When a newspaper publisher decides to sell his newspaper, the newspaper's employees decide to pool together their resources and buy the newspapers themselves. Lead photojournalist Pat Marvin (Withers) barely manages to escape a casino with her life after taking compromising photos of secretive society girl Cynthia Van Loan (Riley). The newspaper's editor, Larry Burke (Lowery) decides to sell the photos to another magazine to raise funds to keep the barely-hanging-on newspaper afloat. However, the photos buyer is murdered, leading to Pat and Larry trying to solve the complicated murder mystery, without getting murdered themselves.