A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer’s two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts’ hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.