After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.

Niles and Carole Nelson are married doctors who save one of gang lord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carole to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Stephens to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be killed when the biography is finished, Carole takes matters into her own hands.—Ed Stephan <[email protected]>

Niles Nelson is a gifted young doctor but makes a mistake when he treats a wounded member of mobster Joe Gurney's mob. When Nelson regrets his actions and tries to withdraw from the arrangement with Gurney, he's killed. Worried about his image, the egotistical Gurney kidnaps a penniless writer Bill Stephens to write his version of his memoirs. Nelson's widow, also a doctor, realizes that Gurney will kill Stephens after the 'autobiography' is finished, and she decides to take action that will save them both.—[email protected]

Carole Nelson (Kay Francis) and her husband, Niles Nelson (John Eldredge), are successful surgeons at the County Hospital. When Joe Gurney (Humphrey Bogart), a gangster with a Napoleonic complex, admires their skill in operating on and saving the life of a henchman, Gurney forces Nelson, who has a gambling problem and needs the money, into working for his gang, until Nelson is killed in a police raid. Carole goes to a small town where Gurney's gang is hiding out, hoping to avenge her husband's death.—Les Adams <[email protected]>