Hercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are...

Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic....

A young woman attempts to find a good man to marry so that her mother may die in peace.

Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.