冷酷、孤僻的城市警察吉姆·威尔逊粗暴对待了太多的嫌疑人，并被派往州北部帮助调查冬季乡村一名年轻女孩的谋杀案。在那里，他遇到了玛丽·马尔登，他觉得她很有吸引力，也很独立。然而，玛丽的哥哥是这起谋杀案的主要嫌疑人。玛丽自己也是盲人。

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.