Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
| Writing | Kenneth Fearing | Novel |
| Directing | John Farrow | Director |
| Writing | Jonathan Latimer | Screenplay |
| Camera | John F. Seitz | Director of Photography |
| Editing | LeRoy Stone | Editor |
| Art | Roland Anderson | Art Direction |
| Production | Richard Maibaum | Producer |
| Art | Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Art | Ross Dowd | Set Decoration |
| Art | Albert Nozaki | Art Direction |
| Art | Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Herbert Coleman | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Gene Garvin | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Hugo Grenzbach | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Sound | Victor Young | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Wally Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
| Editing | Eda Warren | Supervising Editor |
