Aileen Pringle

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police.

When a mother dies in his care, a physician's inability to save her weighs on him, and he strikes up a relationship with the woman's daughter.

A young woman, orphaned and raised by a cruel aunt, is optimistic about her new employment as governess at a wealthy estate.