In the 1930s, a private investigator's secretary goes undercover as a nightclub singer in order to solve the case of the missing trombone player.

In 1925, a penniless P.I.-in-training unravels the twisted history of a purportedly haunted summer retreat house after his uncle becomes the latest victim in a series of mysterious deaths there.

A small town singer joins the USO during World War II in order to follow her sweetheart into war-torn Europe.