A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

When newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting of a big-time gambler, he sets out to get his man with such determination that he ends up in jail. There, he discovers a "parole racket" which involves a crooked politician, and he faces death to get the story for his paper.

Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.