Upon learning that her daughter died in an automobile accident, a famous opera singer recently released from a mental institution, flies to Hawaii. She plans to kill her son-in-law whom she holds responsible for her daughter's death. Paul Templin intercedes before the crime can be carried out and agrees to investigate the circumstances behind the young woman's death.

After sending Ben Gregory to investigate on a non-existent shipwreck, an lookalike impostor breaks into his apartment and, posing as the writer, agrees to help a wealthy oilman buy a valuable oriental scroll. When the scroll turns out to be phony, Ben is accused of complicity in the crime and when the oilman is found dead is accused of Ben is arrested for murder.

Templin tries to get the story of a beautiful teenager, the heir to a fortune, who is imprisoned in a walled villa.

A beautiful widow who is being blackmailed is shot, but refuses to tell the police who her assailant was. Ben Gregory is determined to get the woman's story.

Templin is accused of killing a foreign currency dealer.

Eric Jason recognizes a mob hitman on the beach cavorting with a blonde bombshell.

Templin follows the widow of a famous writer who was said to have been lost at sea in order to investigate a rumor that the man might be alive and still writing under a nom de plume.

Jason is doing research for an article about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and uncovers an interesting sidelight. There was a big crap game in progress when the bombers came over, and the money—thousands of dollars—may still be hidden away.

Gregory joins a safari and finds himself targeted for death.

Jason investigates a young woman's claim that she suffers from amnesia after rescuing her from drowning.

Templin investigates the story of a beautiful singer who will no longer perform out of fear of her former manager.

Several illustrations for one of Gregory's articles earn the artist some unexpected notoriety - two pretty girls show up on his doorstep claiming to be his long-lost daughter.

Templin is asked to collaborate on a former movie star's autobiography, but the woman refuses to explain why hasn't appeared in front of the camera in recent years.

Jason, hired to write the story of the Randolph family, an iron-fisted clan who have ruled a small Hawaiian island as a personal fiefdom, winds up investigating a murder on their idyllic cay.

Ben Gregory and Eric Jason throw a Christmas party for the meanest man on Oahu.

A German girl tries to retrieve counterfeit money planted on Eric Jason without the reporter knowing.

Eric Jason discovers Pinky Hamilton, a famous jazz pianist, is living in Hawaii under an assumed name and plans to write a story about his career. Pinky isn't happy about being discovered since the gangster who tried to kill him 30 years earlier still wants to settle accounts.

A beachcomber reveals to Templin his past as the former mayor of a major American city and tells the reporter he fears for his life.

Ben Gregory discovers his tape recorder running in his penthouse. When he replays the tape, he hears the voice of a man thought dead for many years and who is willing to tell his story, but only for a hefty fee.

Templin tries to develop a story based on an ex-Marine's storied career, but the former leatherneck won't cooperate.

Ben Gregory is working on a story of a oil tycoon who is trying to cook up a big deal with a crooked financier. The story and the deal may fall apart because of the ditsy mistress' innocent interference.

A ex-crook now tending bar in his girlfriend's saloon is forced by his former underworld associates to join them in a bank heist.

The reporters help a woman find her former boyfriend who had long ago been run off by her father as an unsuitable match for his daughter.

An up-and-coming professional boxer chucks his career in the ring in order to become a college student, much to his manager's annoyance.

Eric Jason is assigned to cover a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, who also turns out to be a gorgeous redhead with a wonderful figure.

Ben considers his current assignment - writing about a new computer - extremely boring, until a nerdy accountant discovers that the machine made a mistake in its calculations.

A widow, now the head of a huge business, is urged to sell the company by her children. She decides to consult a medium in order to seek business advice from her late husband.

Eighteen-year-old Penny Baxter is excited about visiting Hawaii until she discovers her maiden aunt will travel with her as a chaperone. It's the older woman, however, who finds romance in the islands when she meets a handsome beachcomber.

Gregory and Jason investigate when they learn a beloved circus clown has a profitable sideline playing the stock market and may also have a criminal past.

Gentleman Johnny Pace, once a famous mayor of a major American city, decides to move to Kauai and open a hotel with his wife.