Years before newspaper owner Marplay (Barlowe Borland) was put in a lunatic asylum by four men who took over his newspaper. Now he has escaped and has vowed to kill the four men. Indeed, the obituary of each man appears in the paper before the murder takes place!
Investigating what is going on is Marplay's daughter Joan (Wendy Barrie) and the rather suspicious private detective McNab (Forrester Harvey). The last of the four men left alive, Peters (Edmund Lowe) does not seem to be that perturbed by his supposedly impending death...
An interesting film with "improbable" murders which leave the police baffled. A seasoned crime film watcher (or novel reader) will probably guess what is going on and who is really behind things but it doesn't stop the film being well worth watching.
