When actor Richard Willard was accused of hiring an assassin to bring the curtain down on his estranged wife, Antony Maitland was brought in for the defense. Unfortunately, Willard had a powerful motive and had been seen with the hit man shortly before the murder. But Maitland rarely accepted the obvious and before long the plot thickenedwith evidence of a disputed inheritance, a scandalous love affair, and a nasty hunger for revengeall pointing to the least likely suspect of all!