Eleanor Clayton (Helen Mowery), your average housewife by the looks of
it, is found murdered, and everything points to her husband (John Archer),
a travelling salesman who has allegedly been cheating on her with his
secretary (Oween Cameron), and it's the secretary too who could provide
him with an alibi, but he refuses to drag her into this mess (and who
would have believed her anyways?). Anyways, Ms secretary draws lawyer
Herbert L.Maris (Macdonald Carey) into the investigation, and he soon
finds out that good housewife Eleanor actually had a bad gambling habit,
and what's worse, she was on a long losing streak - and some investigating
and a murder later, Maris has identified two debt collectors (Brad
Trumbull, Paul Sorensen) as her killers and lures them into a trap with
himself as bait, tricking them into giving a full confession to the
police. Very mediocre TV crime drama that is especially
hypocritical when it comes to the two murders depicted in the story - the
first murder that sets everything into motion is given all the attention
because it was a (supposedly) good housewife who got killed, but in the
course of Maris' investigations, a loose gambling woman (Pamela Duncan)
gets killed as well, just because she wanted to help Maris - something
that only gets very little attention, supposedly because the second victim
had no traditional housekeeping qualities ...
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