A mystery writer's three children confuse a police detective working on a murder.

While mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel, her three children are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.—Daniel Bubbeo <[email protected]>

Widow and mystery writer Marian Carstairs (Lynn Bari) and her three children, Dinah (Peggy Ann Garner), Archie (Dean Stockwell,) and April (Connie Marshall), get mixed up in trying to solve a neighborhood murder...at the peril of their lives. Police Lieutenant Bill Smith (Randolph Scott) and Police Sergeant O'Hare (James Gleason) step in to solve the case and save the family.—Les Adams <[email protected]>