Verfilming van het boek en toneelstuk van Mary Roberts Rinehart. Cornelia van Gorder huurt voor de zomer het huis van een rijke bankier. Wat ze echter niet weet is dat hij voor zijn vertrek een geldsom van een miljoen dollar heeft verborgen in het huis. Naarmate dit gerucht echter bij meer en meer mensen bekend wordt, proberen steeds meer mensen het huis binnen te dringen. De zaak wordt ernstiger als er plotseling doden vallen door toedoen van een mysterieus figuur onder de naam "The Bat".
Mystery Inc. vertrekt naar Blowout Beach voor een swingend standfeest. De jaarlijkse Blowout Beach Bash belooft drie heerlijke dagen aan het strand te worden, maar de bende komt er al snel achter dat een stel spookpiraten roet in het eten gooit.
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
A prisoner undergoes experimental brain surgery in order to get early parole. He released but has no memories. Things get dangerous when a group of thugs go after him in search of loot he hid before his amnesia.
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.
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.