her sister Janet and hopes to get a lob at the High Roost Lodge.

Unaware of her sister's sensational murder, Marcia checks into a motel to rest and re-freshen herself before going to the lodge to meet her sister. From the local newspaper, Marcia is shocked to the point of hysteria when she reads the lurid details of her sister's death. She is incensed by the report that her sister was a girl of low moral standards and vows to find out who killed her sister and why, convinced that when the mystery is solved the licentious charges against Janet's reputation will be erased.

Upon her arrival at the lodge; Marcia walks into an investigation being conducted by Lt. Rod Loring of homicide, who is questioning all possible suspects. In order to keep her identity a secret, Marcia assumes another name. She applies for the job as hostess vacated by her sister and after some interrogation by the owner and manager of the lodge, Joan Reynolds, a cunning, outspoken woman, Marcia is employed.

While working at the lodge, Marcia makes it her business to get friendly with anybody who had been friendly with Janet, mixing in with the "B" girls and floor show strippers in an effort to get information. She learns that the lodge's master of ceremonies had a grudge against Janet because she had rejected him. Late one evening she discovers that a ring of the strippers are moonlighting with the customers, unbeknown to the owner of the lodge. It. Loring is somewhat annoyed, although obviously attracted to this beautiful newcomer who is trying to play detective, but the question "Why," keeps everybody guessing. Marcia manages to get involved with George Harvey, the son of the wealthy and possessive Mavis Harvey, who runs the local newspaper. The boy becomes enamored of Marcia as she reminds him of Janet Teel. He confesses that he was in love with Janet and that they had planned to elope the day before Janet was murdered.

Leaving herself wide open, Marcia is assaulted and raped by an unknown assailant one eve-fling as she steps Out of her bath. She confides this bit of information to Lt. Loring, who keeps a close watch on all that goes on at the lodge.

After two attempts are made upon Marcia's life, the killer is finally drawn out into the open ...