- The whodunit author Peter Sander runs out of gas on a stormy night and soon gets entangled in his own real-life murder mystery. With the aid of the precocious young boy John Lindberg, he sets out to discover who killed the elderly hermit and left him in an abandoned farm house.
- In a most restrained way, [A Stranger Knocks] tells a story of a young and pretty woman who lives alone in a house by a lake in the country. One day a strange man comes by and, seeing the lonely situation, invites himself in out of the rain. The woman is quietly hospitable and allows him to remain overnight. He stays o…