Sinopsis

Bess Rohan lived in a happy world and had just met a most exciting man—Link Basset, the sensational radio and television personality. But the serenity of her world was suddenly and explosively shattered the day she saw her father in a crowded restaurant. Kevin Culhane, once-famous singer, went out of Bess’s life before she was three, leaving behind him a trail of alcohol fumes and a vengeful dark-haired wife. Now, according to Link, he was trying to make a comeback, and Bess, determined to find out more about him, went to the cheap hotel where her father lived.

How could she know, as she stood outside trying to gather courage to go in, that in her father’s room at that moment lay the lifeless body of a dark-haired woman?

And how could Lieutenant Gridley Nelson know, when he first went to work on the Culhane case, that it would reach out and touch the heart of his own private world?

Scene: New York City.

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