Dans le couloir de la mort, Mary Price Hilton se remémore ce qui l'a conduite au meurtre de la maîtresse de son amant. Malgré les conséquences tragiques de son acte, elle ne regrette pas du tout son geste. Elle espère malgré tout obtenir un report de dernière minute de sa pendaison...
Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.