A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.

Allen Pierce, an important newspaper columnist who has been working on an exposé of Nazi sympathizers, is in a Washington hospital when he is visited by reporter Harry Mitchell. After Pierce entrusts Harry with a photocopy of the cover of the Argyle Album, which contains the names of the conspirators, Pierce dies suddenly and a steel scalpel is found sticking in his chest. Harry is suspected of having murdered him and becomes a fugitive from the law. ...