Pam and Jerry North visit a kennel club to admire the variety of dogs there. In a moment of joking, Jerry’s playful remarks that his wife is a countess finds Pam being abducted. Can the North’s convince the thugs that they have the wrong countess? Should the kidnappers get rid of Jerry? They don’t have enough ration stamps to feed both of them.

The thugs, Duke and Sam, give the countess… er… Pam the royal treatment., the plan is to have the countess sign her own ransom check, so they can cash it. Will Pam go for forging a check? Will the thugs finally realize they have the wrong person once they try to cash their $50K check?

Morning arrives, and a new development arises when the count joins the kidnappers. Identities are set straight, but it doesn’t mean the North’s will be out of danger. Can it be so simple a matter of letting bygone be bygones? Pam and Jerry begin to suspect there’s something wrong in the way the count showed up for them. Has the countess already been murdered?

Jerry turns over the details in the mystery to expose fraud and an unhappy marriage. Was it the count who killed his wife? Despite his resentment of her, others seem to have done the deed. Now it’s up to the North’s to stage their own trap to lure out the killer.