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- The wife of a close friend of Bentley Gregg's secretly plots to trap him into marrying one of her girlfriends.
- Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence.
- Kathy Bane, an old flame of Ballinger's, needs his help when a blackmailer trying to extort money turns up dead-- in her apartment.
- A hotel clerk of meager means pledges to surrender everything he owns at moment's notice to settle a misunderstanding from a poker game he entered to get money to met his needs and then receives his million.
- Charles Lamar is in service to his old country employers from nobility for whom he struggles to have live within their means while maintaining a job in an importing business and seeking a path to marriage.
- Crystal Sand's receipt of a million dollars allows to her to view with clarity her engagement to a philandering pilot and consider her feelings in a new light toward the man's apologist brother and the brother's to her.
- Disillusioned after losing a friend on his table, a surgeon leaves his beloved mining hometown, moves to Philadelphia, opens a new practice, and rekindles an old romance--but feels out of place in her high society world.
- The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.
- A widow woman raising a stepson of a deceased father uses her money to send the boy to boarding school causing the boy to become bitter because he believes the stepmother's wealthy suitor has paid to remove him from the home.
- Millie who makes a meager living renting rooms is incautiously desperate to marry when she receives her million so she can adopt a group of orphans.
- A widow and former socialite who gives parties to make ends meet must deal with the reemergence of man who jilted her seventeen years ago directly before her marriage and a prideful runaway daughter just as she gets her million.
- A man's jealous, anxious and suspicious mother attempts to sabotage a new bride's simple appeal and the marriage.
- Uncle Robby dies just after receiving his million before he can change his will that forces his favorite niece and her husband to spend every penny on a honeymoon or surrender the balance to another scheming materialistic niece .
- A personal secretary use her million to mock sophistication for and compatibility with a hero writer who she hopes to marry but who is also cynically pursued by her former self-absorbed boss.
- Blake investigate pilots working for a charter airplane company when $200,000 worth of diamonds are stolen.
- Bentley is a member of the City Planning Committee, and as such, it has put him at odds with a couple neighbors. Whether or not to install a new traffic light is the problem.
- A young woman contacts Markham after moving in with an elderly aunt she hadn't seen since childhood. The niece fears that the old lady is being robbed by an unscrupulous medium whose séances bring back the spirit of the woman's long-dead son. Markham attends one of the sittings and immediately pegs the spiritualist as a phony; he also finds the aunt to be a little too theatrical to be a sheltered old hermit.
- There's disorder in the court when Kelly becomes Uncle Bentley's "junior partner".
- After Uncle Bentley says absolutely not to Kelly's request to dye her hair blonde, she makes a bet with him that if there's evidence that his redheaded girlfriend dyes her hair, then Kelly can dye hers, too.
- When a gambling casino is robbed, Blake is called in to lead the search for the crooks and recover the loot.
- Three spinster sisters receive jointly the million and start a spending spree that draws suspicion, particularly of busybody Atwood, on sister Tessie of embezzlement of government funds in her duties as town clerk.
- Michael Anthony delivers the million dollar check to Jill Mayfield, an aspiring actress, who decides to use the gift to further her career.
- Upon hearing that Roy Markham's (Ray Milland's) good friend, Jim Donovan, has been shot and killed on the steps of U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Markham and his partner John Riggs (Simon Scott) fly to Washington to investigate. Markham believes Boris Vascou (Anthony Eustrel), the "Vanishing Assassin," murdered his friend over information Donovan planned to share with the U.S. government about the country where he had been working as an oil engineer: "Kaleda," a small, oil-rich kingdom on the Persian Gulf. Its ruler, Prince Hassan III, is due to arrive in Washington shortly on a diplomatic visit. After crashing the right cocktail party, Roy meets the Prince's emissary, Ramik Sarid (Arnold Moss), and deduces that an assassination is in the works. He guesses it will take place at a riverside home where a beautiful French actress named Renee Compante (Jacqueline Beer) awaits the Prince. With the help of a friendly socialite boater, Diana Rogers (Betsy Jones-Moreland), Markham, Riggs and Sarid waylay Vascou and kill him.
- Markham is engaged by an insurance firm to investigate a series of jewel robberies. The thieves appear to be following directions given in a newspaper gossip column, which gives Markham a solid lead until his potential informant falls victim to the criminals.
- Markham is in Paris looking for an old friend's missing daughter. At an art museum, he is tipped off that she is holed up on the Normandy coast with an artist.
- Pity Quinn Rawlins: his daughter is engaged to a playboy actor twice her age and his wife is being blackmailed over nude photographs snapped a decade ago. Then add murder to the mix. Johnny sifts the suspects and outs the killer.
- Julius Sneezer, the dummy of long-dead ventriloquist Dave Rankin, is fished out of Long Island Sound, sparking a taut psychological whodunit.