In Los Angeles, Alan Palmer and his wife, Jane, are driving to a party when a satchel is thrown in the back seat of their convertible sedan. When they open the satchel, they find a large amount of money. Alan decides to deliver the money to the police, but Jane is opposed to that plan and wants to keep it. So Alan decides to stow the suitcase with the money in a locker at Union Station until they can come up with a solution that satisfies them both.
A couple of days later, Jane spends a small amount on furs and other gifts for herself. Shortly afterward, a sleazy character called Danny Fuller comes to their apartment pretending to be a detective and Jane lets him in, but he soon reveals that he is not a detective and says the money belongs to him. When Alan returns home from work and discovers that Jane has spent some of the cash, he becomes upset, but Jane does not mention anything to him about Danny.
During the night, Alan and Jane go on a boat ride at a local lake to make amends where she accidentally kills him with his own pistol as he struggles to take the gun away from her in the boat. Danny, who is waiting nearby in the dark, is forced by Jane to help her dump the body. Jane then reports to the police that her husband is missing. Her sister-in-law, Kathy Palmer, who lives on the same floor snoops around Jane's apartment and finds the receipt from the locker. When Kathy is sneaking out, she stumbles into a stranger named Don Blake who says that he is Alan's friend. Meanwhile, Jane desperately looks for the receipt in order to retrieve the money.
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