foul play
New York, 1910 Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady But she doesnt come alone
An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with all the money Finding another mans wallet gives him an evil idea
Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi
A no limit game of poker brings a real estate man to the brink of ruin
A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion One of them has written a murder mystery And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction
A middle aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business
An upstart furniture designer colludes with his bosss wife to drive her husband mad
Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man But her sister, Joanna, insists that its the only way
An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs Gillespie, who has been widowed twice and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands life insurance
A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, hes seeing another woman
Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good
A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs It seems shes burdened with a corpse
District attorney Martin Ross is running for governor and learns that his brother Richard has killed the other candidate Burton Reeves
A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire But when the groom accidentally dirties the mans suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot
Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin
A mystery writers imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next door neighbors and wonders why she has never seen the wife
Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food
Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife But the quality of his mercy is strained
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni and receives yet another confession
Taxidermist George Tiffany has domestic trouble when his wifes visiting brother Waldren overstays his welcome
A vain, querulous woman cant get a divorce from her husband Luckily, he loves to garden And hes just dug a nice big hole in the backyard
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police
In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there
Ernest Findlater is constantly nagged at by his wife so he fantasizes about Lalage, an exotic lover from the South Seas
Sam Jacoby has his wifes corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight
Captivated by the actors physical beauty, an aging spinster pulls up stakes to follow a ventriloquist and his dummy from performance to performance finally, the man consents to a much wanted meeting
Two men wait at a train station A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital
A lodge is selling cemetery plots, but nobody will buy one until the first person is buried there The brothers turn to Mr Weems
A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains Before the night is over, shell wish desperately she had just gone home
One day, Ronald Grimes receives a letter from a Mr Christianai who says he can predict the future The letter correctly predicts the outcome of an upcoming election More letters follow
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West
A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famed prosecutor to prove he convicted an innocent man
A professor kills the beautiful blackmailing female student he has been having a sexual affair with, in front of a baby
When 5,200 dollars in lost cash is found by a man, he gets into a potentially deadly conflict with his wife about what to do with it
A convicted robber is released to the family of one of his cell mates, against the better judgment of his parole officer
A man on death row convicted of a murder he did not commit, confesses to 3 murders he actually did commit
A rebellious , pretty teenage girl uses any means, even murder, to get free of her protective aunt who is raising her
Eddie Slovak meets an old Army buddy named Pete who once saved his life He intends to repay his friend He offers him money for a business, but Peter refuses Eddie tries to talk to Petes
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