Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.

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

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

Warren, a prosecuting attorney with a long history of acquittals, must deliver a guilty verdict in a murder case to ensure his political future.

A successful businessman who once acted cowardly in the war—but got undeserved credit for heroism—attempts to buy off an old Army buddy who knows the truth.

When three beautiful blonde women are strangled with a silk stocking, Mr. Morgan becomes convinced he knows how it happened, even though no one will hear him out.

A morgue attendant gets the last laugh when he finally has enough of a man who has been provoking him.

When a wealthy woman mistakenly accuses her elevator boy of robbing her, his resulting imprisonment will take her to levels of guilt she never expected.

A middle-aged couple, recently wed and constantly bickering, learn how married life can be murder.

When he loses all his money in a poker game, a man tells his pregnant wife an involved lie to explain the missing cash.

A righteous and hypocritical civic leader on a road trip accepts mechanical help from a young man who then asks for a lift, soon afterwards he reveals he's recently been released from reform school.