暑假来临,大学新生刘易斯·托马斯(保罗·沃克尔 Paul Walker 饰)决定穿州过省,前往新泽西去看望他自高中时代便喜欢的女孩维娜·威尔柯斯(Leelee Sobieski 饰)。为了打发旅途上的无聊时光,他将正因酒后驾车蹲局子的老哥富勒(史蒂夫·赞恩 Steve Zahn 饰)保释出来,兄弟俩一路通行。
旅途中,富勒买了一部车载对讲机,与其他的司机扯皮聊天。期间他们搭上一个绰号“锈钉”的卡车司机,富勒突发奇想,怂恿弟弟假扮女人用对讲机勾引锈钉。对他们来说,这似乎是旅途中一个无伤大雅、转眼就忘的玩笑。没想到他们却惹上了这个难缠和恐怖的家伙。在接下来的时间里,锈钉成为刘易斯、富勒和维娜难以摆脱的噩梦……
Sherlock Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to retrieve a compromising photograph from a certain lady. The King has tried to purchase the photo and even hired burglars to retrieve it, but without success. The woman in question is the very beautiful Irene Adler, an opera singer. She has made no demands of the King so it does not seem that blackmail is her intent. Using various disguises, Holmes learns as much about the woman as he can and is surprised when, after following her to a church, finds that she has married a barrister. Holmes stages a bit of theatre to get her to divulge the location of the photo but he finds he has met his match in both daring and intellect.
A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate.