P.I. Stuart Bailey is hired to investigate the past of Ralph Johnson's wife who has gone missing. He finds that the wife left her home town with an actor, went to college using a stolen identity and purloined $40,000 from a night club.

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but, with the help of a showgirl, the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the night club where she worked. The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife after he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try and frame him for the killing.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Stuart Bailey is a suave Los Angeles based private investigator who, along with his faithful secretary/assistant Hazel Bixby, is always quick with the witty repartee. He is hired by public official Ralph Johnson who has received two somewhat threatening notes, the anonymous sender who says he will expose Johnson's wife of seven month's shady past, she, the former Jane Breegar from Portland, Oregon, who he knows only to be an innocent sorority girl. While he doesn't believe anything is shady in her past which she denies anyway, Johnson still wants Bailey to discover both who sent the notes and more importantly if there is any truth to what the notes purport. In his investigation, Bailey does find that Jane has a showgirl past life, her former Portland boss, Keller, will go to extreme lengths, including using violence, to find her. He also meets Norma Shannon, who is also looking for her in claiming to be her sister, Jane long having disappeared out of her life. Because of his investigation, a multitude of people are seemingly after Bailey, they believing he the key to whatever their end goal, some only wanting to find Jane, while others trying to hide the truth.—Huggo