Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel’s detective, has no information as to the identity…

A man – trapped in a cistern – reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.

A sheriff’s son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.

Joe McDoakes pleads “not guilty” to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper’s publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses…