An unemployed engineer's ego is bruised when his wife gets a job and starts climbing the career ladder. He finds fulfillment in robbing a bank — the bank where she works.
A purchasing manager spends his entire career being honest and forthright. On the eve of retirement, he finds himself penniless. His morals are tested when he learns his virtue was worthless.
A genius chess player is a suspect in the brutal murder of a friend and opponent. A New York detective gets involved with solving the murder in which the victim died from a puncture wound to the eye and into the brain.
An adolescent's imaginary friend fights for survival by attacking her new real friends.
A defense attorney examines discrepencies in the story of a businessman whose wife was murdered. The solution lies in how fast poison works.
When Jake Alexander, who considers himself the world's top theatrical agent, meets Delphi Carr, in his eyes the world's most beautiful woman, he tries his best to become her agent. He would also like her to become his wife. But before he can achieve his first wish, she gets married and suggests that Jake take her actor husband, Deke Roberts, as a client. Jake agrees, only because it will provide him with more opportunities to murder Deke, or have someone else do it. Deke is murdered by being pushed in front of a train.
A pacifist's beliefs are challenged when his son is murdered by mobsters. When he meets the man behind the murder, he ends up liking him. The mob Boss is repaid for his past evil actions because of his love of Red Roses.
A rich woman and her beach-bum boyfriend frame an old charterboat captain for the murder of her husband — or so it would seem.
An investigator from the future is sent back in time to retrieve a microchip that has the history of time up until 2976. If somebody from 1976 finds it first, it could make the future cease to exist.
A turn of the century circus owner creates a fortune teller out of wax. Convinced that she has come to life, he falls in love with her. Meanwhile, his wife is left to wonder about his sanity.