- Stranger on a plane proposes exchanging murders to crime-busting Fed whose wife won't grant him a divorce. A gossip column tips the stranger, a novelist, to the prosecutor's dilemma, so he trails the attorney onto a flight from D.C. to L.A. David the prosecutor isn't sure whether the charming "John Smith," the author, is seriously insane or just has a very cavalier sense of humor, so David hires Stu Bailey to protect his philandering wife from murder. Stu gets some unwanted aid from the Fed's future sister-in-law, who he fluffs off as an interfering ditz, but she turns out to have a very Hawaiian eye.—David Stevens
- In a twist on Strangers on a Train (1951), Stuart accepts as the agency's next client Washington DC federal prosecutor David Evans, who is going through a high profile issue in wanting to marry his girlfriend Diana Forsythe, the daughter of the Senator on whose committee David is currently serving, while David's wife, Mildred Evans, from who he is separated, won't grant him a divorce to make his life difficult in their animosity toward each other. David was approached on a just taken DC to Los Angeles flight by a man calling himself John Smith, which David now realizes in hindsight is an assumed name. Their casual chit-chat by the time they parted company after disembarking ended with Smith making a pact with him to kill the problem person in the other's life, Smith to kill Mildred for him, after which David is to kill Smith's wealthy Aunt Ella, details to follow, thus giving each man, total strangers, an alibi for the respective murders. David neither suggested the pact in any way and made no agreement to carry it out. David wants Stuart both to find out who this John Smith really is and to protect Mildred in the process from being Smith's murder target. Beyond being able to identify him visually, David only has reference to a mystery novel Smith mentioned he wrote and which was published by a vanity house and paid for by the aforementioned Aunt Ella as a clue to who he really is. Stuart can only stake out Mildred's apartment and try to warn her - which David already did to her incredulous response - and wait for Smith to act, either in attempting to approach Mildred or contact David with information about his Aunt Ella. Adding a level of complexity to the situation is Diana's younger sister, Pat Forsythe, who wants to play amateur sleuth, she who has some resemblance in certain angles to Mildred.—Huggo
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