When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

Dishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.

Recently deceased mystery writer Alexander Penn Arlington gets permission from the recording angel to relive his last day on earth, so that he can find out who murdered him.

An elderly woman is terrified that her disagreeable male neighbor will kill her beloved—but habitually roving—tabby cat.

Traveling in Paris, an Englishwoman finds herself accidentally locked in a hotel room with a corpse.

An unconventional governess disrupts a conservative household with her radical ideas about interior design, wines, art and - especially - children and their education.