A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.