Catherine (Marjorie Weaver) is staying at her father's (Paul Harvey) fancy county mansion, but at night a mysterious man appears in her room and takes a pot shot at her! Her father and the others dismiss this as a dream, but Catherine employs her friend Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) to pose as her new husband who her family haven't met yet. Shayne discovers a mysterious science lab but also a burial of a man in the house' large garden, but the grave is later found empty. Did the man come back to life?
An excellent crime B-movie romp, the Michael Shayne series was at full steam by now. A complicated plot involving Indian fakirs, theatrical tricks and blackmail passes by quickly with the usual fast moving action and plenty of wisecracks.
