Insurance salesman Walter Huff finds himself a partner in a plot to kill the wealthy husband of Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his clients, and make it look like an accident so Phyllis can collect her husband's life insurance.

Grieving widow or black widow? The day Joan Medford buried her husband was a fateful one-because before the day was out she'd meet the two men who would change her life forever. Forced to take a job waitressing to support herself and her child, Joan finds herself caught between the handsome young schemer whose touch she comes to crave and the wealthy older man whose touch repels her…but who otherwise would make a tempting husband number two. It's...

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford's forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her : a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional...

Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.

An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.