A woman begs her husband not to go away on a business trip. But he refuses, deserting her just as an escaped lunatic finds their neighborhood.

Aware that their friend's wife is cheating, Wally and Bud draw the same conclusion when they find him digging up his basement and his wife's missing.

Hoping to profit from insurance fraud, a man torches his house. But the plan could backfire unless he enters the burning home to retrieve his ring.

A man conceives the perfect plan to murder his rich aunt. Confidently, he cooperates with the police, only to discover one fatal flaw in the elaborate scheme.

Albert Birch's childhood sweetheart Edwina Freel gets in touch with him and, surprisingly, agrees to marry him. She arrives with her sickly baby named Toby, but things are not as they seem.

When a gangster is killed, his rival realizes the cops will come after him. His alibi unravels with the arrival of a mysterious package.

Mr. Brenner threatens to take sisters Cissie and Joanna to court unless they sell him their home. But the sisters will stop at nothing to stay put.

Mason Bridges plays poker with one of his company's wealthy clients. He gambles everything he has and everything his company owns on one single game.

When his father dies a teenager suspects his stepmother, whom he's resented since the day she married his father.

Furious at his cheating wife, a mobster hires a hit man to kill her. But the plan turns complicated when he overlooks some loose ends.

A man thinks that a manuscript's murder mystery is more fact than fiction, so he visits the author's home to see what lies buried in the garden.

A nosy housewife sets out to prove that the new neighbor has murdered his wife.

A man's wife devises a greedy scheme to take over his failing business. But persuading him to come back isn't as easy as getting rid of him.

When a car breaks down, a newlywed couple is helped by Mr. Moon, who turns nasty when his suits get dirty.

A man agrees to help his pretty neighbor, an actress, to hide her murdered husband. But his good deed backfires when he becomes a suspect.

A district attorney faces a crisis in his campaign for governor when his mentally unstable brother decides to eliminate the competition.

A crafty, resourceful criminal being transported via train tries to bribe his escorting police sergeant for his freedom.

A wealthy older man confronts the young, handsome suitor (Horton) that his wife is leaving him for.

A man begins to suspect that his wife is trying to poison him.

A young ruffian involved in a failed stickup learns some hard facts of life during a police interrogation.

An insurance investigator is compelled to re-examine an old claim when troubling new facts come to light.

When the wife of a two-timing husband starts to connect the dots, the consequences could prove deadly.

An alcoholic has-been actor tries to blackmail a producer into casting him in a new play.

Count Mattoni is brutally murdered and Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson must wade the through a myraid of suspects.

Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson continues in his investigation of the murder of Count Mattoni he contiunes to wade the through suspects. He discovers that each not only appears guilty, but also that many readily admit to having committed the crime.

Scotland Yard Inspector Davidson discovers who killed Count Mattoni. Due to a legal loophole, however, the killer cannot be tried.

After murdering his shrewish spouse, a man finds that disposing of her body may be the challenge of his life.

A hired killer discovers there's a huge catch to being the favorite of his organization's big boss.

A henpecked husband escapes into a fantasy world populated by a girl from the South Seas and a dream of murder.

A practical joker convinces a barfly into thinking that the world is about to end.

In 1919 London, a killer is stalking the streets, and residents look to a police sergeant to catch the culprit.

A precocious, pigtailed girl attaches herself to a grumpy loner in the hopes of learning his secrets.

The wife of a gardener goes to extreme lengths to spend more time with her movie-star daydreams—and less time with her fertilizer-obsessed husband.

Taxidermist George Tiffany conceives a macabre method of dealing with a brother-in-law who has long outstayed his welcome.

The shifty son of a shop owner plots to extract money from his long-suffering father.

Cemetery owners bribe an allegedly dying man to be their first customer for business reasons...but the plot backfires when the man simply will not expire.

A fickle young woman gets entangled in a web of crime and deceit at her remote mountain cabin.

Two men are waiting for their train in the station's waiting room. The neighborhood has a criminal asylum nearby from which a criminal has escaped. Nervous about the situation, these two people start suspecting each other.