Though Jane Pringle is blind, she has made a good life for herself. She has a fine job, a comfortable flat and many friends. But one day Jane discovers that someone wants to kill her.
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
A Secret Service man investigating a murder in an atomic device factory finds that a factory worker is being blackmailed by two foreign spies who want his help in photographing plans of the device.
A composer stuck in a middle-class marriage finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.