Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.