Major characters:
Roger Bewlay - the killer husband
Angela Phipps - late wife #1
Elizabeth Posner - late wife #2
Andrée Cooper - late wife #3
(Unnamed) - late wife #4
Mildred Lyons - witness
Beryl West - theatre director
Dennis Foster - attorney
Bruce Ransom - actor
Daphne Herbert - bait in the trap
John Herbert - her father
Sir Henry Merrivale
Inspector Masters
Synopsis:
Scotland Yard has been after Roger Bewlay ever since a string of murders eleven years ago, in which he killed four wives in succession to gain their money. No bodies were ever found, and all they have to go on is a witness to the fourth, Mildred Lyons.
Now theatre director Beryl West invites her friend, attorney Dennis Foster, to meet famed leading-man actor Bruce Ransom. Someone has sent him the manuscript of a play based on Bewlay's murders. There are details in the play known only to the killer and the police, leading them to suspect Bewlay is the author.
In an attempt to flush Bewlay out, Ransom pretends to be Bewlay and starts a relationship with Daphne Herbert, following the plot of the play.
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