A private detective in San Francisco follows a blackmailer back to his quarters one evening — but before the blackmailer can be interrogated, he is shot dead, his murderer vanishing into the night.

An English professor meets his long-time writing idol, who turns out to be a surly and irritable man — nothing like the majestic intellectual the professor had envisioned.

An old and solitary man jumps at the promise of a cash reward in exchange for hunted crows. His resulting endeavors, however, get out of hand.