Pam North, a dizzy socialite, and her husband Jerry return home from a vacation to find a dead body in their apartment.

All the suspects are close friends of the Norths, a fact that encourages Pam to gently interfere in the ongoing murder investigation conducted by Lt. Weigand (Paul Kelly).

[1] Jerry North and his wife Pam return home after a night away in a holiday spirit.

As the clues are unearthed, it appears that some member of the North's social circle, who knew they would be away, gained entrance to their apartment, asked Brent to come there and murdered him.

The play itself was based on three short stories by Richard and Frances Lockridge that were featured in the New Yorker magazine in 1940.