Laura lets him drive her home, then sees Jackie hurdle the gate as her father's murderer did.

Police Lt. Brewster, the lead homicide investigator, ignores her tip and charges Arthur Mansfield's business competitor, Frank Niles, with the crime.

Instead, the boss, Armitage, brutally beats Jackie while the club's manager, Stretch Norton, starts the music of a player piano to drown out the noise.

From the time they spend together, Laura ends up falling in love with Stretch and confessing her true identity.

Herb Rau, writing for The Miami News in 1950, called the premise ridiculous and the plot confused.

[2] Much later, in a 2011 synopsis for the website AllMovie, critic Hans J. Wollstein agreed that the plot is baffling and attributed much of that confusion to important elements lacking in the screenplay:In Destination Murder, former starlet Myrna Dell plays one of those hard-bitten, blonde schemers that no true film noir could be without.

Unaccountably, screenwriter Don Martin completely fails to explain why Mansfield (Franklyn Farnum) was murdered, what business he was in, or how his death could in any way benefit the killer.