Robert Lowery is foisted on nespaper editor Dick Elliott as a cub reporter. He gives him an impossible assignment as a get-the-story-or-you're-gone challenge, and soon he finds himself involved in a well-tangled mystery involving a missing woman, and her sister, Edith Fellowes.
Director Jean Yarbrough tries for a deepening suspense, starting with Lowery getting an interview by getting himself thrown in jail. There are a few too many coincidences, and Lowery can't seem to vary his tone at this stage of his career. Miss Fellowes is on the verge of making the move from juvenile actress to adult, but not quite. Both would have careers that included almost 125 features for Lowery before his death in 1971 at the age of 58, and for Miss Fellowes through 1995. She died in 2011, aged 88.