Although ace reporter Connie Taylor has quit her newspaper job in order to marry rival reporter Jerry Martin, she is unable to resist covering a shooting that has been staged by her hard-nosed editor, Tim J. Whalen, and chases after the "killer" in her wedding gown. Disgusted by his fiancée's addiction to the "good story," Jerry breaks their engagement and leaves town. When Connie later discovers Whalen's subterfuge, she denounces him and tries without success to reconcile with Jerry. Determined to salvage her love life, Connie resists Whalen's pleas to cover a high society murder case in Bridgeport until she hears that Jerry has been sent there by his newspaper. Backed by Whalen's unlimited expense account, which she plans to use to finance her honeymoon, Connie accepts the assignment and goes to Bridgeport. Outside of the Bridgeport jail, she bumps into a still angry Jerry, who has just interviewed Dan Curtis, the prime suspect in the murder case. Connie then tracks Jerry to a nightclub, where Dan's girl friend, Margot Whitney, works as a dancer. After the club's owner, Joe Rethburn, forcibly prevents Jerry from talking with Margot, Jerry arranges for the dancer to slip him a note from her hotel room. Just as Jerry receives Margot's tip to watch Grace Andrews, the murder victim's widow, Connie observes the woman enter the nightclub in an agitated state and follows her to Rethburn's office. There Grace argues with Rethburn about money and reveals not only their adultery but their mutual participation in her husband's death as well. Connie follows Grace to her apartment and arrives in time to see Rethburn's head waiter shoot the widow and to hear her dying damnation of Rethburn. Before Connie can contact the police, the waiter fires at her and wounds her in the shoulder. Eventually Jerry arrives on the scene and is striken by the sight of the injured Connie, who has since identified the killers to the police. After the couple reunites, Jerry helps Connie write her story and delivers the column to Whalen. The next morning, Connie and Jerry are both stunned to see the story printed in Jerry's newspaper with his by-line above it, but soon deduce that the ever-conniving Whalen has made a final unsuccessful attempt to prevent his ace reporter from marrying.