An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife, and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.