
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