David Kirk
The daughter of a poverty-stricken New England clamdigger falls in love with the son of her father's rival. His family, in turn, wants him to marry the daughter of a wealthy and prominent family. Complications ensue.
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.