Louis Delmar, Police Chief of the quiet Southern California town of San Margaret, is up to his ears in a sensational murder case and finds himself with too many suspects. Harassed to the point of desperation, he asks his old friend, Justine Carmichael, lately retired from the police, to help him. The murder victim-elderly rich Mrs. Constance DeVoors-was disliked by practically everyone-'friends', servants, and relatives. Only Count Ivanov professed to have found the lady 'charming'. But then, the Count's veracity is open to question. Chief Delmar's prime suspect, Carmichael finds, is the...