Thieves rob a jewelry store of the Czarina's Tear necklace. Patricia Ellis renewed the insurance policy, but her boss had not wanted her to. Lieutenant William Demarest wants the insurance company to leave the case in the hands of the police, but they want Donald Woods to handle it. Our old buddy Edward Brophy is his sidekick. He goes to a night club with his girl to check on singer Grace Bradley, who along with club owner and boyfriend Craig Reynolds were the thieves. Woods searches Reynolds' apartment and is surprised by him. He disarms Reynolds and finds the necklace in the fish tank. The jewelry store owner claims it is fake, however. Bradley leaves town on the train, so Woods and Brophy head after her. Ellis gets a ticket to follow them, thinking Woods is a crook. On the train Bradley hides the necklace in a jar of cold cream. Ellis searches Woods' compartment, and when he catches her, she pretends that she has the wrong berth.
Ellis gets into Bradley's hotel room by pretending to be a maid, but they see through her disguise and tie her up. Woods and Brophy find her and have a little fun at her expense. They finally drop her in the bathtub fully clothed in order to get a head start on her. Bradley and Reynolds try to pass the necklace, but the fence tells them the only place they can do so is in New Orleans. They leave just ahead of Woods, who leaves just ahead of Demarest, with Ellis in tow. Woods has "borrowed" the car of the pair he is chasing, and so he unknowingly has the necklace in Bradley's travel case. They run out of gas by a hillbilly cabin, where they discover that Ellis is working with the police and leave. The little girl at the cabin discovers the necklace in the cold cream jar and gives it to Ellis, who hitches a rice into town and returns to her office. She allows Woods to give the necklace to the jewelry store. He asks her to marry him.
Woods was married for 65 years to his childhood sweetheart, Josephine Van Der Horck.
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