Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.
as Michael Shayne
as Phyllis Hamilton
as Inspector Pete Rafferty
as Helen Porter
as Walter Bronson
as Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
as Tim Rourke
as Hank Brenner
as Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
as Muriel Bronson
as Minerva Dickens
