Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house when shes not philandering with her secretarys fiancée At an extremely awkward moment she has an unwelcome visitor George Bates who claims to be the partner in crime of Janets estranged husband George insinuates himself into Janets home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him the tangled relationships develop into a macabre murderous catandmouse game
