 The fifth and last of the Ben Schwab productions starring Bill Elliott as a L.A. sheriff s department detective begins with Henry Johnson (Douglas Dick) being sought by the sheriff s office for the murder of his neighbor and friend,Fred Horner (Robert Shayne), whose strangled body was found in Johnson s motel apartement. Lieutenant Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) of the Los Angeles sheriff s department learns that Johnson had been an avid card-playing gambler, and had frequently argued violently with the deceased. Trailing Johnson s fiancee, Mary Raikin (Eleanore Tanin), the police capture Johnson, who insists he did not kill Horner, but fled in panic when he discovered Johnson s body in his room after an absence of only a few minutes. It is discovered that a wealthy tenant of an adjacent motel, Bradbury (James Flavin), bears a resemblence to the murdered man, and in order to set him up as a decoy, Doyle suggests the Bradbury spread the word he is leaving for his home the next day. That night, the real killer,Pat Orvello (Gregg Palmer), sneaks into Bradbury s room to rob him, but is shot and captured by Doyle and his men. Earlier, the robber/killer had mistaken the neighboring motels, killed the wrong man in his robbery attempt, and had left the body in Johnson s room.