| Director | Merle S. Gould |
|---|
Scientist Henry Krasker (Aldo Farnese) experiments in speaking with the dead. He is also an occasional consultant for the Los Angeles Police Department, and has solved numerous cases through extraordinary means. He lives in a rooming house that's convenient to his laboratory and is also home to others from various walks of life.
After one of his rooming housemates, Renee Caldwell (Laura Brock), is murdered with a crossbow, Los Angeles police detectives Lt. Lewis (Scott Douglas) and Harry (Earl Sands) enlist Krasker to aid them in apprehending the suspect, who they believe resides at the same rooming house.
After an extensive investigation of the residents, Krasker devises a plan to draw out the killer. After calling a meeting of the suspects, Krasker brings Renee back from the dead, leading Raymond Millbrun (Myron Natwick), a DJ from San Francisco with wealthy parents, to exclaim that he knew he didn't kill her.
However, it turns out to be a ruse: Krasker did not actually bring Renee back from the dead; he merely staged it in the belief that the killer would confess. Raymond had secretly married Renee in Mexico and she had been blackmailing him into silence for fear his parents would cut him out of their will.
With the killer in custody, the narrator (i.e., Lt. Lewis) muses over whether anyone will actually be able to contact the dead and wishes Krasker well in his experiments.