A football player from Ohio who needs an operation goes to find the New York mobster who owes him money.

A nabob is menaced by a professional killer with an unknown employer.

The wife of an astrologer and widely-syndicated newspaper columnist is kidnapped in broad daylight.

An industrial engineer is thought to have been died in an air crash, and his secretary is driven into a mental hospital.

A musician is framed for the killing of his teacher, a violinist whose long-lost brother was in the mob.

A Broadway producer is implicated in the murder of a detective investigating his business practices.

Stolen penicillin is diluted and sent south of the border by the director of a famous cemetery.