The former employee of a trucking company, currently in prison for embezzlement, plans his eventual revenge against his former boss.

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at John Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess--who, dying, tells revenge-minded John that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, John obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess' hotel room. Meanwhile, Nick himself gets out with murder still in his heart. But another factor is in play that none of them (except the murdered Jess) had planned.—Rod Crawford <[email protected]>

In 1940, the owner of a lucrative freight company in San Francisco, Catholic John Torno, turned to God to ask for the safe return of his younger brother, Father Jess Torno, whom he raised, from overseas in his duty as a military chaplain. His prayers are answered, but just as Jess is scheduled to be sent to his own parish in Northern California, he is found shot in his hotel room, his dying words to John being that the answer is in the hotel-room Bible. John doesn't divulge this information to the police as he intends to find Jess' murderer himself in an eye-for-an-eye. John's first thought is that the killer is Nick Cherney, the company's former accountant who was just released from prison for embezzling from the company, John's testimony which was key to the conviction. However, John learns that Nick was released the day after Jess' murder. By the time John goes to retrieve the Bible from the hotel room, he finds that it is gone. Able to get a list of the names of the people who occupied that hotel room since Jess' murder, John goes on a quest to find those people to see if any of them took the Bible. He ends up hiring unemployed showgirl Carla North, one of the hotel-room occupants, to help him. She doesn't know why John asked her to find this list of people, and ends up trying to be his voice of reason when she discovers his mission.—Huggo

Nick Cherney, a trusted employee, embezzles funds from trucking-company owner John Torno and is sent to prison. Seeking revenge, he pays Rocky, another convict about to be released, to kill John's brother Jess, an Army-chaplain priest just returned from Pacific war duty. Jess, shot in a hotel room, dies in the arms of his brother, gasping that the answer to his killing lies in the Bible. Torno, finally realizing that Jess meant the Gideon Bible which had been in his hotel room but has disappeared, sets out to find the Bible and the killer and avenge his brother's death.—Les Adams <[email protected]>