Irene Hastings, who can’t decide which of her two fiancés she should marry, is looking forward to a nice vacation, and everything would have been just fine had not her mousy friend Ann asked to be dropped off at an insane asylum so she could visit her sister.

When the sister escapes, just about everyone, including a handsome young doctor, mistakes Irene for the runaway loony, and she is put up at an isolated private hospital under house arrest, pending final identification.

Only there’s not a bed to be had in the hospital. One of the staff is already sleeping in a tent on the grounds, so it’s decided that Irene is to share a bedroom with young Dr. Ross Munster, much to the consternation of both parties. On the other hand, Irene’s much-married mother Elise, an Auntie Mame type who rushes to her rescue, figures that the young doctor has son-in-law written all over him. She also figures there’s plenty of room in that bedroom for herself as well.

In the meantime, Irene runs into a headless nurse, a corpse that won’t stay put, an empty coffin and a mysterious black stocking, prompting the local police to think very seriously about locking her up in a real jail. As Elise would say, “Mong Dew!” It all adds up to another zany mystery from the sisters Little, who wrote 21 mysteries that one critic described as “celluloid screwball comedy printed on paper.”

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