British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.