Heartaches (1947)

Plotzle Expert · E88 · May 28, 2026 · Mystery / Crime

Six plot descriptions for Heartaches (1947). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A rising Hollywood actor and crooner receives death threats and survives an attempt on his life before two of his associates are murdered, prompting investigation into who is responsible.
2. Two homicide detectives pursue a serial arsonist targeting romantic venues while one detective's marriage disintegrates and his partner begins an affair with a key witness in the investigation.
3. A nightclub owner receives blackmail letters about her past identity as an informant and three former associates from that operation are found dead in her basement storage room.
4. A woman returns to her hometown after release from prison and someone begins leaving photographs of her victim at locations connected to the crime she committed fifteen years earlier.
5. An insurance investigator examines fraudulent life insurance claims in rural Nevada and identifies a pattern connecting widows who remarried within months of their husbands' deaths from poisoning.
6. A gambling addict in Atlantic City investigates his estranged brother's apparent suicide but discovers evidence linking the death to their childhood parish priest and several missing altar boys.