A middle-aged man with a socially correct wife is trying to break his chains because of a loving secretary, and when a playboy is murdered, with suspicion attached to his about to be married niece and her fiancé — his is the problem. To sacrifice his wife, his mistress, his niece—his own dream of happiness—is the torment through which George Hadley veers while smooth New York City's Inspector Trant hovers over all the ins- and outs—that George and his family devise.
