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P.I. Stuart Bailey is hired to investigate the past of Ralph Johnson's wife, who has gone missing. He finds that the wife left her hometown with an actor, went to college using a stolen identity, and purloined $40,000 from a nightclub.

A wealthy man hires a detective (Franchot Tone) to investigate his wife's past. The detective discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her hometown with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but with help from a showgirl the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the nightclub where she worked. The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife after he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try to frame him for the killing.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Stuart Bailey is a suave Los Angeles-based private investigator who, with his faithful secretary/assistant Hazel Bixby, is always quick with the witty repartee. He is hired by public official Ralph Johnson, who has received two somewhat-threatening notes, the anonymous sender who says he will expose Johnson's wife of seven months' shady past, the former Jane Breegar, whom he believes was an innocent sorority girl from Portland, Oregon. While he doesn't believe anything is shady in her past which she denies anyway, Johnson still wants Bailey to discover both who sent the notes and, more importantly if there is any truth to what the notes purport. In his investigation, Bailey does find that Jane has a showgirl past and that her former Portland boss, Keller, will go to extreme lengths, including the use of violence, to find her. He also meets Norma Shannon, who is also looking for her in claiming to be her sister, Jane having disappeared from her life long ago. Because of his investigation, a multitude of people are seemingly after Bailey, believing that he's the key to each's end goal; some only want to find Jane, others are trying to hide the truth.—Huggo