A stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of obstacles stands in his path, however.

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.