On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

• Paramount Pictures
• Alan Ladd
• Donna Reed
• June Havoc
• Irene Hervey
• Arthur Kennedy
• Berry Kroeger
• Harold Vermilyea
• Shepperd Strudwick