In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.

A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse.