When Carmen Flores dies in a plane crash, her Hollywood home is bought by Mrs Adela Cork, the famous Adela Shannon of the silent films Her impecunious brother Smedley is hunting for Carmen's diary, recording her chequered love life, as a possible source of wealth through blackmail It is therefore unfortunate that Mrs Cork's butler, a graduate of Sing-Sing where he had served three years for safe-blowing, should come to a similar decision