Widow and mystery writer Marian Carstairs (Lynn Bari) and her three children, Dinah (Peggy Ann Garner), Archie (Dean Stockwell,) and April (Connie Marshall), get mixed up in trying to solve a neighborhood murder...at the peril of their lives. Police Lieutenant Bill Smith (Randolph Scott) and Police Sergeant O'Hare (James Gleason) step in to solve the case and save the family.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>