The necessity for proving the head of the Overbrook family dead, leads to a linking of two more murders, two more attempted and another killing before the police can prove their suspect. For when Alice learns her husband Lucky had been hired to kill, she determines to stand up to the one who has hired and killed him, but the unknown's threats against the life of one of her friends keeps her quiet. The police open up the trail which leads to a maniac. Suspense in the picture of murder coming close to those unprepared for it.