Frank Chambers é um andarilho que vai viver uma paixão tórrida e proibida com Cora Papadakis, a jovem esposa do seu novo patrão. Uma paixão cheia de desejo e luxúria que os vai fazer planear a morte do marido dela, Nick. Porém, quando a justiça coloca os olhos neles, vai ser difícil ser fiel e não trair o parceiro.
Sutter Cane é um escritor de histórias de terror cujos livros provocam uma verdadeira euforia nos fãs, que agem de modo irracional e estranho. Autor de verdadeiros "best-seller's", desapareceu de uma forma misteriosa enquanto escrevia o seu mais recente livro, "A Bíblia de Satanás". A editora decide, assim, contratar o detective privado John Trent para o encontrar. Mesmo desconfiando que não é mais do que uma jogada publicitária, aceita o trabalho... e embarca na busca mais surreal da sua vida.
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
Betty Ann Fitzgerald é contratada para modernizar a agência de seguros North Coast, onde trabalha o veterano investigador C. W. Briggs, que se passam a odiar, com uma constante troca de insultos. Durante o aniversário de um colega, Briggs e Fitzgerald, são convidados a subir ao palco por um mágio chamado Voltan para os hipnotizar com um escorpião de jade, cuja maldição os vai enredar em aventuras rocambolescas. Briggs, ao perceber que uma mansão onde tinha feito a supervisão dos sistemas de segurança foi assaltada sem que o criminoso tivesse deixado qualquer rasto, descobre afinal que os seus pensamentos estão a ser invadidos por um ladrão que o manipula para cometer uma série de roubos de jóias.
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Two men and a woman form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
The wife of an executive finds her husband shot to death and destroys his suicide note in order to claim his insurance.
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.