Nellie Bly Baker

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.

Complications arise when a young married woman is found in another man's bedroom.

While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

A poor family on the docks move to the city to find fulfillment.

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.