When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Frank Partridge and his wife plot to cheat their life insurance company by having her hide out for 7 years and declared legally dead, but an investigator believes Mr. Partridge has murdered her.
When a young English woman leaves her ailing mother in a Paris hotel room to procure medicine and returns later, she finds her mother is missing and all the hotel employees deny that she and her mother were ever there.
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
When heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, he looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.
When Mr. and Mrs. Crane hear the Verbers having a violent argument in the apartment just above them, and then Mr. Verber disappears the next day, they can't help suspecting the worst.
When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.
When an elderly office worker is fired from his job, he kills his boss by shooting him, but when he returns to the office the next day, his boss is alive and has no recollection of any shooting.
Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie who left him for another man, but Goldie has a surprise for him.
One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killings
Before leaving on a trip to America, a British man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Soon after arriving in the United States, he receives a letter from home that will reveal whether or not he has gotten away with the crime.
Worried that their dowager Aunt Rosalie doesn't really care for either of them, brothers Paul and Henri Tallendier devise a plan to get their hands on her fortune any way they can rather than holding out for their inheritance.
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.
At an art gallery, Mark Halliday is surprised when the art dealer hands over a portrait of Mark's first wife instead of the painting he paid for earlier.
An antique dealer comes up with a clever way to raise money to pay off a loan. But things won't be as easy for him the second time around...or will they?
When Clara Nash is murdered, her middle-aged baby-sitter, Lottie Slocum, is excited to be the center of attention and hopes to grow closer to Clara's widowed husband even though he may have been involved in Clara's demise.
When Clint Ringle learns that Ellie Marsh, the schoolteacher whom he loves, is engaged to Walt Norton, Clint kills Walt and then hides in the schoolhouse's bell tower, waiting for his chance to exact further revenge.
After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.
Paula Hudson has a purloined mink stole that she tells police she purchased, but when they retrace her steps to find out how she really obtained it, everyone denies they ever talked to her about it.
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.
A frightened housewife is alone in her apartment when she begins to suspect just about anyone could be the unknown killer who has been strangling women.
