Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
—Each Dawn I Die
1939
—The Quiller Memorandum
1966
—The Glass Key
1942
—Witness to Murder
1954
—Absence of Malice
1981
—The Mirror Crack'd
1980
—The Web
1947
—While the City Sleeps
1956
—Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
—Born to Kill
1947
—Another Thin Man
1939
—Lady in the Lake
1946
